LINDA SONERYD PhD (Örebro, 2002) and associate professor docent (Stockholm, 2008) in sociology. From 2003 to 2011 held a research position at Score (Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research) and a few years she also worked as research director and deputy director. In the Spring-Summer 2011 she was a visiting fellow of Technische Universität Berlin and was also involved in teaching this time at Universität Bielefeld. From September 2011 Soneryd works as a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg.
Teaching and tutoring
Teaches and tutors in qualitative method, sociology of the environment, and sociology.
Specialist fields
Public participation, sociology of the environment, risk regulation.
Current research
- Governance of transboundary risk: The Göta Älv water system (2013-2016, Formas)
- Enacting legitimate concerns: constituting and managing stakeholder involvement (2014-2016, Formas)
- The environmental movement in a globalizing world: institutionalization and/or transformation? (2012-2015, project leader Håkan Thörn, VR)
- Public Discourse and Environmental Risks: Exploring a gas pipeline plan and flooding scenarios in the Baltic Sea Region. (2010-2014, Project leader Anna-Maria Jönsson, Södertörn högskola, Östersjöstiftelsen).
Selected publications
Journal articles
Henrik Ifflander & Linda Soneryd (2014) ”The relative power of environmental assessment as a governance tool: organization and the case of the Nord Stream gas pipeline”, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 32:2, 98-107, DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2014.896083
Wärnbäck, Antoienette, Linda Soneryd & Tuija Hilding-Rydevik (2013) ”Shared practice and converging views in nuclear waste management: Long-term relations between implementer and regulator in Sweden”, Environment & Planning A, 45 (9): 2212-2226
Elam, Mark, Linda Soneryd & Göran Sundqvist (2010) “Demonstrating Nuclear Fuel Safety – Validating New Build: The Enduring Template of Swedish Nuclear Waste Management” Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 7, 3: 197-210
Soneryd, Linda (2007) “Deliberations over the unknown, the unsensed and the unsayable? Public protests and the 3G development in Sweden”, Science, Technology and Human Values 32 (3): 287-314
Lezaun, Javier & Soneryd, Linda (2007) “Consulting citizens: technologies of elicitation and the mobility of publics”, Public Understanding of Science, 16: 279-297
Soneryd, Linda (2004) “Hearing as a way of dwelling. The active sense-making of Environmental risk and nuisance”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 22 (5): 737-753
Soneryd, Linda & Weldon, Sue (2003) “Noise and newts: public engagement in the UK and Sweden”, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 23 (1): 17-37
Lidskog, Rolf & Soneryd, Linda (2000) “Transport infrastructure investments and environmental impact assessment in Sweden. Public involvement or public exclusion?”, Environment and Planning A, 32 (8): 1465-1479
Monographies
Soneryd, Linda och Uggla, Ylva (2011) (O)Möjliga livsstilar. Samhällsvetenskapliga perspektiv på individualiserat miljöansvar, Lund: Studentlitteratur
Lidskog, Rolf, Linda Soneryd & Ylva Uggla (2009) Transboundary Risk Governance, Earthscan
Edited volumes
Sundström, Göran, Linda Soneryd & Staffan Furusten (editors) (2010) Organizing Democracy. The Construction of Agency in Practice, Edward Elgar Publishing
Book chapters
Uggla, Ylva & Soneryd, Linda (2014) “Ekonomi och Miljö” i Ekonomisk Sociologi – En introduktion, red. Larsson B, Daod, A och Azarian, R, Liber, pp. 214-229
Soneryd, Linda & Lidskog, Rolf (2008) “Accountability, public involvement and (ir)reversibility,” in Boström, Magnus & Garsten, Christina & (eds), Organizing Transnational Accountability, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp: 194-209
Soneryd, Linda (2008) “A traumatising transparency exercise on mobile phones and health” in Christina Garsten and Monica Lindh de Montoya (eds), Transparency in a new global order: unveiling organizational visions, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp: 223-240
