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Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt

Professor

Department of Applied IT, div CLIC
Telephone
+46 31-786 28 23
+46 766-18 28 23
Mail
annika.bergviken-rensfeldt@ait.gu.se
Visiting address
Medicinaregatan 7B
405 30 Göteborg
Room number
6175
Postal address
Box 470
405 30 Göteborg

About Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt

Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt, Professor of Applied Information Technology in Education, Excellent Teacher Practitioner




Research interests My research focuses on critical issues related to the digitalization of education and public welfare. I study how digital infrastructures, platforms, datafication, automation, and AI shape educational practices, professional work, and organizational processes. A central concern is how digital technologies create new opportunities and constraints for professional autonomy, responsibility, and working conditions.

My research has examined teachers’ digital work, work intensification, social media as a site of professional work, and digital inequalities. Current projects focus on how responsibility for data and AI is organized in schools’ digital work, and how generative AI influences professional judgement, responsibility, and agency in educational leadership and decision-making.

A recurring theme in my research is how digitalization reshapes the relationships between technology, organizations, and professions, and the implications this has for equality, governance, and sustainable working conditions. My work is informed by critical sociological and sociomaterial perspectives, often drawing on concepts and theories from Science and Technology Studies (STS). I also maintain a long-standing interest in the digitalization of higher education, including questions of openness, accessibility, gender, and global justice in relation to digital technologies.

Appointments Collegium Coordinator for the research environment IT and Learning at the Department of Applied Information Technology, University of Gothenburg, and member of the Centre for Responsible Educational Technology (CREDTech). Thematic Leader for IT and Learning in the Graduate School CUL (Communicative and Collaborative Learning in Focus).

Teaching I teach research methods in programmes such as the International Master’s Programme in IT and Learning and the Cognitive Science Programme. I also teach AI and ethics in the International Master’s Programme in Human-Centered AI, as well as doctoral courses in Qualitative Methods (Policy and Discourse Analysis), Research Ethics (Internet and Social Media Research), and Theorizing the Digital.

Doctoral supervision Principal supervisor for Kalliopi Moraiti (Department of Education, Communication and Learning), Marcus Kristensen and Hannes Lundqvist (Department of Applied Information Technology), and co-supervisor for Henric Waehrens (Department of Applied Information Technology).

Current research projects

2026 – 2028 Infrastructure as Work Environment: Organizing Responsibility for Data and AI in Schools’ Digital Work (funded by Forte). Principal Investigator.

2026 – 2028 Generative AI as Decision Support: Professional Judgement, Responsibility and Agency in Educational Leadership (ULF). Principal Investigator.

 

Earlier 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 explored 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.

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.