1.0 Personal information
1.1 Name
Dr Katarina Eriksson Barajas
1.2 Date of birth
September 2, 1966
1.4 Work address and telephone number
Department of Social and Welfare Studies Linköping University
SE-581 83 Linköping Sweden
1.4.1 E-mail address
1.5 Present employment with the exact denomination and date of employment. Regarding application for promotion; enclose the senior lecturer/lecturer hiring decision
Lecturer in educational sciences since 2005.
1.6 Previous employment. Leaves of absence including type (e.g. parental leave)
Postdoctoral research fellow,Department of Child Studies, Linköping University, 2003-2004. Investigator, Department of Child Studies, Linköping University, 2002.
PhD position, Department of Child Studies, Linköping University, 1996-2002.
1.7 Temporary residence as visiting research fellow/lecturer/postdoctoral research fellow etc.
Post-doctoral position at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, 2004-05.
2.0 Diplomas and evaluations
2.1 University Diploma including year of degree. Enclose grades
PhD in Child Studies, Linköping University, 2002. BA in French, Stockholm University, 1996.
BA in Comparative Literature, Uppsala University, 1992.
3.0 Scientific merits
3.3.1 Scientific publications in scientific journals. (Mark the publications that are included in the doctoral thesis)
Ringrose, J. & Eriksson Barajas, K. (in press 2011). Gendered Risks and opportunities? Exploting teen girls' digitized sexual identities in postfeminist media contexts. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 7(2), 121-138.
Eriksson Barajas, K. (2010). The pimp and the happy whore. ‘Doing Gender’ in Film Talk in a School Setting. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 54(6), 581–596.
Eriksson Barajas, K., & Lindgren, A. (2009). Den ’rättfärdige’ mobbaren. Elevers föreställningar om mobbning i skolbioaktiviteter. Utbildning & Demokrati, 18(3), 111-130.
Eriksson Barajas, K., & Aronsson, K. (2009). Avid versus struggling readers: co-construed pupil identities in school booktalk. Language & Literature, 18(3), 281–299.
*Eriksson Barajas, K. (2008). Beyond Stereotypes? Talking about gender in school booktalk, Ethnography and Eduaction, 3(2), 129-144.
Eriksson, K., & Aronsson, K. (2005). ‘We’re really lucky’: co-creating ‘us’ and ‘the Other’ in school booktalk. Discourse & Society, 16(5), 719–738.
Sparrman, A., & Eriksson, K. (2004). Skolbio studerad genom kameralinsen. Erfarenheter från ett forskningsfält. Didaktisk tidskrift, 14(2–3), 79-89.
*Eriksson, K., & Aronsson, K. (2004). Building Life-World Connections during School Booktalk. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 48(5), 511–528.
*Eriksson, K. (2002). Booktalk Dilemmas. Teachers’ organisation of pupils’ reading, Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 46(4), 391–408.
3.3.2 Other publications
Lindgren, A., Sparrman, A. & Eriksson Barajas, K. (in press 2011). From Instruction to Reflection: Film in Education in Sweden. I C. K. Cheung (Red.) Research in Media Education (151-173). New York: Nova Science.
Eriksson Barajas, K. (2009). Diskursiv receptionsforskning – en väg till kunskap om berättelsen i vardagen. I A. Sparrman, J. Cromdal, A. Evaldsson & V. Adelsvärd (Red.), Den väsentliga vardagen: Några diskursanalytiska perspektiv på tal, text och bild (pp. 131-147). Stockholm: Carlssons.
Eriksson, K. (2006). Pombo, Rafael. I J. Zipes (Red.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature (p 277). New York: Oxford University Press.
Eriksson, K. & Sparrman, A. (2002). ’Hej och välkomna till barnens sagotimme’ Barn leker barnkultur på fritids. (Working Papers on Childhood and the Study of Children 2002:1). Linköping: Departmnet of Child Studies.
Eriksson, K. (2002b). Life and fiction. On intertextuality in pupils’ booktalk (Doktorsavhandling). (Linköping studies in arts and science, no. 251). Linköping: Linköpings universitet.
Eriksson, K. & Sparrman, A. (1997). En flickkulturs uppgång och fall [Recension av The New Girl: Girl’s culture in England 1880-1915 av S. Mitchell]. Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift, 18, 76-78.
3.3.3 List of a maximum of 10 scientific pieces of work that are considered to be most meritorious for the appointment. The list shall contain information on publisher and year of publication.
Ringrose, J. & Eriksson Barajas, K. (in press 2011). Gendered Risks and opportunities? Exploting teen girls' digitized sexual identities in postfeminist media contexts. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 7(2), 121-138.
Lindgren, A., Sparrman, A. & Eriksson Barajas, K. (in press 2011). From Instruction to Reflection: Film in Education in Sweden. I C. K. Cheung (Red.) Research in Media Education (151-173). New York: Nova Science.
