Research output per year
Research output per year
The focus of my work is the analysis of power relations and experiences in the intersections of gender, sex and sexuality with understandings of national ascriptions and belongings. I locate this work in organizations of knowledge production and national inscription such as schools and universities. In my earlier research, I have worked on negotiations of national belonging, children with LGBTQI+ parents and their experiences at school within a European project, equity work in academia and educators' strategies for LGBTQI+ justice work in schools.
Theoretically and methodologically, I place my work the field of intersectional trans- and queer-feminist education research in conversation with post- and decolonial knowledge production.
In my recently completed project, funded by the Swedish Research Council, I met young and young adult trans and nonbinary people in an interview study about their experiences in school. In this first research study on the topic in Sweden, a number of tensions become apparent between students' questioning of traditional understandings of sexuality and gender, and schools’ sometimes authoritarian reproduction of binary gender in both social interaction, pedagogy, subject knowledge and administration. At the same time, when schools work for less cisnormative teaching students' study conditions improve.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in Report › Popular science
Hildebrand, L. Ä., Lindberg-Sand, Å., Schmitt, I. & Johanna, G. L.
2013/09/01 → 2018/12/20
Project: Dissertation
Schmitt, I., Gustavson, M., Sobocan, A. M., Pan, M., Streib-Brzic, U., Quadflieg, C. & Zavirsek, D.
2009/12/10 → 2011/12/09
Project: Research
Irina Schmitt (Contributor)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop/ seminar/ course
Irina Schmitt (Role not specified)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Irina Schmitt (Member of panel), Dorottya Rédai (Invited speaker) & Jude Dibia (Chair)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Public lecture/debate/seminar
Irina Schmitt (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Mia Liinason (Editor), Irina Schmitt (Editor) & Maja Sager (Editor)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Journal editor
Schmitt, Irina (Recipient), 2003
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)