Helen Peterson
Title: Professor School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesPhone: +46 19 303696
Room: F3253

Research subject
Research teams
Publications
Articles in journals |
Books |
Chapters in books |
Collections (editor) |
Doctoral theses, monographs |
Reports |
Articles in journals
Peterson, H. (2019). A Women-Only Leadership Development Program: Facilitating Access to Authority for Women in Swedish Higher Education?. Social Sciences, 8 (5).
Jordansson, B.
& Peterson, H. (2019). Jämställdhetsintegrering vid svenska universitet och högskolor: Det politiska uppdraget återspeglat i lärosätenas planer. Kvinder, Køn og Forskning, 28 (1-2), 58-70.
Peterson, H.
& Engwall, K. (2019). Why Would You Want a Baby When You Could Have a Dog?: Voluntarily Childless Women's "Peternal" Feelings, Longing and Ambivalence. Social Sciences, 8 (4).
Peterson, H. (2018). From "Goal-Orientated, Strong and Decisive Leader" to "Collaborative and Communicative Listener": Gendered Shifts in Vice-Chancellors Ideals, 1990-2018. Education Sciences, 8 (2).
Peterson, H. (2017). Gender and prestige in Swedish academia: Exploring senior management in universities and university colleges. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 61 (1), 1-17.
Peterson, H. (2017). Je ne serai jamais femme au foyer: Le refus d’avoir des enfants en Suède. Travail, genre et sociétés (37), 71-89.
Peterson, H. (2016). Is Managing Academics "Women's Work"?: Exploring the Existence of a Glass Cliff in Higher Education Management. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 44 (1), 112-127.
Peterson, H. (2016). Merging management ideals in Swedish IT offshoring. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 32 (2), 97-105.
Peterson, H.
& Engwall, K. (2016). Missing Out on the Parenthood Bonus?: Voluntarily Childless in a “Child-friendly” Society. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 37 (4), 540-552.
Peterson, H. (2015). Exit the king. Enter the maid: Changing discourses on gendered management ideals in Swedish Higher Education. Gender in Management, 30 (5), 343-357.
Peterson, H. (2015). Fifty shades of freedom: Voluntary childlessness as women's ultimate liberation. Women's Studies: International Forum, 53, 182-191.
Peterson, H. (2015). “Unfair to women”? Equal representation policies in Swedish academia. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, 34 (1), 55-66.
Blomqvist, M. , Peterson, H.
& Dhar-Bhattacharjee, S. (2015). “You Feel The Threat From Asia”: Onshore Experiences of IT Offshoring To India. Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 5 (4), 41-66.
Peterson, H. (2014). Absent Non-Fathers: Gendered representations of voluntary childlessness in Swedish newspapers. Feminist Media Studies, 14 (1), 22-37.
Peterson, H. (2014). An Academic ‘Glass Cliff’?: Exploring the Increase of Women in Swedish Higher Education Management. Athens Journal of Education, 1 (1), 33-44.
Peterson, H.
& Engwall, K. (2013). Silent bodies: Childfree women’s gendered and embodied experiences. The European Journal of Women's Studies, 20 (4), 376-389.
Peterson, H. (2011). Barnfri: en stigmatiserad position. Sociologisk forskning, 48 (3), 5-26.
Peterson, H. (2011). The gender mix policy: addressing gender inequality in higher education management. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 33 (6), 619-628.
Engwall, K.
& Peterson, H. (2011). Är det privata politiskt?: Barnfri i ett barnvänligt samhälle. Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, 18 (2), 126-143.
Peterson, H.
& Engwall, K. (2010). Naturligt barnfri: Kroppens betydelse i frivilligt barnlösas positionering. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap (3), 5-28.
Peterson, H. (2010). The Gendered Construction of Technical Self-Confidence: Women’s Negotiated Positions in Maledominated, Technical Work Settings. International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 2 (1), 66-88.
Peterson, H. (2007). Flexibilitet och förtroende i avreglerade organisationer: ett arbetstagarperspektiv. Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv, 13 (2), 27-40.
Peterson, H. (2007). Gendered work ideals in Swedish IT firms: valued and not valued workers. Gender, Work and Organization, 14 (4), 333-348.
Peterson, H. (2007). Gendered Work Ideals in Swedish IT Firms: Valued and Not Valued Workers. Gender, Work and Organization, 14 (4), 333-348.
Books
Roman, C.
& Peterson, H. (2011). Familjer i tiden: förhandling, kön och gränslöst arbete. Umeå: Borea.
Chapters in books
Peterson, H. (2019). "Här blir inga barn gjorda!": Kan frivillig barnlöshet förhandlas?.
In:
Alsarve, Jenny; Löfmarck, Erik, Samhälle i förhandling: villkor, processer, konsekvenser : festskrift till Christine Roman.
Örebro: Sociologiämnet vid Örebro universitet.
Peterson, H. (2018). Finding ‘Mr Right’?: Childfree Women’s Partner Preferences.
In:
Sappleton, Natalie, Voluntary and involuntary childlessness: the joys of otherhood? (pp. 237-259).
Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Peterson, H. , Salminen-Karlsson, M.
& Dhar-Bhattacharjee, S. (2017). A Perfect Match? Cultural Clashes and Gendered Work Ideals in Transnational IT Companies.
In:
Peterson, Helen, Gender in Transnational Knowledge Work (pp. 53-78).
Cham: Springer.
Peterson, H.
& Jordansson, B. (2017). Gender Equality as a Core Academic Value: Undoing Gender in a ‘Non-Traditional’ Swedish University.
In:
White, Kate; O'Connor, Pat, Gendered success in higher education: global perspectives (pp. 27-47).
London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Peterson, H. (2017). Kön och arbete.
In:
Bengtsson, Mattias; Berglund, Tomas, Arbetslivet (pp. 353-370).
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Collections (editor)
Peterson, H.
(ed.)
(2017). Gender in Transnational Knowledge Work. Cham: Springer (Crossroads of Knowledge ).
Engwall, K.
(ed.)
& Peterson, H.
(ed.)
(2010). Frivillig barnlöshet: barnfrihet i en nordisk kontext. Stockholm: Dialogos Förlag (Serie Framtider ).
Doctoral theses, monographs
Peterson, H. (2005). Gender, power and post-bureaucracy: work ideals in IT consulting.
(Doctoral dissertation).
Uppsala: Department of Sociology, Uppsala University.
Reports
Peterson, H.
& Dahmen, J. (2018). Monitoring Handbook: Methods and tools for monitoring developed in the GenderTime project. Gothenburg: Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap (Gothenburg Studies in Work Science 1).