Ann-Marie Eriksson

My teaching involves technical communication courses with the Electrical Engineering programme and the Architecture & Technology programme. Both these courses are designed as interdisciplinary modules where students work with communication assignments in English/Swedish as part of technical content projects. I also teach technical communication as standalone modules at Master’s level and I am a member of the Division’s tutoring team for Chalmers Bachelor's thesis projects in Swedish.

My research concerns students’ writing/learning processes and I am currently carrying out a PhD-project in this area. On the basis of socio-cultural and dialogic theories of learning, the project investigates how a group of MA engineering students approach a disciplinary field which is new to them through writing. Presently, I am working on a set of parallel studies that address the following: how genre and disciplinarity are mediated in relation to a writing project; how previous knowledge of a disciplinary field is recontextualised for new purposes; and, how socio-scientific claims are being shaped through writing.

Affiliations
The Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society (LinCS), University of Gothenburg
Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of  Gothenburg
CUL, The Centre for Educational Science and Teacher Research, University of Gothenburg