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 of Philosophical Studies of Pedagogical Relations.

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