Ph.D. Student
Department of Scandinavian languages
Uppsala university
Box 527
751 20 Uppsala
Tel: +46-(0)18-471 29 01
Visit me at: Engelska parken, room 16-0033
Dissertation project
Using the methodology of CA I study data from two institutional contexts: undergraduate seminars at a Swedish university and performance appraisal interviews collected in a medium-sized Swedish organization in the financial sector. The specific scope of my attention is how the participants accomplish and manage social positioning.
In the first study (2008) I explored how students create sub-groups within the larger group. Through close analysis of how the interaction unfolds I demonstrate how activities within these sequences can constitute resources for constructing an identity as a 'good student'.
The second paper (2010) examines how the participants interactionally display different perspectives. The 'student's perspective' vs the 'teacher's perspective' are described through close analysis of different excerpts.
In the third paper I analyze how the verb känna - which translates as 'feel' - serves as an interactional device that allows the speaker to create an interactional space in which accountability and responsibility can be negotiated. Manuscript submitted.
In the fourth and ongoing study a specific question/answer-sequence is examined in six performance appraisal interviews. Erica Sandlund and I are interested in how questions from the interview guide are implemented in interaction, and what trajectory one specific question can take in different interviews. Manuscript in preparation.
Supervisors: Björn Melander, Professor in Swedish Language, Department of Scandinavian Languages at Uppsala University.
Erica Sandlund, PhD and Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and Affiliated researcher at the Center for Gender Studies at Karlstad University.
Publications
2011
- "The performance appraisal interview – an arena for the reinforcement of norms for employeeship." Sandlund, Erica; Olin-Scheller, Christina; Nyroos, Lina, Jakobsen, Liselotte & Nahnfeldt, Cecilia. I: Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies 1(2). P. 59-75. Reviewed.
2010
- "Medarbetarsamtal som arena för att befästa normer kring medarbetarskap", co-writers Liselotte Jakobsen, Cecilia Nahnfeldt, Christina Olin-Scheller and Erica Sandlund. In: Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv 16(3). Reviewed.
- "Om du har något annat ord för det? Hur deltagares skilda perspektiv kommer till uttryck i ett undervisningssammanhang." In: Språk & stil 20. Reviewed.
2008
- "Vadå vi? Tala för dig själv! Om oenighet och identitet vid seminarier." In: Språk & stil 18. Reviewed
