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  • 1.
    Egan Sjölander, Annika
    et al.
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    The Most Significant Prize! The use of the Nobel Prize as a boundary object at universities with laureates2014Konferensbidrag (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
  • 2.
    Egan Sjölander, Annika
    et al.
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    The Most Significant Prize!: The use of the Nobel Prize as a boundary object at universities with laureates2013Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
  • 3. Gonsalves, Allison J.
    et al.
    Danielsson, Anna
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Masculinities and experimental practices in physics: the view from three case studies2016Ingår i: Physical Review Physics Education Research, E-ISSN 2469-9896, Vol. 12, nr 2, artikel-id 020120Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
    Abstract [en]

    [This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Gender in Physics.] This article analyzes masculinity and experimental practices within three different physics communities. This work is premised on the understanding that the discipline of physics is not only dominated by men, but also is laden with masculine connotations on a symbolical level, and that this limited and limiting construction of physics has made it difficult for many women to find a place in the discipline. Consequently, we argue that in order to further the understanding of gender dynamics within physics communities and enrich the current understandings about the lack of women in physics, perspectives from masculinity studies are crucial. The article draws on three different ethnographic case studies dealing with undergraduate students, graduate students, and research scientists.

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  • 4.
    Mullaney, Tara
    et al.
    Umeå universitet, Teknisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen Designhögskolan.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper. Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Etnologi.
    Nyholm, Tufve
    Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för strålningsvetenskaper, Radiofysik. Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för strålningsvetenskaper, Onkologi.
    System, site, patient: A three-tiered methodological approach to constructing holistic understanding of the user through design research2012Ingår i: Proceedings of the Design Research Society International Conference, 2012Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper argues that the methods and methodologies used to conduct user research often provide a singular view of the user. It aims to demonstrate that by combining the strengths of three different research methodologies into a structured, correlative research platform we can create a rich, more holistic understanding of our users. Using a three-tiered methodological approach to research the cancer patient experience, we investigated patient anxiety and the emotional impact that curative radiation therapy has on these individuals. Our methodology, comprised of methods taken from quantitative, qualitative, and design research approaches, was designed to construct a research platform that would allow us to gather quantifiable data about our patient population while also using more qualitative approaches to gain a deeper understanding of the individuals’ patient experience. We used patient questionnaires as our quantitative method, user observations and interviews as our qualitative methods, and design probe kits as our design method. Each method was chosen because of its ability to provide us with a different perspective on the patients’ clinical experience. By structuring these methods around the same shared research question, we were able to find correlative relationships between the data collected from each, despite their different methodological approaches. This paper demonstrates that our three-tiered methodology provides a deep understanding of the user experience, from a systems level view down to that of the patient. In conclusion, this paper argues that it is important for design researches to select methods that build upon each other and provide different perspectives of the user, in order to create a holistic understanding of the user experience.

  • 5.
    Mullaney, Tara
    et al.
    Umeå universitet, Teknisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen Designhögskolan.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Nyholm, Tufve
    Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för strålningsvetenskaper. Norrlands University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden.
    Stolterman, Erik
    Umeå universitet, Teknisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen Designhögskolan.
    Thinking beyond the cure: a case for human-centered design in cancer care2012Ingår i: International Journal of Design, ISSN 1991-3761, E-ISSN 1994-036X, Vol. 6, nr 3, s. 27-39Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
    Abstract [en]

    In this paper we explore how human-centered design can expand the solution space surrounding patient experience in healthcare, looking specifically at patient emotional wellbeing. The findings presented here are taken from our ethnographic research of cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy treatment; we investigated these individuals' emotional experiences during their time in the treatment facility. Building upon previous findings within the field of nursing concerned with the prevalence of anxiety in cancer patients and the importance of person-centered care, we implement a human-centered design research approach to investigate the situational triggers of patient anxiety within the radiotherapy treatment experience. Through 'quick ethnography', we recognize that the fixation technology used within radiotherapy is a key trigger for anxiety in patients. Application of theory from the field of science and technology studies to our analysis of this technologically-mediated anxiety suggests that the fixation device confines the patient to a passive, disempowered role within its interactions due to it being embedded with the socially scripted 'sick role'. Summarizing our insights, we find that human-centered design is capable of looking holistically at patient experience to discover new solutions spaces for mediating and preventing situational anxiety, and turning person-centered care within Radiotherapy into a pre-emptive practice instead of a responsive one.

