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Maria Jansson

Maria Jansson Position: Professor School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences

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Maria Jansson
Research subject Research environments

About Maria Jansson

Maria Jansson is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Professor of Gender Studies at Örebro University. Her research is about equality and inequality and how politics and culture contribute to shaping and changing the conditions for different groups in society, as well as how women and other groups act for change. For a long time, she has also been interested in issues of equality and education.

Maria Jansson is the PI of the Swedish team of the project DIGISCREENS, which studies digital streaming distribution. The project asks questions about how streaming platforms are regulated, how gender equality, diversity and inclusion are tended to and how audiences negotiate the content of fiction with respect to democratic values. The project is funded by the ERA-net initiative Chanse, Swedish financier Forte. The project is a collaboration between Lithuania, Norway, Spain and Sweden.

In a recently finalized VR-funded project entitled "Who can you trust", she has studied how teaching about trust leads to upper secondary school students developing their knowledge of democracy. In the project, she has, among other things, investigated how different groups of students (women, men, groups with different ethnic backgrounds) reason about trust and how their experiences from life outside school affect their reasoning.

In a completed RJ-funded project titled "Women in Swedish Film", she and colleagues from film studies and law have studied how Swedish film policy, including the efforts to make the film industry more equal, affects the conditions for women working in the industry and how they themselves have worked to change their conditions. If you want to know more about the results of this project, you will find a short presentation in the form of a wifti talk (wifti =women in film and television international) here. The project also made a short film in which women who have worked in the Swedish film industry talk about their experiences, which you can see here.

Previously, Maria Jansson has studied how motherhood and work are constructed in the Swedish political context and how this affects women's lives and conditions. Furthermore, she has studied how international organizations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, have created norms for breastfeeding and how it affects women's lives. She has also examined the UN Security Council and how they construct gender and gender relations within the framework of the Security Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security (the first of these was Resolution 1325) and in the security resolutions they have issued in relation to the fight against HIV.

Maria Jansson has also been interested in higher education teaching issues for a long time. She has participated in several research projects that have investigated how students at the university learn about concepts such as gender, state and nation. She has also investigated how different forms of teaching affect students' learning and developed methods for using so-called memory work in teaching.

Publications

Articles in journals |  Articles, book reviews |  Books |  Chapters in books |  Collections (editor) |  Conference papers |  Doctoral theses, monographs |  Other |  Reports | 

Articles in journals

Articles, book reviews

Books

Chapters in books

Collections (editor)

Conference papers

Doctoral theses, monographs

Other

Reports