Eriksson Barajas, K. (2010). The pimp and the happy whore. ‘Doing Gender’ in Film Talk in a School Setting. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 54(6), 581–596.
Eriksson Barajas, K., & Lindgren, A. (2009). Den ’rättfärdige’ mobbaren. Elevers föreställningar om mobbning i skolbioaktiviteter. Utbildning & Demokrati, 18(3), 111–130.
Eriksson Barajas, K., & Aronsson, K. (2009). Avid versus struggling readers: co-construed pupil identities in school booktalk. Language & Literature, 18(3), 281–299.
Eriksson Barajas, K. (2009). Diskursiv receptionsforskning – en väg till kunskap om berättelsen i vardagen. I A. Sparrman, J. Cromdal, A. Evaldsson & V. Adelsvärd (Red.) Den väsentliga vardagen: Några diskursanalytiska perspektiv på tal, text och bild (ss. 131-147). Stockholm: Carlssons.
Eriksson, K. (2006). Pombo, Rafael. I J. Zipes (Red.) Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature (s. 277). Oxford University Press: New York.
Eriksson, K., & Aronsson, K. (2005). ‘We’re really lucky’: co-creating ‘us’ and ‘the Other’ in school booktalk. Discourse & Society, 16(5), 719–738.
Sparrman, A., & Eriksson, K. (2004). Skolbio studerad genom kameralinsen. Erfarenheter från ett forskningsfält. Didaktisk tidskrift, 14( 2–3), 79–89.
Eriksson, K. (2002b). Life and fiction. On intertextuality in pupils’ booktalk (Doktorsavhandling). (Linköping studies in arts and science, no. 251). Linköping: Linköpings universitet.
Scientific merits coninued
3.4 Grants. Larger grants that have been received as main applicant or as fellow applicant. (State main applicant and other fellow applicants).
Culture in School, 1 million SEK, Prof K. Aronsson et al. The Swedish National Agency for Education/Ministry of Education and Research, 2001. Fellow applicant.
Post-doctoral grant (STINT PD2004-1065) for a 10,5 month long stay with Prof Valerie Walkerdine at The School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, 2004-2005. Funded by The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education. Main applicant.
3.4.1 Grants from government research funding bodies
Talk about film and theatre as social interaction, The Swedish Research Council, 1.8 million SEK (reg nr 2010-2183), 2011-2013. Main applicant.
Gender & Childhood, The Swedish Research Council, Conference Grant, (reg nr 2008-253). Main applicant.
From instruction to reflection, The Swedish Research Council, 2.9 million SEK (reg nr 2002-2727), 2003-2005. Fellow applicant.
3.4.2 Grants from the EU, foundations and other grants
Career Contract, 5.5 million SEK, 2010-2015, Linköping University. Main applicant.
3.5 Active participation in national and international conferences during the past five years. Name the kind of activity, e.g. plenum lectures, invited lectures, chairmanship, session organising etc.
Abstract accepted after review, Eriksson Barajas Katarina & Aronsson, Karin. Avid versus struggling readers : co-construed pupil identities in school booktalk. 42nd Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL): Language, Learning, and Context. 2009. Abstract accepted after review, presented paper Eriksson Barajas, K. Let's talk about love – pupils' constructions of heterosexual love relations in About a Boy, Gender and Education Association 7th International Conference, 25-27 March 2009, Institute of Education, University of London, UK. Abstract accepted after review, Lindgren, Anne-Li, Sparrman, Anna, Eriksson Barajas, Katarina. Young people co-construct meanings of welfare and slum in film-talk, ECREA’s 2nd European Communication Conference, November 26-28 2008, in Barcelona.
Presented paper Avid versus struggling readers : co-construed pupil identities in school booktalk at Departaments de lenguas de la facultad de ciencias de la education y el centro de investigationes pedagogicas, CIEP de la Universidad de la Salle, Bogotá, Colombia, December 1, 2010.
Arranged British-Swedish workshop and presented paper Let?s talk about love – pupils?
constructions of heterosexual love relations in About a Boy, Gender & Childhood, ISV, Linköping University, 3-4 december 2008.
Chair for session “Interactions of Recognition in Project Work” (Margit Saltofte Nielsen, Aalborg University). Oxford Ethnography Conference, Oxford, UK, September 16-17, 2008.
Chair for session “Institutional constraints on „learning to lead? in an English primary school” (Ann Pegg, The Open University,). Oxford Ethnography Conference, Oxford, UK, September 16-17, 2008.
