Pelle Pelters

Pelle Pelters is a Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University’s Department of Education, affiliated with the Pedagogy and Health research group. His work interrogates the social, cultural, and moral dimensions of health through constructionist and post-structuralist frameworks.

• PhD in Sociology and Associate Professor in Education
• Interdisciplinary background in Biomedicine, Health Science, Theology, and Bioethics

Research interests focus on:

• Social construction of health and illness
• Health identities and discourses
• Norm-critical and hermeneutic approaches
• Latent meanings in phenomena like gym pain and hookah smoking

Recent publications explore exercise-related pain, LGBTQ refugee health, and health as religious metaphor. Collaborations include work with Krister Hertting, Costenius, and Lindgren.

No scientific awards or honors are listed in the provided information.

Students and advising details are not explicitly documented, but his co-authored works highlight interdisciplinary partnerships.

Based in room 2638, Frescativägen 54, Stockholm University, Pelters integrates pedagogy, sociology, and biomedicine to challenge normative health paradigms.