Estrid Sørensen

Estrid Sirensen is currently a Research Associate in the Department of European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin. She is also Associate Professor at the Department of Learning in the School of Education at Aarhus University, Denmark. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen, where she was a research leader in the EU-funded project '5D - Local Learning Communities in a Global World.' Previously, she was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster University, and she has held various other research and teaching positions at universities in Berlin and Denmark. She also worked on research projects concerning protection of children from harmful media content as well as on computer game health information. Moreover, she has been a member of the Danish film classification board. In 2006 Professor Sirensen was granted the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. She has contributed to several edited volumes and to many peer-reviewed journals, including Comparative Sociology, Forum Qualitative Social Research, Nordisk Psykologi, Nordiske Udkast - Tidsskrift for kritisk samfundsforskning, Outlines - Critical Social Studies, and Psyke og Logos.