Susanne Kreitz-Sandberg is Associate Professor in International and Comparative Education, a field she has been working in since the 1990s.

Presently Susanne is leading a project funded by the Swedish Research Council "International Comparative Perspectives on School Attendance Problems". The purpose of this study is to investigate national, organisational and individual dimensions of school attendance problems (SAP) among 15 to 17-year-olds in Sweden, the UK, Germany and Japan. The project uses a mixed method approach combining quantitative analysis of large-scale data on the national level with qualitative case studies on the organisational and individual level. More information about the study can be found here.

Susanne has engaged in research and teaching in universities and research institutions in Germany, Japan and Sweden. Context knowledge is an important tool for understanding and critically evaluating how education systems and pedagogical processes develop in relation to social conditions. That’s why Susanne has conducted many of her international comparative studies in Sweden, Germany and Japan, where she has lived, studied and worked for over a decade.

Susanne Kreitz-Sandberg’s major research foci are in the field of comparative education as well as in the context of gender and education (e.g. Kreitz-Sandberg, 2013, 2015, 2016) and she has applied a broad range of methodological approaches, both quantitative and qualitative in her international and comparative research.

Selection of research projects and selected publications:

• Gender inclusion in higher education
• Multi-professional collaboration in schools
• School attendance in international comparison
• Youth in comparative perspectives
• Mathematics teaching in Japanese primary schools
• Other recent or former publications