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  • 6.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Academic mobility and shared objects of knowledge: combining laboratory devices and networks when choosing research site2011Konferensbidrag (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
  • 7.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Kultur och medier.
    Are these my boundary objects too?: Ethnography, Mode-2 and research in transformation2005Ingår i: American Anthropological Association 104th Annual Meeting, 2005Konferensbidrag (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
  • 8.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Att vara mobil mellan universitetet och externa samarbetspartners: betydelsen av kunskapsdrivna forskningsfrågor, meriter, tid och plats i kunskapsöverföring2013Rapport (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
  • 9.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Between curiosity and demand: Mobile Knowledge, embodiment, and the establishment of a big science site2013Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
  • 10.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Boundaries, Believers and Bodies: A Cultural Analysis of a Multidisciplinary Research Community2010 (uppl. 1)Bok (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
    Abstract [en]

    Ethnologist Helena Pettersson spent almost three years at the research studio Tools for Creativity in northern Sweden. In this study, she analyzes the construction of technology and research in a multidisciplinary research community producing research and prototypes in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The unique feature of this arena is that the entire staff is defined as “researchers”, despite the fact that only a handful of the employees are academically-trained. In the book, Pettersson highlights two themes of special interest. The first is the advanced, often expensive technology used and produced. Here, we learn the informants'' definition of technology and become acquainted with their values and visions vis- à-vis technology production. The second theme is research and how the informants at the studio interpret and negotiate the concepts of “research” and “researcher” in their attempts to produce innovative ICT solutions. Research cultures are constituted in accordance with power structures and gender.

  • 11.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Kultur och medier.
    Boundaries, believers and bodies: a cultural analysis of a multidisciplinary research community.2007Doktorsavhandling, monografi (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
    Abstract [en]

    The aim of this study is to analyze the construction of research culture and collaboration within the research studio Tools for Creativity, one node in the larger Interactive Institute. This studio is an arena that in today’s society is associated with boundary crossing, dynamics and variability: An environment with high-tech equipment, a staff equipped with diverse skills, and a flexible approach with the ambition of developing innovative tools based on ICT to strengthen human creativity. The present thesis is divided into four main parts. In Part One, culture as analytical framework is presented. This is followed by a presentation of field work, data and field site, the studio Tools for Creativity, and its employees. This includes a discussion of the methods of participant observations and deep inter-views. In the theoretical framework overview, perspectives used in this thesis is presented, including the so-called “new research landscape” debate, a background to this thesis. The introduction concludes with a chapter whith a reflexivity discussion including the making of the research self during field work and in the written text. In Part Two, entitled “Technology”, the informants’ definition of technology in relation ICT and the prototypes produced is ana-lyzed. The concepts “enlightenment optimism” and “romantic uneasiness” are presented as theoretical entrances to the chapter. This is the background for an analysis of the future- and speed-oriented discourse that characterizes the informants’ perception of technology. The aim of using technology to support human creativity, challenge presence and facilitate multi-cultural communication is further discussed. This is juxtaposed with another aspect of technol-ogy, namely the informant’s critique of technology’s impact on mankind, humanity and society. Part Three, “Re-search”, deals with interpretations and negotiations of the concept of research and the researcher conducted by the informants at Tools for Creativity. First, the concept of “boundary object” is presented followed by its use order to analyze the construction of research and the researcher in a multi-disciplinary arena like the studio. An important part of the making of the researcher is the trading of skills in the attempt of legitimizing the individuals’ efforts at conducting research. Here, focus is the negotiation of research as an activity between individuals representing the sciences and the arts, as well as those with formal education and autodidacts. Attempts to manage a broader research concept are placed in relation to academic quality demands. In this analysis, the point of departure is Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of symbolic capital. Here, gender is included as symbolic capital. Part Four is called “Reflections” and contains a discussion of the study and reflections concerning field work. This is followed by a summation of what happened to Tools for Creativity and Interactive Institute after finished field work.

