2024-11- 08 Ulrika Sultan

09:00-10:00 Zoom Room

Ulrika Sultan is a lecturer at the School of Science and Technology, Örebro University. She has a PhD in technology education. Her extended bio can be found here.

In this seminar, she will share insights from critically examining the "non-technical girl" in Swedish technology education.

Ulrika's doctoral studies resulted in four papers exploring girls' engagement, self-image, and performativity in technology contexts. In her seminar, she will unpack each concepts even further by using WPR analysis. The results point to a need to rethink what we thought we knew. This talk will share what Ulrika learned about girls in technology and STEM and how the WPR helped her understanding.

Here is the link to her dissertation: 

and her other publications: 
I. Sultan, U., Axell, C., & Hallström, J. (2019). Girls’ engagement
with technology education: A scoping review of the
literature. Design and Technology Education: An International
Journal, 24(2), 20–41.
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1221436.pdf 
II. Sultan, U., Axell, C., & Hallström, J. (2020). Technical or not?
Investigating the self-image of girls aged 9 to 12 when
participating in primary technology education. Design and
Technology Education: An International Journal, 25(2), 175–
191. http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1265255.pdf 
III. Sultan, U., Axell, C., & Hallström, J. (2023). Bringing girls and
women into STEM?: Girls’ technological activities and
conceptions when participating in an all-girl technology
camp. International Journal of Technology and Design
Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-023-09831-z 
IV. Sultan, U. (2023). Gendering the curriculum. In A. Hardy
(Ed.), Debates in Design and Technology Education, Second
Edition. New York: Routledge.