Lisbeth Lundahl

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)

• Moving on. Youth attending an introduction program and their career support in varying local contexts. The Swedish Research Council, 2018-2022

Earlier research projects and networks (PI: Lisbeth Lundahl)

• Learning for career management skills. Research council Forte 2016-2018
• Spaces for learning. Umeå University/Akademiska Hus, 2013-2017
• Unsafe transitions. Youth without complete upper secondary education: the paths and measures in longitudinal perspective. The Swedish Research Council, 2010-2014.
• National network for research on career development and guidance (KAV). Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research FAS, 2010-12, Forte 2015.
• Research network "NordCrit - Critical Nordic Research Network on Education, Welfare, Children and Young People". NordForsk, 2010-2012 (together with A-L Arnesen, E Lahelma and E Öhrn)
• Upper secondary school as a market. The Swedish Research Council, 2008-2010
• The Individual, paths and choices. Career choice and guidance in social, cultural and gender perspective. The Swedish Research Council, 2005-2007.
• Samic matters in teacher education and in the textbooks of lower secondary school. Ministry of Agriculture, 2003-05.
• Schools without national timetables. Ministry of Education, 2002-05.
• Youth politics and young people´s strategies. The encounter between young people and local youth projects in the 1990s. Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS), 1998-2001.
• The education politics of the Swedish Employers´ Confederation and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation in 1944-1990. The Research Council of the Social Sciences and Humanities HSFR, 1992-1996.