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  • 12.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Boundaries of masculinity and plasma physics: toward an understanding of the making of masculinities in experimental physics2013Ingår i: Transforming substance: gender in material sciences / [ed] Helene Götschel, Uppsala: Uppsala Science Press , 2013, s. 57-81Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Refereegranskat)
  • 13.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Kultur och medier.
    Boundary crossing and research in transformation2004Rapport (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
  • 14.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Boundary Crossing and Research in Transformation: Ethnography, Mode-2 and the Visualization of Identities in Change2004Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
  • 15.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper. Umeå universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS).
    Boundary Work and Symbolic Capital Exchange: Knowledge Transfer in Multidisciplinary Research Revisited2013Ingår i: The Social Politics of Research Collaboration / [ed] Gabriele Griffin, Katarina Hamberg, Britta Lundgren, New York: Routledge, 2013, 1, s. 161-175Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Refereegranskat)
  • 16.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Capital in the age of Academic Capitalism: A Critical Remark on the use of Bourdieu’s Capital Concepts when Studying Academic Mobility2013Konferensbidrag (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
  • 17.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Focused Career, Negotiated Relationship?: Combining Academic Mobility, Internationalization and Private Life2009Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
  • 18.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Formbar kultur i förhandling för framtid: Gränsobjekt och gränsarbete i mångdisciplinär forskning2003Ingår i: Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, ISSN 1102-7908, nr 3Artikel i tidskrift (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
  • 19.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Framing of culture and mobility: using the capital concept as a tool of analysis when studying mobile scientists and gender2011Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
    Abstract [en]

    In recent studies of mobility and global migration of knowledge workers, the use of Bourdieu’s concept of capital - cultural, social, and economic - is widely referred to. Individuals or groups on the move are important subjects of analysis when studying how values, identities and knowledge are transferred through different national and global contexts. The data is collected from ethnographic fieldwork with deep interviews and following observations among plant scientists in Sweden. The aim with my paper is to discuss symbolic capital in relation to transnational scientists. I will analyze how my informants navigate between on one hand a national identity and on the other, their identity as scientists. Identity work among the scientists operates on both individual and institutional basis. In current Swedish debate on research policy, internationalization among scientists is defined as a crucial activity and an important step when pursuing their career. In  order to develop their scientific skills, the scientists navigate between on one hand the scientific culture with its values and system of merits. On the other, the scientists are highly affected by their private life, with eventual family and partner. Both the 12 professional and the private context offer assets important to their ability to move between the research sites e.g. their academic/cultural and social capital, together fused into symbolic assets. Besides discussing how the scientist’s assets are to be understood in relation to the capital concepts, I wish to problematize pros and cons of using the capital concepts. Are they useful tools of analysis, or do they create a line of predictable arguments?

  • 20.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    From genius to gender? Going from "a culture of noculture" to queering physics and beyond.2015Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
  • 21.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Från kulturförening till kunglig vetenskapsakademi: Skytteanska Samfundet 1956-1967 : en översikt1998 (uppl. 1)Bok (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
  • 22.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Gender and Transnational Plant Scientists: Negotiating academic mobility, career commitments and private life2011Ingår i: Gender, ISSN 1868-7245, Vol. 1, s. 99-116Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
  • 23.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Gender, femininity and masculinities in oral histories and laboratory culture among plasma physicis2009Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
  • 24.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Gendered contingencies and negotiations in ethnographic fieldwork when studying plasma physicists2008Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
  • 25.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Identities, gender and mobility among plasma physicists in the United States2008Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
  • 26.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Inför Kulturanalysprogrammet: Rapport inför arbete med utbildningsprogram med profil mot kultur- och samhällsanalys2000Rapport (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
  • 27.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    International Mobility and Private Life in Negotiation.: Ethnographic perspectives on gendered demands and cultural practices among migrating scientists2009Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
  • 28.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Internationalisering: en bekönad kullerbytta?2009Ingår i: Genusperspektiv, ISSN 1652-3768, nr 4, s. 7-7Artikel i tidskrift (Övrig (populärvetenskap, debatt, mm))
  • 29.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Kultur i forskning och som forskning2003Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
  • 30.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Kulturell förståelse av nyfikenhet: folklore, fantasi, makt och fara2022Ingår i: Formbundet, formbart!: vänbok till Alf Arvidsson / [ed] Bo Nilsson; Anna-Sofia Lundgren; Susanne Holst, Umeå: Umeå universitet , 2022, s. 83-91Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
    Abstract [sv]

    I olika forskningskontexter definieras nyfikenhet som ettcentralt beteende som kännetecknar människor och som utgör enväsentlig orsak till framväxten av mänskliga samhällen och kulturer. Människor lägger till exempel ner mycket tid på att undersöka ochhitta på nya saker som är svåra att förklara ur ett snävt överlevnadseller nyttoperspektiv. Nyfikenhet kan också förstås genom reglerande maktpraktiker, och därigenom reglering av idéer och kroppar. Vem vinner på att reglera nyfikenhet? Vad är syftet ocheventuella effekter? 

