Stockholms universitet

Ann-Christin CederborgProfessor emerita

Om mig

Professor

Nyckelord

Utsatta barn och unga, barnperspektiv, barns röster, utvecklingspsykologi, brott mot barn och unga, utredningsintervjuer, behandling, kränkningar av barn och ungdomar på nätet och skolan

Uppdrag

- Ledamot i fakultetsnämnden vid samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten
- Styrelseledamot i Barnrättscentrum vid Stockholms universitet

Presentation

Ann-Christin Cederborg har tidigare arbetat som universitetslektor i psykologi vid Institutionen för Beteendevetenskap och Lärande vid Linköpings Universitet (1997-2009). Hon disputerade 1994 vid tema Barn, Linköpings universitet, på en avhandling om barn och deras familjer i behandling vid Barn och Ungdomspsykiatriska kliniker och hon utnämndes till docent 2001. Efter att Forskningsrådet för arbetsliv och socialvetenskap (FAS) beviljade henne ett forskningsstipendium tillbringade hon ett år (2004) som gästforskare vid National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) vid National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, USA. Hon har varit gästforskare vid Institutionen för Neurovetenskap, sektionen för rättspsykiatri, vid Karolinska Institutet i Huddinge (2006-2008). September 2009 erhöll hon tjänsten som Professor vid Barn och ungdomsvetenskapliga institutionen, Stockholms universitet och hon utnämndes till prefekt för institutionen september 2011 och innehade rollen till och med juli 2017. Under april 2011 var hon gästforskare vid Brooklyn College New York, USA. Under perioden januari-juni 2015 var hon visiting fellow vid Psykologiska Institutionen, Cambridge University.

Undervisning

Forskning

Cederborgs forskning berör framförallt sårbara barn, ungdomar, och deras familjer som är i behov av omfattande stödåtgärder från samhällets sida. Hon är intresserad av att förstå hur mellanmänskligt samspel fungerar inom olika hjälp och myndighetssystem och hur dessa system tar till vara utsatta människors verklighetsbeskrivningar. Hennes studier har också ambitionen att förstå barn och ungas möjligheter och förutsättningar att berätta om sina livserfarenheter. Forskningen är också inriktad mot att förstå utsatthetens innebörder för de barn och unga som studeras.

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Publikationer

I urval från Stockholms universitets publikationsdatabas

  • Evaluating the Quality of Investigative Interviews Conducted After the Completion of a Training Program

    2021. Ann-Christin Cederborg (et al.). Investigative Interviewing Research & Practice (II-RP) 11 (1), 40-52

    Artikel

    A previous study conducted in Sweden showed that criminal investigators who participated in a 6‐month course, including a systematic and extensive training program based on a flexible protocol and during which they received extended supervision, were able to reduce their use of option‐posing and suggestive questions and used more open‐ended questions at the end of the training. However, that study did not determine whether the participants continued to employ preferred interview techniques in the months after the course concluded. In the present study, therefore, we evaluated interviews conducted by 66 Swedish criminal investigators who were given the same training as the previous participants. They attended four different courses between the autumn term of 2013 and the spring term of 2015.The present study specifically focused on changes in interview quality from before the course started, to the final interview at the end of the course and interviews subsequently conducted four months after the course was completed. The coding distinguished between open‐questions (invitations, directives) and risky questions (option‐posing and suggestive prompts). We found that, over time, the participants made increased use of recommended types of questions (invitations and directive questions) and reduced use of risky question types (option‐posing and suggestive questions). This suggests that the training program enhanced the investigators’ interview behavior and that they maintained their good practices after completing the course. This is an important finding because inappropriate interviewing can undermine the legal rights of both alleged victims and suspects. 

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  • Power relations in pre-school children's play

    2021. Ann-Christin Cederborg. Early Child Development and Care 191 (4), 612-623

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    As few studies have investigated how pre-school children produce and negotiate social positions when powerful positions are claimed, this study explores how 3–5 year-old children construct the social order of peer play when balancing the power game within the interaction. This is a video documented ethnographical case study where the methodology used is inspired by conversation analysis. The findings are that young children, just like older children, can build up and maintain asymmetrical relations during play by jointly co-constructing status positions through their use of language, body space and objects. The subordinates display legitimation of power when their superior playmate utilizes obvious tools to act and maintain their high-status position. However, positioning themselves in power play may imply that they have to endure unpleasant and unfriendly treatment, and this experience provides knowledge of how to dominate others and act from subordinate positions, where some are ‘marginalized and others privileged’.

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  • Young children's play

    2020. Ann-Christin Cederborg. Early Child Development and Care 190 (5), 778-790

    Artikel

    This study explores how 3–5 year-old children negotiate participation rights during peer play in a preschool in Sweden. The interest is on how they build relations moment-by-moment. I specifically analyze how they negotiate participation rights with a focus on how they include and exclude each other in the ongoing activity. This is an ethnographic study, and the method is inspired by conversation analysis where the verbal and non-verbal interaction is studied sequentially. The findings are that even very young children are capable of advanced social acts when playing together. Such capacities may include face-threatening acts but also solidarity towards one or more participants. It is important that face-threatening strategies are recognized and addressed as soon as possible because children can need help to find alternative ways to behave when in conflict with one another. Otherwise there is a risk that such strategies, when repeated, cause harm to those children exposed.

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  • The quality of question types in Swedish police interviews with young suspects of serious crimes

    2019. Ulrika Winerdal, Ann-Christin Cederborg, Johanna Lindholm. The Police Journal 92 (2), 136-149

    Artikel

    This study explores how juvenile offenders in Sweden between the age of 15 and 17 are interviewed by police officers when suspected of homicide crimes. The quality of question types was assessed in 47 authentic interviews. The findings show that the police officers used option-posing and suggestive questions most frequently and social pressure was used in three predominating ways: to confront, to challenge and to appeal for a confession. The conclusion is that the police officers’ question style to a large extent contradicts recommendations for how to interview children. There is therefore a need to develop an evidence-based interview practice for interviewing young suspects.

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  • Assertions and aspirations

    2017. Lisa Ottosson, Marita Eastmond, Ann-Christin Cederborg. Children's Geographies 15 (4), 426-438

    Artikel

    Research on asylum-seeking children tends to disregard those in parental care. In particular, little is known about children’s own perspectives. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Sweden, this article explores the ways in which accompanied children experience and seek to overcome challenges posed by asylum reception. The focus is on children’s ambition and ability to form their everyday life, given their ambiguous position of tentative emplacement. Theoretical inspiration is sought in Ortner’s ‘agency of personal projects’ and de Certeau’s concept of ‘tactics’, analysed through the prism of liminality. The study found that while some tactics aimed at avoiding situations and settings that made children uncomfortable, others involved influencing their situation through pursuing ‘personal projects’. Many children’s strivings were directed at creating ‘a normal life’ and a place for themselves in Swedish society. The findings challenge the idea that accompanied children are more protected from difficulties and responsibilities than those seeking asylum alone.

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