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Anna-Karin Andershed

Position: Professor School/office: University Management Team

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Phone: +46 19 303896

Room: E3111

Anna-Karin Andershed
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About Anna-Karin Andershed

Anna-Karin Andershed, professor of psychology, is part of the management team at Örebro University, as Deputy Vice-Chancellor. She earned her PhD in 2001 and became a professor in 2015. Since 2006, Anna-Karin has held various managerial and leadership roles at the university: Deputy Head and Head of the Department of Law, Psychology, and Social Work (now the Department of Behavioral, Social, and Legal Sciences), Head of the Department of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences, Deputy Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor. She has been the Deputy Vice-Chancellor since 2016.

Her research on socialization, social adjustment, and criminal behavior among children and adolescents lies in the intersection between psychology and criminology. She has been the research leader for the internationally renowned longitudinal IDA program and is one of the research leaders and founders of the ongoing longitudinal SOFIA study (a study following approximately 2,000 children from the age of three to adulthood), which has been funded by the Swedish Research Council and Forte in several rounds.

She has extensive international experience through her North American and European research collaborations and research visits in the US. Her research output can be seen in  peer review publications and participation in international conferences, and she has been an editor of international anthologies. She has also had several assignments for the National Board of Health and Welfare, both as an expert and as responsible for conducting research reviews used as seminal reference materials in the social services throughout Sweden.

Anna-Karin has many years of teaching experience and has, on behalf of the Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ), been chair and member of review panels assessing the quality assurance system of Swedish higher education institutions. She has completed the academic leadership program Top Management Program (TMP) in the UK, as well as the national Higher Leadership Program (HeLP) for leaders within academia, organized by the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (SUHF). She is also a member of the National Health Competence Council, SUHF’s expert group for professional education in health care, and board member of Örebro Universitet Holding AB as well as Region Örebro Innovation AB. 

Publications

Articles in journals |  Articles, reviews/surveys |  Books |  Chapters in books |  Collections (editor) |  Conference papers |  Doctoral theses, monographs |  Manuscripts |  Reports | 

Articles in journals

Articles, reviews/surveys

Books

Chapters in books

Collections (editor)

Conference papers

Doctoral theses, monographs

Manuscripts

Reports