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Johanna Lönngren is an Associate Professor at Umeå University with a focus on engineering education, particularly on sustainable development and the role of emotions in the educational process. She is actively involved in the Umeå Science Education Research (UmSER) group, working to prepare engineering students to take responsibility for the impacts of technology on society and the environment. Her research emphasizes the importance of addressing 'wicked problems'—complex issues that arise when dealing with sustainability and ethical considerations in engineering. Lönngren's methodological approaches include phenomenography, action research, and ethnography, with a particular focus on discourse analytic techniques to analyze interview data. She has developed and taught courses on sustainability, ethics, and pedagogy, helping PhD students enhance their academic writing. Moreover, she collaborates with teachers and program developers to improve educational practices and has created online resources for teaching on sustainability. Her ongoing research project examines how emotional positioning can scaffold teaching and learning in relation to wicked sustainability problems, with funding from the Swedish Science Council.
Requirements are standard for Master's programs across Social Sciences and Humanities at Umeå. English 6 proficiency is the general rule.