Curriculum vitae

Victoria Wibeck Department of Thematic Studies (ITUF) Linköping University SE-581 83 Linköping Sweden

E-mail: [email protected]

Date of birth: September 4, 1974

Akademic degrees

1996 BA, Spanish literature, Linköping University 1997 MA, Communication Studies, Linköping University 2002 Ph D, Communication Studies, Linköping University. Dissertation: Genmat i fokus. Analyser av fokusgruppssamtal om genförändrade livsmedel. (Genetically Modified Food in Focus. Analyses of focus group discussions.) Supervisors: Prof. Viveka Adelswärd och Prof. Per Linell, Dept. of Communication Studies.

Academic work experience

1997.1998 Employee on project basis, Department of Communication Studies, Linköping University. 1998.2002 Ph.D. student at the Department of Communication Studies (maternity leave May, 2000- March, 2001) 2002 September-October: Employee on project basis, Föreningen Vetenskap & Allmänhet. 2002 November-August, 2003: Employee on project basis, Department of Communication Studies (maternity leave February, 2003 - December, 2003). 2003 September - (part time during maternity leave) December 2004: Employee on project basis, Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University. 2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Thematic Studies/ The Swedish Institute for Climate Science and Policy Research

Teaching experience

- Invited as a guest lecturer to about 10 Swedish Universities. - Lectures, seminars and supervision, Department of Communication Studies, Department of Thematic Studies (Environmental Science Programme). - Lectures and seminars at courses in molecular biology (ethical and social aspects of gene technology), Linköping University and Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet, Alnarp. - Lectures at international workshops on qualitative methodology for Ph D students, Lund University, 2001, Tromso University, 2004. - Planning and administration of a multidisciplinary seminar series called "Possibilities and risks connected to gene technology", Linköping University, 2001-2002. - Session leader at the session "Förändrat klimat - kommunikation som redskap?" ("Climate change - communication as a practical tool?"), the national conference Svenskt Miljöforum (Swedish Environmental Forum), August 27-28, Norrköping, Sweden. Participation in research projects

1998-2000: "Public perceptions of genetically modified food", Kunskapsplattform för livsmedelsbranschen (K LIV). (Project leader: Viveka Adelswärd) 2000-2002: "Are genes dangerous? An empirical study of the discourse on genetically modified food in Sweden", The national research program ELSA (Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of gene technology) (ELSA), supported by Stiftelsen för Strategisk Forskning. (Project leader: Viveka Adelswärd) 2003-2008?: "Enabling communication in the assessment of environmental goal achievement" (Project leader: Gunilla Öberg). The project is part of the research programme "Assessment of Environmental Goal Achievement under uncertainty" (Programme leader: Anders Grimwall). Naturvårdsverket.

Academic network

Member of the international group "Conversation et Langage", which has its meetings at the Laboratoire Européen de Psychologie Sociale, Maison des Sciences de l´Homme, Paris. The meetings aim to discuss and develop the theory of social representations and the use of focus groups. (Other members: Prof. Ivana Markovà, University of Stirling, Prof. Christian Hudelot, Dr Ann Salazar Orvig, Dr Nikos Kalampalikis, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Dr Birgitta Orfali, Sorbonne, Dr Sandra Jovchelovitch, London School of Economics, Dr Sarah Collins, University of York, Dr Jenny Kitzinger, Brunel University, Prof. Michèle Grossen, University of Lausanne, Prof. Per Linell, Linköping University.)

Publications

Wibeck, V, Forstorp, P & Economou, K (1998), En god affär i Motala. Journalisternas avslöjanden och läsarnas etik. SOU 1998:63. Stockholm: Fritzes Offentliga Publikationer. Wibeck, V (2000), Fokusgrupper. Om fokuserade gruppintervjuer som undersökningsmetod. Lund: Studentlitteratur. Wibeck, V (2001), "Berättelser om väntans tid. Kommunikativt hanterande av risk i fokusgruppssamtal om fosterdiagnostik". I: Socialmedicinsk tidskrift, 5:385-393. Wibeck, V (2002), Genmat i fokus. Analyser av fokusgruppssamtal om genförändrade livsmedel. (Dissertation). Linköping Studies in Arts and Science, 260. Linköpings universitet. Wibeck, V (2002), "Collecting and analysing focus group data". Working Paper Series from the EU research and training network Women in European Universities, http://www.women- eu.de/start.htm Wibeck, V (2002), "Landmärken och utflyktsstigar: hur deltagare i fokusgrupper samtalar om genförändrade livsmedel". In: Linell, P & Aronsson, K (eds.), Jagen och rösterna: Goffman, Viveka och samtalet. SIC 44, Linköpings universitet. Wibeck, V (2002), Forskares syn på samtal med allmänheten. En intervjustudie. VA-rapport 2002:3. Vetenskap & Allmänhet, Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien. Wibeck, V (2003), Genförändrad mat - vardagsmat? Åsikter och uppfattningar om genteknik och livsmedel. Lund: Studentlitteratur. Wibeck, V (2004), "Exploring focus groups: Analysing focus group data about genetically modified food." In: Aijmer, K (ed.), Dialogue Analysis VIII: Misunderstanding in Dialogue. Selected Papers from the 8th IADA Conference Göteborg 2001. Tübingen: Niemeyer. Wibeck, V, Adelswärd, V & Linell, P (2004), "Comprendre la complexité: Les focus groups comme espace de pensée et d'argumentation sur les aliments génétiquement modifiés". In: Bulletin de Psychologie, 57:253-261. Wibeck, V, Johansson, M, Larsson, A & Öberg, G (in press), “Communicative aspects of environmental managagement by objectives. Examples from the Swedish context”. To appear in: Environmental Management. Wibeck, V, Öberg, G & Abrandt Dahlgren, M (ms.), “Incentives for learning in focus groups: an analytical dimension for enhancing focus group research”. To be submitted to: Qualitative Research. Wibeck, V (ms.), “Images of environmental management. Competing metaphors in focus group discussions about the Swedish environmental quality objectives” Adelswärd, V, Holsánová, J & Wibeck, V (2002), "Virtual talk as a communicative resource. Explorations in the field of gene technology". In: Sprachtheorie und germanistische Linguistik, 12:3-26. Johansson, M, Wibeck, V & Öberg, G (2005), Vem äger frågan? Förutsättningar för kommunikation i svenskt miljömålsarbete. The Swedish Institute for Climate Science and Policy Research, report 05/02. Linell, P, Wibeck, V, Adelswärd, V & Bakshi, A (2001), "Arguing in conversation as a case of distributed cognition: Discussing biotechnology in focus groups". In: Németh, E (ed.), Cognition in Language Use: Selected Papers from the 7th International Pragmatics Conference. Vol. I. Amsterdam: International Pragmatics Association. 243-256.