Pågående doktorandprojekt vid Institutionen för ABM

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Ida Grönroos (kontaktuppgifter): Delicate Matters - Records of Social Vulnerability in Swedish Archives

In my research I want to examine how official records that document vulnerability are handled by the people responsible for managing them. How do professional archivists perceive and judge vulnerability, and how do they deal with the disclosure of sensitive information to people who request it?

I will study the perception of vulnerability amongst archivists handling disclosures of sensitive information in records of social services and psychiatric care. I will put light on the fact that the archivists are individuals and not only anonymous agents of bureaucracy, carrying out fixed procedures. On the contrary, they actively assess the relevance of information they may or may not disclose to people who request access to various documents. How exactly do they do this? And what are the consequences of them doing so (or not)? The research will address issues of dependency, vulnerability, dignity and privacy, as well as the politics and ethics of revelation.

My PhD project is part of the Engaging Vulnerability program, a decade-long interdisciplinary research program at Uppsala University financed with the support of the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). http://www.engagingvulnerability.se/

The thesis (monograph) will be written in English.

Tutors: Kerstin Rydbeck, Reine Rydén and Mats Hyvönen.

Zanna Friberg (kontaktuppgifter): Maps of archaeological curation

My PhD research examines the curation of archaeological legacy data across different repositories like museums, archives and libraries. Looking at a Swedish context, I map the knowledge organisation systems archaeological data are managed within and pay attention to traces of continuity and discontinuity in data description, both historically and inter-institutionally.

My PhD project is part of the research project CAPTURE.  The CAPTURE project is concerned with paradata (data on the processes involved in production and (re)use of data) with a focus on archaeological and cultural heritage data. More information about CAPTURE can be found under Ongoing research projects at the Department of ALM.

The thesis (Monograph) will be written in English.
Tutors: Isto Huvila, Lisa Börjesson and Olle Sköld.

Inge Zwart (contact information): Participatory memory work: A professional take on participation in museums

Museer handlar om deltagande: publiken engageras på nya sätt och olika grupper i samhället bjuds in att samverka med museipersonalen i produktionen av utställningar. I min avhandling undersöker jag denna typ av samverkansprojekt genom att sätta mig in i det konkreta arbetet utifrån museets professionella perspektiv. Min jämförande fallstudie baseras på etnografiska forskningsdata från tre projekt på olika europeiska museer. På så sätt hoppas jag få en detaljerad bild av hur yrkesverksamma hanterar de (nya) uppgifter som är förenade med denna typ av samverkansprojekt, deras motivation och förväntningar, deras förståelse av begreppet "deltagande" och de dynamiska maktrelationer som uppstår inom projektet och institutionen - sett i relation till de institutionella, kulturella och politiska ramarna.

Jag ingår med detta projekt i POEM (https://www.poem-horizon.eu/) som är ett ITN-nätverk finansierat av EU inom ramen för Horisont 2020, Marie Sklodawska-Curies bidragsavtal nr 764859.

Avhandlingen (monografi) skrivs på engelska.
Handledare: Isto Huvila och Inga-Lill Aronsson.

Christer Eld (kontaktuppgifter): Biblioteket som historiskt dokument: Det bevarade biblioteket vid Statens institut för rasbiologi

Utgångspunkten för avhandlingsprojektet är en uppfattning om bibliotek som historiska dokument som kan berätta om den verksamhet deras huvudmän bedrivit: Bibliotek skapas av en anledning. Organisationer av olika slag formar sina bibliotek utifrån de aktiviteter man bedriver, inte minst gäller det för kunskapsproducerande verksamheter. Böcker och andra dokument förvärvas utifrån sitt intellektuella innehåll, t.ex. de ämnesområden de behandlar. Det är organisationens kunskapsbehov som formar de samlingar, det urval av litteratur, som biblioteket består av.

Inte bara de enskilda dokumentens förvärv, utan även bibliotekets organisation av dem – hur de kommer att klassificeras och ordnas i olika ämnestillhörigheter – avgörs av organisationens fokus och kunskapsintressen. De kunskapsrepresenterande system som används är de som rymmer de ämnesområden som är centrala för organisationen; de innehållsmässiga aspekter av ett dokument som kommer att uppmärksammas och utgöra utgångspunkten för klassifikationen av det, är de som är mest relevanta för organisationen.

