Children, (Visual) Culture and Consumption

How do children participate in, and are made part of, different cultural and commercial practices? By focusing on contemporary and historical aspects, everyday visual, material and consumer cultural practices are examined.

Research projects

Children and sexuality

What do children know about sexuality? Do they know anything? What should they know? Recent research points out that even young children between six and twelve years old relate to the topic of sex and sexuality on an everyday basis.

Children as professional influencers and internet celebrities

As the digital society evolves, the meaning of being a child is also challenged. Social media is a central part of the everyday life of Swedish children. The number of children identifying themselves as professional influencers is increasing.

Hands in white gloves holding children's drawings.

Children’s Cultural Heritage

This project addresses the urgent task of exploring how to integrate Swedish children’s cultural heritage and make it an indisputable part of Swedish cultural heritage by asking: what rights do children have to their own cultural heritage?

Learning to Communicate and Collaborate through Bodily Expression and Art

In this project artists and pedagogues engage in developing an innovative methodology that will empower young people who may be facing fewer opportunities and social exclusion, particularly those with minority or migrant background.

Researchers

Deputy Dean, Professor

Yelyzaveta Hrechaniuk

Postdoc

Johanna Sjöberg

Associate Professor, Head of Unit, Docent

Organisation

Silhouettes of several children in the sunset

Child Studies (TEMAB)

Education and research at Child Studies is about childhood and family with a focus on interaction and language, children's culture and consumption, and childhood over time and space, all to better see the perspectives of children and young people.

Drone image of the Tema building at Campus Valla

Department of Thematic Studies (TEMA)

In an increasingly complicated world, there is a need for researchers that can handle both breadth and depth, and can collaborate across disciplinary borders. Major societal questions are studied from an interdisciplinary perspective at TEMA.