Charlotta Pettersson
Charlotta Pettersson Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities and EducationEmail: Y2hhcmxvdHRhLnBldHRlcnNzb247b3J1LnNl
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About Charlotta Pettersson
Charlotta Pettersson, is a PhD and a Senior Lecturer in Education, specialising in Special Education, at the School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University, Sweden. She has served as programme coordinator, course coordinator and lecturer in the Special Educational Needs Coordinator Programme for several years.
Her research focuses on inclusive education, with particular emphasis on special education, participation and democracy in schools and higher education. A central research interest concerns how interprofessional learning can contribute to the development of collaborative competence and how collaboration across professional boundaries can be understood as a democratic practice.
Charlotta Pettersson is conducting the research project Interprofessional Learning in Higher Professional Education A Path Towards a Sustainable Society? together with researchers in social work. The project runs from 2023 to 2026 at Örebro University and examines how professional education programmes in teacher education, special education, social work and healthcare counselling contribute to developing students' collaborative competence in the context of sustainable societal development. As part of this research, Charlotta Pettersson is an affiliated researcher in the project Academic Hospitality in Interdisciplinary Education (2021–2027), funded by the Research Council of Norway:
https://www.uv.uio.no/iped/english/research/projects/sutphen-academic-hospitality-in-interdisciplinary-/
Within the Special Educational Needs Coordinator Programme, Charlotta Pettersson has contributed to the development of interprofessional learning activities focusing on student health and well-being, bringing together students from special education, teacher education, social work and psychology programmes:
https://www.oru.se/contentassets/20040bacbbd949e2978f844db46921b1/report6_translation.pdf
Research projects
Active projects
Completed projects
Research groups
Publications
Articles in journals
- Fredriksson, M. & Pettersson, C. (2026). Collaboration at the intersection of policy, practice, and professional identity: Governance and degree learning outcomes in four Swedish professional higher education programmes. Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 16 (2), 78-105. [BibTeX]
- Pettersson, C. & Fredriksson, M. (2026). Constructing collaboration: How communities of practice shape interprofessional learning in education and social work programmes in higher education. Journal of Praxis in Higher Education, 8 (1), 5-26. [BibTeX]
- Frödén, S. & Pettersson, C. (2021). Strävan mot en inkluderande skolmåltid: Strategier för att ge likvärdiga förutsättningar. Utbildning och Demokrati, 30 (1), 23-44. [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- Pettersson, C. (2017). Specialpedagogiskt stöd - dilemman med genuskodade diagnoser. In: Pettersson, Charlotta; Wickman, Kim; Takala, Marjatta, Genus och specialpedagogik - praktiknära perspektiv: en vetenskaplig antologi från Specialpedagogiska skolmyndigheten (pp. 17-41). Stockholm: Specialpedagogiska skolmyndigheten. [BibTeX]
Conference papers
- Allard, K. & Pettersson, C. (2020). ULF-projekt: Samverkan för en inkluderande elevhälsa. Paper presented at Regional skolkonferens 2020 - Förskola och skola utifrån beprövad erfarenhet och vetenskaplig grund, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden, October 28, 2020. [BibTeX]
- Allard, K. , Hjortgren, K. & Pettersson, C. (2019). Ett pedagogiskt utvecklingsprojekt om programöverskridande samarbete mellan specialpedagog- och socionomprogrammet vid Örebro universitet kring samverkan, inkludering och elevhälsa. Paper presented at Nationell specialpedagogisk konferens. Samverkan för inkludering - som möjlighet och utmaning, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden, November 13-14, 2019. [BibTeX]
- Allard, K. & Pettersson, C. (2019). Team of profession working with student health - a possibility room for collaboration and competence exchange. Paper presented at Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR), 15th Interdisciplinary Conference in Disability Research - Inclusion and Exclusion in the Welfare Society, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 8-10, 2019. [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, monographs
- Pettersson, C. (2013). Kursplaners möjlighetsrum: om nationella kursplaners transformation till lokala. (Doctoral dissertation). Örebro: Örebro universitet. [BibTeX]
Other
- Palla, L. , Barow, T. , Pettersson, C. & Yourston, H. (2025). 110 forskare och universitetslärare inom specialpedagogik: Olika specialpedagogiska yrkesroller är nödvändiga. Malmö: Föreningen skola och samhälle.(Skola och Samhälle) [BibTeX]
- Palla, L. , Barow, T. , Pettersson, C. , Yourston, H. , Isberg, A. & Karlsson, J. (2025). Ett samhällsproblem om yrkesrollen begränsas: 110 forskare och universitetslärare i upprop. Aftonbladet.(Aftonbladet) [BibTeX]
Reports
- Pettersson, C. & Hjortgren, K. (2024). Att främja studenters samverkanskompetens: Erfarenheter av professionsöverskridande utbildningsmoment i högre utbildning. Örebro: Örebro universitet (Arbetsrapporter från Högskolepedagogiskt centrum 6). [BibTeX]