Freja Morris

Research areas

• Science and Technology Studies (STS)
• Sociology of knowledge
• Knowledge production
• Governance
• Digitalisation
• Materiality
• Ethnography

Previous research

I defended my thesis in Sociology, titled Tenacious Documents: Exploring the Allure of Documentation in Swedish Compulsory Schools, in February 2025. My thesis 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.

Current research

I am currently working at the Department of Communication, Lund University. Here, I am a researcher in the Healthy Ageing in a Digital World (HAIDI) programme where I focus on how healthcare professionals working with older adults navigate an increasingly digitally mediated work environment. I am also currently working as a researcher on the project Digitizing the Discipline: Early Computing and the Making of Historical Knowledge in Sweden – a collaboration with historian Sune Bechmann Pedersen – which investigates when, why, and how historians in Sweden began using computer technology and the impact it had on historical research.