My background is mainly in upper secondary education where I taught 2003 - 2021, a position that I from 2020 combined with teaching on the teacher programmes at the Department of Education (IPD). During this time I also completed my master's programme at IPD and in the spring of 2023 I held a position as a lecturer at the department.

My research area is young people's reading, where I investigate the reader positions that emerge when youngsters in group talk about their experiences of reading. The empirical data consists of focus group interviews with ninth-grade students, and I have a performative, interactional approach on their storytelling, using positioning theory within a narrative framework.

The dissertation is mainly motivated by the lack of children's and young people's voices in the reported decline in reading interest among children and young people and, by extension, the prevailing perception of a reading crisis. The scientific interest is that this so far unexplored approach to investigate primary school students' narrated experiences of reading can provide additional perspectives on, for example, their alleged disinterest in reading.