Mikael Sundström

Political Science

Main research or teaching areas

1. Intersection IT/Democracy
2. Leadership and Information security
3. Schooling and liberalisation
4. Party politics
5. International politics

Current research and teaching

1. Leadership and Information security
2. The Centre Party
3. Liberalisation of Swedish Schooling

Introduction

As a researcher, I am broadly speaking interested in political thought, and organisational politics and leadership theories, with a keen eye directed at party politics. I actually started out as an English major, switched to informatics before finally hitting the bull’s eye at the dept. of political science. I usually teach a variety of courses, though international politics and political communications are mainstays.

Between 2015 and 2022, I was the Director of Studies for Graduate School, which is an outfit organising everything related to four (soon five) international master programmes.

In 2020 I was appointed a University-wide coordinator for the many AI-related courses provided across the various faculties. This assignment ended in late 2021.

I then became project leader for Lund University’s EduLab project [3 minute video introduction here], and am also a work area lead in the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Education (WASP-ed) – initiative [information page here]. Both these responsibilities are ongoing.