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Staff photo Ulrika Widding

Ulrika Widding

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

Research qualifications: Docent
Educational qualifications: Recognised university teacher

Contact

E-mail
ulrika.widding@umu.se
Phone
+46 90 786 78 17

Works as

Affiliation
Associate professor at Department of Education
Location
Hus Y, Beteendevetarhuset Umeå universitet, Mediagränd 14, Beteendevetarhuset, 901 87 Umeå
Doing (in)equality in Swedish families: women's narratives of outsourcing domestic work
Families, Relationships and Societies
Silfver, Ann-Louise; Widding, Ulrika
Book review: Nanny Families: Practices of Care by Nannies, Au Pairs, Parents and Children in Sweden
The European Journal of Women's Studies, Sage Publications 2021, Vol. 28, (2) : 287-290
Silfver, Ann-Louise; Widding, Ulrika
DILF or ditched?: Representations of the 'single father' in Swedish internet-based forum discussions
Single parents: representations and resistance in an international context, Springer 2021 : 155-173
Widding, Ulrika
Classroom bodies: affect, body language, and discourse when schoolchildren encounter national tests in mathematics
Gender and Education, Routledge 2020, Vol. 32, (5) : 682-696
Silfver, Eva; Maritha, Jacobsson; Arnell, Linda; et al.
Parents of extremely and moderately preterm children reported long-lasting impressions of medical care and the hospital environment
Acta Paediatrica, John Wiley & Sons 2020, Vol. 109, (9) : 1772-1777
Widding, Ulrika; Hägglöf, Bruno; Adamsson, Marie; et al.
Parents of preterm children narrate constructive aspects of their experiences
Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley & Sons 2019, Vol. 28, (21-22) : 4110-4119
Widding, Ulrika; Hägglöf, Bruno; Farooqi, Aijaz
Educating Police Officers in Sweden: All about Making Meaning
Bergman, Bengt; Karp, Staffan; Widding, Ulrika
Representations of the ‘single father’ in internet-based forum discussions
Close Relations: a multi- and interdisciplinary conference on critical family and kinship studies, Uppsala University, Sweden, October 24-26, 2018
Widding, Ulrika
Parental determinism in the Swedish strategy for parenting support
Social Policy and Society, Cambridge University Press 2018, Vol. 17, (3) : 481-490
Widding, Ulrika
“I thought he was ugly”: mothers of extremely premature children narrate their experiences as troubled subjects
Feminism and Psychology, Sage Publications 2016, Vol. 26, (2) : 153-169
Widding, Ulrika; Farooqi, Aijaz
Parenting ideals and (un-)troubled parent positions
Pedagogy, Culture & Society, London: Routledge 2015, Vol. 23, (1) : 45-64
Widding, Ulrika
Rational and professional, or emotional and 'good enough': Parents negotiating the meaning of parenthood within a parent education programme
Studies in the Education of Adults, NIACE - National Institute of Adult Continuing Education 2014, Vol. 46, (1) : 42-57
Widding, Ulrika
Ett föräldrastöd grundat i barnkonventionen?: En analys av hur föräldrastödsmaterial förhåller sig till olika dimensioner av barnkonventionen
Barn, Trondheim: Norsk senter for barneforskning (NOSEB) 2014, (1) : 41-56
Widding, Ulrika; Olsson, Johanna
Familjepeppen: en familjestödssatsning i Umeåregionen : forskningsrapport : maj 2013
Umeå: Umeå kommun 2013
Widding, Ulrika; Olsson, Johanna
Parents’ narratives of their everyday life and need of support: a study of parents who participate in a parent education program
Gender and democracy: gender research in times of change
Widding, Ulrika
Educating Parents: A critical encounter between Swedish government parent support and parent’s narratives
Changing the Future Educating about Gender
Silfver, Ann-Louise; Berge, Britt-Marie; Magnusson, Eva; et al.
Problematic parents and the community parent education: representations of social class, ethnicity, and gender
Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, Routledge 2011, Vol. 23, (1) : 19-38
Widding, Ulrika
'Transform Your Child’s Behaviour Now': parent education as self-help culture and lifelong learning
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Oxford: Symposium Journals Ltd. 2011, Vol. 12, (3) : 252-261
Widding, Ulrika
Barnets rättigheter – högskolans skyldighet: barnkonventionen i olika utbildningskontexter
Undervisning på tvären: student- och lärarerfarenheter : den nionde universitetspedagogiska konferensen 25-26 februari 2009 : konferensrapport, Umeå: Universitetspedagogiskt Centrum, Umeå universitet 2010 : 129-146
Olsson, Johanna; Widding, Ulrika
Identity constructions in the Student’s Society: Formations of gender and class in a mass university
Past-Present-Future: From Women’s Studies to Post-Gender Research, Umeå universitet, 14-17 juni 2007 : -
Widding, Ulrika
Student associations – old means of constructing new identities
European Conference on Educational Research, Dublin, Irland 7-10 september 2007 : -
Widding, Ulrika
Identitetsskapande och symboliskt kapital i studentföreningen
Det civila samhället som forskningsfält: Nya avhandlingar i ett nytt sekel, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Gidlunds Förlag, Stockholm 2006 : -
Widding, Ulrika
Identitetsskapande i studentföreningen: Köns- och klasskonstruktioner i massuniversitetet
Akademiska avhandlingar vid Pedagogiska institutionen, Umeå universitet, 79
Widding, Ulrika
Kvinnliga röster i manliga traditioner: Studentföreningen som ett medel att erövra rätten att tala
3:e nordiska konferensen Kultur, makt och utbildning, Pedagogik-historisk forskning, Lärarhögskolan i Stockholm : -
Widding, Ulrika
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Research groups

Group member
N4 Research Group

Research projects

30 June 2020
Critical studies of norms in society – mission statement