From 1 January 2026, I will be affiliated with the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences as a docent/reader in Library and information science.

From 2006 to 2012, I was employed as a university lecturer in Library and information science and as a senior lecturer in the same subject from 2012 to 2025.

From 2020 to 2025, I have served as director of the Centre for Öresund Studies. 2023-2025 I was a member of the steering committee for the "Center for Modern European Studies – An Öresund Network of Lund University, Malmö University and University of Copenhagen" (CEMES), and leader of one of its research groups "Öresund Comparative borderlands Reseach Group". 

With questions raised in my work as a high school librarian, I was admitted as a PhD student in Library and information science in 2006 and defended my thesis in 2012 with the dissertation “Information, identitet, medborgarskap: Unga kvinnor berättar om val av preventivmedel” (Information, Identity, Citizenship: Young Women Talk About Contraceptive Choice). The thesis was the Highly Commended Award winner of the 2012 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards in the Information Science category.

In 2006, I also began working as a university lecturer and taught on the then called Library and Information Science programme in Lund (BiViL), which I myself had attended (2000-2002). In connection with the restructuring of university education in Sweden, known as the Bologna Process, it was decided to develop BiViL into a master's programme that was broadened to include archival science and museology. I had the privilege of being involved in the work leading to the new programme and was specifically focused on formulating the educational profile for the programme, with clear roots in the student-active teaching of the BiViL programme. The ALM master programme started in 2008, and I was the course coordinator for various library and information science courses (2008-2021), including the interdisciplinary course Pedagogical Aspects of ALM Activities. It has been always a great pleasure to meet students and follow their learning during their time on the master's programme.

As a high school librarian, I worked to strengthen students' information literacy as I understood it to be an important skill to take with them from their school years. Not least because information literacy is formulated as essential not only for good performance as a student and in future working life, but also for the exercise of one's civil rights and thus influence one's circumstances in life. I saw it then and still see the democratic aspect as fundamental.  I did not feel that I succeeded in helping students to understand these implications of information literacy.  I wanted therefore to know more about the connections between democracy and information literacy from the perspective of young people. This interest guided my thesis work. I have since continued my research into public libraries and the work of librarians using qualitative methods, which have included following and talking to library staff in their work. I have proposed that libraries should be understood as a verb, to library, rather than a noun. Libraries are often cherished by decision-makers, but rarely with a good understanding of the content of the work and the resources needed to do it well. By talking about librarizing, it becomes clear that libraries are done by several people involved, including librarians, and that they are constantly evolving and changing. Discussing the content and direction of the work is therefore an important part of librarianship.

Several projects have been funded by Region Skåne, which  gave me the opportunity to build bridges between research and practice. I have been interested in the role of steering documents in several projects and I have wanted to capture whether and, if so, how the wording in them is expressed in practice. The theoretical understanding of the concept of democracy, which is central to libraries, has long been poor in library and information science research, and I wanted to explore this area, and contribute with a better understanding of the concept centred on libraries. I have used Chantal Mouffe's theory of democracy, pluralistic agonism in my research, from the dissertation to the projects on public libraries. My contribution is both a theoretical development of what this theory can add to our understanding of information literacy and empirical studies of how democracy is practised in libraries. During 2023-2025, I was project manager for the Swedish part of the international interdisciplinary project Infrastructuring the Social: Public Libraries and their Transformative Capacity in Austerity Urbanism (ILIT). ILIT was funded by JPI Urban Europe within Horizon 2020. The project was led by a researcher from the Netherlands and included researchers from the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden. As the title suggests, our starting point was to investigate how public libraries can be strengthened as social infrastructures in times of economic hardship.

My interest in interdisciplinary research and international collaboration, not least with colleagues at the University of Copenhagen, led me to apply for the position as director of the Centre for Öresund Studies, CORS. The centre has the task and opportunity to investigate and disseminate knowledge about the transnational Öresund region, but also other borders, such as geographical, social and cultural ones. The centre's cultural studies perspective is valuable for investigating in various ways how borderlands are understood and what consequences they have in concrete, physical and practical terms, as well as culturally and socially.

Working with CORS for six years has been very stimulating and rewarding. I consider CORS's positioning as a centre for strengthening and promoting encounters between representatives of different academic disciplines, between academia and the professions, and between research and the public to be extremely interesting and important. In a time of growing divides and polarised views, researchers have an crucial role to play in contributing to the public debate with well-founded knowledge on current issues based on their research.