Teaching
Teaching at Master's level
EH6111 Research Design, Stockholm University (2023 Autumn, 2024 Autumn)
The course provides the students with deeper knowledge and insights in the planning and designing of social science research projects. The course develops the students' critical approach towards science and research, and knowledge and skills in, among others, formulating research problems and research questions, planning for collection and analysis of material/data, operationalizing and defining, and motivating different choices in a research design. Additionally, the course develops students' understanding of how the different parts in a research design – previous research, research problem, theory, method and material – are related and how research design relates to the basic premises in the philosophy of science.
EH6109 International Relations in East Asia, Stockholm University (2024 Spring)
This course introduces students to and deepens their understanding of three kinds of academic debates related to the international relations of Asia. The first debate revolves around issues related to the contemporary international politics, security and economy of Asia. Issues covered include, but are not limited to China’s rise and its implications, how to understand the Belt and Road Initiative and where Japan’s security policy is heading. The second type of debate concerns how Asian historical experiences has begun to inform the discipline of International Relations; a discipline that has increasingly come to be criticized as Euro-centric since its theories have to a disproportional degree been informed by European experiences. The third type of debate is based on a similar critique of the discipline’s Euro-centrism. It focuses on debates about how Asian philosophy and thinking can inform the discipline of International Relations. While the first half of the course introduces the students to these debates, the second half seeks to deepen their understanding of these same issues.
EH6105 Quantitative Methods, Stockholm University (2021 Autumn)
The aim of the course is to provide the students with basic knowledge about quantitative methods in the social sciences. The course will cover both descriptive statistics that will allow students to summarize and visualise information, and inferential statistics that can be used to analyse and draw conclusions about populations based on the same information. The focus will be on Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression, but methods used for inferring causality will also be introduced. Finally, the course pays close attention to quantitative research design more broadly. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to read, interpret and critically assess quantitative research. The course will provide important foundations for student’s ability to design and perform a quantitative study, e.g., write a master thesis using quantitative methods.
Master's thesis supervision
Supervise two master’s theses in Political Science, Swedish Defence University (2024 Autumn)
Betraying Allies: Gendered Violence in Peace Time U.S. Media Coverage of Servicemember Sexual Assaults Against Japanese Civilians Through an Intersectional Lens (Catrin Andersson, distinction)
“Actions of a few”: Colonial discourses surrounding the UN resolutions regarding Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (Elin Carlsson)