Biosketch: Dr. Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt

Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt is PhD and Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Gothenburg and member of LinCS centre, the Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society as well as the University of Gothenburg’s strategic programme on Learning, the LETStudio. Based in the tradition of Sociology of Education, Annika’s main interests include critical approaches to Educational Technology and education and IT governance. Both these interests were a part of her thesis on the Swedish Distance and Higher Education governance in the 1990s and onwards. Furthermore, aspects of gender and gendered technology use has been a part of her research and she has developed research on the governance and changing disciplinary career orientations for Doctoral Education. Lately, the policy and governance interest has translated into studies on policy network formations, connecting public and commercial interests and actors within IT education policy.

Currently, Annika is member of a three-year research project funded by the Swedish Research Council, investigating how social media mobilizes teachers’ digital labour outside the formal school and workplace. Empirically, the project is based on advanced computational data on the interactions and norms of sharing resources within a large social media group focusing on the Flipped Education Movement.
http://ipkl.gu.se/english/Research/research_projects/fem

Selection of publications

Bergviken Rensfeldt, A., Hillman, T., Lundin, M., Peterson, L., & Lantz-Andersson, A. (2016). Powers forming the digitized teacher subjectivity: Self-technologies and social media surveillance. Paper presented at the Foucault at 90 conference, Ayr, UK.

Bergviken Rensfeldt, A., Hillman, T., Lundin, M., Peterson, L., & Lantz-Andersson, A. (2016). The ‘politics of sharing’ in a large teacher professional Facebook group: Links, topics and discourses entangled with policy. Proceedings of Internet, policy and politics 2016, Oxford: OII.

Bergviken Rensfeldt, A. Dodillet, S. & Foss-Lindblad, R. (2015). Kategorier och positioner i pedagogisk genusforskning. I: Utbildning: Makt och politik. S. Lindblad och L. Lundahl (Red.). Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Lantz-Andersson, A., Peterson, L., Hillman, T., Lundin, M., & Bergviken Rensfeldt, A. (2016). Sharing repertoires and sharing apps – Norms for participation in a teacher profession-based social media group. Paper presented at the European Association for Learning and Instruction SIG 10, 21 and 25 conference, Tartu, Estonia.

Player-Koro, C. & Bergviken Rensfeldt, A. (kommande). IT-mässan som utökat lärarkollegium eller marknadsplats i nyliberalismens tjänst? I Flip the System - Förändra skolan från grunden. P. Kornhall, J. Evers och R. Kenyber. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Wallerstedt, C. Björk, C. & Bergviken Rensfeldt, A. (2016). Bandformering och genus på 2010-talet: Förändrade villkor för att spela i band? Educare 1, 19-41.