Anki Bengtsson, PhD, Senior Lecturer

Current teaching and course leader, Education in Career Counselling at the Department of Education

Educational History and Sociology of Culture

Education policy and education system

Organizations, Leaderhios and Professions

Work life and labour market in transition

Master's Programme in Education

Critical perspectives on career processes

Policy, evaluation and development

Work life, diversity and labour market

In addition, she supervises students at all levels (BA, MA and PhD).

Her research interests are educational philosophy and educational policy with special attention to higher education, labour market and career development.

Publications

Bengtsson, A., & Larsson, E. (2025). Governing educational choices through guidance: a problem representation analysis of Swedish education policies. Critical Studies in Education, 1–19.

Bengtsson, A. (2025). Private Actors in Education Put to the Test: Justification Work and Orders of Worth. Journal of Education Policy.

Nilsson, S., & Bengtsson, A. (2024). On the professional competence of career guidance counsellors: expectations and experiences of graduating students in Sweden. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 1–14.

Bengtsson, A. (2022). On epistemic justice in career guidance. British Journal of Career Guidance and Counselling, 50(4), 606-616.

Bengtsson, A. & Mickwitz, L. (2021) The complexity of professional integration: An investigation of newly arrived teachers’ initial process of establishing themselves as teachers in Sweden, European Educational Research Journal. 21(2), 214-229..

Bengtsson, A. & Mickwitz, L. (2019) Att bli ”svensk lärare” – En undersökning av Snabbspåret för nyanlända lärare och förskollärare (Becoming a "Swedish teacher". A study of the Fast-track for recently immigrated teachers and pre-school teachers], IFAU report 2019:31. Uppsala: The Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy.

Bengtsson, A. (2018) Re-thinking social justice, equality and emancipation: an invitation to attentive career guidance. In T. Hooley, R. Sultana & R. Thomsen (Eds.) Career Guidance for Social Justice: Contesting Neoliberalism, New York: Routledge.

Bengtsson, A. (2016). Governance of Career Guidance: an enquiry into European policy, Department of Education, Stockholm University, dissertation.

Bengtsson, A. (2015). Educating European Citizenship: Elucidating assumptions about teaching civic competence, Policy Futures in Education, 13(6), 788-800.

Bengtsson, A. (2015). European Career Guidance Policy: A focus on subtle regulatory mechanisms, Report - Zeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung (Journal for the Research on Adult Education), 38(2), 241-250.

Bengtsson, A. (2014) Enterprising Career Education: the power of self-management, International Journal of Lifelong Education,  special issue on Adult and Lifelong Education: The European Union, its member states and the world, 33(3), 362-375.

Bengtsson, A. (2011). European Policy of Career Guidance: the interrelationship between career self-management and production of human capital in the knowledge economy, Policy Futures in Education, 9(5), 616-627.

Conference papers (selective)

Bengtsson, A. (2025). Critique, Authority and Epistemic Contestation over Truth, Foucault Circle, Stockholm.

Bengtsson, A. (2019).  Cultivating Resilient Students? Re-Visiting Foucault’s Analysis of Subjectivity, Truth-Telling and Care of the Self. Presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting 2019, Toronto, Canada.

Bengtsson, A. (2016). Prevention of Radicalization in School: What can educators learn from Foucault's "truth-telling" and "self-care"? Workshop. Annual conference 1-3 April 2016, Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, New College, Oxford,UK.