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Mette Liljenberg
Assistant Head of Department
Department of Education and Special EducationSenior Lecturer
Department of Education and Special Education-
Organizational Professionals Challenging Principal Autonomy and
Professionalism?
Katarina Samuelsson, Mette Liljenberg
Professions and Professionalism - 2026 -
Värden på spel i rektorers kollegiala erfarenhets- och
kunskapsutbyten
Katarina Samuelsson, Mette Liljenberg
Att jobba som rektor - om rektorer som professionella yrkesutövare - 2026 -
What’s the hype of the year? Value creation in principals’ professional
development
Mette Liljenberg, Stina Jerdborg
Professional Development in Education - 2026 -
Skolutvecklingssamverkan i tider av stärkta incitament för forskarmedverkan: möjligheter och
utmaningar
Stina Jerdborg, Mette Liljenberg, Helena Sagar, Veronica Sülau
M. Liljenberg & Å. Hirsh (Red.), Skolutvecklingssamverkan i tider av förändring. Nio perspektiv från SKUL. RIPS: nr 23 - 2026 -
Contradictory policy demands – perspectives on educational leaders’ shared responsibility for educational
improvement
Mette Liljenberg, Katarina Samuelsson
International Journal of Educational Management - 2025 -
Soft governance and notions of accountability: illuminating local education authority practices in systematic quality
work
Mette Liljenberg
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research - 2025 -
Keeping distance or getting involved? Principals’ sensemaking of pedagogical leadership for instructional
improvement
Mette Liljenberg
Management in Education - 2025 -
A Social Learning Space Building on the Notion of the Dialogue Conference - Continuing Professional Development for Principals in
Sweden
Stina Jerdborg, Mette Liljenberg
Paper presentation given at the ICSEI congress, 10-14 February, Melbourne, Australia. - 2025 -
Principals' Contradictory Responses to the Work of High-Skilled Administrators in Complex Educational
Contexts
Katarina Samuelsson, Mette Liljenberg
Paper presentation given at the ICSEI Congress, 10-14 February, Melbourne Australia. - 2025 -
Leda för likvärdighet. En inkluderande skola för alla
elever.
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Handlingsutrymme och kontroll i skärningspunkten mellan huvudmannens och rektorns
ansvar.
Mette Liljenberg, Daniel Nordholm
Leda för likvärdighet. En inkluderande skola för alla elever. Red: Åsa Hirsh & Mette Liljenberg - 2025 -
Resultat av casearbetet och pågående
forskningsstudier
Anette Jahnke, Mette Liljenberg, Åsa Hirsh
Ifous rapportserie - 2024 -
The importance of organizational capacities for collaborative research: boundary crossings within a Swedish research-practice
partnership
Maria Jarl, Mette Liljenberg, Klas Andersson, Magdalena Taube
Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy - 2024 -
Kunskap om den lokala organisationen – en förutsättning för förbättringskapacitet och
undervisningsutveckling
Mette Liljenberg
Att leda mot skolans mål: vägval och möjligheter (4e uppl.) - 2024 -
To Make a Difference at Work – Continuous Professional Development Offered to and Valued by
Principals
Stina Jerdborg, Mette Liljenberg
Paper presentation given at the ECER conference, 27-30 August, Nicosia, Cyprus. - 2024 -
Keeping Distance or Getting Involved? – Principals’ Sensemaking of Pedagogical Leadership for Instructional Development in a Three-year
R&D-program.
Mette Liljenberg
Paper presentation given at the ECER conference, 27-30 August, Nicosia, Cyprus. - 2024 -
Etiska och moraliska perspektiv på kontextuella särskildheter i rektorers arbete och ledarskap i strukturellt missgynnade
områden
Åsa Karlsson Pérez, Mette Liljenberg, Åsa Hirsh, Anette Jahnke
Utbildning och Demokrati - 2024 -
Systematisk FoU-samverkan som expansivt
lärande
Åsa Hirsh, Mette Liljenberg, Anette Jahnke
Ifous rapportserie 2024:1 - 2024 -
Systematic R&D collaboration as setting for expansive learning and transformative
agency
Åsa Hirsh, Anette Jahnke, Mette Liljenberg
NERA Conference 6-8 March in Malmö - 2024 -
Overcoming educational segregation – supporting LEA officials’ and principals’ capacity-building in network
practices
Mette Liljenberg, Åsa Hirsh
NERA Conference 6-8 March in Malmö - 2024 -
The need for recognised educational infrastructures to support superintendents' professional
development
Mette Liljenberg, D. Nordholm, H. Arlestig
Professional Development in Education - 2024 -
Far from the generalised norm: Recognising the interplay between contextual particularities and principals’ leadership in schools in low-socio-economic status
communities
Åsa Hirsh, Mette Liljenberg, Anette Jahnke, Åsa Karlsson Pérez
Educational Management, Administration & Leadership - 2023 -
School principals’ perceptions of autonomy and control in low-SES communities - navigating local school administration on the front
line
Mette Liljenberg, Åsa Hirsh, Anette Jahnke, Åsa Karlsson Pérez
Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy - 2023 -
For what purpose? Swedish superintendents' perspectives of professional development for
principals
Mette Liljenberg, H. Aerlestig, D. Nordholm
