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Anna-Maria Fjellman is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education and Special Education at the University of Gothenburg. Her research primarily focuses on school choice, school markets, segregation, marketization, educational privatization, and the consequences for equity in the Swedish educational system, with particular interest in the meaning of place for education. She works extensively with register data from the Gothenburg Longitudinal Database (GOLD).
Her research interests span multiple interconnected areas including school choice systems, marketization of education, educational segregation patterns, rural education challenges, spatial analyses of educational systems, and the consequences of educational privatization. She employs quantitative methods and spatial analysis to examine how educational opportunities are distributed across different regions and demographic groups in Sweden.
Her recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on analyzing trends in school segregation, particularly in urban school markets, with several 2023-2024 publications examining these patterns over time. Her work also extends into the field of countering violent extremism, exploring spatial patterns and institutional collaboration across Nordic societies. The research shows consistent engagement with critical questions about educational equity and the impact of market-oriented reforms on educational systems.
She is actively involved in significant research projects including:
- School segregation in Sweden: Challenges, opportunities and interventions (SSIS), led by Kajsa Yang Hansen
- School, learning and mental health: determinants, consequences and prevention of school failure, led by Jan-Eric Gustafsson
Previously, she has contributed to important projects such as FLECSLAB (Lifelong Learning Business Model), research on school and residential markets, studies on choice of upper secondary education among immigrant families, and Nordic Multiagency Approaches to Handling Extremism.
Fjellman is affiliated with multiple research environments including FUR (Prerequisites, Education, and Outcomes), KRIT, and the Housing, Education and Segregation (BUS) research group, demonstrating her commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and comprehensive educational research.
