Camilla Rindstedt
Contact
Name and title: Camilla Rindstedt
Workplace: Department of Child and Youth Studies Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room 429Svante Arrhenius väg 21A
Postal address Barn- och ungdomsvetenskapliga institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
Senior lecturer and Associate professor
Section for Child and Youth Studies
Keywords
Video ethnography, language socialization, child’s perspective, children’s play/work, peer culture, children and sick roles, informal learning, indigenous cultures of America
Presentation
Since 2008, I am employed at the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Stockholm University and since 2013 I am an Associate Professor (docent).
- Ethnographic research (PhD course)
- Master's Programme in Child and Youth Sciences
- Supervision at all levels
In 2001, I received a PhD in child studies from the Department of Child Studies (tema Barn), Linköping University. My training is as a social anthropologist (with a BA in anthropology from Binghamton University, New York), and my dissertation is grounded in linguistic anthropology and language socialization theory. My thesis is based on an extensive longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork in Ecuador where I studied children’s every day family lives in an Ecuadorian indigenous community through ethnographic observations and interviews, as well as extensive audio recordings of sibling interactions.
After my dissertation, I have conducted another large ethnographic fieldwork at an oncology unit at a children’s hospital in Sweden. A common thread of that project is the place of children in interaction between doctors, nurses and parents. In the work, I have used video ethnography as my main method.
Since 2008, I am employed at the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Stockholm University and since 2013 as an Associate Professor (docent). More recently, I have been the Principal Investigator (PI) and leader of a project called Fathers and children in child health care: an ethnographic study of institutional practices, financed by the Swedish Research Council. Together with a colleague (David Cardell), I have planned and organized this project. I’m also the co-applicant and senior researcher in another on-going project about cleanliness practices in preschool, also financed by the Swedish Research Council (where Sofia Frankenberg is the PI).
My interest for ethnography began early: (i) with a minor filed study in Tanzania (ii) homes in Ecuador, (iii) child care and health settings (cancer clinic), (iv) Child Health Centers.
Through International networking, I have over the years been invited as a visiting scholar at the Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU), the faculties of Education, Social Research Institute at University College London (UCL) in 2024 and at London University in the UK in 2013 (invited by Professor Ann Phoenix). Moreover, I have been a visiting scholar at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia in 2019 (invited by Professor Susan Danby).
Research projects
Fathers and children in child health care: an ethnographic study of institutional practices