Nadia Moberg
Nadia Moberg Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Music, Theatre and ArtEmail: bmFkaWEubW9iZXJnO29ydS5zZQ==
Phone: +46 19 303631
Room: M3205
About Nadia Moberg
Nadia Moberg is a senior lecturer in music education. She teaches mainly in the subject teacher education programme and in the musicology programmes at the School of Music, Theatre and Art, and she serves as programme coordinator for the bachelor’s programme in Musicology.
In 2022, she was awarded her PhD for the dissertation Dis/harmony: The (Re)construction of Higher Music Education in Classical Music. During her doctoral studies, she was affiliated with the international research project Discourses of Academization and the Music Profession in Higher Music Education (DAPHME). Her research focuses primarily on questions of power, norms, and structural conditions in musical life and music education.
She is currently research leader of the research programme Music, Power, and Inequity (MPI) and, together with Eva Georgii-Hemming, is part of the research project Constructing Music Society through Elite Discourse (CORD), funded by the Swedish Research Council.
Nadia has a long-standing commitment to higher education policy and has been active in student politics, including serving as a member of the Board of the Swedish National Union of Students (SFS) and the Swedish Council for Higher Education (UHR).
Research projects
Active projects
Research groups
Publications
Articles in journals
- Moberg, N. (2023). The place of master theses in music performance education in Sweden: subjects, purposes, justifications. Music Education Research, 25 (1), 24-35. [BibTeX]
- Moberg, N. & Georgii-Hemming, E. (2021). Institutional personas: Dis/harmonic representations of higher music education. Högre Utbildning, 11 (1), 27-40. [BibTeX]
- Georgii-Hemming, E. , Johansson, K. & Moberg, N. (2020). Reflection in Higher Music Education: What, Why, Wherefore?. Music Education Research, 22 (3), 245-256. [BibTeX]
- Moberg, N. (2019). Academic musicians: How music performance students in Sweden re-/negotiate notions of knowledge and competence. Nordisk musikkpedagogisk forskning: Årbok, 19, 53-74. [BibTeX]
- Georgii-Hemming, E. & Moberg, N. (). Relations Matter: Music Education Research Beyond the Self. Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education. [BibTeX]
Articles, reviews/surveys
- Moberg, N. , de Boise, S. , Georgii-Hemming, E. & Han, J. (2025). Research on Power in Musical Practices and Institutions. European Journal of Cultural Studies. [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- Moberg, N. & Georgii-Hemming, E. (2024). Klass och musik. In: Eva Georgii-Hemming & Nadia Moberg, Makt: när musik och människor möts (pp. 33-47). Örebro: Örebro universitet. [BibTeX]
- Georgii-Hemming, E. & Moberg, N. (2024). Tid att bilda: om att (o)möjliggöra en kritisk (lärarut)bildning. In: H. Rinholm, Ø. Varkøy, B. Fredriksen och M. H. A. Bjerke, Kritisk danning i lærerutdanningen (pp. 47-67). Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk. [BibTeX]
- Moberg, N. & Georgii-Hemming, E. (2019). Musicianship: Discursive constructions of autonomy and independence within music performance programmes. In: Stefan Gies & Jon Helge Sætre, Becoming musicians: Student involvement and teacher collaboration in higher music education (pp. 67-88). Oslo: Norges musikkhøgskole. [BibTeX]
Collections (editor)
- Georgii-Hemming, E. (ed.) & Moberg, N. (ed.) (2024). Makt: när musik och människor möts. Örebro: Örebro universitet, Repro. [BibTeX]
Conference papers
- Moberg, N. & Georgii-Hemming, E. (2025). Interrogating Power in Music Research: Critical Observations. Paper presented at Music Research Today 2025, The Swedish Society for Music Research, Örebro University, Örebro 22–24 October 2025. [BibTeX]
- Georgii-Hemming, E. & Moberg, N. (2025). Reforming Teacher Education: Simplifying a Complex Profession. Paper presented at Alternative ways for music teacher education, University of Music, Trossingen, Germany, 22–23 September 2025. [BibTeX]
- de Boise, S. , Dobre Billström, R. , Georgii-Hemming, E. & Moberg, N. (2024). Power Relations in Music Society: the Elite and the Underprivileged. Paper presented at Gendering Music Matter. Power, Affects, and Infrastructures of Music Industries, the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, 13–15 March 2024. [BibTeX]
- de Boise, S. , Dobre Billström, R. , Georgii-Hemming, E. & Moberg, N. (2024). Power Relations in Music Society: The Elite and the Underprivileged. Paper presented at Gendering Music Matter: Power, Affects, and Infrastructures of Music Industries, University of Copenhagen, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, 13–15 March 2024. [BibTeX]
- Georgii-Hemming, E. , Rolle, C. , Varkøy, Ø. , Johansson, K. , Angelo, E. , Gies, S. , Moberg, N. & Versaci, D. (2021). Artistic knowledge for entrepreneurs. Paper presented at Nordic Network for Research in Music Education (NNRME), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Teacher Education, Trondheim. 2–3 March 2021. [BibTeX]
- Moberg, N. & Georgii-Hemming, E. (2021). Till vilket pris ska varumärket byggas?: Musikhögskolors motsägelsefulla representationer. Paper presented at Forskning om högre utbildning, Örebro, Örebro universitet, 19–20 maj 2021. [BibTeX]
- Moberg, N. (2018). Music performance students positioning: Between scholarly activities and musical craft. Paper presented at Nordic Network for Research in Music Education (NNRME), Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo, Hurdal, 12–15 februari 2018. [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries
- Moberg, N. (2022). Dis/harmoni: (Re)konstruktionen av högre musikerutbildning i klassisk musik. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro University. [BibTeX]