Professor in educational work, visiting professor at University of Gothenburg 2022-23. Research on education politics, young people´s trajectories in policy, institutional and individual perspectives.
Professor in Educational Work at Umeå University since 2002, visiting professor at Gothenburg University, Sweden, 2022 – 2023, visiting professor at University of Turku, Finland, 2015 – 2020. Honorary Doctor at University of Turku, Finland, 2021.
My research mainly concerns education policy, and young people´s young people´s trajectories and choices in policy, institutional and individual perspectives. Spaces for learning in higher education constitutes a third research field. I have been the principal investigator of numerous research projects, commonly funded by the research councils, and in addition I have participated in a range of Swedish and international research projects. I am the leader of the cross-disciplinary research program "Education Policy and Young People´s Transitions", at Umeå University.
I have had several leader assignments at the universities of Lund and Umeå, where I moved in 1987. I was a vice rector of Umeå University in 2003-2008. I was a member of the Social Science Research Council (SFR), the Swedish Council for Working life and Social Research (FAS), and the Educational Science Committee (UVK) of the Swedish Research Council. I acted as Secretary General of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) 2005 - 2008 and I am one of the founders of the Swedish Educational Research Association (SWERA, 2013).
Ongoing research projects (PI: Lisbeth Lundahl)
Earlier research projects and networks (PI: Lisbeth Lundahl)