Anne-Li Lindgren

PhD, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Child Studies, Department of Thematic Studies

Email: anne-li.lindgren@liu.se

Research interests

• Media education (radio, television, film and internet) and policymaking in a historical and comparative perspective.
• Different notions of children, childhood and parenthood in everyday life.
• Cultural policymaking and popular culture targeted at children/young people.
• Critical discourse analysis and discourse analysis.

Examina

1988, Degree of Bachelor of Arts in the Humanities, Linköping University.

1989, Degree of Bachelor of Arts, Linköping University/History.

2000, PhD, Child Studies, February 4, Linköping University. Dissertation: ‘Att ha barn med är en god sak.’ Barn, medier och medborgarskap under 1930-talet. [’Including children is a good thing’. Children, media and citizenship during the 1930s.]

2007, Appointed reader (docent), May 29, Child Studies, Linköping University.

Present position

2004- Senior Lecturer in Child Studies, Linköping University.

Former positions

2000-2004, Assistant Professor, Child Studies, Linköping University.

1992-2000, PhD-student, Department of Child Studies, Linköping University.

1991-2002, Museum Educator, Norrköpings Konstmuseum.

1992–1993 (9 months), and 1998–1999 (10 months): Parental leave.

Scientific administrative work

2006-2011 Head of the Department of Thematic Studies (TEMA), Linköping University.

2010-2012 Member of the Board of SweCult, Linköping University.

2009-2011 Member of the Board of Centrum för Kommunstrategiska studier, Linköping University.

2006-2011 Member of the Council of Rådet för utveckling och samspel vid LiU Norrköping, Linköping University.

2008-2009 Member of the Board of BRIS (Region East), Norrköping.

2004-2006 Member of the Board of the Department of Thematic Studies (TEMA), Linköping University.

Award

2011 Leadership Award at Linköping University, Sweden. (Honorary Mention.)

Scientific assignments

2012 Referee for Childhood.

2012 Referee for NORDISCO 2012.

2006-2012 Member of Examination Board (PhD Degree), 6 Dissertations.

2010 Expert Adviser at The Swedish Research Council (UVK), 2 applications (Assistant Professors).

2010 Referee for European Communication and Education Conference (ECREA), Hamburg University, June 4-6 2010.

2010 Referee for Historisk Tidskrift, and Nordisk Kulturpolitisk Tidskrift.

2009-2010 Member of the Scientific Committee and reviewing for the Child and Teen Consumption 2010,

Linköping University, June 21–23 2010.

2006, 2009 Faculty Opponent (PhD Degree), 2 Dissertations.

2007-2009 Opponent at Final Seminar (PhD Dissertations), 4 occasions.

2006-2009 Member of Examination Group for “Final Seminar” (PhD Dissertations), 6 occasions.

2005, 2008 Referee for International Journal of Early Childhood Education, and EDUCARE.

2005 Member of the Scientific Committee and reviewing for the section “Culture, Communication and

Textuality”, Childhoods 2005, Oslo University, June 29–July 3 2005.

External funding - selection

2009-2013 The Swedish Research Council (Hum-Sam), Culture for and by children. Main applicant: Associate Professor Anna Sparrman (Lindgren 20 %).

2006-2009 The Swedish Research Council (UVK), Nature as symbol for a good childhood. Main applicant: Professor Gunilla Halldén. (Lindgren 20%).

2003-2005(2009) The Swedish Research Council (UVK), From Instruction to Reflection - Teachers’ and Pupils’ Use of School Film and School Movie. Main applicant: PhD Anne-Li Lindgren. Funding: 2,8 million SEK.

(Co)-Supervision

Thom Axelsson, Rätt elev i rätt klass. Skola, begåvning och styrning 1910-1950. (Dissertation Feb 07)

Teaching

2000- Course development and teaching on under graduate, master as well as graduate level.

Selected publications

Lindgren, A, Gender and generation in Swedish School radio in the 1930s: An exploratory case study, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 2012: 239-259 (in press).

Lindgren, A Sparrman, A, & Eriksson Barajas, K, 2012. From Instruction to Reflection: Film in Education in Sweden, Chi-Kim Cheung (Ed), Research in Media Education. Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World. New York: Nova Science Publishers: 151-173.

Sparmman, A & Lindgren, A. Visual Documentation as a Normalizing Practice: A new discourse of visibility in preschool, Surveillance & Society (Special issue on Surveillance, Children and Childhood), 7:3-4 (2010): 248-261.

Lindgren, A, Radio, Paula S. Fass (ed), Encyclopedia of children and childhood in history and society. New York: Macmillan Reference USA; London, 2003, 1056 pp. 3 vols. Gale Virtual Reference Library, vol. 2, pp. 707–709. 

­Areschoug, Judith, et al, Conference Review: Childhood and the State – the State of Childhood. The Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) Bi-Annual Conference 26–29 june 2003.

International conferences

Reviewing: The third European Communication Conference (ECREA), 12-15 October 2010, Hamburg University, Germany.

Member of the Scientific Committee for The Fourth International Conference of Child and Teen Consumption (CTC2010), June 21-23, 2010.

Lindgren, A, Sparrman A, & Eriksson Barajas, K. ”Young people co-constructing meanings of welfare in film-talk”, European Communication Research and Education Conference (ECREA), Barcelona University, November 26–28, 2008.

Lindgren, A, ”Negotiations on culture and consumption in local policy making”, Child and Teen Consumption 2008, NTNU, April 24–28, 2008.

Member of the Scientific Committee for the thematic network group “Culture, Communication and Textuality”, Childhoods 2005, Oslo University, June 29–July 3, 2005.