Eva Alerby

About me

Since 2007, I am Professor of Education and Holds a Chair at the Department of Arts, Communication and Education. In 1998 I received my PhD at the Centre for Research in Teaching and Learning, Luleå University of Technology, and in 2003 I was appointed Associate Professor of Education. I’m also a Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Tromsö – The Arctic University of Norway.

Research

My research interests include: relations, identity and diversity in education, participation and civic engagement among children and youth, the relationship between spatial formations and humans, and philosophical and existential dimensions of education.

I have successfully secured several research projects in national and international competitive funding, and also received several national and international awards. Examples of research pojects are:

• The physical room's importance in learning (CES VR)
• Arctic Children I & II (Kolarktik, EU)
• Desert and Ice - Learning Without Boundaries (Institutional Grants, STINT)
• "School sucks!"... Or? Giving a voice to children and young people's experiences of psychosocial health in their learning environment (CES VR)
• The University's student environment - the relationship between people and the university's spatial conformation (Akademiska Hus & LTU)

Together with Carl-Anders Säfström, Sharon Todd and Moira von Wright, I'm responsible for theGraduate School External link.of Philosophical Studies of Pedagogical Relations External link.. External link.

I’m the founder and scientific leader for the research group RIDE – Relations, Identity and Diversity in Education. External link.