Short CV
Master in anthropology from University of Copenhagen, 1998.
From 1998-2000 principal at The National Board of Health, Copenhagen.
Ph.D in Sociology from University of Copenhagen, 2004.
Visiting Ph.D. fellow at University of Sussex, UK, 2001.
Researcher at the Danish National Centre for Social Research, 2004-2009.
From 2009, Senior Researcher at the Danish National Centre for Social Research

Research Interests
Social work
Children & young people in out-of-home care
Sociology of professional knowledge
Organisational anthropology
Consumption and indebtedness

Current Research
Residential care for children & young people
Breakdown in placements for teenagers
Kinship care for children & young people
Evidence-based child protection work

Other affiliations
External examiner, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
External examiner, Department of Learning, University of Aarhus

Selected Publications
Jakobsen, TB (in press) What troubled children need. Constructions of everyday life in residential care. Children & Society.

Egelund, T, Jakobsen, TB, Hammen, I, Olsson, M. & Høst, A. (2010) Sammenbrud i anbringelser af unge. Erfaringer, forklaringer og årsagerne bag. København: SFI - Det Nationale Forskningscenter for Velfærd.

Egelund, T & Jakobsen, TB (2009) Standardized individual treatment: a contradiction in terms? Professional principles and social practices in residential care. Childhood, 16, 2: 265-282.

Egelund, T & Jakobsen, TB (2009) Omsorg for anbragte børn og unge. Døgninstitutionens hverdag og vilkår. København: Akademisk Forlag.

Bengtsson, TT & Jakobsen, TB (2009) Institutionsanbringelse af unge i Norden. Lovgrundlag, institutionsformer og tendenser. København: SFI - Det Nationale Forskningscenter for Velfærd.

Egelund, T, Christensen, PS, Jakobsen, B, Jensen, TG & Olsen, RF (2009) Anbragte børn og unge. En forskningsoversigt. København: SFI - Det Nationale Forskningscenter for Velfærd.

Poppe, C & Jakobsen, TB (2009) Lånefest? Betydningen af kreditfinansieret forbrug blandt udvalgte grupper i den danske middelklasse. København: Thomson Reuters.

Egelund, T & Jakobsen, TB (2006) (red.) Behandling i socialt arbejde. Begreb og praksis. København: Hans Reitzels Forlag.