Eric Borgström
Eric Borgström Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesEmail: ZXJpYy5ib3Jnc3Ryb207b3J1LnNl
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About Eric Borgström
My background is in writing research, where I have focused on how teaching and assessment practices are shaped by –and in turn shape – various conceptions of what writing is and can be. Over time, my research interests have expanded both within and beyond the broad field of linguistics and education. Within this field, I am currently involved in projects on teaching excellence in higher education, on how lower secondary school teachers can support students’ vocabulary development, and on what happens when games such as Minecraft Education are integrated into Swedish language teaching in primary school.
Most of my research is conducted within The Open Parliamentary Laboratory (OPaL), an interdisciplinary research environment that explores the use of the Swedish Parliament’s open data. By combining computer-assisted text analysis based on medium- and large-scale language models with qualitative approaches to textual and discourse analysis, we are able to study politics across long historical time spans with an empirical scope that until recently would have been impossible. In the project Decoding the Market School (funded by the Swedish Research Council, 2023-04477), we do precisely this. Specifically, we examine the political processes that, since the 1980s, have led to Sweden having one of the most decentralized and market-driven school systems in the world.
My teaching is primarily conducted at the Centre for Academic Development, where I contribute to courses on thesis supervision, doctoral supervision, and documenting teaching excellence. This role allows me to work with dedicated colleagues from across the university, engaging in conversations about the teaching mission, high-quality education, and professional development. In the Swedish language subject area, I teach courses on, for example, text analysis, multilingualism, grammar, and language proficiency. I also supervise students at undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels.
Research projects
Active projects
- Together Developing Educational Proficiency in Higher Education (2023- )
- Decoding the marketization of education in Sweden through computational analyses
- Decoding Education Policy: Computational Methods for Education Policy Research
Completed projects
Research groups
Publications
Articles in journals
- Karlsson, M. , Borgström, E. & Lundahl, C. (2025). Decoding school marketisation: exploring computational analytics in large-scale policy data. Learning, Media & Technology, 1-17. [BibTeX]
- Borgström, E. , Karlsson, M. & Lundahl, C. (2025). Decoding School Marketization: Exploring Computational Analytics in Large-Scale Policy Data. Learning, Media & Technology. [BibTeX]
- Karlsson, M. , Borgström, E. & Lundahl, C. (2025). How You Sample Determines What You Find: Investigating Bias in Parliamentary Data Sampling Methods. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 7 (1), 79-89. [BibTeX]
- Deutschmann, M. , Borgström, E. , Yassin Falk, D. , Steinvall, A. & Svensson, J. (2023). "It ain't what you say. It's the way you say it": adapting the matched guise technique (MGT) to raise awareness of accentedness stereotyping effects among Swedish pre-service teachers. Language Awareness, 32 (2), 255-277. [BibTeX]
- Bonnevier, J. , Borgström, E. & Yassin, D. (2017). Normers roll i ett mål- och kriterierelaterat bedömningssystem. Utbildning och Demokrati, 26 (2), 21-47. [BibTeX]
- Borgström, E. & Ledin, P. (2014). Bedömarvariation: Balansen mellan teknisk och hermeneutisk rationalitet vid bedömning av skrivprov. Språk och stil (24), 133-165. [BibTeX]
- Borgström, E. (2012). Skrivförmåga på prov. Svensklärarföreningens årsskrift, 209-224. [BibTeX]
- Borgström, E. (2012). Vad räknas som belägg för skrivförmåga? ett textkulturellt perspektiv på skrivuppgifter i den svenska gymnasieskolans nationella prov. Sakprosa, 6 (1), 1-34. [BibTeX]
- Borgström, E. (2010). Att skriva prov: om normer och textstruktur i gymnasieskolans skriftliga nationella prov.. Språk och stil, 20, 132-164. [BibTeX]
- Borgström, E. & Yassin, D. (2010). Tioåringar skriver nationellt prov. Texter om svenska med didaktisk inriktning, 7, 25-33. [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- Borgström, E. & Westman, M. (2017). Skrivbegreppet i Lgr11: En studie av grundskolans ämnesplan i svenska. In: Saga Bendegard, Ulla Melander Arttala, Maria Westman, Språk och Norm. Language and Norms: Rapport från ASLA:s symposium, Uppsala universitet 21-22 april 2016. Papers from the ASLA Symposium at Uppsala University 21-22 April, 2016 (pp. 26-36). Uppsala, Sweden: ASLA: Svenska föreningen för tillämpad språkvetenskap. [BibTeX]
Conference papers
- Borgström, E. & Åhlman, C. (2023). Educational policy in change – the marketization of the Swedish school through parliamentary data. Paper presented at International Symposium on Comparative Didactics (ISCOD 2023), Örebro, Sweden, January 11-12, 2023. [BibTeX]
- Borgström, E. & Sofia, H. (2021). Universitetsstudenters skrivande liv: en förstudie. Paper presented at Forskning om högre utbildning, (Digital konferens), Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden, May 19-20, 2021. [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries
- Borgström, E. (2014). Skrivbedömning: om uppgifter, texter och bedömningsanvisningar i svenskämnets nationella prov. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro university. [BibTeX]
Reports
- Lundahl, C. , Bonnevier, J. , Arensmeier, C. , Borgström, E. , Lennqvist-Lindén, A. , Nilsson, P. , Sundberg, B. , Sundhäll, M. & et al. (2016). Nationella proven i grundskolans årskurs 6 och 9: En uppföljning av lärares, rektorers och elevers uppfattningar om proven. Stockholm: Skolverket (Skolverkets rapport 447). [BibTeX]