Anne-Charlott Callerstig

About Anne-Charlott Callerstig

Anne-Charlott Callerstig is a gender studies and political science scholar with a focus on governance, organizational change, and transformation processes related to equality and sustainability. She earned her PhD in 2014 from Linköping University with the dissertation Making Equality Work: Ambiguities, Conflicts and Change Agents in the Implementation of Equality Policies in Public Sector Organisations. The full text is available here: http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:704692/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Her research centers on the implementation and compliance of equality and inclusion goals within organizations, often using an interactive approach that aims to foster collaboration and support developmental processes through practice-oriented research. She investigates change processes and local strategies, focusing on the dilemmas and tensions that arise in the practical pursuit of greater equality. A central thread in her work is how equality objectives are translated into policy and practice, and the factors that influence their effectiveness.

In recent years, her research has expanded to include social sustainability within technology-intensive and innovation-driven sectors, such as the energy transition. She combines perspectives from gender studies, organizational theory, and sustainability studies to examine how change efforts in technological development and climate policy can be made more inclusive.

Anne-Charlott has extensive experience with interactive and follow-up research in close collaboration with public agencies, civil society, and private sector actors. A recurring focus in her work is on mutual learning processes between researchers and practitioners, and on developing methods to promote horizontal governance and the integration of equality perspectives in complex organizations.

Her research interests include:
– Gender equality and diversity policy (in Sweden and Europe)
– Implementation and policy analysis
– Discrimination, human rights, and intersectionality
– Organizational learning and change processes
– Social sustainability in technology-intensive environments
– Gender and innovation

Anne-Charlott has also worked as a senior analyst at the Swedish Equality Ombudsman and served as an expert in the Swedish Government’s Equality Inquiry 2014-2015 (Jämställdhetsutredningen, SOU 2015:86).