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Anna Davidsson
Senior Lecturer
Department of Sociology and Work ScienceAbout Anna Davidsson
Presentation In 2011, ANNA HEDENUS presented her PhD thesis ”At the End of the Rainbow – Post-winning life among Swedish lottery winners”. The thesis primarily discusses how sudden windfall affects people’s work commitment and attitudes towards jobs. It also considers the importance of the lottery winning for the winners’ sense of self, consumption habits and conceptions of money.
Specialist Fields Work life and labour market studies: recruitment, staffing, temporary employment, and consequences of digitalization. Alongside her current research, Anna Hedenus has a special interest in issues concerning gender and sexuality.
Current research Anna Hedenus is currently coordinating a project on ”Flexibilization and Polarization” which is part of a research programme on The Challenges of Polarization on Swedish Labour Market. The project focuses on potential consequences of digitalization, as well as of various strategies used to attain flexibility in organizations. The research is carried out in cooperation with the norwegian research foundation Fafo and a project on the impact of digitalization on work and labour market.
Teaching and tutoring Teaches on undergraduate courses in sociology and on the teacher education programmes. Supervises theses concerning work sociology, or sexuality and gender. Supervising PhD student Johan Røed Steen.
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Exploring Mechanisms Behind Polarisation: Digitalisation and Flexibilisation in Manufacturing
Companies.
Anna Hedenus, Erica Nordlander
Scrutinising Polarisation: Patterns and Consequences of Occupational Transformation in the Swedish Labour market. - 2024 -
Short-term Sick Leave is a Big Deal: Determinants of Sick Leave in
Retail.
Ekaterina Goreva, Anna Hedenus
Sustainable HRM and Working-Life Practices Conference 2024 - 2024 -
Kommunala och regionala aktörers betydelse för etablering av en regional ”grön tillväxtregim” i Västra
Götaland.
Anna Hedenus, Tomas Berglund
Sociologidagarna 2024 - 2024 -
Utmaningar kring undervisning om sexualitet, identitet och relationer: lärarstudenters och lärarutbildares tankar kring nytt
examensmål
Anna Hedenus
HKG 2023 - 2023 -
Professional talk on cybervetting: Accounting for a contested
practise
Christel Backman, Anna Hedenus
Acta Sociologica - 2023 -
Competence dilemmas: Employer strategies in response to
digitalization
Johan Røed Steen, Anna Hedenus, Erica Nordlander
The 13th European Regional Congress of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) - 2022 -
Digitalization, Dualization and Polarization of Manufacturing in
Sweden
Erica Nordlander, Anna Hedenus
Sociologidagarna (March 16-18, 2021) Uppsala. - 2022 -
Whom do you know? Recruiters’ motives for assessing jobseekers’ online
networks
Anna Hedenus, Christel Backman, Peter Håkansson
The International Journal of Human Resource Management - 2021 -
Challenges and Risks in the Use of Non-standard Employment in Elder Care in Sweden and
Denmark
Stine Rasmussen, Anna Hedenus
19th ILERA World Congress, ‘Making and Breaking Boundaries in Work and Employment Relations’, 21–24 June 2021, Lund, Sweden. - 2021 -
Freelance companies – an alternative to traditional
employment?
