

Background
I earned my PhD at Linnaeus University, Växjö. The thesis, which is available for purchase online, is called Femininity at Work: Gender, Labour, and Changing Relations of Power in a Swedish Hospital (for a description of the book, visit http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0950017015569834 )
I have been a member of the teaching staff at the Department of Gender Studies since 2013, where I am also Director of Studies.
Research Areas
- Work and organisation
- Public Sector, healthcare
- Emotional labour
- Management regimes
- Political economy
Ongoing Research Projects
I am currently involved in two research projects funded by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working life and Welfare.
The first one is based on Hirschman’s (1970) model of exit, voice and loyalty, and explores employee turnover among nurses and social workers in the Swedish public sector. Together with Magnus Sandberg (Faculty of Medicine) and Paula Mulinari (Malmö University), I collect survey-, interview- and observational data on working conditions, management regimes and employee responses. The aim is to understand why nurses and social workers report higher turnover rates and workforce attrition. The project is guided by an intersectional perspective, meaning we study the role of gender, class, ethnicity and age in choosing exit, voice, or loyalty. The project runs through 2020. https://sortiochprotest.com
The other project starts during 2019 and explores voluntary part-time work. Mimmi Barmark, Department of Sociology, is PI and together we will collect survey-, register based- and interview data to analyse the effects of part-time work on different groups of workers. Do part-time workers experience increased well-being and greater life satisfaction? And if so, what circumstances, including social position, material life conditions and values, contribute to determining the outcomes of part-time work?
I have a third project that deals with nail salons. I’m interested in labour processes, working conditions, new forms of labour and consumption and ethnic nisches on the Swedish labour market. This project is based on interview data.
Publications
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Exit spirals in hospital clinics: Conceptualizing turnover contagion among nursing staff
Rebecca Selberg, Paula Mulinari
(2022) Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 21 p.87-107
Journal article‘Exploring Narratives of Death’ (END): A case study of researcher experiences in studying dying, death and grief in an interdisciplinary setting
Rebecca Selberg, Jamie Woodworth, Jimmie Kristensson, Birgit Rasmussen
(2022) Mortality
Journal articleKuratorns roll i vårdens moraliska ekonomi - en kritisk analys av det reproduktiva arbetets värdering
Rebecca Selberg
(2022) Socialmedicinsk tidskrift, 99 p.87-98
Journal articleSkräcken i patientens ögon: "Vad händer med mig?"
Rebecca Selberg
(2022) Sydsvenskan Kultur
Newspaper articleSveriges första kvinnliga läkare ogillade aborter
Rebecca Selberg
(2022) Expressen
Newspaper articleRebecca Selberg & Maureen Mo Kasaku
Rebecca Selberg, Maureen Kasaku
(2022) Post Rosa: Letters Against Barbarism , p.55-88
Book chapterSjuksköterskeyrket som professionellt projekt - en feministisk analys av en vårdprofession
Rebecca Selberg
(2021) Genus och professioner , p.89-116
Book chapterTrigger warnings – om undervisning och politisk gränshållning i 2020-talets sociala landskap
Rebecca Selberg
(2021) Högre utbildning, 11 p.87-87
Journal articleContradictions in care: Ward nurses’ experiences of work and management in the Swedish public sector
Rebecca Selberg, Magnus Sandberg, Paula Mulinari
(2021) Nora: nordic journal of feminist and gender research
Journal articleSverige var likgiltigt inför judarnas öde (recension av Henrik Berggrens Landet utanför del 2, Norstedts)
Rebecca Selberg
(2021) Expressen
Newspaper articleUnderbetalda omsorgsarbetare kommer leda klimatupproret
Rebecca Selberg
(2020) Expressen
Newspaper articleThe 'crisis of care' and the neoliberal restructuring of the public sector: a feminist Polanyian analysis
Rebecca Selberg
(2020) Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today : Essential writings on intersectionality, labour and ecofeminism , p.167-187
Book chapterFeminism, National Movements, and European Questions: A Roundtable coordinated by Heidemarie Ambrosch and Barbara Steiner
Rebecca Selberg, Agnieszka Mrozik, Valeriya Utkina, Nora García, Selin Cagatay, et al.
