Seminar Series

The Center for Educational Leadership and Excellence holds regular academic seminars where invited guests presents scholarly work, as well as internal brown-bag seminars where staff members discuss work in progress. All seminars are held in our premises at floor 7, Saltmätargatan 13, and simultaneously online via zoom.

Upcoming Seminars

Marius Busemeyer (University of Konstanz): “The consequences of digitalization for education systems and the welfare state: What is the citizens’ view?” Friday March 31st, 12.00-13.30, B706.

Bengt Jacobsson (Södertörn University College) and Olivier Borraz (Sciences Po, Paris): “Public Governance during the Covid pandemic in Sweden and France” Friday April 14th, 12.00-13.30, B706.

Past seminars 2023

Lene Foss (Jönköping University): "Responsible Leadership in times of Wicked Problems: School leaders’ narratives” Friday March 24th, 12.00-13.30, Johan (B415).

Karin Edmark (Stockholm University): “Long-run effects changes in the local supply of academic upper secondary education in Sweden, 1975-1986”. Friday February 3rd, 12.00-13.30.

Angelo Kostis (Umeå University): “Bouncing back or bouncing forward? Digital resilience and emerging infrastructural relations”. Tuesday January 17th, 12.00-13.30.

Past seminars 2022

Jan Löwstedt (Stockholm University): “Skolledning som undervisningens metapraktik (School Management as meta-practices of teaching practices in Swedish Schools)” – n.b. talk in Swedish. Wednseday December 9th, 12.00-13.30.

Una Tellhed (Lund University): “Gender and technology: Social psychological perspectives on women’s underrepresentation in the tech sector”. Friday November 25th, 12.00-13.30.

Andreas Ryve & Jannika Lindvall (Mälardalen University): “Reforming mathematics instruction at scale- What does it take to make a difference?”. Friday November 18th, 12.00-13.30.

Bengt Jacobsson (Söderturn University): “Organiseringen av staten. Reformer och styrning inom skolan” (In Swedish). Friday June 3^rd, 13.15-14.45.

Philipp Lergetporer (TUM School of Management) et al.: “Behavioral Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment”. Friday May 20^th 12.00-13.00.

Magnus Henrekson & Johan Wennström (Research Institute of Industrial Economics, IFN): “Dumbing Down: The Crisis of Quality and Equity in a Once-Great School System—and How to Reverse the Trend”. Friday April 1^st, 12.00-13.30.

Iman Dadgar (Institute for Social Research, SOFI, Stockholm University): “Schools Autonomy, Students grade-rank, and Educational Achievement in Sweden”. Friday February 25^th, 12.00-13.30.

Mats Alvesson (Lund University): “Check Check Check: Skolinspektionen och granskandets vedermödor” (in Swedish). Tuesday January 18^th, 13.00-14.30.

Past seminars 2021

Bo Rothstein (University of Gothenburg): “Controlling Corruption. Education and the Social Contract Approach”. Friday November 19^th, 12.00-13.30.

Stefan Arora-Jonsson & Marika Blomgren (Uppsala University): “Three Loci of Organizational Identity Work: Prospective, Current and Former Members”. Friday September 24^th, 10.00-11.30.