Björn Bradling

Björn Bradling is a teaching and learning doctoral student and part of the research school “Culturally Empowering Education through Language and Literature”. The position is based on a co-operation between Jönköping University and the University of Borås. He also works as an upper secondary school lecturer in the subject of Swedish.

Bradling's main research focus is aimed at upper secondary literature teaching and learning, and is inspired by the pedagogical idea of transformative learning and by comparative literature. In 2020, Bradling graduated from the third cycle programme with a licentiate thesis on how the novel Let the Right One In (Ajvide Lindqvist, 2004) can be used to bring about transformative learning in the upper secondary subject of Swedish. Before that Bradling published a chapter (co-written with Lindberg 2018) about critical perspectives as advanced reading strategies in an anthology, and thereafter (2021) an article about the relationship between so called Viking-rock and the changing Swedish political landscape. His current research targets learning possibilities through world literature teaching in upper secondary school.