(2020) Europe in the Brave New World : Transform! Yearbook 2020 , p.203-223
Report chapterThe midwife case and conscientious objection: new ways of framing abortion in Sweden
Rebecca Selberg
(2020) International Feminist Journal of Politics, 22 p.312-334
Journal articleWhat works in work? Real utopias and the need for social transformation in care work
Rebecca Selberg, Magnus Sandberg, Paula Mulinari
(2020)
Conference paper: abstractImproving the quality of healthcare through interdisciplinary education - a collaboration between Medicine and Gender Studies
Rebecca Selberg, Maria Wemrell
(2019)
Conference paper: abstractThe Crisis of Care - Caring Against Crisis : Professional Responses to Austerity Politics in Female Dominated Welfare Professions
Rebecca Selberg, Paula Mulinari, Magnus Sandberg
(2019)
Conference paper: abstractScheduling conflicts in the low-wage labor force: the case of Swedish and US women
Rebecca Selberg, Irene Padavic, Katherine Tindell
(2019)
Conference paper: abstractAtt komma till rätta med könsobalans i akademin: Vad kan Lunds Universitet göra?
Rebecca Selberg, Terese Anving
(2018)
ReportMaria Carbin, Johanna Overud och Elin Kvist, Feminism som lönearbete. Stockholm: Leopard, 2017. : Recension
Rebecca Selberg
(2017) Sociologisk Forskning, 54 p.390-393
ReviewAnti-abortion Politics via (Labor) Law : A Discursive Opportunity Structure in the ‘Woman Friendly’ Welfare State?
Rebecca Selberg, Niklas Selberg
(2016)
Conference - otherFör ett bättre Lunds universitet nu
Daniel Möller, Jessica Abbott, Thomas Björklund, Paul Caplat, Markus Gunneflo, et al.
(2015) LUM: Lunds Universitets Magasin , p.34-34
Journal articleKvinna och ”brytare”? Förhållningssätt och strategier bland kvinnliga ledare vid Lunds universitet
Rebecca Selberg
(2014) I spänningen mellan policy och villkorad närvaro: minoritiserade grupper i en neoliberal akademi
Book chapterErfarenhet som feministiskt begrepp – kön, medvetande och handling i institutionell etnografi
Rebecca Selberg
(2014) Kritiska gemenskaper – att skriva feministisk och postkolonial vetenskap
Book chapterInterpellation, normative femininity and compliance in the neoliberal public sector: the case of nurses
Rebecca Selberg
(2014)
Conference paperNursing in Times of Neoliberal Change: An Ethnographic Study of Nurses' Experiences of Work Intensification
Rebecca Selberg
(2013) Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 3 p.9-35
Journal articleIntersectional directions in working life research - a proposal
Paula Mulinari, Rebecca Selberg
(2013) Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 3 p.81-98
Journal articleEmbodied careers in nursing - understanding embodied aspects of increased professional differentiation under NPM reform in Sweden
Rebecca Selberg
(2013)
Conference paper: abstractFemininity at Work - Gender, Labour, and Changing Relations of Power in a Swedish Hospital
Rebecca Selberg
(2012)
DissertationArbete - intersektionella perspektiv
(2011)
BookAt bryta in i ledarskap - kvinnor och ledarkarriärer vid Lunds universitet
Rebecca Selberg
(2011) Rapport inom ramen för projektet: En öppen akademi
ReportWhy Nurses Sometimes Cry. Calls for Recognition, Redistribution and Doubled Edged Solidarity Among Overworked Nurses
Rebecca Selberg
(2010) From Linnaeus to the Future(s) - Letters from Afar
Book chapterFemininity at Work - Capturing Femininity with Institutional Ethnography?
Rebecca Selberg
(2009)
Conference paperFemininity and Feminist Consciousness among Swedish Female Healthcare Workers
Rebecca Selberg
(2007)
Conference paper