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Kristina Ström is a University Researcher at the Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies, Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Her work focuses on special education, inclusive practices, and educational support in rural and vocational contexts across Nordic countries. She actively collaborates on international research projects and serves on doctoral examination committees.
Her research centers on special education, inclusive education, co-teaching dynamics, rural schooling challenges, and vocational didactics. She employs qualitative methodologies including discourse analysis and semi-structured interviews to examine special educators' experiences, policy implementation gaps, and support systems for students with special needs. Her work emphasizes practical applications in Nordic educational settings with particular attention to Finnish and Swedish contexts.
Analysis of her 2023-2025 publications reveals consistent focus on rural special education consultation models, cross-national comparisons of special education professions, and co-teaching implementation challenges. Her research demonstrates strong methodological coherence through discourse analytics and qualitative examination of educator perspectives, highlighting systemic barriers in inclusive education while proposing context-specific solutions for rural and vocational settings.
Scientific awards: None mentioned in available documentation.
Ström serves as Co-Principal Investigator for the SIGHT project (2021-2024) funded by The Higher Education Foundation of Ostrobothnia and Swedish Cultural Foundation. She has supervised doctoral candidates as committee member for PhD defenses (2022, 2025), served as Routledge editor (2020-2021), and evaluated educational sciences programs. Her academic service includes invited presentations on special education research and sloyd education at Åbo Akademi.
