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Jeanette Sjöberg has a PhD in Child and youth science (2010) and is an associate professor and in pedagogy at Halmstad University. She has been active as head of Centre for educational development (HPC) since 2014 and as an education coordinator for the focus area Smart cities and communities since 2022. In addition, she is also active as theme leader for theme 2 within the research program LeaDS (Learning in a Digitalised Society); Digitization and learning in higher education, and as a pedagogical strategist in the project MAISTR (Data analytics and service innovation based on artificial intelligence), financed by the KK Foundation. She previously served as a member of the university's research and education board (FUN) between 2017-2022 and as a board member of the national network Swednet between 2015-2022.

Jeanette has been involved in the research program LeaDs since its start on September 1, 2022. The research program addresses questions about how digitization changes the conditions for teaching and learning, as well as the competence of people and organizations to handle digital environments. Jeanette's research interests consist of three different main directions: applied media pedagogy, applied higher education pedagogy and practical research in collaboration with municipal actors. Within the framework of these orientations, she has been involved in several different research projects,

Since 2022, Jeanette is one of three researchers working in the project Virtual learning environments as support for students' knowledge development in study guidance in the mother tongue (VRiS), a project funded by ULF (for more information about ULF, see below). She is also part of the Nordic network EDUCERE Nordic - Development speeded up by necessity: Digitalization and future of Nordic higher education, which is funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR).