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Eric Borgström

Eric Borgström Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences

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Eric Borgström

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.

Publications

Articles in journals |  Chapters in books |  Conference papers |  Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries |  Reports | 

Articles in journals

Chapters in books

Conference papers

Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries

Reports