Stockholm University

Faculty Member, Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD)

Thesis Title: Female licentiousness versus male escape? Essays on intoxicating substance use, sexuality and gender (2006)

About

I am an Associate Professor in Sociology at SoRAD. Together with research assistant Katarina Winter, I am currently doing research on media images of biomedical alcohol research in the project "Media representations and lay interpretations of biomedical research on alcohol: A cultural sociological study of Swedish newspaper discourse 1995-2010" (funded by the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research).

The project draws on theories of the relationship between biology, life and politics; notably biomedicalization theories (Clarke et al 2010; Rose 2001, 2007) and the notion of culture-as-process (Franklin et al. 2000). It also includes an analysis of the realization of gender (Kraus 2000). The project relies on text analysis to study how biology, the body, risk and health are defined in newspaper stories and on individual interviews to analyze how newspaper readers interpret the newspaper stories and relate to them in their everyday lives.

Additional professional interests include research in the fields of gender and sexuality and a continuing interest in studies of alcohol, drugs and intoxication from a cultural sociological perspective. Other areas of interest include textual analysis, youth studies, social problems and social control.

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