Pernilla Nilsson is the new Secretary General for Educational Sciences

Pernilla Nilsson has been part of building up several graduate schools for teachers and teacher educators.

“As a researcher, I have always been very keen on contributing to creating opportunities for teachers and student teachers to develop professional knowledge. In recent years, I have been researching how digitisation enables learning, with particular focus on digitisation in schools and education,” she says.

Over the years, Pernilla Nilsson has held a number of management positions. As a deputy vice-chancellor and pro vice-chancellor, she has led the work of building up quality assurance systems for education, research-level education, and research at Halmstad University, and also been responsible for preparing the university’s range of educational programmes, as well as leading a research team in a cross-disciplinary research environment.

These are experiences that she believes can be of benefit in her new role as Secretary General for Educational Sciences. When asked how she want to contribute to developing educational sciences research, she emphasises collaboration with the surrounding community, and work with internationalisation.

“Educational sciences research addresses several of the major societal challenges, such as digitisation, sustainability, marketisation, integration, and broadened recruitment. I believe that it is important to show how multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary this research field is.”