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Helena Pettersson

Research qualifications: Docent
Educational qualifications: Recognised university teacher

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E-mail
helena.pettersson@umu.se
Phone
+46 90 786 70 55

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Affiliation
Associate professor at Department of Culture and Media Studies Section: - Role: Assistant head of department
Location
Humanisthuset, Biblioteksgränd 3 (huvudentré) Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå
Intersections of professional mobility and tourism among Swedish physicians and researchers
Intersections of tourism, migration, and exile, Routledge 2023 : 201-216
Öhlander, Magnus; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Pettersson, Helena
Kulturell förståelse av nyfikenhet: folklore, fantasi, makt och fara
Formbundet, formbart!: vänbok till Alf Arvidsson, Umeå: Umeå universitet 2022 : 83-91
Pettersson, Helena
Practice and Knowledge “Over There” and “Here”: A Cultural Analysis of How Mobile Highly Skilled Professionals Create Meaning With Comparison as a Tool
Cultural Analysis, University of California 2020, Vol. 18, (1) : 5-21
Pettersson, Helena; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
Demands and Challenges of Internationalization in the Swedish Humanities in the Era of Academic Capitalism
Zoon Politikon, Vol. 11 : 232-256
Öhlander, Magnus; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Pettersson, Helena
Knowledge Transfer Work: A Case of Internationally Mobile Medical Professionals
Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Nordic Migration Research (NMR) 2020, Vol. 10, (2) : 36-49
Öhlander, Magnus; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Pettersson, Helena
Returnees’ Cultural Jetlag: Highly skilled professionals’ post-mobility experiences
Ethnologia Scandinavica, Lund: Kungliga Gustav Adolfs Akademien 2019, Vol. 49 : 56-69
Öhlander, Magnus; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Pettersson, Helena
Multiple Masculinities and Gendered Research Persona’s.: Between experiments, career choice and family
International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, UK: The Open University 2018, Vol. 10, (1) : 108-129
Pettersson, Helena
Temporary international mobility, family timing, dual career and family democracy: a case of Swedish medical professionals
Migration Letters, London: 2018, Vol. 15, (1) : 101-113
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus; Pettersson, Helena
Nyfikenhet som motivation och distinktion
Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, Umeå: Föreningen Kulturella Perspektiv 2017, Vol. 25, (3-4) : 7-17
Pettersson, Helena; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna
Kapital, habitus och fält
Tillämpad kulturteori, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB 2017 : 133-150
Pettersson, Helena; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
Masculinities and experimental practices in physics: the view from three case studies
Physical Review Physics Education Research, American Physical Society 2016, Vol. 12, (2)
Gonsalves, Allison J.; Danielsson, Anna; Pettersson, Helena
“Family timing” and reflexive learning in highly skilled international mobility. The case of Swedish medical professionals
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences's (IUAES) Inter-Congress "World anthropologies and privatization of knowledge: engaging anthropology in public to be held in Dubrovnik", Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 4-9, 2016
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus; Pettersson, Helena
Kulturella perspektiv på högutbildades mobilitet
Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, Umeå: Föreningen Kulturella Perspektiv 2016, Vol. 25, (3-4) : 2-6
Öhlander, Magnus; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Pettersson, Helena
Research Cooperation, Fictive Kinship, and International Knowledge Transfer among Scientists
33rd Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference Copenhagen August 18-21 2015
Pettersson, Helena
Making masculinity in experimental physics: embodiment, experimental practices, and mobility
Gender and Diversity Studies in a European Perspective 8-10 January 2015, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Kleve
Pettersson, Helena
Mobility for career and competition? Knowledge, genderand research internationalization.
Researchers crossing borders: transnational scientific mobility : 22-22
Pettersson, Helena
From genius to gender? Going from "a culture of noculture" to queering physics and beyond.
Wissenschaft im Wandel: GenderDynamiken in Hochschule und Forschung am Beispiel der Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Deutschland, 25. - 26. Juni 2015
Pettersson, Helena
Research cooperation, learning processes, and trust among plant scientists: fictive kinship, academic mobility, and scientists' careers
Domesticity in the making of modern science, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan 2015 : 241-258
Pettersson, Helena
Att analysera kunskap: vad internationellt mobila medicinare lär sig av att arbeta utomlands
Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, Umeå: föreningen Kulturella Perspektiv vid Umeå universitet 2015, Vol. 24, (1) : 61-69
Pettersson, Helena; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
Expatriate experiences of Swedish medical professionals: opportunities and barriers in international mobility
IMISCOE 12th ANNUAL CONFERENCE - NCCR – On the Move, 
“Right, Democracy and Migration – Challenges and Opportunities” Geneva, 25-27 June 2015
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Pettersson, Helena; Öhlander, Magnus
Swedish Highly Skilled International “Returners” in the Medical Field: A cultural analysis of transnational experiences and transfer of knowledge and skills
