Emma Fransson is a child psychologist and epidemiologist at Stockholm University and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
[1] Fransson was a co-lead investigator on the Elvis project at the Center for Health Equity Studies, jointly run by Stockholm University and the Karolinska Institute between 2011 - 2021.
In this project, children were followed after their parents had divorced or separated, with various physical and mental health outcomes measured, as well as social and behavioral metrics.
In this project, Fransson showed that the well-being of children is higher under shared parenting versus sole custody.
[4] Her research has also been covered by Diritto & Diritti in Italy,[5] ABC Nyheter in Norway,[6] Extra Bladet in Denmark,[7] Wiener Zeitung in Austria,[8] Svenska Dagbladet in Sweden,[9] and Observador in Portugal.