Magnus Persson

Associate professor

Department of Social Studies Faculty of Social Sciences

magnus.x.persson@lnu.se

+46 470-76 74 46

Magnus Persson is an Associate Professor of Sociology. His research interests primarily concern the field of the sociology of education and professions, with a particular focus on teachers and police officers.

My ongoing research projects

Project: A valid police (education) The project examines and analyses academisation processes in police education and police organisation, focusing on the tension between different educational ideals…
Project: RECPOL SWEDEN – Recruitment, Education and Careers in the Police RECPOL — Recruitment, Education and Careers in the Police — police recruitment and socialization processes within police…
Project: Welfare professional decision-making – discretion, principles and programs The purpose of this project is to understand the relation between discretion, principles, and programs in welfare…

Publications

Article in journal (Refereed)

Jonsson, C., Persson, M. (2025). Managing Two Worlds. Role-Exit Processes among Swedish Police Officers with PhDs. Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing. 12 (1).
Status: Published
Persson, M. (2024). Crossing a social demarcation line : Students experience friction in the transformed Swedish higher education system. International Studies in Sociology of Education. 33 (1). 68-87.
Status: Published
Persson, M., Dannefjord, P. (2024). Teachers navigating the diversified Swedish school market: : Lock-in and exclusion in the local labour market. Education Inquiry.
Status: Epub ahead of print
Rosenlund, D., Persson, M. (2024). Historically restricted or historically empowered? : Differences in access to historical content knowledge between low- and high-SES pupils. Curriculum Journal. 35 (2). 220-236.
Status: Published
Dannefjord, P., Persson, M., Bertilsson, E. (2023). The immobility of the mobile teacher : How teachers change jobs in a segregated local school-market. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. 67 (7). 1013-1026.
Status: Published
Persson, M., Dannefjord, P. (2022). Teachers' professional dispositions : Foundations for the immobile mobility in the diversified Swedish school market. Social Sciences & Humanities Open. 6 (1).
Status: Published
Dannefjord, P., Persson, M. (2022). Teacher careers and professional dispositions in a diversified school market. Sociologisk forskning. 59 (1–2). 203-208.
Status: Published
Persson, M. (2021). 'I have neither his voice nor body' : upper secondary school teacher students experiencing gendered division of labor. Gender and Education. 33 (5). 547-561.
Status: Published
Johansson, K., Persson, M. (2019). Olika regimer, samma ledarskap : Om det lokala maktfältets logik på landsbygden i Moçambique. Praktiske Grunde. (3-4). 71-98.
Status: Published
Persson, M. (2018). Uppfinningen av ett skolämne: : Ett historiesociologiskt perspektiv på samhällskunskapsämnets logik. Nordidactica : Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education. (4). 160-183.
Status: Published
Persson, M. (2012). Seduced by Academia or Acting like a Fish in Water : Aspects on the Selection of the Swedish Upper Secondary Schoolteacher Programme. Kultura i Edukacja. 91 (5). 215-234.
Status: Published
Persson, M. (2009). Vägen till lärarutbildningen : Motiv och föreställningar hos blivande gymnasielärare vid Växjö universitet. Praktiske Grunde. (4). 59-76.
Status: Published

Article in journal (Other academic)

Persson, M. (2025). Sociologidagarna 2026 : Same as it ever was?. Sociologisk forskning. 62 (3). 311-313.
Status: Published

Chapter in book (Other academic)

Persson, M. (2021). Kärlek till sociologi : en biografisk illusion?. Ögonblick : En vänbok till Anders Persson om människor och deras möten. Lund, Institute for Educational Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. 29-38.
Persson, M. (2021). Ämnesläraryrkets manliga dominans av den kvinnliga majoriteten. Genus och professioner. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 47-70.
Persson, M. (2013). Gymnasielärarna. Studenterna och deras utbildningar vid ett nytt universitet. Lund, Arkiv förlag. 149-172.
Persson, M. (2010). De nya gymnasielärarstudenterna. Akademiska yrkesutbildningar i Växjö : Program, studenter och arbetsmarknad. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 41-46.

Conference paper (Refereed)

Jonsson, C., Persson, M. (2025). The Story of the Academic Densification of the Swedish Police Education. Presented at 8th Policing and Society Conference, Akureyri, 2-3 October, 2025.
Persson, M. (2025). From Social Origin to Academia : Types of Social Desynchronization among Swedish Higher Education Students. Presented at American Educational Research Association (AERA), Annual Meeting, Denver, USA, 23-27 April, 2025.
Persson, M., Dannefjord, P. (2025). Teachers’ Professional Dispositions and the Structure of the Segregated and Diversified Swedish School-market. Presented at British Sociological Association (BSA) Bourdieu study group mid term international conference, Vienna, Austria, 3-5 September, 2025.
Persson, M., Dannefjord, P. (2024). Att formas till lärare på den svenska skolmarknaden. Presented at Sociologidagarna, Göteborg, 13-15 mars, 2024.
Persson, M. (2024). Social Frictions at University : Swedish Students Experience Hysteresis-effects in a Transformed Higher Education System. .
Persson, M. (2024). Unveiling Grading Principles, Processes and Decision-making in the Swedish Teaching Profession. .
Flaatten, S., Winnæss, P., Damen, M., Jonsson, C., Persson, M. (2024). Recruitment, Education and Careers in the Police. Presented at the Policing and Society Conference, Akureyri, Iceland, 2-3 October, 2024.
Persson, M. (2023). Lärares betygsbeslut : principer, processer och diskretionärt handlingsutrymme. Presented at NORDPRO 2023 - Nordisk professionsforskningskonferens, Gothenburg, Sweden, November 22-23, 2023.
Jonsson, C., Persson, M. (2023). Academic Pioneers in the Swedish Police : Narratives of phantom pain, organizational pollution and social closure. LÖGGÆSLA OG SAMFÉLAGIÐ: Ofbeldi, 4. og 5. október 2023 : Agripaskra. 7-7.
Persson, M., Jonsson, C. (2022). Academic drift within the police education and the police profession in Sweden. LÖGGÆSLA OG SAMFÉLAGIÐ: Mannekla lögreglu, 5. og 6. október 2022 : Agripaskra. 7-8.
Persson, M., Olofsson, G. (2014). Lagt kort ligger inte : En studie av studenter på gymnasielärarutbildningen som söker sig till andra yrken. .
Persson, M. (2014). Socio-geographic Effects on Higher Education Choices. .
Persson, M. (2012). Should I stay or should I go? : How Choice to Become an Upper Secondary Schoolteacher are Socially Structured. .
Persson, M. (2011). The Genealogical Ghost : An Attempt to Enlarge the Understanding of the Drifting Social Recruitment Pattern of the Swedish Upper Secondary Schoolteacher Students. .
Persson, M. (2010). Disposed to the Vocation of Teaching?. .
Persson, M. (2009). Från nästippen till bortom horisonten : Motiv och föreställningar hos blivande gymnasielärare vid Växjö universitet. .
Persson, M. (2008). The Increased Client Control and the Deprofessionalized Secondary School Teacher. . 21.

Report (Other academic)

Jonsson, C., Persson, M. (2023). Förutsättningar att bedriva polisutbildning inom akademin. Växjö, Linnéuniversitetet. 14.
Dannefjord, P., Persson, M., Bertilsson, E. (2021). Den rörliga lärarens orörlighet : hur lärare byter jobb på en segregerad lokal skolmarknad. Linnaeus University. 31.

Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Persson, M., Rosenlund, D. (2024). How do socio-economic differences affect pupils' access to historical content knowledge.