33 Ethnology and folkloristic conference, August 18-21, 2015. Copenhagen University
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus; Pettersson, Helena
The Most Significant Prize! The use of the Nobel Prize as a boundary object at universities with laureates
5th European Communication Conference (ECREA) "Communication for Empowerment: Citizens, Markets, Innovation" Lisbon, Portugal, November 12-15, 2014
Egan Sjölander, Annika; Pettersson, Helena
Mobilitet för karriär och konkurrens?: Kunskap, kön och forskningsinternationalisering
G14 -Att utmana makten : nationell konferens för genusforskning: Umeå 26-28 november 2014 [programbok] : 130-130
Pettersson, Helena
The Most Significant Prize!: The use of the Nobel Prize as a boundary object at universities with laureates
The 21th Nordic Conference in Media and Communication Research (NordMedia2013) Oslo, Norway.
Egan Sjölander, Annika; Pettersson, Helena
Between curiosity and demand: Mobile Knowledge, embodiment, and the establishment of a big science site
The 4S Annual Meeting October 9-12 2013 San Diego
Pettersson, Helena
Boundaries of masculinity and plasma physics: toward an understanding of the making of masculinities in experimental physics
Transforming substance: gender in material sciences, Uppsala: Uppsala Science Press 2013 : 57-81
Pettersson, Helena
Boundary Work and Symbolic Capital Exchange: Knowledge Transfer in Multidisciplinary Research Revisited
The Social Politics of Research Collaboration, New York: Routledge 2013 : 161-175
Pettersson, Helena
Capital in the age of Academic Capitalism: A Critical Remark on the use of Bourdieu’s Capital Concepts when Studying Academic Mobility
Applying Bourdieu in studies of transnationalism, mobility and migration.
Pettersson, Helena
Att vara mobil mellan universitetet och externa samarbetspartners: betydelsen av kunskapsdrivna forskningsfrågor, meriter, tid och plats i kunskapsöverföring
Luleå ; Umeå: Luleå tekniska universitet ; Umeå universitet 2013
Pettersson, Helena
System, site, patient: A three-tiered methodological approach to constructing holistic understanding of the user through design research
Proceedings of the Design Research Society International Conference
Mullaney, Tara; Pettersson, Helena; Nyholm, Tufve
Thinking beyond the cure: a case for human-centered design in cancer care
International Journal of Design, Chinese Institute of Design 2012, Vol. 6, (3) : 27-39
Mullaney, Tara; Pettersson, Helena; Nyholm, Tufve; et al.
Studying Up!: Ethnographic encounters on experimentalists
Thule: Kungl. Skytteanska Samfundets Årsbok 2012, Umeå: Kungl. Skytteanska Samfundet 2012 : 99-108
Pettersson, Helena
Studying Up!: Ethnographic Encounters on Experimentalists!
Thule - Kungl. Skytteanska Samfundets årsbok, Umeå: Skytteanska Samfundet 2012, Vol. 25 : 99-108
Pettersson, Helena
System, site, patient: A three-tiered methodological approach to constructing holistic understanding of the user through design research
Design Research Society 2012 Conference Proceedings: Vol. 2
Pettersson, Helena
Framing of culture and mobility: using the capital concept as a tool of analysis when studying mobile scientists and gender
Class, Culture & Symbolic Power Conference, Freiburg Oct. 7-8 2011
Pettersson, Helena
Academic mobility and shared objects of knowledge: combining laboratory devices and networks when choosing research site
Going global? (Highly) skilled migrants and societal participation” at RWTH Aachen University March 17-18, 2011
Pettersson, Helena
Gender and Transnational Plant Scientists: Negotiating academic mobility, career commitments and private life
Gender, Leverkusen: Verlag Barbara Budrich 2011, Vol. 1 : 99-116
Pettersson, Helena
"Vi måste problematisera de krav som dagens forskning ställer"
Genusperspektiv, Göteborg: 2011, (3-4) : 12-12
Pettersson, Helena
Making masculinity in plasma physics: machines, labour and experiments
Science Studies, Vol. 24, (1) : 47-65
Pettersson, Helena
Embodied practices in the physics laboratory
Bodies Knowing Bodies: Interrogating Embodied Knowledges November 17-18, 2011
Pettersson, Helena; Danielsson, Anna; Gonsalves, Alison
Boundaries, Believers and Bodies: A Cultural Analysis of a Multidisciplinary Research Community
Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing 2010
Pettersson, Helena
Two Levels of Tools for Creativity: Humans, artifacts and the making of the creative researcher
Practicing Science and Technology, Performing the Social, EASST, Trento, Italy, Sept 1-4 2010
Pettersson, Helena
Making masculinities among experimental plasma physicists
4S, Tokyo Aug 24-29, 2010.
Pettersson, Helena
Internationalisering: en bekönad kullerbytta?
Genusperspektiv, Göteborg: 2009, (4) : 7-7
Pettersson, Helena
Gender, femininity and masculinities in oral histories and laboratory culture among plasma physicis
7th Feminist Research Conference, Utrecht June 4-7 2009
Pettersson, Helena
International Mobility and Private Life in Negotiation.: Ethnographic perspectives on gendered demands and cultural practices among migrating scientists
The 2nd international bilingual conference on international academic. Tallin 24-26 September 2009.
Pettersson, Helena
Focused Career, Negotiated Relationship?: Combining Academic Mobility, Internationalization and Private Life
Mobility, Science, and Culture Conference, Universidade de Minho, Braga, 23-24 of November 2009
Pettersson, Helena
Gendered contingencies and negotiations in ethnographic fieldwork when studying plasma physicists
4S/EASST conference in Rotterdam August 20-23 2008
Pettersson, Helena
Identities, gender and mobility among plasma physicists in the United States
The 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Budapest, Hungary, June 26-30 2008
Pettersson, Helena
The Making of the Self: An attempt to start to think with an experimental approach
Pettersson, Helena
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Health Humanities