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Emma Arneback

Senior Lecturer

Department of Education and Special Education
Telephone
+46 31-786 21 43
+46 766-18 21 43
Mail
emma.arneback@gu.se
Visiting address
Västra Hamngatan 25
41117 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 300
40530 Göteborg

About Emma Arneback

My name is Emma Arneback and I am a senior lecturer and associate professor in education at University of Gothenburg. My research focuses on change processes aimed at creating more equitable conditions for children's, pupils', and students' development and learning. What actions are used to challenge racism, school segregation, and unequal conditions in educational contexts – how can these actions be understood, and what opportunities and challenges arise with different actions?

My main research interests are the following:

  • Racism and anti-racism in schools
  • Widening recruitment and participation in higher education
  • Local initiatives to challenge school segregation
  • Juridification of and in education: with a focus on equality and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • Education and democracy

Ongoing research projects:

Challenging Segregation through Education: This project investigates and compares three different types of local initiatives aimed at challenge the negative consequences of school segregation: 1) redistribution of students, 2) merging of schools, and 3) strengthening of schools. The project runs from 2021 to 2025 and is funded by the Swedish Research Council. The participating researchers, from education, political science, and human geography, come fromf Gothenburg and Örebro University: Jan Jämte (project leader), Emma Arneback, Andreas Bergh, Håkan Forsberg, and Anders Trumberg.

What Happens to Schools when the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child becomes Law? (JURED): This project addresses the relationship between education and law. The project runs from 2022 to 2025 and is funded by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. The participating researchers, from education and law, come from Uppsala, Gothenburg, and Örebro universities: Andreas Bergh (project leader), Emma Arneback, Lotta Lerwall, Mattias Nylund, and Tomas Englund.

Racism and Antiracism in Middle School - A Study on How Everyday Racism Manifests and Is Challenged in Different School Contexts (The ROAR Project): The project runs from 2025 to 2028 and is funded by the Swedish Research Council. The participating researchers are from the University of Gothenburg: Emma Arneback (project leader), Marianne Dovemark, Mattias Nylund, and Ylva Odenbring.

Completed research projects:

A School of Integration? Lessons from Örebro municipality’s work on a school desegregation initiative, Örebro municipality (2019–2020).

How to Counteract Racism in Education: A qualitative study of teachers' anti-racist actions, Swedish Research Council (2015–2019).

The Struggle over the Text: On student teachers' encounters, meaning-making, and negotiations with different writing traditions, Swedish Research Council (2012–2016).

Teaching:

I primarily teaches courses within the vocational teacher education program at Gothenburg University and supervises doctoral students within my areas of interest.

Assignments:

Member of the National Board of Save the Children (Sweden) and the Institutional Council at IPS.