- Social and Educational Sciences
- Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion
- Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Media and Politics
- Educational Assessment and Improvement
- Discrimination and Equality Law
- Military, Security, and Education Studies
- E-Government and Public Services
- Banking, Crisis Management, COVID-19 Impact
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Minority Rights and Languages
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Media Influence and Health
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
Södertörn University
2017-2018
Stockholm University
2018
Purpose Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine threw all spheres of life in that country into turmoil. The public service was tasked to foster resilience and ensure the continued functioning state. Our purpose is study how a war-shaped leaders’ understandings leadership necessary for tackling emerging crises swiftly shifting environment while delivering services citizens continuing reforms toward EU membership. Design/methodology/approach research reflects analysis 15 semi-structured...
A school principal's workload is recognised as being heavy, with an imbalance between demands and resources. This paper contributes to the development of collective leadership. The principalship constellations six schools in Sweden were studied aim strengthening current knowledge about structures experiences shared principalship. empirical basis qualitative data from interviews principals vice-principals. analytical focus was on how sharing organised experienced. results point a considerable...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how political leaders can rhetorically use social media construct their leadership, with a special focus on character – rhetorical ethos . Design/methodology/approach authors used qualitative case study which consisted two leaders’ activities Twitter. were chosen the basis similarity both foreign ministers in Scandinavian countries and early adapters ICT. All tweets, including photos, for selected period analyzed qualitatively classical concept...
This article presents a study of five schools with shared principalship. It contributes knowledge about how principalship is experienced by people who work closely ("close subordinates") the constellations. Data consists 20 semi-structured interviews. Close subordinates describe that meant reasonable workload for their principals and welcomed level accessibility. Confidence in leader collaboration was heightened if close were able to witness action own eyes. The findings are discussed...

 This article takes its stand in an international discussion about how NPM reforms affect public servants’ notions core values. More specifically, it analyses school leaders relate to the values of political control, rule law, economic efficiency, professionalism and users’ influence. It raises question whether matters, terms they embrace these values, their organisation is or private. 975 (481 working for schools 472 private schools) have completed a written questionnaire containing...
This paper provides insight into the legislative process behind current Education Act of Sweden. The aim is to shed light on how and why it came prohibit joint leadership for principals. Joint a sub-form shared between managers characterised by complete formal authority, hierarchic equality merged work tasks. sharing principal’s position is, in previous research, identified as potentially favourable principals schools decreases principals’ often heavy workload. Five retrospective interviews...