Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr Stina Powell is a researcher and Head of Division at the Division of Environmental Communication within the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Stina’s research has a specific focus on gender and academic organisations and feminist perspectives on environmental governance and sustainable development. Her teaching focuses are on gender, organizations and environment at Master and graduate level. Stina has obtained Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Communication from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and prior to this she was awarded a Master of Science in Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies from Uppsala University. Stina’s PhD thesis examined how gender equality measures and discourses are reconciled with notions of merit in academia.
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Communication, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Master of Science in Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies, Uppsala University.
Teaching areas
- Gender and sustainability
- Gender and academia
- Organisations
- Environmental issues
Research areas
- Academic organisations and feminist perspectives
- Environmental governance
- Sustainable development
Key Research Publications
Peer reviewed articles
Powell, S. & Grubbström A. (under revision for publication) Leading gender equality change in higher education- the case of forestry. The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension.
Powell, S. & Arora Jonsson, S. (2021) The Conundrums of Formal and Informal Meritocracy: Dealing with Gender Segregation in the Academy. High Educ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-021-00719-2
Powell, S. & Grubbström, A. (2021) Att leda jämställdhetsarbete- vems ansvar är det när det kommer till kritan? En studie av jägmästarprogrammet vid SLU. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap.
Grubbström, A. & Powell S. (2020) Persistent norms and the #MeToo effect in Swedish forestry education. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. 35:5-6, 308-318, DOI: 10.1080/02827581.2020.1791243
Joosse S. & Powell, S. et al (2020) Critical, engaged and change-oriented scholarship in environmental communication. Six methodological dilemmas to think with. International Journal of Environmental Communication. 14:6, 758-771, DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2020.1725588
Powell, S. (2018) Gender Equality in Academia: Intentions and Consequences. The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations: Annual Review, 18:1. doi:https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/gender-equality-in-academia.
- Powell, R. Kløcker Larsen, A. de Bruin, S. Powell and C. Elrick-Barr (2017) Water Security in Times of Climate Change and Intractability: Reconciling Conflict by Transforming Security Concerns into Equity Concerns. Water, 9(12), 934; doi:10.3390/w9120934.
Klocker Larsen, R., S. Powell, T. Peterson, N. Sriskandarajah. (2010) Towards a learning model of ICT application for development: Lessons from a networked dialogue in Sweden. Information Communication and Society, 13(1):136–150
Powell, S. & Arora Jonsson, S. (in press) Den politiska korrekthetens etik. I: Swedish Participatory Action Research Community (SPARC) anthology. Studentlitteratur.
Powell, S., Ah-King, M. & Hussénius A. (2017) ‘Are we to become a gender university?’ Facets of resistance to a gender equality project. Gender, Work & Organization, 2017;1–17
Books and book chapters
Powell, S. (2016) Gender equality and meritocracy: Contradictory discourses in the academy, Department of Urban and Rural Development, SLU, ISBN: 978-91-576-8536-0.
Powell, S. & S. Arora-Jonsson (2015) The Ethics of Political Correctness, in: Understanding Social Science Research Ethics: Inter-disciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives for a Globalising World, Publisher: Routledge, Editors: K. Nakray, M. Alston and K. Whittenbury (eds). Preface by Dalai Lama.
Westberg L. & S. Powell (2015) Participate for Women's Sake? A Gender Analysis of a Swedish Collaborative Environmental Management Project. Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal, DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2015.1014594
Powell, S., Ah-King, M. (2013). A case study of integrating gender perspectives in teaching and in subject content at a natural science university in Sweden. International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 5:1 Sakkunniggranskad
Contact Dr Stina Powell via email Stina.Powell@slu.se.