Research group Leadership, Improvement and Organization of Schools (SOUL)
The research group focuses on the governance, organization, improvement and leadership of pre-schools and schools.
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Group description
The members of the group publish their work and contribute to the field Educational Leadership, Management and Administration nationally and internationally. One strand that ties the group together is a focus on schools rather than the school.
The governance, organization and leadership of schools, but also school development and improvement are complex and context-dependent matters varying over time, space and place. Another unifying strand is expressed in an approach to research: the importance of navigating between habitual or taken for granted assumptions or imaginaries of school governance, organization, improvement and leadership, and the need to think and imagine anew.
The research group includes different approaches, such as theoretical, conceptual and critical imaginary research; studies of policy and reform; and different approaches to empirical research in pre-schools, schools and in the school system. One important area of research is the conditions for, characteristics of and variety of practices expressing pedagogical leadership or learning oriented leadership in pre-schools and schools. The influence of global actors, national regulations, institutional contexts and local conditions are shaping leadership practices in pre-schools and schools, and leadership is studied as an organizational and collective phenomenon and not only as a trait or capability of individuals.
The research group and its members are active in several research partnerships and networks nationally and internationally. Members of the group also offer organized support to schools, school organizers and the National Agency of Education with regard to research and school development. We meet regularly at the SOUL Seminar.
Group members
Group managers
Niclas Rönnström
Senior lecturer
![Niclas Rönnström, docent, Stockholms universitet](/polopoly_fs/1.315023.1484146925!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Pia Skott
Senior lecturer/
![Pia Skott foto: Clement Morin](/polopoly_fs/1.353919.1696919057!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Members
Marianne Döös
Professor emerita
![Foto Sören Andersson Marianne Döös](/polopoly_fs/1.638230.1670320429!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Eva Amundsdotter
Senior lecturer/
![Eva Amundsdotter, Stockholms universitet](/polopoly_fs/1.320711.1487266488!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Jonas Gustafsson
Senior lecturer
![Jonas Gustafsson](/polopoly_fs/1.361170.1513000215!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Pär Larsson
Senior lecturer
![Pär Larsson](/polopoly_fs/1.360660.1512642896!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Martin Rogberg
PhD
Johanna Ringarp
Senior lecturer
![Foto: Clément Morin Johanna Ringarp_CM](/polopoly_fs/1.454101.1568721480!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Henric Stenmark
Senior lecturer
![Henric Stenmark](/polopoly_fs/1.644184.1674573086!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Annica Källebo
PhD student
![Annica Källebo](/polopoly_fs/1.575025.1632815259!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)