Karin Gunnarsson Senior lecturer

Karin Gunnarsson (PhD) is associate professor in education and holds a position as a senior lecturer at the Department of Education, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Inspired by posthumanist approaches, her research has a specific interest in interweaving theoretical explorations and empirical engagements. Her research involves methodological questions concerning postqualitative and collaborative research. In her recent work, she explores the teaching of equality and norms in social science. Since 2020 she runs a practice-based research project on sexuality education in secondary school. The project involves engaging with teaching, teacher and students and is carried out with sociomaterial/posthumanist theories. In addition to these two research interests, her research has also focused on educational health promotion.

Karin is currently supervising five doctoral students: 

Sara Mörtsell (Umeå universitet/Högskolan i Gävle) Maintaining teaching: Te(a)ch-abilities in everyday teaching practices.  

Ingrid Andersson (IPD, SU) Avoiding reductionism in posthumanism: the significance of subjectivity, thinking & decolonial origin stories.

Fariba Majlesi (IPD/SU) Living Interruptions; Writing Interruptions: A study on Errancy & Female Migrant Subjectivities.

Ronja Hagberg (Åbo Akademi/Finland) on sexuality education. 

Jonas Asplund (IÄD/SU) Diffracting the Cyborg Composer through Postdidaktik.

Research interests: sexuality education, social justice education, posthumanist and feminist materialisms, postqualitative and practice-based methodologies