Staff
Staff at Segerstedtinstitutet
Christer Mattsson (director)
Director of the Segerstedt Institute and senior lecturer in pedagogy. In addition to leading the institute, Christer researches radicalisation processes in individuals and groups in right-wing extremist and National Socialist circles. He is also active in studies that focus on prevention work against violent extremism in general. He also conducts research on education about the Holocaust and antisemitism. Christer also teaches courses at the institute and supervises doctoral students and students.
Email: christer.mattsson@gu.se
Phone: 0766-062 938
Profile page at the University of Gothenburg
Christer Mattsson at Wikipedia
Robin Andersson Malmros (deputy manager)
Robin assists the director in managing the institute’s daily affairs. Furthermore, he is involved in several of the research projects at the institute. Robin has a Ph.D. in public administration and has special expertise in the organizing of national and municipal work to counter violent extremism.
Email: robin.andersson@gu.se
Phone: 031-786 4343
Profile page at the University of Gothenburg
Richard Millings (project manager)
Richard works as a project manager at the Segerstedt Institute. His tasks mainly consisted of project management, support in research projects, and facilitation of the professional network.
Email: richard.millings@gu.se
Phone: 0766-182 126
Thomas Johansson
Professor of pedagogy with a focus on Child and Adolescent Science. Is active at the Department of Pedagogy, Communication, and Learning and at the Segerstedt Institute. Johansson defended his dissertation in sociology in 1992 at Lund University. He is a licensed psychologist and psychotherapist and has worked on issues related to young people’s living conditions, health, and well-being throughout his career. Johansson has researched and taught about youth culture, urban culture, fitness culture, family life, school violence, and exit processes among individuals in right-wing extremist environments.
Email: thomas.johansson@ped.gu.se
Phone: 031-786 2003
Profile page at the University of Gothenburg
Thomas Johansson at Wikipedia
Morten Sager
Associate professor of Theory of Science at the Department of Linguistics, Philosophy, and Theory of Science, Sager has extensive experience in research on evidence-based and knowledge management in health and public health, schools, and care. In collaboration with the Swedish Public Health Agency and the Segerstedt Institute, he led the work of several systematic reviews with a focus on prevention in order to clarify and improve the state of knowledge. Within his assignment at the Segerstedt Institute, he studied the evidence base for the prevention of violent extremism and the prevention of antisemitism.
Email: morten.sager@theorysc.gu.se
Phone: 031-786 4722
Profile page at the University of Gothenburg
Rose-Marie Wikström
Rose-Marie is the administrative coordinator responsible for financial and personnel administration, travel and conference arrangements and other administrative tasks. Rose-Marie has previously worked at Chalmers University of Technology and at the Department of Physics at the University of Gothenburg.
Email: rose-marie.wikstrom@ncm.gu.se
Phone: 031-786 2206
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Roger Säljö
Senior researcher and former professor of educational psychology, active at the Department of Education, Communication and Learning, and the Segerstedt Institute. Säljö defended his dissertation in 1975 at the University of Gothenburg on a dissertation focusing on learning, and in 1983 became a professor in the theme of Communication, Linköping University. In 1997, he returned to Gothenburg. Between 2007 and 2018, he was the leader of the Linnaeus Centre LINCS (Learning, Interaction, and Mediated Communication). His research interests concern learning, development, and communication from a socio-cultural perspective, literacy and media, digitisation, and institutional communication. He has been a visiting professor/researcher at a large number of universities (Konstanz, UC San Diego, Utrecht, Oslo, Göttingen, Turku, Stavanger, and Agder) and is an honorary doctor and honorary professor. Säljö has extensive experience in postgraduate education and has supervised the dissertations of 52 doctoral students at six different faculties.
Email: roger.saljo@ped.gu.se
Phone: 0706-739 176
Profile page at the University of Gothenburg
Isabella Pistone
Isabella works at the Segerstedt Institute at the University of Gothenburg, where she and a group of researchers carried out the first systematic research overview of educational initiatives against antisemitism. The research was conducted in collaboration with Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Uppsala University, the Swedish National Defence College, and Malmö University.
Email: isabella.pistone@gu.se
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Göran Larsson
Professor of Religious Studies and Vice Dean at the Faculty of Humanities, Larsson’s research is primarily focused on issues concerning Islam and Muslims in Europe in history and the present, but his research also concerns how international conflicts and crises affect Swedish society and the public conversation about religion. Furthermore, his research deals with violent extremism, hate crimes, and theoretical and methodological issues concerning religious studies.
Email: goran.larsson@lir.gu.se
Phone: 031-786 5315
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Göran Larsson at Wikipedia
Jesper Andreasson
Jesper Andreasson has a doctorate in sociology and is an associate professor in sports science from the Department of Sports Science, Linnaeus University, Sweden. Andreasson has extensive experience working with ethnography and various Internet methods. His research can mainly be positioned in health, gender studies, and cultural sociology. The latest projects focus on administrative violence in the Swedish migration context and how schools in areas with a traditionally high prevalence of neo-Nazi activism work to protect students’ well-being and counteract racism.
Email: jesper.andreasson@lnu.se
Phone: 0725-941 790
Ola Flennegård (course responsible project manager)
Ola works part-time at the Segerstedt Institute with the main task of leading and teaching the courses PDG800, PDG690 and PDG692. He has a PhD in educational work and special competence in the research field of teaching and learning about the Holocaust.
Email: ola.flennegard@gu.se
Profile page at the University of Gothenburg
Eli Göndör (researcher)
Ph.D. in the History of Religion with a focus on Islamology and the Middle East. Eli Göndör's area of research is on how violence and politics are legitimized religiously in different Muslim organizations and how anti-Semitism is formulated and legitimized within extremist environments. He is linked to a larger project, funded by MSB on the Muslim Brotherhood in Sweden, led by Associate Professor Aje Carlbom at Malmö University.
Mirjam Katzin (project manager)
Mirjam Katzin is doctor of laws from Lund University. She works part-time at the Segerstedt Institute as a project manager for the network "Learning, prevention and consequences of antisemitism in the Swedish educational system" (VR-funded). In addition, Mirjam works for the city of Malmö in a project to counter anti-Semitism and strengthen the conditions for Jewish life. Within the framework of this appointment, she has published the reports "School racism, conspiracy theories and exclusion" (Skolgårdsrasism, konspirationsteorier och utanförskap) as well as "With kippa at Möllan? A report on strengthening Jewish life in Malmö" (Med kippa på Möllan? En rapport om att stärka judiskt liv i Malmö).
Email: mirjam.katzin@gu.se
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Anders Persson
Anders Persson is Associate Professor of Political Science at Linnaeus University with a focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has written four books on the subject, the latest of which is EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019 (Edinburgh University Press 2020). He is also an expert commentator on SVT, TV4 and SR on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and writes regularly for Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, Al Jazeera English, Politico EU and EU Observer.
Email: anders.persson@lnu.se
Personal website
Pontus Rudberg
Pontus Rudberg is Associate Professor of History and researcher in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Hugo Valentin Center, Uppsala University. He has previously mainly researched Swedish modern history with a focus on refugee policy, Jewish history and foreign policy. Among other things, Rudberg is the author of the book The Swedish Jews and the Holocaust (2017) and co-editor of Early Holocaust Memory in Sweden (2021) and led the Swedish part of the international research and mapping project Yerusha. He is project manager for three projects of the Segerstedt Institute's research project on the consequences of the Hamas terror attack on October 7, 2023 and Jewish life in Sweden.
Email: pontus.rudberg@valentin.uu.se
Phone: 0701-461 860