Last fall, I took a course on creative academic writing. The online course is offered by Umeå University with the aim to introduce and discuss various forms of academic writing, writing norms, and how our way of writing effects what knowledge we can and want to produce. The course included both theoretical reflections as well as practical exercises and suggestions. It is a course I…
The seminar series “Racism in preschool and school”, which I together with my colleagues Hassan Sharif and Ann-Sofie Nyström from BUV organized last semester, will continue this spring with four new super exciting seminars. The seminar series is a collaboration between the Department of Education and the Center for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism at Uppsala University with the aim to present research on racism in…
In the spring of 2021, I was part of a research project on the Swedish asylum process where I, together with my colleagues Anna Lundberg and Anna Lindberg, analyzed the asylum protocols of ten asylum seeking families in Sweden. The focus of the study was the Migration Agencys interviews with parents and children from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria as well as the Agency’s assessments of…
Riz Ahmed has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. The nomination concerns Ahmed’s performance in the movie Sound of Metal, where he plays the main character Ruben, a drummer who loses his hearing. For this role, Ahmed is also predicted to be nominated for an Oscar. I am generally not very familiar with film award nominations, but the recognition of Riz…
