Sofia Österborg Wiklund

I am an international postdoctoral fellow in educational science, funded by the Swedish Research Council. I am active in the History and Education research environment at Umeå University, as well as the research groups Nordic Civil Societies and The Nordic Education Model at the University of Oslo. My postdoctoral project is about the historical relationship between Swedish international aid and popular education, and how Nordic identities, inclusion and exclusion have been created in education for aid workers during the 60s-90s.
 
I have master’s degree in Social Science and Cultural Analysis, and a PhD in Education. In 2019, I defended my PhD thesis "Popular education in global (in)justice: Power and resistance in the Swedish Folk High Schools Internationalization and Transnational Courses, at Linköping University.
 
I am also involved in research concerning inclusive and norm-critical education, and the new, emerging fields of Neurodiversity Studies, Critical ADHD Studies and Critical Neurotypicality Studies.

Publications

Österborg Wiklund, S. & Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H. (2023). ‘Nothing about us without usʼ: ett neurodiversitetsperspektiv inom normkritisk pedagogik. In Normkritiska perspektiv i pedagogisk verksamhet (pp. 51–70). Studentlitteratur.
 
Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H., Hultman, L., Österborg Wiklund, S., Nygren, A., Storm P., & Sandberg, G., (2023) Intensity and Variable Attention: Counter Narrating ADHD, from ADHD Deficits to ADHD Difference, The British Journal of Social Work, 2023; https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcad138

Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H., Hultman, L., Österborg-Wiklund, S., Nygren, A., Storm, P., & Sandberg, G. (2023). ADHD in higher education and academia. Canadian Journal on Disability Studies, 12(3), 1–26. Retrieved from https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-226084

Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H., Hultman, L., Österborg Wiklund, S., Nygren, A., Storm P., & Sandberg, G., (2023) Naming ourselves, becoming neurodivergent scholars, Disability & Society, DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2023.2271155
 
Österborg Wiklund, S. & Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H., Bagger A., Allan, J. (2023). Waiting for Discovery and Support? Neurodivergent Subjectivities in the Swedish Educational Landscape. European Journal of Inclusive Education, Vol. 1 no. 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/ejie.v1i1.135517
 
Österborg Wiklund, S., (2023) In and against global injustice: Decolonising popular education on global development, Studies in the Education of Adults, 55:1, 5-23, DOI: 10.1080/02660830.2021.1989903
 
Andersson, P., Millenberg, F. & Österborg Wiklund, S. (2023). Freedom with reservations: The work of the Swedish folk high school teacher. In: Johan Lövgren, Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard, Rasmus Kolby Rahbek & Anders Hallqvist (Ed.), The Nordic folk high school teacher: Identity, work and education (pp. 143-156). Zürich: LIT Verlag.

Aman R., Bredlöv Eknor E. & Österborg Wiklund, S. (2020). ”Normkritiska perspektiv på vuxenpedagogik och utbildning”, i Fejes, A., Muhrman, K., & Nyström, S., (red.). Om vuxenutbildning och vuxnas studier: en grundbok.Upplaga 1 Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Österborg Wiklund, S. (2019). Folkbildning i global (o)rättvisa: makt och motstånd i folkhögskolans internationalisering och transnationella kurser.(Upplaga 1). Diss. Linköping : Linköpings universitet, 2019. Linköping.

Österborg Wiklund, S. & Nordvall, H. (2019). Könade (klass)resor och solidaritetsparadoxer i folkhögskolans transnationella kurser i global utveckling. Utbildning och demokrati, 28(1), 55–78. 

Österborg Wiklund, S. (2019). Reflexiv internationalisering: utvecklingsfrågor som ett bildningsområde för en folkhögskola i takt med tiden. Nordic Journal of Educational History, 6(2), 101-120. 

Österborg Wiklund, S. (2018). (Inter)nationalistisk folkbildning: Säkerhetspolitik, nationalism och opinionsbildning i den svenska folkhögskolans mobilisering för utvecklingsfrågor 1950–1969. Nordic Journal of Educational History, 5(1), 51–72. 

Österborg Wiklund, S. (2018).  ”Bekräftelse i etnografisk forskning” i Gruber, Sabine & Gustafsson, Kristina (red.) Etnografisk forskning i praktiken. Reflektioner från pågående avhandlingsprojekt. Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-153570