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Transnational Strategies within Higher Education
Sweden's Relations to France and the US, 1919—2009

(Transnationella strategier inom den högre utbildningen. Sveriges förhållande till Frankrike och USA, 1919–2009)

 

Financed by The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, U)
Period Jan 2007 – Dec 2009.

Lead by Mikael Börjesson, PhD in Education, Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Education, SEC, Uppsala University.

Collaborators

Dag Blanck, PhD in History, Associate Professor in History, The Swedish Institute for North American Studies, Uppsala University.

Donald Broady, PhD in Education, Prof., SEC, Uppsala University.

Carina Carlhed, PhD in Education, Researcher, SEC, Uppsala University.

Alexander Ekelund, PhD student in Sociology of Education, SEC, Uppsala University.

Bo G. Ekelund, PhD in English, Associate Professor in English, SEC and the Dept. of English, Stockholm University.

Ida Lidegran, PhD in Sociology of Education, Senior Lecture, SEC, Uppsala University.

Mikael Rask Madsen, PhD in Sociology, Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, and Associated reserarcher at Centre de Sociologie Européenne, Paris.

Andreas Melldahl, PhD student in Sociology of Education, SEC, Uppsala University.

Franck Poupeau, PhD in Sociology, Researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Anne-Catherine Wagner, PhD in Sociology, Researcher at the Centre de Sociologie européenne, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Andreas Åkerlund, PhD in History, SEC and the Department of History, Uppsala University.

Associated Researchers

Ole Hammerslev, PhD in Sociology, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Southern Denmark

Mona Mårtensson, PhD in Sociology, Associate Professor in Sociology, Dept. of Sociology, Stockholm University

Mikael Palme, PhD in Sociology of Education, SEC, Stockholm University

Reference Group

Yves Dezalay, Sociologue du droit, chercheur au CNRS, Centre de sociologie européenne, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Johs. Hjellbrekke, Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Bergen University

Brigitte Le Roux, Maître de Conférences, UFR de Mathématiques et Informatique, Université René Descartes, Paris

Sverker Sörlin, Professor, History of Science and Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and SISTER

Daan Vandenhaute, PhD, Department of Nordic studies, Ghent University, Belgium.

Summary

Swedish higher education is no longer so Swedish. Since 1989, the number of students studying abroad has increased tenfold. And within Sweden, examples from abroad are held up when changes in degrees, courses, and curricula are called for. All institutions of higher learning are affected by internationalisation and some also enter the competition for prominent positions on a transnational market of education. The substantial educational investments made by Swedish students abroad alter the conditions for entrance to and careers within social fields. In this new situation, politicians, administrators, teachers, researchers, and students develop different strategies. These strategies will be studied in the project Transnational Strategies within Higher Education.

The project comprises four studies: 1) Swedish students on the transnational educational market, 2) Transnational assets and the field of elite education in Sweden, 3) Swedish grant holders go west, and 4) The significance of transnational investments for entrance to and careers within social fields.

The studies will draw on national statistics, a student survey, interviews with students and administrators, and archive materials. Sweden and its relations to the US and France will be in focus. The project assembles researchers in Education, Sociology, English and History from Sweden and France.

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