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Pernille Svare Nygaard

Title

Postdoc, Cand.mag. i Europæisk Etnologi

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Areas of expertise

  • Women's educational history
  • Feminist theory
  • Educational history
  • School development
  • Educational history
  • Gender history

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Research

I am currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher on the project Edutopias. Reforms of Everyday School Practices. Denmark 1945–1975, which investigates Danish school reforms during the post-war period and their impact on human relations, spatial arrangements, and material practices in everyday school life.

In April 2025, I completed my PhD on the history of women's education in Denmark between 1938 and 1968. The dissertation examined women trained in either nursing or home economics who chose to pursue further academic studies within their respective fields at Aarhus University. The project focused particularly on how these women experienced and understood the early academicisation of two gendered professional fields, as well as on the methodological and archival-theoretical approaches underpinning the research.

Teaching activities

I am a trained ethnologist from the University of Copenhagen (BA 2014 + MA 2016). In addition, I have a professional degree in Nutrition and Health from Copenhagen University of Applied Sciences (Suhr's Seminarium) (2010), and a diploma in pedagogy and didactics (2020).

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