Anna Hedenus, Kristine Nergaard
19th ILERA World Congress, ‘Making and Breaking Boundaries in Work and Employment Relations’, 21–24 June 2021, Lund, Sweden. - 2021 -
Digitalisation, dualisation and polarisation of manufacturing in Sweden and Norway – Consequences for organisations and
employees
Anna Hedenus, Erica Nordlander, Johan Røed Steen
15th ESA Conference, 31 Aug - 3 Sep 2021 - 2021 -
The Promises and Fears of Welfare Technologies in Elderly
Care
Doris Lydahl, Anna Hedenus
ISA Forum of Sociology, virtual Porto Allegre, 23-28 February - 2021 -
Eldercare in Sweden and
Denmark
Anna Hedenus, Stine Rasmussen
Non-standard work in the Nordics: Troubled waters under the still surface - 2021 -
Freelance companies in Norway and
Sweden
Anna Hedenus, Kristine Nergaard
Non-standard work in the Nordics: Troubled waters under the still surface - 2021 -
Non-standard work in
Sweden
Tomas Berglund, Anna Hedenus, Kristina Håkansson, Tommy Isidorsson
Non-standard work in the Nordics: Troubled waters under the still surface - 2021 -
Acting on a hunch: cybervetting and the role of emotions in job
recruitment
Anna Hedenus, Christel Backman
Emotions and Society - 2020 -
Chapter 4. Nordic manufacturing in transition - Perspectives on digitalization and skill
requirements
Bertil Rolandsson, Tuomo Alasoini, Jon Erik Dölvik, Anna Hedenus, Trine Pernille Larsen, Anna Ilsöe, Johan Röed Steen, Elisabeth Hjelm
Digital Transformations of Traditional Work in the Nordic Countries - Edited by Bertil Rolandsson - 2020 -
Chapter 5: Digitalization of services - A diverse
picture
Jon Erik Dölvik, Tuomo Alasoini, Anna Hedenus, Anna Ilsöe, Trine Pernille Larsen, Johan Röed Steen, Bertil Rolandsson
Digital Transformations of Traditional Work in the Nordic Countries - Edited by Bertil Rolandsson - 2020 -
Digital Transformations of Traditional Work in the Nordic Countries - Edited by Bertil
Rolandsson
Bertil Rolandsson, Tuomo Alasoini, Tomas Berglund, Jon Erik Dölvik, Anna Hedenus, Anna Ilsoe, Trine Pernille Larsen, Stine Rasmussen, Johan Roed Steen, Pekka Varje
2020 -
Atypical labour markets in
Sweden
Tomas Berglund, Anna Hedenus, Kristina Håkansson, Tommy Isidorsson
2019 -
Online privacy in job recruitment processes? Boundary work among cybervetting
recruiters
Christel Backman, Anna Hedenus
New technology, work and employment - 2019 -
Digitalization in Nordic manufacturing: Some case-study illustrations - Nordic future of work project 2017–2020: Working paper
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Bertil Rolandsson, Jon Erik Dølvik, Anna Hedenus, Johan Röed Steen, Anna Ilsöe, Trine Pernille Larsen, Tuomo Alasoini
2019 -
Nätgranskning i samband med rekrytering: hur, vad och varför
(inte)?
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Online privacy in job recruitment processes? Boundary work among cybervetting
recruiters
Christel Backman, Anna Hedenus
8th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference, Århus - 2018 -
Explaining the Data Double: Confessions and Self-Examinations in Job
Recruitments.
Anna Hedenus, Christel Backman
Surveillance & Society - 2017 -
Explaining your Data Double: Confessions, honesty and trust in job
recruitments
Christel Backman, Anna Hedenus
INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON HRM. Gothenburg, Sweden: 23-25 March - 2017 -
Network recruitment and diminishing boundaries between private life and working
life
Anna Hedenus, Peter Håkansson, Christel Backman
FALFs nationella arbetslivskonferens 2016, 13–15 juni, Östersund - 2016 -
Explaining your Data Double: Confessions, honesty and trust in job
recruitments
Anna Hedenus, Christel Backman
7th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference, Barcelona - 2016 -
Embodiment and Materialization in "Neutral" Materials: Using Audio-Visual Analysis to Discern Social
Representations
Anna Hedenus
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research - 2016 -
Cybervetting, (un)trustworthy job candidates and distrusting
employers
Anna Hedenus, Christel Backman
Workshop on trust, distrust and surveillance. Surveillance & Scandinavian Exceptionalism research network. October 5-6, 2015, Gothenburg. - 2015 -
Yrkesval och det personliga intressets
betydelse
Anna Hedenus, Frida Wikstrand
Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv - 2015 -
Yrkesbeskrivningar för vägledning - – en fråga om individens fria val eller arbetskraftens
selektering?
