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Live Stretmo

Senior Lecturer

Department of Education, Communication and
Learning
Telephone
+46 31-786 24 24
+46 766-18 24 24
Mail
live.stretmo@gu.se
Visiting address
Läroverksgatan 5
41120 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 300
40530 Göteborg

Director of Studies

Department of Education, Communication and
Learning
Telephone
+46 31-786 24 24
+46 766-18 24 24
Mail
live.stretmo@gu.se
Visiting address
Läroverksgatan 15
41120 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 300
40530 Göteborg

About Live Stretmo

Live Stretmo defended her doctoral thesis 2014, focusing on the reception of unaccompanied minors in Sweden and Norway. Since then, Stretmo has continued researching the specific situation of unaccompanied children and youngsters in a Swedish context.

From 2015, Stretmo is a senior lecturer in Child and Youth studies at IPKL and from 2018, she has been serving as director of studies at the primary teacher’s program specializing in school-age educare - L1GFR, as well as director of studies at the masterprogram in Child & Youth studies.

Live Stretmo's research emphasizes the living conditions of children and youth in general, with a specific focus on intersectional aspects, such as the everyday life of newly arrived children and youth, and the life situation of young people identifying as LGBTQIA+ who grow up in structurally disadvantaged areas.

Stretmo´s research concerns norm critical approaches, intersectionality, equality, and equity issues. From 2016 until 2019, Live Stretmo, alongside associate professor Anette Hellman, was appointed coordinator of IPKL´s gender mainstreaming work. Together, they examined how students in the preschool teacher education program and the primary teacher program specializing in school-age educare perceive their educational choice based on factors like gender, class, ethnicity, etc.

Live Stretmo is also interested in questions related to professionalism in education, educational leadership, and collegial learning.

From 2021 and onwards Live Stretmo is coordinator of the research network Children & Migration. This sub-group is part of the bigger strategic research milieu called Global Childhoods. Together with professor Kerstin von Brömssen (Högskolan i Väst), she and other international scholars, research issues related to children and global migration.

Since 2022, Live Stretmo has been part of the steering group of the research network Migrant Youth, Education, Culture & Identity (MYECI). The MYECI network is an international research environment that connects researchers from Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and the UK. As of 2024, Live Stretmo is the project leader of this dynamic network.