Research Group

Management team

Christina Olin-Scheller
christina.olin-scheller@kau.se
Professor of Comparative literature in Education and professor in Pedagogical Work. In her research, she has a specific focus on reading and reading education in the new media landscape.

Yvonne Liljekvist
yvonne.liljekvist@kau.se
Professor of Mathematics education. In her research, she studies issues related to the conditions for mathematics teaching and learning.

Martin Stolare
Martin.Stolare@kau.se
Professor of History. Conducts research in history education with a particular interest in history teaching in the earlier parts of primary school.

Senior researchers

Stig-Börje Asplund
stig-borje.asplund@kau.se
Professor of Educational Works. His main research interest is on classroom interaction and life history approaches, with a special focus on rural boys’ and men’s reading practices in and outside school.

Gabriel Bladh
gabriel.bladh@kau.se
Professor of Social Science education. Conducts research about the school subject geography and how geographical knowledge and perspectives are developed and used in school, science and everyday life.

Jorryt van Bommel
jorryt.vanbommel@kau.se
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Mathematics education. Her research interests are early years mathematics, teachers' professional development, mathematical Knowledge for Teaching and problem-solving.

Nina Christenson
nina.christenson@kau.se
Assistant professor in Biology in Education. Her research interests are how social issues with scientific content (SNI) can be used in science teaching.

Niklas Gericke
niklas.gericke@kau.se
Professor of Science Education. Conducts research on teaching and learning in natural sciences with a focus on biology and issues of genetics and sustainable development.

Jesper Haglund
jesper.haglund@kau.se
Associate professor in Physics Education. His research interests concern teaching and learning in heat theory, metaphors and analogies in teaching, and the importance of the body in learning science.

Maria Hjalmarsson
maria.hjalmarsson@kau.se
Professor in Educational Work. Her research interest is after-school/leisure centres as educational arenas and recreational instructors’ profession and work from of gender, social work ethics and policy theory inspired by sociology of education.

Brian Hudson
brian.hudson@kau.se
Affiliated researcher and Professor emeritus. His particular research interests are in mathematical thinking, ICT and learning, epistemic quality and comparative approaches to curriculum making.

Nina Kilbrink
nina.kilbrink@kau.se
Associate professor in Educational work. Her research interests are vocational education, didactics of technical subjects and ICT in education

Martin Jakobsson
Martin.Jakobsson@kau.se
Associate professor in Social Studies. His research concerns the teaching of social studies with a particular interest in the relationship of scientific disciplines to the school subject.

Birgitta Ljung-Egeland
birgitta.ljung-egeland@kau.se
Assistant professor in Swedish language. Her research interests concern language and learning (especially multilingualism), and the health and development of children and young people.

Torodd Lunde
torodd.lunde@kau.se
Assistant professor in Chemistry education. His research interests are focused on didactic models in science teaching.

Marie Nilsberth
Marie.nilsberth@kau.se
Professor of Educational Work. Her research is based on an interest in the social interaction of teachers and students in the classroom with a particular focus on the digitalization of the classroom.

Niclas Modig
niklas.modig@kau.se
PhD in Educational Work and lecturer in Social Science. His research interests include Social Studies, Economics, Teaching and Learning, Teacher Training and Powerful Knowledge.

Kristian Niemi
kristian.niemi@kau.se
Assistant professor in Religion in Education. His research interest is international religious education with a particular focus on religion in India and the Indian school system.

Kenneth Nordgren
Kenneth.Nordgren@kau.se
Professor of Social Science in Education. Conducts research in history didactics with a particular focus on intercultural perspectives.

Daniel Olsson
daniel.olsson@kau.se
Assistant professor in Biology in Education. His research interest are environmental and sustainability education research with a specific focus on young people’s action competence within these issues.

Ann-Christin Randahl
ann-christin.randahl@kau.se, ann-christin.randahl@svenska.gu.se
Associate professor of Swedish language. Her research interests relate to learning, text and language with a focus on students' writing and teachers' collegial learning.

Johan Samuelsson
Johan.Samuelsson@kau.se
Professor of History. His main scientific interests are in developmental processes regarding history and its role in society, as well as issues in the history of education and history didactics.

Erica Sandlund
Erica.Sandlund@kau.se
Professor of English with research on institutional conversations, such as English classrooms, continuing education for language teachers, oral language tests and assessment.

Sofia Wijkmark
sofia.wijkmark@kau.se
Professor of Contemporary Literature. Her research interests include Gothic elements in literature, especially in relation to ecological issues, regional literature, and literature education for a sustainable future.

Postdocs

Caroline Bohwmik
caroline.bhowmik@kau.se
Postdoctor in Social Science in Education

Phuong Bui
phuong.bui@kau.se
Postdoctor in Mathematics in Education

Dionysia Bakogianni
dionysia.bakogianni@kau.se
Postdoctor in Mathematics in Education

Nathalie Popa
nathalie.popa@kau.se
Postdoctor in Social Science in Education

Doctoral students

Katja Hvenmark-Nilsson
katja.hvenmark.nilsson@kau.se
Doktorand i pedagogiskt arbete med inriktning mot språk- och litteraturdidaktik

Kamilla Lundborg
kamilla.lundborg@kau.se
Doktorand pedagogiskt arbete med inriktning mot samhällskunskap

Arief Muttaqiin
arief.muttaqiin@kau.se
Doktorand i biologididaktik