Photographer: Malin Lindberg

Ulf Mellström

Research projects

Upcoming projects

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Degrees

M.A Social anthropology 1986, Lund University,

PhD, Technology and social change 1995, Linköping University

Associate Professor (docent), Technology and social change 2003. Linköping University

Current Position

Professor, Gender and Technology, division of Gender, Technology and Organisation at the Department Human Work Sciences, Luleå Technical University

Former Positions

Associate professor at the Department of Technology and social change, Linköping University 2003-2006.

Senior lecturer at the department of Behavioural Sciences, University of Skövde 2001-2006.

Study director at the ‘International Master’s Programme in Science, Technology and Society’ at the Department of Technology and social change 2000-2001, 2003-2005.

Guest professor (50%) at the Department of Gender studies, Linköping University 2005-2006

Important domestic positions of trust

Chair of the board of the Swedish National Secretariatat for Gender Research 2006-

Vice president of the Swedish Anthropological Association 1996-1998.

Member of the board of the Swedish National Secretariatat for Gender Research 2003-2006.

Member of the board in the committe for gender research in Swedish Research Council 2001-

Member of the expert committe at the EGDI-secretariat at Swedish Foreign Ministry 2003-

Recent scientific honours

Appointed as guest fellow to the International Science Center – Maria Sibylla Merian Program, October-November 2003.

Key note speaker at the Learn-IT conference in Tylösand, May 15-16 2006.

Key note speaker at the conference Experimenting Arts and Sciences,
The Second European Conference of the International Society for Literature and Science May 8-12, 2002, Aarhus, Denmark

Faculty opponent at Bo Nilssons doctoral defence for PhD in Ethnology with the dissertation "Maskulinitet. Representation, ideologi och retorik." (Masculinity, Representation, Rhetorics) Institutionen för Kultur och Medier, Umeå Universitet, 990416.

2:e faculty opponent at Hege Nordlis doctoral defence for Dr. Phil. in Sociology at the Norwegian Scientific and technial University in Trondheim with the dissertation”The Net is not Enough: Searching for the Female Hacker”, 030306.

10 key publications

1.Mellström, Ulf (1995): ”Engineering Lives, Technology, Time and Space in a Male-Centred World”, Linköping Studies in Art and Science, nr 128, 1995.

2.Mellström, Ulf (1999): ”Män och deras maskiner” i FRNs bokserie ”Forskningens frontlinjer”, Nya Doxa, September 1999.

3.Mellström, Ulf (2003): ”Masculinity, ,Power and Technology: A Malaysian Ethnography”, Aldershot UK: Ashgate.

4.Mellström, Ulf (2002) ”Patriarchal machines and masculine embodiment”,Science, Technology &camp; Human Values, no 4 2002.

5.Mellström, Ulf (2004) ”Machines and masculine subjectivity, technology as an integral part of men’s life experiences”, (eds.) Faulkner, W &camp; Lohan M, Special issue on technologies and masculinities, Men and masculinities, no 1, 2004. Sage Publ.

6.Mellström, Ulf (1993) ”Interpretating Organisations Through Stories and Jokes - The Case of Engineering”, Sabine Helmers (red.): Ethnologie der Arbeitswelt, Beispiele aus europäsichen und außereuropäsichen Feldern, Mundus Reihe Ethnologie, Band 67, Bonn: Holos.

7.Mellström, Ulf &camp; Boel Berner (1997): ”Looking for Mister Engineer. Understanding Masculinity and Technology at two Fin-de-Siecles”, Boel Berner (red.): Gendered Practices. Feminist Studies of Technology and Society, Stockholm: Almqvist &camp; Wiksell.

8.Mellström, Ulf (2003) ”Technology and Masculinity”, Ervø &camp; Johansson (red.): ”Moulding Masculinities”, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.

9. Mellström, Ulf (2005) (ed.) ”Kunskapens vägar och forskningens praktik. En vänbok till Boel Berner” (Ways of knowledge and the practice of research. A festschrift to Boel Berner), Lund: Arkiv förlag.

10. Mellström, Ulf (2005) ”Doing critical men’s studies in a State feminist country” Zeitschrift fur frauenforschung, Essen, Institute for gender studies, University of Duisburg-Essen.

Contact information

+46-920-493039

E-mail: name.surname@ltu.se