Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson is a Danish sociologist and professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Aalborg University, a position she took up in February 2024. She also holds a professorship (MSO) at VIVE, the Danish Centre for Social Science Research, and earned her PhD from the University of Copenhagen. Her work centres on children and young people in vulnerable situations - examining how they navigate welfare institutions, the justice system and psychiatry, and what risk-taking behaviour means for their transition to adulthood. She conducts primarily ethnographic research, including extended fieldwork in secure youth detention facilities.
New article with Mølholt on children and families has been accepted for publication in the journal Child & Family Social Work (e-pub ahead of print).
Article written together with Jensen is published in the international journal Cultural Sociology.
Peer-reviewed article with Henze-Pedersen is published in Child and Family Social Work on adoption as a social intervention.
Article with Henriksen and Henriksen on youth crime is published in the international journal Youth Justice.
Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson takes up a position as professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Aalborg University.