Journal of Educational Administration - 2023 -
Leadership for school improvement – linking learning to leading over
time
Mette Liljenberg, Marie Wrethander
Professional Development in Education - 2023 -
The importance of organizational capacities for collaborative research: boundary crossings within a Swedish research-practice
partnership
Maria Jarl, Magdalena Taube, Mette Liljenberg, Klas Andersson
American Educational Research Association (AERA), 13-16 April 2023 - 2023 -
Drivers of Improvement at Local Level–Tension and Support from Coexisting
Logics
Mette Liljenberg
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research - 2022 -
Relations between an improving Swedish LEA and school principals with joint quality and improvement
responsibilities
Mette Liljenberg, Klas Andersson
Education Inquiry - 2021 -
A professional development practice to enhance principals’ instructional leadership – enabling and constraining
arrangements
Mette Liljenberg
Journal of Professional Capital and Community - 2021 -
Värden på spel i rektorers kollegiala erfarenhets- och
kunskapsutbyten
Katarina Samuelsson, Mette Liljenberg
Att jobba som rektor - om rektorer som professionella yrkesutövare - 2021 -
Förändringar i rektorers pedagogiska ledarskap efter tre års gemensam
kompetensutveckling
Mette Liljenberg
Utbildning & Lärande - 2021 -
Implementing a Systematic Quality and Improvement Work – LEA Managers’ and Administrators’ Translator
Competence
Mette Liljenberg
Paper presented at the ECER conference, Geneva Online, 6-10 September 2021. - 2021 -
Novice principals’ attitudes toward support in their
leadership
Mette Liljenberg, Klas Andersson
International Journal of Leadership in Education - 2020 -
Att samverka i
samverkan
Mette Liljenberg, Annica Nyman Alm
A. Olin & Å. Hirsh (red.) Samverkan genom uppdrag. Lärdomar för universitetet och samverkande partners i utbildnings- och forskningsuppdrag - 2020 -
'Tell us what, but not how' - understanding intra-organisational trust among principals and LEA officials in a decentralised school
system
Klas Andersson, Mette Liljenberg
School Leadership & Management - 2020 -
Hur kan rektor ta fördel av ett distribuerat
ledarskap?
Mette Liljenberg
Rektor i fokus – kunskap, värden och verktyg. U. Blossing (Red.) - 2020 -
Stärkt förbättringskapacitet genom kunskap om den inre
organisationen.
Mette Liljenberg
Att leda mot skolans mål – vägval och möjligheter. 3 uppl. O. Johansson & L. Svedberg (red.) - 2020 -
Joint responsibility for ensuring quality and systematic development? A case study of a well performing Swedish local education
authority.
Klas Andersson, Mette Liljenberg
Paper presented at the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, Marrakech, Morocco, 6-11 January 2020. - 2020 -
School leaders’ relational and management
work
orientation
Ulf Blossing, Mette Liljenberg
International Journal of Educational Management - 2019 -
Relations in a Shared Responsibility – A Case Study of an Improving Swedish
LEA
Mette Liljenberg, Klas Andersson
Symposium - Fundamental and often forgotten perspectives on/in School and Leadership - 2019 -
Organizational Building Versus Teachers' Personal and Relational Needs for School
Improvement
Mette Liljenberg, Ulf Blossing
Paper presented at the AERA Annual Conference in Toronto - 2019 -
Leadership for school improvement. Linking learning to leadership practice and vice
versa.
Mette Liljenberg, Marie Wrethander
Paper presented at the NERA Congress, Uppsala, 6-8 march 2019 - 2019 -
Local Education Authorities´ Responsibility for Quality- and Improvement
Work
Mette Liljenberg, Klas Andersson
Paper presented in the symposium "Bridging the knowledge practice gap" at the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, Stavanger, 8-12 January 2019 - 2019 -
Novice and experienced principals’ attitudes towards support in their
leadership
Mette Liljenberg, Klas Andersson
Paper presented at the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, Stavanger, 8-12 January 2019 - 2019 -
Educational infrastructures and organisational memory: Observations from a Swedish
perspective
Daniel Nordholm, Mette Liljenberg
Improving Schools - 2018 -
Organisational routines for school improvement: exploring the link between ostensive and performative
aspects
Mette Liljenberg, Daniel Nordholm
International Journal of Leadership in Education - 2018 -
Hållbart
förbättringsarbete
Mette Liljenberg
Forskning Pågår, 31 oktober 2018, Göteborg - 2018 -
Educational infrastructures and organizational memory: Observations from a Swedish
perspective
Daniel Nordholm, Mette Liljenberg
Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research, Bolzano 4-7 September 2018 - 2018 -
Drivers of school improvement - identifying layers of
sensemaking
Mette Liljenberg
Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research, Bolzano 4-7 September 2018 - 2018 -
Skolledares förbättringsarbete i Rektorsprogrammet - med avtryck i
praktiken?
Mette Liljenberg, Marie Wrethander
Presentation vid Noralf-konferensen, 15-16 maj i Tromsö, Norge - 2018
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