Emilie Moberg

My current research interests concern ecocritical, feminist and queer perspectives on science education in preschool with a specific focus on inter-species relations. A particular interest includes how feminist and queer theoretical approaches can act to create new and other encounters between children and non-human species as well as between children and science. Since 2007, I have worked cross-disciplinary with environmental sustainability issues at the National Agency for Education, the Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation and the former Stockholm Insitute of Education. From September 2021 until December 2022 I was a guest researcher and affiliated researcher at the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala university. I am co-organizer of the Seminar for Feminist Theory and Methods at BUV and member of the Editorial Board for the journals Gender and Education and Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology (RERM).  From 2025-2028 I am PI for the project Promoting Plant Awareness in Early Childhood Education, financed by the Swedish Research Council.

Networks and groups:

Humanimal research group, Uppsala university

The Swedish STS group 

https://swests.org

The Eco- and Bioart lab, Linköping university 

Publications (in selection)

Moberg, E. och Westberg Broström, A. (2025). Barntid och växttid: Ekokritiska läsningar av tidsförlopp och relationen mellan växter och barn i två bilderböcker. Barnboken: Journal of Children’s Literature Research, 48.

Moberg, E. (2024). Minecraft and Super Mario as enacted in a preschool setting: Children’s engagements with digital popular culture beyond player–interface–screen ecologies. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14639491231225225

Moberg, E. (2024). Tistelfjärilar, bläckfiskar och mänsklig överordning: att göra feministiska analyser av natur och kultur. I Genus och kultur (eds.) Woube, A. and Lindelöf, K. Stockholm: Makadam förlag.

Moberg, E. (2023). On snails and eels – exploring alignments of epistemic cultures in early childhood education and literary fiction. Science and Technology Studies, Special issue: Alignment work.

Moberg, E. och Halvars, B. (2022). Förkroppsligade kunskaper om väder och klimat - förskolans roll i Antropocen. Pedagogisk forskning i Sverige. (Temanummer: Antropocen i en skandinavisk utbildningskontext)

Bodén, L., Lenz Taguchi, H., Moberg, E., & Taylor, C. (2020). Relational Materialism. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Oxford University Press.

Moberg, E. (2018). Enacting affirmative critique: exploring the conjunctions and overlaps among Actor-network theory and Feminist New Materialist Studies in Early Childhood Curriculum Studies, 9(1)Reconceptualising Education Research Methodologies.