• Att intervjua barn och ungdomar
• Forskarutbildning
• Intervju- och förhörsmetodik – barn och ungdom, steg 2 (uppdragsutbildning polishögskolan i Stockholm)

Media

Pressmeddelande Gleerups: Barnperspektiv i socialtjänstens arbete, 2014-05-26

De svåraste fallen – om rättsväsendets hantering av barnärenden, Sveriges Radio P1, 2014-05-25

Forskare letar nya metoder mot mobbning, DN, 2013-09-18

Friends startar internationellt center mot mobbning, Friends, 2013-09-18

Nya metoder mot mobbning söks i annorlunda forskningsprojekt, Wallenberg.com, 2013

Barnrättscentrum i Stockholm invigde, Advokaten, 2012

Cederborgs forskning berör framförallt sårbara barn, ungdomar, och deras familjer som är i behov av omfattande stödåtgärder från samhällets sida. Hon är intresserad av att förstå hur mellanmänskligt samspel fungerar inom olika hjälp och myndighetssystem och hur dessa system tar till vara utsatta människors verklighetsbeskrivningar. Hennes studier har också ambitionen att förstå barn och ungas möjligheter och förutsättningar att berätta om sina livserfarenheter. Forskningen är också inriktad mot att förstå utsatthetens innebörder för de barn och unga som studeras.

Urval av forskningsprojekt

• Människohandel/koppleri med barn och unga för sexuella ändamål. Vad går att lära av rättsväsendet och brottsoffrens erfarenheter? (avhandling 2015)
• Handikappade barn som brottsoffer
• Kamratsamspel i förskoleklass och på högstadiet
• Kränkningar av barn och ungdomar på nätet, i förskolan och skolan

Doktorandprojekt

• Barn och föräldrars anmälningar om utsatthet för kränkningar av jämnåriga i skolan och förskolan
• Barn och unga som förövare
• Barn och deras familjer som söker asyl (avhandling 2016)
• Ensamkommande barn som söker asyl (avhandling 2016)
• Kränkningar på nätet
• Samspel i kamratgrupper i förskolan
• Samspel i kamratgrupper i högstadiet
• Sexuell exploatering av barn och unga på nätet

I urval från Stockholms universitets publikationsdatabas

• Evaluating the Quality of Investigative Interviews Conducted After the Completion of a Training Program

  2021. Ann-Christin Cederborg (et al.). Investigative Interviewing Research & Practice (II-RP) 11 (1), 40-52

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  A previous study conducted in Sweden showed that criminal investigators who participated in a 6‐month course, including a systematic and extensive training program based on a flexible protocol and during which they received extended supervision, were able to reduce their use of option‐posing and suggestive questions and used more open‐ended questions at the end of the training. However, that study did not determine whether the participants continued to employ preferred interview techniques in the months after the course concluded. In the present study, therefore, we evaluated interviews conducted by 66 Swedish criminal investigators who were given the same training as the previous participants. They attended four different courses between the autumn term of 2013 and the spring term of 2015.The present study specifically focused on changes in interview quality from before the course started, to the final interview at the end of the course and interviews subsequently conducted four months after the course was completed. The coding distinguished between open‐questions (invitations, directives) and risky questions (option‐posing and suggestive prompts). We found that, over time, the participants made increased use of recommended types of questions (invitations and directive questions) and reduced use of risky question types (option‐posing and suggestive questions). This suggests that the training program enhanced the investigators’ interview behavior and that they maintained their good practices after completing the course. This is an important finding because inappropriate interviewing can undermine the legal rights of both alleged victims and suspects. 

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• Power relations in pre-school children's play

  2021. Ann-Christin Cederborg. Early Child Development and Care 191 (4), 612-623

  Artikel

  As few studies have investigated how pre-school children produce and negotiate social positions when powerful positions are claimed, this study explores how 3–5 year-old children construct the social order of peer play when balancing the power game within the interaction. This is a video documented ethnographical case study where the methodology used is inspired by conversation analysis. The findings are that young children, just like older children, can build up and maintain asymmetrical relations during play by jointly co-constructing status positions through their use of language, body space and objects. The subordinates display legitimation of power when their superior playmate utilizes obvious tools to act and maintain their high-status position. However, positioning themselves in power play may imply that they have to endure unpleasant and unfriendly treatment, and this experience provides knowledge of how to dominate others and act from subordinate positions, where some are ‘marginalized and others privileged’.

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• Young children's play

  2020. Ann-Christin Cederborg. Early Child Development and Care 190 (5), 778-790

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  This study explores how 3–5 year-old children negotiate participation rights during peer play in a preschool in Sweden. The interest is on how they build relations moment-by-moment. I specifically analyze how they negotiate participation rights with a focus on how they include and exclude each other in the ongoing activity. This is an ethnographic study, and the method is inspired by conversation analysis where the verbal and non-verbal interaction is studied sequentially. The findings are that even very young children are capable of advanced social acts when playing together. Such capacities may include face-threatening acts but also solidarity towards one or more participants. It is important that face-threatening strategies are recognized and addressed as soon as possible because children can need help to find alternative ways to behave when in conflict with one another. Otherwise there is a risk that such strategies, when repeated, cause harm to those children exposed.

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• Barn- och elevombudets utredningar och beslut efter anmälan om kränkningar i skolan

  2019. Ann-Christin Cederborg. Festskrift till Wiveka Warnling Conradson, 73-86

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• The quality of question types in Swedish police interviews with young suspects of serious crimes

  2019. Ulrika Winerdal, Ann-Christin Cederborg, Johanna Lindholm. The Police Journal 92 (2), 136-149

  Artikel

  This study explores how juvenile offenders in Sweden between the age of 15 and 17 are interviewed by police officers when suspected of homicide crimes. The quality of question types was assessed in 47 authentic interviews. The findings show that the police officers used option-posing and suggestive questions most frequently and social pressure was used in three predominating ways: to confront, to challenge and to appeal for a confession. The conclusion is that the police officers’ question style to a large extent contradicts recommendations for how to interview children. There is therefore a need to develop an evidence-based interview practice for interviewing young suspects.

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• Assertions and aspirations

  2017. Lisa Ottosson, Marita Eastmond, Ann-Christin Cederborg. Children's Geographies 15 (4), 426-438

  Artikel

  Research on asylum-seeking children tends to disregard those in parental care. In particular, little is known about children’s own perspectives. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Sweden, this article explores the ways in which accompanied children experience and seek to overcome challenges posed by asylum reception. The focus is on children’s ambition and ability to form their everyday life, given their ambiguous position of tentative emplacement. Theoretical inspiration is sought in Ortner’s ‘agency of personal projects’ and de Certeau’s concept of ‘tactics’, analysed through the prism of liminality. The study found that while some tactics aimed at avoiding situations and settings that made children uncomfortable, others involved influencing their situation through pursuing ‘personal projects’. Many children’s strivings were directed at creating ‘a normal life’ and a place for themselves in Swedish society. The findings challenge the idea that accompanied children are more protected from difficulties and responsibilities than those seeking asylum alone.

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