Department of Education

Professor of Education. National coordinator for graduate schools GRADE, UPGRADE, and LIKED. Guest professor at the University of Gothenburg.  

I am a senior lecturer in Education. My main research  and teaching interests are global knowledge relations and  processes of gendered socialisation in families and work life.

I am a doctoral student in the field of special education / inclusive education. My main focus concerns sense of belonging, education and intellectual disability.

Björn Norlin is Senior Lecturer in Education and Associate professor of History and Education.

Study Counsellor and International coordinator.

In my thesis  project I examine work and learning from an equality perspective. The context for my studies is the Swedish police.

My teaching, supervision and research is focused on organising, organisations and governance, particularly within the context of sport, but also in the general working-life. 

I am a historian of ideas and a senior lecturer in education. My research interests include education, contemporary history and historiography.

I work as administrator of records and archives at three departments; psychology, education and sociology. My work also includes administrative support and registration of publications in DIVA.

I study the use of IT from a pedagogical perspective with technologies such as AR (Augmented Reality), VR (Virtual Reality) and AI (Artificial Intelligence).

I am a professor of pedagogy with specialization in special education. My research interests mostly concern how power and power relations are expressed in education.

PhD student conducting research about children's rights in sports and teaching in Tränarprogrammet and IFYS-programmer.

I work as an Associate professor in Education, with a focus in teaching and research about assessments, summative as well as formative.

I work as Associate Professor in Education. My research area - child and youth sport. I teach in sport programs (Sport Science Program and Physical Education programs) and in education.

I work as study counsellor at the Department of Education.

Assistant lecturer in comparative literature and creative writing.

I am a doctoral student in pedagogy with a focus on special education and preschool.

Johan Hansson is senior lecturer at the Department of Education and defended his thesis in History didactics in 2010.

Ph.D. in Sociology with a broad interest in Social Science and Social theory including health inequality, social movements and evolutionary theory.

I am administrative manager at the Departments of Education, Psychology and Sociology. 

I work as Professor at the Department of Education. In doing so, I teach undergraduate courses, supervise doctoral students and conduct research within sport pedagogy / sport management.

I am an associate professor, and my research interest is in the field of learning and ICT.

My name is Kent Löfgren and I work as a lecturer at the Department of Education.

My interests are identity constructions and power relations within the field of sport and special education with particular reference to, ability, disability, gender and equality.

I am employed at the Department of Education as an HR coordinator. Also supports the Sports Academy in HR issues.

I am associate professor at the Department of Education. My main research interest is home-school collaboration and the use of ICT in different educational settings.

I work as Associate Professor at the Department of Education. In doing so, I teach undergraduate courses, supervise doctoral students and conduct research within the fields of sport pedagogy.

I belong to the Educational Institution's Research Area Learning and ICT (LIKT) and my teaching assignments are currently mainly in courses in our online-based education.

I work as associate professor at the department. My research interests mostly concern professional learning and professional education.

I am an associate professor in education, with a special interest in working life, organizational education and policing

I'm a PhD at the Department of Education. My research area is practice-based research about synchronous online learning and didactics. 

I work as an Associate Professor at the Department of Education. Currently I have a position as the Head of the department.

PhD student in pedagogy, with a research interest in principals' responsibility for systematic quality work.

Doctoral student in Education with a focus on Learning in a Digital World. The thesis project explores the socialisation practices of the gaming culture.

I mainly teach in courses within the Faculty of social sciences, and in addition, I have the position of Pedagogical leader.

My research interests include learning and development in sports and computer simulation training and the development of professional knowledge in police education.

I am appointed as excellent teacher and work as a director of studies at courses in teacher education and police education. My research interests are within social science didactics.

I work as a teacher and researcher. My research interests mostly concern teaching, learning and educational assessment. A particular interest is assessment and grading in compulsory school.

Head of Umeå School of Sport Sciences, Leader of one of the research areas of the Department of Education: Leadership, Organization and Working Life (LOA).

I am Associate Professor. My research interests are norms and ideals associated to parenthood, family life and parenting support. Analytical tools are mainly from critical discursive psychology