Airi Rovio-Johansson

Professor Emerita

Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies

Telephone

+46 707-38 19 83

Mail

airi.rovio-johansson@gu.se

Visiting address

Läroverksgatan 15

41120 Göteborg

Postal address

Box 300

40530 Göteborg

About Airi Rovio-Johansson

Airi Rovio-Johansson is Professor in Educational Sciences at Gothenburg Research Institute (GRI), School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg. Multidisciplinary phenomena and her interest in human behaviour, learning and action in different educational programmes, professions, and in different life-periods influenced her selection of education at the university. Her focus in research is on how and what students learn in higher education; how people make sense of communication, in talks and in meetings in professional public and private organizations. Her current research fields are organizing change processes; students’ sustainable learning processes in higher education; organizing of subject content in teaching and lecturers´ professional development in higher education; sustainable inter-generations and intercultural lifelong learning. In a number of years she acted as coordinator of institutional quality management projects at the European University Association (EUA), notably in developing a Quality Assurance System, “Institutional Evaluation Programme: Performance in Research, Performance in Teaching Quality, and Innovation”, for European and international Higher Education Institutions. Her publications include journal articles, books, book chapters and reports. She is a member of the Editorial board of Educational Research Review and Co-Editor of International Journal of Lesson and Learning Studies.

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Research areas

Organizing change processes
Learning and teaching in Higher Educationas
Intercultural and Intergenerational Lifelong learning

Teaching areas

Students' learning processes
Teaching processes

Qualitative research methodologies

Selected publications

Liff, Roy & Rovio-Johansson, Airi (2025). Mentoring as a management practice to retain newly certified professionals in healthcare organisations. Journal of Health and Organizational Management, 39(5), 54-70. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-12-2023-0370

Diedrich, Andreas and Rovio-Johansson, Airi (2023). Between skills development and rural development: Agencing a Swedish training centre for furniture manufacturing in South Africa. In Gustavo Guzman, Andreas Diedrich and Franck Cochoy (2023). Space and Organizing. On spatial Agencing. pp. 75-88. Edward Elgar. ISBN: 978 1 80088 155 6. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800881563.00011

Rovio-Johansson, Airi, Liff, Roy & Guzman Gustavo (2022) Exploring Students’ Choice of Theories as Tools in Problem-Solving: A Pilot Study. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 33 (2), 225-234. ISSN 1812-9129. http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/

Rovio-Johansson, Airi (2020). Reinvestigating the theory and practice gap in Participatory Educational Research. International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, Vol 9, No. 1, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLLS-01-2020-094

Rovio-Johansson, Airi (2018). Variation in approaches to lesson analysis - alternative tools for the reconstruction of teaching. International Journal of Lesson and Learning Studies, Vol 7 No. 2, 78-84. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLLS-01-2020-094

Rovio-Johansson, Airi (2018). Experiences of practice-based learning in phenomenographic perspective. Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol 30, No. 1, 48-64. ISSN: 1366-5626. https://doi.org/10.1108/JWL-03-2016.0017 Rovio-Johansson, Airi (2016). Students’ Knowledge Progression: Sustainable Learning in Higher EducationInternational Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 28:3, 427-439. ISSN 1812-9129. http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/

Rovio-Johansson, Airi, Ingerman, Åke (2016). Continuity and Development in the Phenomenography and Variation Theory Tradition. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 60:3, 257-271. https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2016.1148074