Därigenom kommer biblioteket att bli en spegling eller fysisk manifestation av den intellektuella verksamhet som bedrivs vid organisationen ifråga. Biblioteket vid en vetenskaplig institution kommer att avspegla den forskning som bedrivs där, inte bara vad gäller disciplinär hemhörighet och ämnesinriktning, utan också dess paradigmatiska eller kunskapsteoretiska grunder. Även de historiska förändringar som verksamheten genomgår, kommer att realiseras i bibliotekets och dess samlingars utveckling över tid.
Utifrån denna föreställning om biblioteket som en verksamhetsspeglande och kunskapsreproducerande institution kommer de bevarade bibliotekssamlingarna och -katalogerna från Statens rasbiologiska institut att studeras.

Avhandlingen (monografi) skrivs på svenska. 
Handledare: Kerstin Rydbeck och Ulrika Kjellman.

Ina-Maria Jansson Memory negotiated? Online participation in cultural heritage institutions

I study how cultural heritage institutions opens up for public participation in cultural heritage collections by using interactive online platforms for collection, organization and contextualization of heritage documents and metadata.

Especially, my research is focused on the suggested democratizing potential of participation. Of particular interest is the improved societal representation that is envisioned to follow in the steps of public participation and how participatory methods are said to increase the possibility for heritage collections to mirror the society in where they exist.  

The thesis is guided by the following research questions: How is participatory collected information incorporated in heritage collections? How can participants negotiate conditions and aims for participation? What is the impact of institutional information infrastructures on these processes and how can eventual barriers for the envisioned representation be understood?

By moving in the borderlands of library- and information studies, archival science and critical heritage studies, a multidisciplinary perspective is employed to discuss the implications of participatory engagement in cultural heritage institutions. Finally, cultural memory is used as an overarching concept to situate the concluding discussion of the thesis in the debate about influence of participatory practices in heritage creation and dissemination.

The thesis (compilation thesis) will be written in English and Swedish. 
Tutors: Isto Huvila, Reine Rydén and Björn Magnusson-Staaf (Lund University).

Lina Fridlund (kontaktuppgifter): Own Worlds – A Study of Youth's Own Practices in Cultural and Learning Institutions.

The intention with this thesis is to raise awareness of youth’s own practices in cultural- and learning institutions. The main focus will be at illuminating youth´s own practices, but I´m also interested of understanding grown-ups ideas of youth in relation to different forms of literacies. Here I will focus on norms that surrounds youth´s own practices in relation to different forms of literacies. I will try to understand what it means if cultural institutions advocates certain literacies. In relation to this I want to illuminate youth´s own literacies. I will do this through focusing on digital literacies and social media. From a theoretical perspective my dissertation proceed from theories about  the cultural institution as a space, theories about power and theories about new media literacies.

The thesis (Monograph) will be written in Swedish. 
Tutors: Samuel Edquist and Åse Hedemark. 

Dydimus Zengenene (contact information) Managing participatory ecologies memory modalities       

I am working on a project which seeks to explore and understand virtual ecologies as constructed by participatory online communities and mediated by new media infrastructures. It seeks to investigate the resources, people and activities that constitute online memory from a network perspective. Using cases, the study seeks to understand the dynamics of how virtual ecologies emerge, evolve and sustain themselves. It will also seek to identify institutional points of interventions in supporting self-sustaining communities to ensure usefulness of resultant participatory memory constructions. The project employs multiple methodologies to inquire into virtual communities. Historical web data is analyzed to determine the nature and evolution of virtual ecologies as constructed and facilitated by participatory online communities. Social Network Analysis tools and methodologies will be applied to visualize and explain the nature of these ecologies especially the relationships which emerge from participatory activities. Documents will be analyzed to map existing communities and to help in determining frameworks of managing online communities in given cases. Interviews will be conducted to provide further insights into undocumented complexities in dealing with participatory communities. Wikipedia is the main case study in this research.  The result is an article-based thesis which will explore the different aspects of understanding and managing online ecologies.

The thesis will be written in English. 
Tutors: Isto Huvila and Olle Sköld.