I am a PhD student at the Department of Creative Studies and a municipal doctoral student and assistant scientific leader in the Municipality of Piteå. My research field is educational work, and my research interests include collaboration within the education sector, practice-based research, school development, and literature education.
In my doctoral project, I investigate how collaboration between municipalities and universities around practice-based research and school development can become sustainable. By studying different collaborative initiatives, I examine how collaboration contributes to the development of individual, relational, and organisational resources, and how these resources influence the possibilities for continued or new collaboration. I am particularly interested in how these resources are shaped through the interplay between institutional and organisational structures and the agency of collaborating actors.
In the Municipality of Piteå, I work with, among other things, the education administration’s R&D team, research circles, supervision, teacher networks, and as assistant editor of the journal Fufos.
Before beginning my doctoral studies in autumn 2022, I worked for 23 years as an upper secondary school teacher at Strömbackaskolan in Piteå.
2026
Educational action research
Viklund, Sara
2026
Higher Education Research and Development
Viklund, Sara
2026
Cogent Education, Taylor & Francis 2026, Vol. 13, (1)
Viklund, Sara
2025
Forskning och utveckling i förskola och skola (Fufos), Piteå: 2025, Vol. 4, (1) : 5-18
Bergmark, Ulrika; Caroline, Graeske; Karlsson, Maria; et al.