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Linda Rönnberg

Dr. Linda Rönnberg is a Professor in Educational Work, at the Department of Applied Educational Science and affiliated to the University of Turku as a Senior Research Fellow.

Research qualifications: Docent

Works at

Affiliation
Professor at Department of Applied Educational Science Section: Floor 4
Location
Naturvetarhuset plan 4, huskropp NB, Johan Bures väg 16 Umeå universitet, 90187 Umeå

Linda Rönnberg is a Professor at the Department of Applied Educational Science, Umeå University. Her research focuses on education governance and politics with a particular focus on evaluation, privatization and internationalization in preschool, compulsory and higher education. She is co-leader of the Perspectives on education politics and policy (PEPP) research profile.

Recent projects include research on marketisation, commercialisation and private actors in education, preschool, and school health services, as well as Swedish education export and policies of evaluation and internationalisation in higher education.
She is a co-editor of Education Inquiry, executive editor of the European Educational Research Journal and an editorial member board for: Journal of Education Policy, Critical Studies in Education, Journal of Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability and Pedagogisk forskning i Sverige.

She teaches in teacher education programs and supervises doctoral students. Linda is also a Docent in Political Science and a former Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Education, University of Turku.

Current research projects:

2017-2024: Swedish Education as an export business: Swedish school companies in the Global Education Industry (Swedish Research Council).

2021-2026: Preschool as a Market (Swedish Research Council).

2023-2028: Student health as a Market: commercialisation, cooperation and consequences (Swedish Research Council).

Recent research projects (selection):

2018-2023: Internationalising Higher Education: Challenges and opportunities for Universities and academics in Sweden (Swedish Research Council, PI prof. Nafsika Alexiadou, UmU).

2017-2022: Hollowing Out of Public Education Systems? Private Actors in Compulsory Schooling in Finland, Sweden and New Zealand (HOPES) (Academy of Finland, PI Prof. Piia Seppänen, University of Turku).

2012-2019: Governing by Evaluation in Swedish Higher Education (Swedish Research Council. PI Prof. Christina Segerholm, UmU.

2008-2015: Swedish National School Inspection (Swedish Research Council, research fellowship grant).

2010-2014: Governing by Inspection (Swedish Research Council, PIs prof. Christina Segerholm and prof. Jenny Ozga, Oxford University).

2011-2014: Education at the Intersection of Marketisation and Central State Control (Young researcher's award, Umeå University).

