These are my main organised and funded research projects:
- Rethinking Cultural Theory (2015-2016). RJ Sabbatical project, including a semester as visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam.
- Mediatisation Times (2013-2016). Twenty scholars in a network studying the times of mediatisation and the mediatisation of time.
- Narratives of Europe (2012-2017). Six scholars studying East European narratives of Europe in philosophy, movements, news, literature, art and popular music.
- Culturalisation and globalisation (2008-2012). Exchange between Sweden and Australia, involving scholars from Linköping University and the University of Western Sydney.
- Two cultural towns (2002-2006). Historical and ethnographic studies of local cultural policy and cultural life in Linköping and Norrköping.
- Popular Passages: Media in the modern space of consumption (1996-2004). Intermedial and collective ethnographic project where fifteen researchers from different disciplines studied media consumption in a shopping centre, inspired by Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. Swedish final report.
- Digital Borderlands: Cultural identity and interactivity in new communication media (1998-2002). Five media scholars doing Internet research.
- Cultural production and cultural work (1999-2003). An effort to build a research programme at the National Institute for Working Life in Norrköping, involving a handful of researchers.
- Advancing Cultural Studies in Sweden (1995-2002). Initiated the establishment of the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden ACSIS.
- Networks for youth culture research, including Youth Culture at Stockholm University USU (1987-1990), Youth Culture in Sweden FUS (1987-1994) and the Swedish association of youth culture researchers SUF (1994-1999). More than 70 researchers in various networks.
- Cultural production and reception in three youth groups (1985-1987). Three researchers in an ethnographic study of identity work in rock music.
- The Swedish alternative music movement (1978-1985). Research on the problematics of forming a counter-public sphere.