Martin Andreas Andersen

I’ve worked in the special education and social work field since I was 18, primarily with the cognitively disabled. I care deeply about the empowerment of those in need of care. I also am very interested in how the workers in the welfare state are positioned.

My career until now has been in the frontlines of the welfare state. I now wish to apply my talents in a more strategic and analytical manner.

  Areas of Interest  
  Qualitative and quantitative research design, particularly document analysis and interviews.
  Social interactions, and their signifiers of meaning, both online and offline.
  Computer-assisted social research, in particular Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
  Specialized care and intervention to assist citizens with highly varied and complex developmental challenges.
  Education  
2022 Educational Sociology,
Master of Arts,
Århus University,
Århus		 Had a critical look at the state of Danish dis/ability policies, for instance the consequences of a documented existence and the justifications for a particular methodological approach. In addition, i explored computational sociology through an analysis of Instagram posts, in which I explored R and the tidyverse. This was further expanded in my Master’s thesis, in which I explored Danish parliamentary speeches through a wide array of NLP and ML techniques.
2012 Social Education,
Bachelor of Arts,
University College Nordjylland,
Aalborg		 Specialized in citizens with disability, with a particular focus on the role of the practitioner. I am particularly pleased with my work on the necessity of action for the practitioner. People-work requires action - even inaction is an action. This, in turn, places great demands upon the practitioner’s self-reflexivity, both as an episode unfolds as well as afterward.
  Experience  
2023-ongoing Specialbørnehjemmene, Krabben

Aalborg		 A facility to take care of children with severe neuroaffective disorders. Autism and ADHD are prevalent, as well as expansive and outwardly targeted behaviors.
2012-2023 Skovbo, Sødisbakke
Social Worker
Mariager		 I worked in an assisted living facility for adults with autism spectrum disorders and severe mental impairment. I have been an union representative, been part of citizen teams, and collated data from our journaling systems. Since June 2017 I have been working the night shift.
2003-2012 Various
On-call substitute
Aalborg, Lillesand, and others		 I have worked as untrained help among the disabled, both as a Big Brother as well as on-call substitute. I have also been on-call untrained help in geriatric care.
  About Me  
  Civil Status Married, with 3 children born 2007, 2009, and 2013
  Languages English, Danish, Norwegian, R, Python
  Interests Tae Kwon Do (1st level black belt), cooking, role playing games, dog training
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