Tobias Axelsson
Title: Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
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Phone: +46 19 301269
Room: F3109
About Tobias Axelsson
Tobias Axelsson works as PhD student and lecturer in gender studies. His research interests are gender and parenting, fathering, parental leave, men and masculinities, and gender and education.
Research
Axelsson is currently writing his PhD thesis När män möts som pappor (‘When men meet as fathers’), which will be defended and published in 2017. It investigates the conditions of fathering during early childhood by exploring fathers relations to other fathers. In the thesis, Axelsson has observed ’fathers’ spaces’: social services that are directed to fathers on parental leave. Axelsson has also interviewed fathers who have chosen to participate in such meeting places for fathers.
Between 2012 and 2014, Axelsson participated in the research project ”Paternity leave: Impacts on male careers”, which was financed by the Austrian research programme Sparkling Science. The aim of the project was investigate whether and how the careers of Austrian fathers develop after parental leave. For this project, Axelsson wrote a report on men’s parental leave in Sweden.
Teaching
Axelsson teaches gender studies, sociolgy of gender, academic writing, gender and normcritical pedagogy, and supervises students at the teacher education programme.