Linda Rönnberg

Contact Information
Position:	Assistant professor (Leave of absence)
Works at:	Political Science
Address:	Umeå universitet SE-901 87 Umeå Sverige
Visiting Address:	Samhällsvetarhuset, plan 5, Umeå universitet
Tel:	+46 90 786 65 13
Email:	linda.ronnbergpol.umu.se Email
Web Page:	http://www.pol.umu.se/om-institutionen/personal/linda-ronnberg Web Page http://www.pol.umu.se/svenska/about-the-department/staff/linda-ronnberg/ Web Page

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Research profile and projects

My research interest lies mainly in governance, education policy and politics of education. At present, I explore issues relating to increased audit, evaluation and output control in the public sector, primarily within an education policy context.

My Postdoctoral Research Fellowship project is financed by the Swedish Research Council (2008-2012) and addresses the Swedish national school inspections. The project aim to describe, analyse and critically examine the tension of simultaneous centralisation and decentralisation in contemporary Swedish education policy by studying the agenda, implementation and effects of the revived national school inspections.

I also participate in the bilateral and comparative project Governing by Inspection: School Inspection and Education Governance in Sweden, England and Scotland The project examines the ways in which Inspection regimes may be understood as governing education in three national education systems and the extent to which Inspection offers a resource for policy learning.

In addition, I take part in a project focusing on marketisation in Swedish upper secondary education (Financed by the Swedish Research Council, 2008-2010), a FW7 project European Educational Research Quality Indicators (EERQI) (2008-2010) and in a national education policy research network (Swedish Research Council 2009-2011).

Previous research

As a PhD-student, I was a member in a cross-disciplinary research project that put particular focus on the Swedish state-led experiment with local time schedules in compulsory education. My doctoral thesis (2007) focused on this experimental reform, and through a policy theoretical framework, the thesis described and analysed the initiation, decision, implementation and consequences of the experiment. In addition, the roles, perceptions and actions from different organizational levels were highlighted within the context of the experiment.

University teaching

Previous teaching mainly include courses at the Teacher training programme (Democracy and Society) and the Career counselling programme (Politics and Society)

In focus

Governing by Inspection

This three-year research project, funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) compares the use of school inspection as a form of governing of education in the three systems of Sweden, Scotland and England, in the context of current changes in inspection practices in Europe. Read more

In focus

Swedish National School Inspections

In short, after being swept off the agenda in the wake of the extensive decentralisation reforms in the 1990s, direct school inspections were reintroduced by the Swedish Government in 2003. However, the context in which the state now uses inspection as a means of educational control bears little resemblance to the strongly regulated and framed system of the past. Read more

In focus

Inspecting the ‘Market’: Education at the Intersection of Marketisation and Central State Control

This project focuses on the intersection and possible interdependence of two main contemporary educational policy developments in Sweden in which re-centralising tendencies on part of the state occur at the same time as market mechanisms continue pave their way into the education sector. This is central to the proposed project, as it places what may be labeled as simultaneous efforts of marketisation and central state control in the limelight. Read more

Publications

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Author	Title	Year	Fulltext
Rönnberg, Linda Lindgren, Joakim Segerholm, Christina	In the public eye: Swedish schoolinspection and local newspapers exploring the audit–media relationship Journal of education policy, 28(2): 1-20	2013	-
Rönnberg, Linda	Justifying the Need for Control.: Motives for Swedish National School Inspection during Two Governments Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research	2012	-
Rönnberg, Linda	Reinstating Swedish National School Inspections: The Return of the State Nordic Studies in Education, 32(2): 69-83	2012	-
Lindgren, Joakim Hult, Agneta Segerholm, Christina; et al.	Mediating school inspection: Key dimensions and keywords in agency text production 2003-2010 Education Inquiry, 3(4): 569-590	2012	-
Rönnberg, Linda	Exploring the Intersection of Marketisation and Central State Constol through Swedish National School Inspection Education Inquiry, 2(4): 689-707	2011	-
Rönnberg, Linda	Education Governance by Marketisation and Quality Assurance: Introductory Notes Education Inquiry, 2(4): 555-561	2011	-
Rönnberg, Linda Segerholm, Christina	Skolinspektionen	2011	-
Rönnberg, Linda Lindgren, Joakim Segerholm, Christina	In the public eye: school inspection reports in Swedish newspapers	2011	-
Lindgren, Joakim Hult, Agneta Rönnberg, Linda; et al.	Mediating school inspection: key dimensions and keywords in official Swedish discourse 2003-2010 Network 23: Policy Studies and Politics of Education	2011	-
Jarl, Maria Rönnberg, Linda	Skolpolitik: från riksdagshus till klassrum	2010	-