10:36 a.m.
Dear all,
I would like to invite you to the following open webinar on May 6th hosted by the
Collegium Gender Perspectives in Education at the University of Gothenburg:
Gendered Structures of Finnish Comprehensive Education Through the Lens of Trans Studies
Date and time: May 6, kl. 15.00-17.00 (CET)
Sign up: Anmälan till webbinarium med Kollegiet genusperspektiv i pedagogik, 6 maj 2026 –
Fyll i formulär<https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Ee8xaUqDHQ>
Liekki Valaskivi, doctoral student in gender studies
Tampere University, Finland
Faculty of Social Sciences
Gender diversity is an increasingly visible and relevant phenomenon in Finnish
comprehensive education (grades 1-9), but the subject has yet to be extensively researched
in a Finnish context. In my doctoral research I argue that gender must be reconceptualised
through trans theory and understood as fundamentally diverse, if we hope to produce
meaningful change in the inequal gendered structures of Finnish comprehensive education. I
am conducting my research at Tampere University in the Faculty of Social Sciences, in the
subject of Gender Studies. My research is transdisciplinary and utilises multiple
datasets. In my presentation, I will introduce findings from my first two articles,
published and in review, respectively. The topics of these studies are 1) past school
experiences of trans young adults and 2) discourses surrounding gender diversity among
teacher education students. I will also present the broader theoretical discussion of my
research, which includes trans pedagogy and trans theory, and Foucauldian theory of power
and critical discourse analysis.
Welcome!
Ylva Odenbring (chair)
Agnes Lanker och Elisabeth Berg (secretaries)
Collegium website:
https://www.gu.se/pedagogik-specialpedagogik/kollegiet-genusperspektiv-i-pe…
Have a great weekend everyone! 🌷
All the very best,
Ylva
Ylva Odenbring
Professor of Education (PhD)
UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG
Department of Education and Special Education
Visiting address: Västra Hamngatan 25
PO Box 100, SE-405 30 Gothenburg
Phone +46 317862840
Cell +46 766182840
Principal investigator, PI: Mental health issues and victimization among
LGBTQI-youth<https://www.gu.se/en/research/mental-health-issues-and-victimization-among-lgbtqi-youth>
Selection of recent publications:
Görlich, A., Odenbring, Y., Sorbring, E. & Sørensen, N U. (2026). “I couldn't even
be in the corridors during breaks because I didn't feel safe”: LGBTQ+ students’
experiences of (un)safe spaces in secondary schools, NORA.
https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2025.2607566
Odenbring, Y. (2025). Skolans frontlinjepersonal: en omvärldsspaning av arbetsplatsvåld i
den svenska skolan. Socialmedicinsk tidskrift. https://doi.org/10.62607/smt.v102i4-5.56185
Odenbring, Y. (2025). Uppväxtvillkor och matfattigdom: Skollunchens betydelse för en
likvärdig skola. Socialmedicinsk tidskrift. https://doi.org/10.62607/smt.v102i3.59415
Odenbring, Y. & Lindén, L. (2025). Reaching everyone: school nurses’ experiences of
including refugee and migrant students in the extended school-based HPV vaccination
programme in Sweden. Journal of Research in Nursing.
https://doi.org/10.1177/17449871251329001