Research Projects

As project leader or project member

2023-2026. ReSource: Transforming Reading and Source Criticism in Digital Cultures. National research school funded by the Swedish Research Council. Coordinator Anna Lundh, project members Rickard Danell, Joacim Hansson, Isto Huvila, Jan Nolin, Pamela Schultz Nybacka, and Olof Sundin.

2023-2025.  Instructions for reading at home: The shaping of domestic reading practices in the Swedish welfare state, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ). Project leader Åse Hedemark, project members Linnéa Lindsköld and Anna Lundh.

2023. Digital reading by listening among students who are blind or vision impaired, funded by the Centre for Welfare Studies at the University of Borås. Project leader Anna Lundh, project partner the Swedish Agency for Accessible Media.

2018-2020. The making of the reading citizen: Public debate and policy 1945-2017, funded by the Swedish Research Council. Project leader Åse Hedemark, project members Linnéa Lindsköld and Anna Lundh.

2014-2020. Learning to read talking books: The documentary practices of children with print disabilities, funded by the Curtin Research Fellowship.

2017. Accessible media use. Contract research for the Swedish Agency of Accessible Media, MTM, for conducting a literature review.

2013-2015 (extended to 2017 due to parental leave). Reading, traditions and negotiations: Reading activities in Swedish classrooms 1967-1969, funded by the Swedish Research Council. Project leader Anna Lundh, project member Mats Dolatkhah, research assistant Linnéa Lindsköld.

2013. Swedish school libraries in changing political and pedagogical landscapes, funded by the National Library of Sweden. Project leader and co-editor Louise Limberg, project member and co-editor Dr Anna Lundh, project members Helena Francke, Mats Dolatkhah, and Cecilia Gärdén.

2012. Talking books and reading children. Contract research for the Swedish Agency of Accessible Media, MTM, for writing a research report.

2007-2011. Doing research in primary school: Information activities in project-based learning. PhD project funded by the Swedish School of Library and Information Science and the Swedish Centre of Excellence LinCS. Supervisors: Louise Limberg and Mikael Alexandersson.

Involvement in other research projects

Collaboration between child health centres and libraries for children’s language development: Research and best practice (Samverkan BVC-bibliotek för barns språkutveckling: Forskning och best practice), funded by the County Library, Region Halland, Sweden and the Swedish Arts Council. Anna Lundh was involved in the latter stages of this project as research consultant in 2013.

Expertise, authority and control on the Internet: A study of the formation of source credibility in Web 2.0 environments for learning, funded by the Swedish Research Council. Project leader Olof Sundin, project members Helena Francke, Louise Limberg, and Mikael Alexandersson. Anna Lundh was involved as research assistant in 2012.

Educators’ roles in children’s development of information literacy, funded by Södra Älvsborgs Forskningsstiftelse. Project leader Louise Limberg. Anna Lundh was involved as research assistant in 2006.

The contents and tools of learning (Lärandets innehåll och redskap), funded by Stiftelsen FöreningsSparbanken Sjuhärad. Project leader Louise Limberg, project member Birgitta Davidsson. Lena Tyrén and Anna Lundh were involved as research assistants in 2005-2006.

Information seeking in the transition from education to occupational practice, funded by the Swedish Knowledge Foundation and part of the research programme Libraries, ICT and learning. Programme leader Louise Limberg, project leader Olof Sundin. Anna Lundh was involved as research assistant in 2004-2006.