Kategori: Doktorander på IPKL

During the last three years I have worked as a lecturer at University West in Trollhättan. I have a degree of bachelor in sociology and a degree of master in child and youth studies. I’m interested in children’s own perspectives on living in vulnerable life situations. I am also interested in children’s rights, participation and influence. I have a professional background as a social worker with focus on children and families. Focus in my phd studies will be on violence and precariousness among children in leisure time centers. I find it both exciting and challenging to start this work. I’m glad to be a part of IPKL.

I started my path as a PhD student at the Department of Education, Communication and Learning in January 2020. Just half a year before that I graduated from the International Master’s Program in IT and Learning, so I was very excited to come back to the Department in a new role.

I joined the SOCDEX project that is led by Thomas Hillman and Markus Nivala. The project aims to explore how online communities contribute to the development of expertise in programming. I am interested in the forms of peer feedback in such communities and the role that they play in expertise development practices.

It has been very enriching experience so far and I look forward to the fall semester to continue with the project, meet my colleagues (hopefully in person soon) and get to know new PhD students.

This is Tanya Osborne, one of our new PhD-students

My undergraduate degree was in Philosophy, with a focus on philosophy of social science, which I completed in 2009. After graduating I worked in the UK Department for Education, giving support to schools on implementing 14-19 technical education. After the body I worked for was disbanded, I worked in higher education quality assurance, and helped 4 different UK universities with their external educational audit and review processes. During this time I did a Masters Degree in Higher Education Research. I came to Sweden in 2018, and for a while I was a technical writer and editor. My real passion is Education, and I was delighted to I join IPKL as a doctoral student in January 2020.

My research focus within education is equality and technology. In particular I am interested in disability, race, and gender equality in post-16 and adult educational settings, from the perspective of epistemic ignorance. I’m working at IPKL within the BALANCED and SOCDEX projects. I am really excited to be part of an academic community again, and I am looking forward to getting to know you all better, and finding opportunities to collaborate.

In my personal life, I like music, games and calligraphy.