

Doctoral student
Research areas
- Documentation
- Bureaucracy
- Public Administration
- Material Culture
- Sociology of Knowledge
- Ethnographic method
Current research
My thesis work grapples with a familiar yet perplexing problem: that of the prolific demands for documentation placed on professionals in public institutions. Swedish education authorities have sought, and failed, to remedy this problem for years, making Swedish compulsory schools particularly compelling sites for examining the issue. What is the allure of documentation in these settings? Through an ethnographic exploration of the everyday settings within the walls of the school, which is where complaints about a ‘burden of documentation’ often arise, my research seeks to understand the processes through which documents come to be simultaneously constituted as coveted and detested.
Publications
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Tenacious Documents : Exploring the Allure of Documentation in Swedish Compulsory Schools
Freja Morris
(2025) Lund Dissertations in Sociology
Dissertation
Background
My background is in the field of anthropology with a bachelor's degree from Lunds university and a master's degree from the University of Copenhagen.