Presented paper, Eriksson Barajas, Katarina. “It was selfish and completely stupid to think so when you have a child” Pupils? views on adulthood in essays and discussions around the film About a Boy. Oxford Ethnography Conference, Oxford, UK, September 16-17, 2008
Chair for session “The (Im)Possibility of Post-modern Ethnography – Researching diasporic identities in spaces not included” (Professor Georgina Tsolidis, University of Ballarat). Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference, Oxford, UK, September 10–11, 2007.
Presented paper, Eriksson Barajas, Katarina. The pimp and the happy whore: Film talk in school. Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference, Oxford, UK, September 10–11, 2007.
Participated in Gender and Education Fifth International Conference, Cardiff University, March 29-31, 2005 and in Feminist Research Methodology Workshop.
Arranged British-Swedish workshop and presented paper The Pimp and the Happy Whore. Film Talk in School, Media, Youth and Identity, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, May 3-4, 2005. Presented data at a DARG workshop, Loughborough University, February 9, 2005.
Presented method and dissertation, Analysing Interactions in Childhood: Methods and Applications, ESRC Seminar Series 2005-2006, Sheffield University, February 1-2, 2005.
Sparrman, Anna, Lindgren, Anne-Li & , Eriksson, Katarina, Popular Film Meets Education. Young people engaging in School-Movie Projects. Childhoods – Children and Youth in Emerging and Transforming Societies. International Conference, Oslo, Norge, June 29-July 3, 2005.
3.5.4 Referee assignments for journals. Name the journals and average number of assignments per year
Gender and Education, 3 assignments per year. Children and Society, 1 assignment per year.
Pedagogisk forskning i Sverige, 1 assignment per year.
3.6 Other scientific merits
Faculty examiner of PhD manuscripts at 90-, 60- and 50- per cent level.
4.0 Pedagogical merits
4.1 Description of own pedagogical work on the levels bachelor/master/doctor.
If the work has been extensive please limit the documentation to the most recent five years. Name:
University/ /higher education institution Scope and level of teaching
Different forms and methods of teaching/examination Experience of IT-supported teaching
International teaching experience/teaching in English Course coordinator/examiner
Supervision of essays/doctoral theses
Name the main and associate supervisor, the name of the student, the title of the work, level, credits and year of degree
I mainly work with degree projects at the teacher training program at undergraduate level and with post-graduate courses in Child Studies and Educational Practices. Earlier, I taught undergraduate courses in Gender and in Literature for Children and Young Adults.
4.2 Pedagogical leadership
Leader assignments (e.g. director of studies etc.) Development/design of courses/programmes
Evaluation assignments/steering committees/committee work linked to educational matters
I chaired the committee that developed courses in Swedish for the new teacher training program, 2009-2010.
I was a member in the committee for scientific progression in the new teacher training program, 2010.
4.3 Pedagogical education and competence development
Teaching and learning in higher education (enclose copy of course certificate)
Other pedagogical/didactic education on academic level Other education of relevance to the appointment
Teaching in Higher Education, Supervision of Degree Projects, 2008
Teaching in Higher Education, Step 2. Design, Evaluation, and Organization of Learning, 2004. Teaching in Higher Education, Step 3a, Research supervision, 2004.
General & Academic English, Advanced Level, Oxford House, Wheatley, 2002. Problem-based learning, Supervisor function I, 1999.
Starting to teach - education and teaching at universities, 1999.
4.4 Pedagogical development work
Pedagogical/didactic conferences, seminars, publications in pedagogical journals etc
Grants for pedagogical development work
Eriksson, K. (2007). Att byta perspektiv – från doktorand till forskarhandledare. In H. Hård af Segerstad (Red.) CUL-rapport nr 12: Pedagogiska utmaningar i tiden, (pp. 97-103).
Eriksson, K. (2004). ”Tror du verkligen att Astrid Lindgren tänkte på det?” Att undervisa lärarstudenter i barn- och ungdomslitteratur, Barnboken, (2), 45–48.
4.6 Popular scientific production
Lindgren, A., Sparrman, A., & Eriksson, K. (2005). Film i klassrummet reser välfärdsfrågor. LOCUS, (3–4), 14–25.
Eriksson, K. (2003). Hur används film i skolan? Nytt forskningsprojekt ska ge svar på frågan. Svenskläraren, (2), 17–18.
5.0 Other skills
6.0 Administrative merits and academic leadership
6.1 Administrative assignments
6.1.1 Leading of work and staff
Head of the division Learning aesthetics and sciences, 2008-2010.
6.1.2 Leadership training (enclose copy of course certificate)
Leadership training, Linköping University, 2007.
6.1.3 Member of academic boards/committees
Member of the Appointments Board of The Faculty of Educational Sciences, since 2009. Member of the Committee for research ethics, 2007-2008.
6.1.4 Other administrative assignments
7.0 Merits from third stream activities and information about research
and development work
7.1 External contacts and external work
