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Katarzyna Wolanik Boström

I am Associate professor (docent) and senior university lecturer. My research interests concern narrativity, life stories, organisational cultures and international mobility among highly skilled.

Research qualifications: Docent
Educational qualifications: Recognised university teacher

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Associate professor at Department of Culture and Media Studies Section: -
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Humanisthuset, Biblioteksgränd 3 (huvudentré) Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

I am Associate professor (docent) and senior lecturer at the Department of culture and media studies, Umea university, Sweden. My research interests concern narrativity, life stories, mobility among highly skilled and intersectionality. My PhD thesis was an analysis of how Polish well-educated professionals told their life stories after the fall of communism. I have also written on family stories about aunts. An important theme has been international mobility of professionals, e.g. Polish doctors working in Sweden and Swedish doctors going on assignments in the global South, with aid organisations like the Red Cross or Doctors without Borders. I have also written on "internationalisation" of the Swedish humanities as ideal and practice. One of my recent projects focused on how teachers, storytellers and pedagogues in adult education and museums work with telling and sharing of life stories as a creative, inclusive and emancipatory practice. In 2024 I start a new project, about teachers' use of generative AI.

Intersections of tourism, migration, and exile, Routledge 2023 : 201-216
Öhlander, Magnus; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Pettersson, Helena
Etnologiska skrifter, 71
Arvidsson, Alf; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna
Formbundet, formbart!: vänbok till Alf Arvidsson, Umeå: Umeå universitet 2022 : 111-118
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna
Handbook on Teaching and Learning for Sustainable Development, Cheltanham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing 2021 : 323-334
Boström, Gert-Olof; Winka, Katarina; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna
Journal of Competitiveness Studies, American Society for Competitiveness 2020, Vol. 28, (2) : 103-118
Boström, Gert-Olof; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna
Cultural Analysis, University of California 2020, Vol. 18, (1) : 5-21
Pettersson, Helena; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
”Teaching Life Writing: conference on nonfiction and pedagogy”, Online via Alberta, Canada, December 10-11, 2020
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna
Zoon Politikon, Vol. 11 : 232-256
Öhlander, Magnus; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Pettersson, Helena
Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Nordic Migration Research (NMR) 2020, Vol. 10, (2) : 36-49
Öhlander, Magnus; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Pettersson, Helena
[SIEF2019 congress programme] Track changes: Reflecting on a transforming world : 328-328
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna
Etiska dilemman: forskningsdeltagande, samtycke och utsatthet, Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB 2019 : 89-102
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
Ethnologia Scandinavica, Lund: Kungliga Gustav Adolfs Akademien 2019, Vol. 49 : 56-69
Öhlander, Magnus; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Pettersson, Helena
Qualitative Methodologies in Organization Studies: Volume II: Methods and Possibilities, London: Palgrave Macmillan 2018 : 33-52
Ciesielska, Malgorzata; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
Professions & Professionalism, Vol. 8, (1)
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna
Högutbildade migranter i Sverige, Lund: Arkiv förlag & tidskrift 2018 : 157-170
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
Migration Letters, London: 2018, Vol. 15, (1) : 101-113
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus; Pettersson, Helena
Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, Umeå: Föreningen Kulturella Perspektiv 2017, Vol. 25, (3-4) : 7-17
Pettersson, Helena; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna
Tillämpad kulturteori, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB 2017 : 133-150
Pettersson, Helena; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
International Conference “Intersections of tourism and migration”, Gdańsk, Poland, April 22-23, 2016
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna
3rd ISA Forum of Sociology - The futures we want: Globala sociology and the struggles for a better world: Book of Abstracts : 751-752
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna
Cross-cultural interviewing: feminist experiences and reflections, London: Routledge 2016 : 173-191
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna
Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, Umeå: Carlsson 2016, Vol. 3-4
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences's (IUAES) Inter-Congress "World anthropologies and privatization of knowledge: engaging anthropology in public to be held in Dubrovnik", Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 4-9, 2016
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus; Pettersson, Helena
Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, Umeå: Föreningen Kulturella Perspektiv 2016, Vol. 25, (3-4) : 2-6
Öhlander, Magnus; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Pettersson, Helena
Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, Umeå: föreningen Kulturella Perspektiv vid Umeå universitet 2015, Vol. 24, (1) : 61-69
Pettersson, Helena; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
IMISCOE 12th ANNUAL CONFERENCE - NCCR – On the Move, 
“Right, Democracy and Migration – Challenges and Opportunities” Geneva, 25-27 June 2015
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Pettersson, Helena; Öhlander, Magnus
Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe, London: Palgrave Macmillan 2015 : 41-57
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
Ethnologia Europaea, Köpenhamn: Museum Tusculanum Press 2015, Vol. 45, (1) : 7-24
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
33 Ethnology and folkloristic conference, August 18-21, 2015. Copenhagen University
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus; Pettersson, Helena
Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, (4) : 12-21
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna
5th Annual Conference - New Materialist Methodologies: Gender, Politics, the Digital, Barcelona, Spain, September 25-26, 2014
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna
Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, Umeå: Umeå universitet 2014, Vol. 23, (4) : 2-3
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Arvidsson, Alf
Rethinking Anthropologies in Central Europe for Global Imaginaries. Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Central Europe, May 26 - 27, 2014, Prague
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
The 16th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research: Folk Narrative in the Modern World: Unity and Diversity
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna
8th Organization Studies' Summer Workshop: Organization Studies and the Day to Day Life of Cultures and Communities, 23-25 May 2013, Mykonos, Greece
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network Workshop: Fielding challenges, challenging the field: The methodologies of mobility, University of Oxford, UK, September 27-28, 2013
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
Badania jakościowe: metody i narzędzia, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe 2012 : 42-68
Ciesielska, Malgorzata; Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
Nowe kierunki w organizacji i zarządzaniu: organizacje, konteksty, procesy zarządzania
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna
COMCAD Arbeitspapiere - Working Papers, 110/2012
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
Etiska dilemman: forskningsdeltagande, samtycke och utsatthet, Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB 2012 : 87-99
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
32nd Nordic Conference of Ethnology and Folkloristics “Dynamics of Cultural Differences”, Bergen, Norway, June 18-21, 2012
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
8th European Feminist Research Conference, Budapest, Hungary, May 17-20, 2012
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Paris, France, July 2-6, 2012
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
Tanten, vem är hon?: en (t)antologi, Umeå: Boréa Bokförlag 2012 : 213-234
Wolanik-Boström, Katarzyna
Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, Umeå: Kulturella perspektiv 2011, (1) : 19-28
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna
Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, Stockholm: Carlsson 2011, (3-4) : 80-82
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
Selling one's favourite piano to emigrate: mobility patterns in central Europe at the beginning of the 21st century, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011 2011 : 205-222
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus
Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, Göteborg: 2011, Vol. 88, (3) : 273-281
Wolanik Boström, Katarzyna; Öhlander, Magnus

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