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Moa Lindqvist serves as Project coordinator at Uppsala University's Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society (CIRCUS), leveraging her PhD in educational sociology to examine higher education transformations through historical, sociological, and rhetorical lenses. She teaches history of education, sociology of education, and rhetoric at Uppsala's teacher education programs and Department of Literary Studies and Rhetoric, extending her expertise to the University of Gävle.
Her academic foundation includes a Bachelor's Program in Rhetorical and Literary Communication and a Master's in humanities with rhetoric specialization, both from Uppsala University.
Lindqvist's research dissects Swedish higher education reforms by analyzing consultation statements and policy evolution from 1969–2007, revealing power dynamics between stakeholders and institutional governance. She investigates how financing models, organizational structures, and recruitment practices reshape academic environments while documenting silenced voices in university discourse.
Her scholarly output demonstrates consistent focus on socio-rhetorical analysis of educational policy, with recent works tracing 70 years of Swedish higher education development. These publications highlight tensions between state regulation and academic autonomy, particularly regarding budget constraints and stakeholder negotiations in reform processes.
As an active public intellectual, Lindqvist supervises student essays and contributes to national debates through op-eds in Svenska Dagbladet and Upsala Nya Tidning, addressing doctoral student conditions and academic freedom erosion. Her Curie Talks participation underscores commitment to transparent research culture.
Embedded within CIRCUS—an interdisciplinary hub fostering humanities-social sciences collaboration—Lindqvist bridges academic research with societal engagement through structured rhetoric workshops and policy-oriented knowledge dissemination.
