Faculty and staff

Abrak Saati is an Associate Professor and researcher at the Department of Political Science.

Anna Rantala serves as a university lecturer at the Center for School Leader Development within the Department of Political Science. She holds a doctoral degree in educational work.

Anna Zachrisson is an Associate Professor in Political Science and her research deals with natural resource and environmental policy and management, in particular in regards to peripheral regions.

Auvikki de Boon's research interests include environmental governance and sustainability transition governance, with a focus on justice, social acceptability and policy design and implementation.

My general research interests concerns 'the politics of aging', central-local government relations and privatizations in the welfare municipality. For a full presentation, please see below!

Dzenan Sahovic is Associate Professor in Political Science doing research on peace and security and teaching crisis management and peacebuilding. 

Elias Isaksson is a postdoc in Political Science and is doing research on environmental and transport politics.

Elin Stark is associate professor in educational leadership at the Centre for Principal Development.

Elisabeth Olivius is an Associate Professor in political science, whose research focuses on gender and power in processes of peace and peacebuilding. 

Associate Professor in Political Science. My research interests lie in environmental politics and policy, with a focus on collaborative governance, conservation, and the rights of Indigenous peoples.

Administrator, finance and education

PhD in Education. Lecturer at the Centre for principal development. My research interests are leadership for learning, professional development and school development. 

Helene Ärlestig is professor in educational administration and director for Centre for Principal Development

Jessika Wide is Associate Professor and appointed as Qualified Teacher. Her research interests mainly deal with politics and administration in Swedish municipalities and regions.

Johan Hellström is a Docent (Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor) in Political Science and researching on political parties and governments in Europe.

Senior lecturer and deputy head of the unit at the Centre for Principal Development (CPD), Department of Political sciences

Assistant Professor in Political Science. Interested in multi-level governance, location of public services, political conflicts, local democracy, and the center-periphery divide.

Magnus Blomgren is associated professor in Political Science

Pedagogic developer, Ph D in Educational Work.

Matheus Souza is a doctoral student in Political Science/Peace and Conflict studies at the Department of Political Science at Umeå University.

Misharch is a doctoral candidate in Political Science with a research focus on environmental and natural resource policy. 

Patrik Johansson is a teacher and researcher in peace and conflict studies, and coordinator of the Program for International Crisis and Conflict Management.

I conduct research on the work of school principals in understanding multilingualism and navigating the challenges and opportunities of leading schools with multilingual environments in Sweden.

I have done research on Cultural policy; Diplomacy & armed conflict; Urban history and Life Science Collaboration. In the fall of 2021 I am Principal Investigator in the EU Project SOLH.