Research Group
Management team
Christina Olin-Scheller
christina.olin-scheller@kau.se
Holds a PhD in Literature and is Professor of Applied Pedagogy with a specific focus on young people's reading and writing in the present medialandscape
Niklas Gericke
Niklas.Gericke@kau.se
Professor of Science Education. His research interest mainly revolves around biology education and sustainability education with a focus on how subject knowledge is transformed from academic discipline into subject knowledge taught in schools.
Martin Stolare
Martin.Stolare@kau.se
Associate Professor of History, with a special interest in history education research in primary school.
Senior researchers
Gabriel Bladh
gabriel.bladh@kau.se
Professor of Social Science Education, with a focus on the geography subject and how geographical knowledge and perspectives are developed and used in education, academia and daily life.
Jelle Boeve-dePauw
Jelle.Boeve-dePauw@uantwerpen.be
Jorryt van Bommel
jorryt.vanbommel@kau.se
Senior Lecturer in Mathematics education. Research interests: Early years mathematics, Teachers' professional development, Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching, Problem-solving.
Susanne Duek
susanne.duek@kau.se
Senior Lecturer, Applied Pedagogy. Area of research; teaching, learning and school development with a focus on multilingual dimensions.
Brian Hudson
brian.hudson@kau.se
Guest Professor with particular research interests in mathematical thinking, ICT and learning, epistemic quality and comparative approaches to curriculum making.
Nina Kilbrink
nina.kilbrink@kau.se
Senior Lecturer, Applied Pedagogy. The research interests are Vocational Education, Technical Education, Narrative Research, Variation Theory, Learning Study, ICT in Education, Transfer and the relation between Theory and Practice in technical vocational education.
Lise Iversen Kulbrandstad
lise.kulbrandstad@hihm.no
Visiting Professor, specialising in reading and reading practices, literacy, second language education, minority language pupils, multilingualism, subject-specific education, etc.
Martin Kristiansson
Martin.Kristiansson@kau.se
Senior Lecturer in Social Studies, who pursues research on civics teaching with a focus on the relationships between the school subject and the academic disciplines on which it is based.
Yvonne Liljekvist
Yvonne.Liljekvist@kau.se
Birgitta Ljung-Egeland
birgitta.ljung-egeland@kau.se
Senior Lecturer in Swedish, whose research areas are language and learning (especially multilingualism) and children's and young people's health and development.
Kenneth Nordgren
Kenneth.Nordgren@kau.se
Professor of Social Science Education, with a special interest in history education and intercultural perspectives.
Héctor Pérez Prieto
Hector.Perez@kau.se
Professor emeritus of Applied Pedagogy
Ann-Christin Randahl
ann-christin.randahl@kau.se
Postdoc, Senior lecturer Swedish
Johan Samuelsson
Johan.Samuelsson@kau.se
Associate Professor of History, specialising in the development processes of the subject history and its role in society, as well as issues relating to the history of education generally and history education in particular.
Erica Sandlund
Erica.Sandlund@kau.se
Associate Professor of English Linguistics, Sandlund’s research centers on social interaction, particularly institutional talk, such as in multilingual language classrooms, second language speaking tests, performance appraisal interviews, and teachers’ professional development.
Pia Sundqvist
Pia.sundqvist@ils.uio.no
Pia Sundqvist is Associate Professor of English Language Education at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her main research interests involve informal language learning, L2 oral tests and English language teaching. She is the primary investigator of the STAGE project, funded by the Research Council of Norway.
Per Sund
per.sund@kau.se
Associate Professor of Natural Science and Technology Education
Marie Tanner
Marie.Tanner@kau.se
Senior Lecturer in Applied Pedagogy, specialising in the social interaction between the teacher and student in the classroom.
Doctoral students
Sara Blank
sara.blank@kau.se
Doctoral Student in Applied Pedagogy, with an emphasis on Civics education.