  • 31.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Making ethnography: deep interviews and observations as methods of studying gender processes2006Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
  • 32.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Making masculinities among experimental plasma physicists2010Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
  • 33.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Making masculinity in experimental physics: embodiment, experimental practices, and mobility2015Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
  • 34.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper. Uppsala Center for Gender Research, Uppsala, Sweden.
    Making masculinity in plasma physics: machines, labour and experiments2011Ingår i: Science Studies, ISSN 0786-3012, Vol. 24, nr 1, s. 47-65Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
    Abstract [en]

    The aim of this article is to analyse masculinity and experimental practices among plasma physicists. The study is based on ethnographic field work with observations and interviews among experimental plasma physicists in a laboratory in the United States. Through daily practices and hands-on situations, the experimental plasma physicists defined their experimental work as strongly associated with masculinity. Both practices and discourses about working with the experiments were fringed with connotations of a craft, of strength and physical efforts. Together, the practices and discourses were used as marks of identity for the laboratory and for the group of physicists within.

  • 35.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Mobilitet för karriär och konkurrens?: Kunskap, kön och forskningsinternationalisering2014Ingår i: G14 -Att utmana makten : nationell konferens för genusforskning: Umeå 26-28 november 2014 [programbok], 2014, s. 130-130Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
    Abstract [sv]

    Syftet med detta paper är att problematisera en allt mer ökad företeelse inom svensk forskning; akademisk mobilitet och forskningsinternationalisering. Mitt paper fokuserar på hur kön som kategori påverkar forskares navigering i ett karriärsystem som i allt större utsträckning kräver internationella forskningserfarenhet. Kräver forskarnas specifika inomvetenskapliga tillhörighet erfarenhet av utländska forskningsmiljöer? Hur föreställer sig forskarna att internationaliseringskrav påverkar deras karriärutveckling och framtid inom akademien? Vilken roll spelar den enskilde forskarens privata situation för möjligheten att faktiskt kunna göra själva flytten görlig? En sådan flytt ställer nya krav på den enskilde forskarens forskningspraktiker men också vardagspraktiker och påverkar den enskilde forskarens val av forsknings- och livsmiljö. Likaså kan man anta att det finns grupper med forskare som enbart betonar forskarmiljön enbartför forskningens skull. Här blir det intressant att se om dessa forskare är ensamstående och beroende av enbart sina egna beslut eller om de lever i par- och/eller familjerelationer. Materialet består av djupintervjuer med forskare inom naturvetenskap och medicin som har samlats in mellan 2009-2014. Analytiska verktyg är Pierre Bourdieus kapitalbegrepp, samt begreppet forskningspersona (Pettersson 2011). Mobilitet blir en viktig praktik, då kunskap överförs mellan forskare och miljöer i migrationsflödet. Forskare som deltar blir bärare av ny kunskap, nya teorier och metoder. I den övergripande diskursen figurerar sällan den enskilde forskaren, personerna som faktiskt praktiserar forskningsinternationalisering och som väljer att vara mobila. Hur problematiserar strukturerna och praktikerna i en allt med globaliserad forskningspraktik?

  • 36.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Mobility for career and competition? Knowledge, genderand research internationalization.2015Ingår i: Researchers crossing borders: transnational scientific mobility, 2015, s. 22-22Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
  • 37.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet.
    Multiple Masculinities and Gendered Research Persona’s.: Between experiments, career choice and family2018Ingår i: International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, E-ISSN 2040-0748, Vol. 10, nr 1, s. 108-129Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
    Abstract [en]

    The aim of this study is to analyze multiple masculinity identities among experimental plasma physicists. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork with long term observations in a laboratory and in-depth interviews. The point of departure is that different identities exist side by side and are co constructed among physicists in the laboratory. They are defined and challenged at the same time in everyday work, and are therefore central to those attracted to experimental physics. In this study, masculine identity work is analyzed as boundary work for both masculinity and experimental physics. Physics and identity work can be understood as a process where the performance and daily work is also a way of defining gender.  I argue that perspectives from masculinity studies are crucial in order to advance an understanding of gender dynamics within physics communities and enrich the current understanding of the lack of women in physics.  Both senior and junior physicists emphasized the importance of a strong scientist identity. The plasma physicists represent a type of double hegemonic masculinity front stage. The scientific ideal is in itself strongly gendered with the ideal image of the scientist.