European Journal of Higher Education, Routledge 2024, Vol. 14, (2) : 249-266
Alexiadou, Nafsika; Kefala, Zoi; Rönnberg, Linda
Education Inquiry, Routledge 2024, Vol. 15, (1) : 63-84
Carlbaum, Sara; Lindgren, Joakim; Benerdal, Malin; et al.
Education Inquiry, Routledge 2024, Vol. 15, (1) : 1-10
Carlbaum, Sara; Rönnberg, Linda
Education Inquiry, Routledge 2024, Vol. 15, (1) : 11-29
Carlbaum, Sara; Rönnberg, Linda
Globalisation, Societies and Education, Routledge 2024, Vol. 22, (2) : 172-183
Holm, Ann-Sofie; Carlbaum, Sara; Rönnberg, Linda
NERA (Nordic Educational Research Association) 2024
Lindgren, Joakim; Rönnberg, Linda; Benerdal, Malin; et al.
Förskolans expansion och marknadisering, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB 2024 : 75-97
Rönnberg, Linda; Benerdal, Malin; Carlbaum, Sara; et al.
Scrutinising the nordic dimension in education: myths, realities, and integration efforts in Europe's nordic region, London: Routledge 2024 : 155-172
Rönnberg, Linda; Dobrochinski Candido, Helena Hinke
Educational review (Birmingham)
Alexiadou, Nafsika; Holm, Ann-Sofie; Rönnberg, Linda; et al.
Higher Education Policy, Springer 2023, Vol. 36, (2) : 351-369
Alexiadou, Nafsika; Rönnberg, Linda
Nordic Studies in Education, Cappelen Damm Akademisk 2023, Vol. 43, (2) : 145-163
Rönnberg, Linda; Hinke Dobrochinski Candido, Helena
European Educational Research Journal, Sage Publications 2022, Vol. 21, (3) : 504-519
Alexiadou, Nafsika; Rönnberg, Linda
Organizing the world 2.0 (theme: Organizing Markets), SCORE, Stockholm, Sweden, October 6-7, 2022
Carlbaum, Sara; Benerdal, Malin; Lindgren, Joakim; et al.
European Educational Research Journal, Sage Publications 2022, Vol. 21, (5) : 845-868
Cone, Lucas; Brøgger, Katja; Berghmans, Mieke; et al.
European Conference on Educational Research, ECER Plus, Online via Yerevan, Armenia, September 1-10, 2022
Lindgren, Joakim; Rönnberg, Linda; Carlbaum, Sara; et al.
När skolan blev en marknad: trettio år med friskolor, Natur och kultur 2022 : 220-233
Rönnberg, Linda
Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, Taylor & Francis 2022, Vol. 8, (1) : 9-19
Rönnberg, Linda; Alexiadou, Nafsika; Benerdal, Malin; et al.
Cross-national achievement surveys for monitoring educational outcomes: policies, practices and political reforms within the European Union, Luxemburg: European Commission Joint Research Centre 2022 : 115-135
Rönnberg, Linda; Wikström, Christina
Journal of Studies in International Education, Sage Publications 2021, Vol. 25, (4) : 443-460
Alexiadou, Nafsika; Kefala, Zoi; Rönnberg, Linda
Ämnet som blev: rapporter från den fjärde nationella konferensen i pedagogiskt arbete, Umeå: Umeå Universitet 2021 : 37-52
Kefala, Zoi; Alexiadou, Nafsika; Rönnberg, Linda
Understanding educational leadership: critical perspectives and approaches, London: Bloomsbury Academic 2021 : 105-119
Møller, Jorunn; Rönnberg, Linda
Ämnet som blev: rapporter från den fjärde nationella konferensen i pedagogiskt arbete, Umeå: Umeå Universitet 2021 : 125-141
Rönnberg, Linda; Alexiadou, Nafsika; Benerdal, Malin; et al.
Privatisation and commercialisation in public education: how the public nature of schooling is changing, London: Routledge 2021 : 134-151
Rönnberg, Linda; Benerdal, Malin; Carlbaum, Sara; et al.
World yearbook of education 2021: accountability and datafication in the governance of education, London: Routledge 2021 : 113-129
Skedsmo, Guri; Rönnberg, Linda; Ydesen, Christian
Nordic Educational Research Association: Rethinking the futures of education in the Nordic countries (NERA 2020), Turku, Finland, March 4-6, 2020
Rönnberg, Linda; Benerdal, Malin; Carlbaum, Sara; et al.
Challenges for public education: reconceptualising educational leadership, policy and social justice as resources for hope, Abingdon: Routledge 2019 : 116-131
Alexiadou, Nafsika; Lundahl, Lisbeth; Rönnberg, Linda
Austerity and the remaking of European education, London: Bloomsbury Academic 2019 : 93-116
Alexiadou, Nafsika; Rönnberg, Linda
Comparative Education, Routledge 2019, Vol. 55, (3) : 308-325
Helgøy, Ingrid; Homme, Anne; Lundahl, Lisbeth; et al.
Stockholm: Liber 2019
Jarl, Maria; Rönnberg, Linda
The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus: Swedish Higher Education as a case, Dortrecht: Springer 2019 : 83-101
Lindgren, Joakim; Rönnberg, Linda
The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus: Swedish Higher Education as a Case, Dortrecht: Springer 2019 : 157-180
Lindgren, Joakim; Rönnberg, Linda; Hult, Agneta; et al.
The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus: Swedish Higher Education as a Case, Dortrecht: Springer 2019 : 181-199
Lindgren, Joakim; Rönnberg, Linda; Hult, Agneta; et al.
The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus: Swedish Higher Education as a Case, Dortrecht: Springer 2019 : 119-138
Lindgren, Joakim; Rönnberg, Linda; Hult, Agneta; et al.
The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus: Swedish Higher Education as a case, Dortrecht: Springer 2019 : 103-118
Rönnberg, Linda
Neoliberalism and market forces in education: lessons from Sweden, London: Routledge 2019 : 183-196
Rönnberg, Linda
Nordiske organisasjonsstudier, Bergen: Fagbokforlaget 2019, Vol. 21, (1) : 34-57
Rönnberg, Linda
Handbuch Educational Governance Theorien, Wiesbaden: Springer 2019 : 711-727
Rönnberg, Linda; Lindgren, Joakim; Lundahl, Lisbeth
Evaluating education: normative systems and institutional practices
Segerholm, Christina; Hult, Agneta; Lindgren, Joakim; et al.
European Conference for Educational Research (ECER), Hamburg, Germany, September 2-6, 2019
Segerholm, Christina; Hult, Agneta; Lindgren, Joakim; et al.
The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus: Swedish Higher Education as a Case, Dortrecht: Springer 2019 : 1-23
Segerholm, Christina; Rönnberg, Linda; Lindgren, Joakim; et al.
Higher Education Policy, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2018, Vol. 31, (1) : 55-73
Lindgren, Joakim; Rönnberg, Linda
NERA 2018 - Educational Research: Boundaries, Breaches and Bridges: Abstracts, University of Oslo 2018 : 210-210
Rönnberg, Linda; Hult, Agneta; Lindgren, Joakim
Abstracts: Inclusion and Exclusion, Resources for Educational Research?
Segerholm, Christina; Hult, Agneta; Rönnberg, Linda; et al.
School inspectors: policy implementers, policy shapers in national policy contexts, Cham: Springer 2017 : 159-181
Lindgren, Joakim; Rönnberg, Linda
European Educational Research Association 2017
Lindgren, Joakim; Rönnberg, Linda
ECER 2017, European Conference of Educational Research, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 22-25, 2017
Lundahl, Lisbeth; Rönnberg, Linda
Bortom PISA: Internationell och jämförande pedagogik, Stockholm: Natur och kultur 2017 : 221-243
Rönnberg, Linda
Journal of education policy, Vol. 32, (2) : 234-249
Rönnberg, Linda
Utvärdering och bedömning i skolan: För vem och varför?, Stockholm: Natur och kultur 2017 : 49-62
Rönnberg, Linda; Segerholm, Christina
ECER 2016, European Conference of Educational Research, Dublin, Ireland, August 23-26, 2016
Lundahl, Lisbeth; Rönnberg, Linda