Completed dissertations 2009 - 2023

  1. Becoming at home in a globalised world: Citizenship and inclusion in relation to cultural diversity within the context of Icelandic education
    • Eva Harðardóttir [PhD Dissertation]. 2023
  2. Experience of mothers of Polish origin from low-income households of parental duties in Icelandic compulsory education in the capital area : social class, social and migrant capital
    • Joanna Ewa Dominiczak [MA Thesis]. 2023
  3. Crafting one´s own narrative: High-income immigrant parental choices and practices relative to Icelandic compulsory schooling
    • Angela Marie Shapow [MA Thesis]. 2021
  4. Fathers‘ parental role in their children’s primary school education
    • Kolbrún Þórhildur Gunnarsdóttir [MA Thesis]. 2021
  5. Choices and dilemmas – Reproduction of classed and gendered power relations through parental practices
    • Auður Magndís Auðardóttir [PhD Dissertation]. 2021
  6. “I don´t want them to experience the same as me”: working-class mothers: childhood experience, activity and participation in the child’s schooling
    • Björk Alfreðsdóttir [MA Thesis]. 2021
  7. Power of love: The idea of romantic love in a cultural and feminist context
    • Brynhildur Björnsdóttir [MA Thesis]. 2020
  8. Students with challenging behavior in primary school: impressions and experience of classroom teachers
    • Ragna Lára Jakobsdóttir [MA Thesis]. 2019
  9. Professional working conditions in Icelandic upper-secondary schools during the last twenty years: perspectives of teachers and governors
    • Ásgerður Bergsdóttir [MA Thesis]. 2019
  10. “We are in a privileged neighborhood”: the working conditions and professional autonomy of teachers in middle class neighborhoods
    • Sólveig Edda Ingvarsdóttir [MA Thesis]. 2018
  11. Teacher´s working condition and professional autonomy in schools located in disadvantaged school area in Reykjavik, Iceland
    • Jóhanna Sveinbjörnsdóttir [MA Thesis]. 2017
  12. “Between a rock and a sledgehammer”: Teachers‘ experience of obstacles to reach inclusivity at the end of the compulsory school
    • Guðbjörg Ólafsdóttir [MA Thesis]. 2017
  13. Habitus of Icelandic Opera Singers and Experience in the Field of Work
    • Ása Fanney Gestsdóttir [MA Thesis]. 2017
  14. “She definitely is ahead of her peers who are still in kindergarten”: parents choosing a privately run elementary school for five year old instead of kindergarten enrollment in their catchment area
    • Júlíana Vilhjálmsdóttir [MA Thesis]. 2016
  15. “It is difficult to rhyme it with typical schooling”: Something special for students who do not have access to integrated upper secondary school programs for students with intellectual disabilities
    • Helga Þórey Júlíusdóttir [MA Thesis]. 2016
  16. Teaching Materials on Gender Equality
    • Þóra Þorsteinsdóttir [MA Thesis]. 2016
  17. Mothering practices and collaboration with professionals to secure their autistic children‘s schooling and professional services
    • Helga Hafdís Gísladóttir [MA Thesis]. 2015
  18. East-European middle-class mothering in the Icelandic school context
    • Aase Vivaas [MA Thesis]. 2015
  19. “Aðalmálið var að halda haus”: upplifun sjö til átta ára sveitabarna af heimavistarskóla á sjöunda áratugnum (“The main thing was to keep your head”: the experience of seven- to eight-year-olds from a boarding school in the sixties)
    • Sveinbjörg Zophoníasdóttir [BEd Thesis]. 2015
  20. Lok, lok og læs og allt í stáli : umfjöllun um frjálsan og opinn hugbúnað í skólastarfi (A discussion of free and open source software in schools)
    • Sverrir Hrafn Steindórsson [BEd Thesis]. 2015
  21. Námsframvinda þriggja árganga í Fjölbrautaskóla Suðurlands: í ljósi kenninga um félagasauð (Academic progress of three cohorts at Fjölbrautaskóli Suðurlands: in the light of theories about social capital)
    • Kristjana Sigríður Skúladóttir [MA Thesis]. 2014
  22. Birtingarmyndir vanrækslu og tilkynningarskylda í grunnskólum (Manifestations of neglect and reporting obligation in primary schools)
    • Berglind Dögg Einisdóttir [BEd Thesis]. 2014
  23. Brúðuleikhús sem námstæki og frásagnaraðferð: átaksverkefni gegn líkamlegu og kynferðislegu ofbeldi gagnvart börnum (Puppet theater as a learning tool and narrative method: an initiative against physical and sexual violence against children)
    • Guðrún Edda Bjarnadóttir [BEd Thesis]. 2014
  24. Hvernig hafa bakgrunns- og áhættuþættir áhrif á atvinnuþáttöku nemenda (How do background and risk factors affect students’ employment)
    • Guðrún Markúsdóttir [BEd Thesis]. 2014
  25. “Þetta er svo mikið strákaveldi”: innsýn í kynjaheima dægurtónlistar á Íslandi (“This is so much boyhood”: an insight into the gender worlds of popular music in Iceland)
    • Hildur Vala Einarsdóttir [BEd Thesis]. 2013
  26. Hegðun nemenda í bekkjarstarfi og orðræður um kyngervi. Fræðileg umfjöllun út frá póststrúktúralísku sjónarhorni (Behavior of students in class and discourse on gender. Theoretical discussion from a post-structuralist perspective)
    • Sandra Rut Skúladóttir [BEd Thesis]. 2009

Ongoing dissertation supervisions:

  1. Kynverund og ástir ungmenna í íslenskum síðnútíma: Orðræða, leikreglur og valdatengsl
    • Unnur Edda Garðarsdóttir [PhD Dissertation]
  2. Immigrant parent involvement in Icelandic schools: Exploring cultural power relations and challenging
    the land of educational equality
    • Elizabeth Lay [PhD Dissertation]