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Erik Nylander is a Senior Associate Professor at Linköping University, affiliated with the Division of Education and Adult Learning (PVL) under the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning (IBL). His research spans adult education, lifelong learning, and higher vocational training, with a focus on Swedish folk high schools and yrkeshögskolan (vocational higher education).
He leads two Swedish National Research Council-funded projects: The Folk High School as Mirrors of Society, which digitizes 150 years of historical data using text analysis and visual data, and a mixed-method study on higher vocational education access and outcomes. He also engages in bibliometric analyses to map global trends in adult learning research.
Recent publications include a 2024 co-authored book on art education in folk high schools and studies on topics like artistic engagement, skill conventions, and topic modeling in lifelong learning journals. His work intersects with institutions like the National Institute of Education (Singapore) and Stockholm University.
Scientific awards include the Wallenberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2019). He contributes to academic governance as a founding editor of Confero: Essays on Education, Philosophy and Politics and as a reviewer for American Journal of Cultural Sociology and RELA.