Anna Hedenus, Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Frida Wikstrand, Christel Backman
2015 -
Inledning
Sofia Björk, Anna Hedenus
Feministiskt tänkande och sociologi. Teorier, begrepp och tillämpningar - 2015 -
Feministiskt tänkande och sociologi: teorier, begrepp och
tillämpningar
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Stereotyper och brytbilder i yrkesbeskrivande text och
film
Christel Backman, Anna Hedenus, Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson
Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv - 2014 -
The Job-Seeker and the Data Double: How Employers use Information Seeking on the Internet in the Recruitment Process and its Consequences for Interaction with the Job
Seeker
Christel Backman, Anna Hedenus
Paper for ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama 13-19 July 2014: RC42 Social Psychology: Social Interaction. - 2014 -
Will your Facebook profile get you hired? Employers use of information seeking online during the recruitment
process
Christel Backman, Anna Hedenus
Paper presented at The 6th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference, April 24-26, 2014, Barcelona, Spain. - 2014 -
Pengar
Anna Hedenus
Azarian, Reza, Daoud, Adel & Larsson, Bengt (red.) Ekonomisk sociologi - en introduktion - 2014 -
Pennies from heaven? Conceptions and earmarking of lottery prize
money
Anna Hedenus
British Journal of Sociology - 2014 -
Unga människor och (o)möjliga
yrkesidentiteter
Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Anna Hedenus
Att förstå ungdomars identitetsskapande - en inspirations- och metodbok - 2014 -
Career choices as Hobson’s choice? Interpretations and use of occupational descriptions among Swedish
youths
Anna Hedenus
International Labour Process Conference, 18-20 mars 2013, New Brunswick, USA - 2013 -
Pengar
Anna Hedenus
Interimskonferens ekonomisk sociologi, Uppsala 24-25/9 2013 - 2013 -
Stereotyper och brytare - Hur föreställningar kring genus, klass och etnicitet utmanas och reproduceras i yrkesbeskrivande
film
Anna Hedenus
g12, 28-30:e november 2012, Göteborg - 2012 -
Who wants to work less? Significance of socio-economic status and work conditions for work commitment among Swedish lottery
winners
Anna Hedenus
Acta Sociologica - 2012 -
Social Comparisons and Management of Windfalls: Lottery Winners’ Experiences of Relative
Wealth
Anna Hedenus
Advances in Psychology Research: v. 90 - 2012 -
At the End of the Rainbow - Post-winning life among Swedish lottery
winners
Anna Hedenus
2011 -
Finding Prosperity as a Lottery Winner: Presentations of Self after Acquisition of Sudden
Wealth
Anna Hedenus
Sociology - 2011 -
Gambling Windfall Decisions: Lottery Winners and Employment
Behavior
Bengt Furåker, Anna Hedenus
Gaming Research and Review Journal - 2009 -
Time for Work or Time for Family? Work-life balance after winning the
lottery
Anna Hedenus
World Leisure Journal - 2009 -
Lottery Winning and Working
Life
Anna Hedenus
Beyond these shores: sinking or swimming in the globalised new economy? Work, Employment and Society Conference. Aberdeen, 12th-14th September, 2007. - 2007 -
Large Lottery Winnings and
Work
Bengt Furåker, Anna Hedenus
Work, Employment and Society Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland, sept 2007 - 2007 -
Låt staten betala sänkt arbetstid för
föräldrar
Jörgen Larsson, Ulla Björnberg, Anna Hedenus, Helena Stensöta, Karen Albertsen, Arlie Russel Hochschild, Kari Anne Holte, Johanna Lammi Taskula, Ulf Lunderberg, Chris Mathieu, Christer Sanne
DN Debatt - 2006 -
Lottery winning and working
life
Anna Hedenus
XVI ISA World Congress of Sociology: RC 13, Durban, South Africa, 23-29 July 2006 - 2006 -
Large Lottery Winnings and
Work
Bengt Furåker, Anna Hedenus
Conference organized by Depts of Work Science, Business Administration, Sociology and Occupational and Environmental Medicine - 2006 -
Med eller emot? De manliga feministernas
dilemma
Anna Hedenus
Johansson, Thomas (red) Manlighetens omvandlingar: ungdom, sexualitet och kön i heteronormativitetens gränstrakter. Göteborg: Daidalos. - 2005 -
Med eller emot – De manliga feministernas
dilemma
Anna Hedenus
Manlighetens omvandlingar - Ungdom, sexualitet och kön i heteronormativitetens gränstrakter, Göteborg: Daidalos AB. - 2005