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Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt

Senior Lecturer

Dept. of Applied IT, Division of Learning, Communication & IT
Telephone
+46 31-786 28 23
+46 766-18 28 23
Mail
annika.bergviken-rensfeldt@ait.gu.se
Visiting address
Forskningsgången 6
41756 Göteborg
Room number
321C (Patricia)
Postal address
Box 100, (Forskningsgången 6, Lindholmen)
41296 Göteborg

About Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt

Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt, Senior Lecturer in Applied IT in Education, PhD/Associate Professor in Education, Excellent Teacher Practitioner

My current research focuses on teachers’ digital work, digital (in)equality within the public sector and education. One important focus is how aspects of powers around digital platform infrastructures and datafication are affecting education and work. I also studied this in relation to social media platforms and professionals’ work.

A research interest which has followed from my dissertation in 2011 is neet based distance and higher education, with a focus on governing and geopolitical issues and aspects of openness, accessibility, and gender in relation to digital technology. My research expertise is critical sociological approaches to education, policy and digitalization, often based on Science and Technology Studies concepts.

Appointments: Collegium coordinator for the research environment IT and Learning at Applied IT which is a part of the Center for Responsible Educational Technology (www.credtech.se), thematic leader in the research school CUL at University of Gothenburg for the subject IT and Learning, representative in CULF's scientific board.

Teaching: Methods courses in The International Master in IT and Learning, The International Master in Communication, and The Cognitive Science Programme. AI and ethics in The International Master in Human-centered AI. I also teach in PhD courses in Qualitative Methods (policy and discourse analyses) and Research Ethics (internet and social media research), and the course Theorizing the Digital.

Supervision: Main supervisor for Marcus Kristensen and Christina Löfving, co-supervisor for Svea Kiesewetter, at the Dept of Applied IT. Main supervisor for Kalliopi Moraiti, and Tanya Osborne (completed), and Ulla Jivegård (completed), at the Dept of Education, Communication and Learning.

Current research projects:

2020 – 2024 Member of the international research project, RED - Reconfiguration of Educational In/Equality in a Digital World (funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and led by Prof Felicitias Macgilchrist, Germany), researching how school digitalization and datafication practices are creating local and global inequalities based on the country cases of Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Germany and Sweden.

2022– 2024 Member of the Nordic project, SOS - Infrastructures for partially digital citizens: Supporting informal welfare work in the digitized state (funded by Nordforsk and led by Prof Brit Ross Winthereik, Denmark), which explore how welfare sector workers like teachers, nurses and social workers are involved in or supported by informal unpaid work, and how this relates to transformations in the Nordic welfare state government.

Earlier research projects:

2019 – 2023 Principal investigator in the project BalancEd - Teachers’ digital work – (in)balance between demands and support? funded by Forte Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare and with me as PI). A project investigating how intensified school digitalization and digital platform work is regulating teachers’ work situations and digital labor.

2015 – 2017 Member of Professional learning and social media (funded by the Swedish Research Council funded and led by Mona Lundin) which focused on how large-scale participation on social media platforms are affecting teachers’ everyday work and professional exchange.