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Beniamin Knutsson

Professor

Management
Telephone
+46 31-786 24 27
Mail
beniamin.knutsson@ped.gu.se
Visiting address
Läroverksgatan 15
41120 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 300
40530 Göteborg

Assistant Head of Department

Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies
Telephone
+46 31-786 24 27
Mail
beniamin.knutsson@ped.gu.se
Visiting address
Läroverksgatan 15
41120 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 300
40530 Göteborg

Senior Lecturer

Unit for Subject Matter Education with specialization in Social Studies Education
Telephone
+46 31-786 24 27
Mail
beniamin.knutsson@ped.gu.se
Visiting address
Läroverksgatan 15
41120 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 300
40530 Göteborg

Deputy Head of Department

Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies
Telephone
+46 31-786 24 27
Mail
beniamin.knutsson@ped.gu.se
Visiting address
Läroverksgatan 15
41120 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 300
40530 Göteborg

About Beniamin Knutsson

Beniamin Knutsson is Professor of subject matter education with specialization in sustainable development at the Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional studies. He serves as Deputy Head of Department and Vice Head of Department with responsibility for research, and coordinates the research environment Critical Education Research. Beniamin has extensive international research experience and he is a Research Associate of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, University of Johannesburg.

Beniamin’s research is interdisciplinary in orientation and primarily grounded in environmental and sustainability education, comparative and international education, and critical social theory. His research focuses on what contemporary sustainability challenges—such as the climate crisis, global inequality, and democratic regression—mean for education, and how these challenges can be addressed didactically. His work is mainly inspired by Foucauldian theories of biopolitics and “green” governmentality, as well as post-foundational political theory.

Beniamin has served as principal investigator for the following projects funded by the Swedish Research Council:

Environmental and Sustainability Education in Times of Dual Crisis (2025–04401)

Education for Sustainable Development in an Unequal World: Populations, Skills, and Lifestyles (2018–04029)

Reimagining “the Political” in a Post-Political Aid Landscape: The New Aid Architecture and the Education Sector in Rwanda (348–2013–166).

He has also been a co-applicant and researcher in other externally funded research projects. Beniamin supervises and teaches at all levels of higher education, from undergraduate to doctoral level, and is involved in teacher education as well as the international master’s programme in Education for Sustainable Development.