  • 38.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Kultur och medier.
    Policies and politics of parallel science careers: A multi sited ethnographic study in Sweden, Japan and the US2005Konferensbidrag (Övrig (populärvetenskap, debatt, mm))
  • 39.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Policies and politics of parallel science careers: A multisited ethnographic study in three knowledge economies2006Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
  • 40.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Research and culture: A cultural analysis study of post disciplinary research communities2003Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
  • 41.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Research Cooperation, Fictive Kinship, and International Knowledge Transfer among Scientists2015Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
    Abstract [en]

    The focus of the paper is how junior scientists’ use their peer’s network when applying for positions abroad in order to develop their scientific training. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork with in depth interviews and observations at a plant science institute. The informants are at different career stages from Europe. Academic mobility across domestic organizations and global networks is an important topic in today’s discussion of knowledge circulation and its economical consequences. An aim with the peer’s network is to establish junior scientists in to a new scientific community. The junior plant scientists must learn and gain new scientific skills and achievements. They also form strong relationships with the peer and the fellow lab members, especially at a similar career stage. Gained scientific skills and an extended scientific family are central resources for the junior scientist’s career development. The concept “fictive kinship” is used to catch power and loyalty relations between people and groups that are not by blood bound to each other. As a family in a traditional, biological sense with inheritance of both power relations and material goods, there are informal leadership, symbolic capital, lab resources and machines to be inherited. The data collection is based on ethnographic field work with in depth interviews and observations.

  • 42.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Research cooperation, learning processes, and trust among plant scientists: fictive kinship, academic mobility, and scientists' careers2015Ingår i: Domesticity in the making of modern science / [ed] Donald Opitz; Staffan Bergwik; Brigitte van Tiggelen, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 1, s. 241-258Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Refereegranskat)
    Abstract [en]

    Career paths among academics and the construction of academic research communities are central topics in current research politics at a global as well as local level. The discourse about the research society as a cosmopolitan community puts forward a ‘taken for granted’ perspective that mobility is good for its own cause. On the other hand, ideas concerning stability, ‘home’, and ‘roots’, having a geographical focal point in life, are still valued as life quality factors. These contradictory ideals and values make the combination of transnational mobility with family life and the feeling of being at home complicated.

  • 43.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Studying Up!: Ethnographic encounters on experimentalists2012Ingår i: Thule: Kungl. Skytteanska Samfundets Årsbok 2012 / [ed] Roger Jacobsson, Umeå: Kungl. Skytteanska Samfundet , 2012, 1, s. 99-108Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
  • 44.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Studying Up!: Ethnographic Encounters on Experimentalists!2012Ingår i: Thule - Kungl. Skytteanska Samfundets årsbok, ISSN 0280-8692, Vol. 25, s. 99-108Artikel, forskningsöversikt (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
  • 45.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    System, site, patient: A three-tiered methodological approach to constructing holistic understanding of the user through design research2012Ingår i: Design Research Society 2012 Conference Proceedings: Vol. 2, Scribd , 2012, Vol. 2Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
  • 46.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    "The EVM Project": Rapport till Högskoleverket om första utbildningstillfället inom virtuell och digital utställningsverksamhet i museologi2001Rapport (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
  • 47.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    The Making of the Self: An attempt to start to think with an experimental approach2008Konferensbidrag (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
  • 48.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Two Levels of Tools for Creativity: Humans, artifacts and the making of the creative researcher2010Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
  • 49.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    Vetenskap och identitet inom den nya akademien: En kulturanalytisk studie inom ämnet företagsekonomi vid Jönköpings Internationella Handelshögskola2002Ingår i: Akademisk kultur / [ed] Britta Lundgren, Stockholm: Carlssons , 2002, 1Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
  • 50.
    Pettersson, Helena
    Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
    "Vi måste problematisera de krav som dagens forskning ställer"2011Ingår i: Genusperspektiv, ISSN 1652-3768, nr 3-4, s. 12-12Artikel i tidskrift (Övrig (populärvetenskap, debatt, mm))
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