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Tanja Joelsson is an Associate Professor in Child and Youth Studies at Stockholm University's Department of Child and Adolescent Studies. She holds a PhD in Gender Studies (Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities) from Linköping University. Her work bridges multiple disciplines including cultural geography, mobility studies, feminist theory, and gender studies. Current research focuses on mobility justice, urban infrastructure equity, and children/youth's everyday mobility practices. She leads/co-leads projects funded by Formas and Vinnova, examining topics like family mobility in deprived areas and autonomous vehicles' societal impacts.
Her teaching includes courses on childhood studies methodologies, spatial analysis, and policy applications. She actively supervises doctoral candidates and advises master’s students. Notable collaborations include work with GEXCEL's Violent Mobilities strand and the BUB network (Children in Built Environments). Recent publications explore smart cities through a child-centric lens, parental affective practices shaping child mobility, and intersections of gender with transport systems.
Her research portfolio spans 15 years, including ethnographic studies of young men’s risk behaviors with vehicles, mobile preschools’ educational impacts, and transport poverty. Projects emphasize qualitative methods focusing on lived experiences across ages/social groups. Current initiatives test public transport solutions tailored for children’s needs in Ånge Municipality and analyze mobility hubs in urban contexts.
