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PurposeThe aim of this paper is to describe senior lecturers' experiences of and reflections on the influence of gender on their work and career possibilities.Design/methodology/approachEight informants, four female and four male university teachers, representing different schools at a Swedish university college were interviewed. A qualitative content method was used for analysis.FindingsThe findings revealed that the lecturers at the university college had an experience of academic gender neutrality. The findings also pointed to experiences of gendered practice that had been internalized and made normal. It also revealed that the lecturers did not consider or reflect on the gap between experiences of and reflections on gender neutrality and gendered practice.Research limitations/implicationsEven if the number of informants is small, the findings have something important to tell about the gap between gender‐neutral academia and practice in academia.Originality/valueThe findings imply that although the Swedish model of equality work has been successful in many ways, a confrontation on the micro‐political level is required to achieve a gender equality workplace environment and to increase women's career possibilities.

Abstract To develop nursing as a critical normative science (Kirkevold, 2009), a description of the various care areas and different health phenomena is needed. This is being done on the basis of various qualitative methods´; hence within nursing discourse analysis is used to a limited extent. The aim of this paper is to exemplify phenomenon and topics within nursing that have been studied by using discourse analysis. The examples are from studies conducted during the previous years by the authors. Discourses within palliative care based on documents and observations (2009), nursing as a subordinated profession, based on media analysis (2009), and an ongoing study about discourses within care of children with diabetes based on policy documents in the Nordic countries. Discourse analysis provides data, such as interviews, actions and documents to be analyzed in a broader system of knowledge (Wilkinson & Kitzinger, 2000., Lupton, 1993). A discourse is a "systems of thought and systematic ways of carving out reality and is composed by structures of knowledge that influences systems of practice" (Chambon, 1999). All discourses are textual and an inter-textual drawing upon other texts, contextually embedded in historical political and cultural settings. A given text also transforms in a manner that is socially constrained and conditional upon relations of power (Foucault 1979). As Bacchi (2005) urges it is possible to adopt a more comprehensive dual-focus agenda in discourse analysis, taking into account the dual movement of discourse: the way discourse speaks us and the way we speak the discourse.

Education is important in shaping professional identity, including how one approaches norms and normalisation. In the analysis presented in this study, nursing students' own constructions of norms and normality from the outlook of their education are highlighted and problematised. To deepen the understanding of these matters, the aim of this study was to explore constructions of norms and normality among students in nursing education. Students studying in a nursing department at a Swedish university college were approached and asked to consider open survey questions targeting their views on norms and normality; 154 of them replied. After a discourse analytic approach to the data, we could see how the students constructed norms and normality as (a) instrumental instructions, consisting of easy‐to‐digest statements grounded in the profession's obvious moral and ethical values, (b) limiting and frustrating obstacles for personal freedom that were important to challenge, (c) rules to be obeyed for the stability of society and (d) a matter of reflection, with each individual being responsible for understanding differences in norms, perspectives and opinions. We conclude that nursing education would benefit from norm‐critical perspectives, problematising students' own positions to norms, power and privilege. ; Included in doctoral thesis in manuscript form.

This study describes how fathers of children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes understand their involvement in their child's daily life from a health promotion perspective. Sixteen Swedish fathers of children living with type 1 diabetes were interviewed. Manifest and latent content analysis was used to identify two themes: the inner core of the father's general parental involvement and the additional involvement based on the child's diabetes. The former was underpinned by the fathers' prioritization of family life and the fathers being consciously involved in raising the child, and the latter by the fathers promoting and controlling the child's health and promoting and enabling the child's autonomy. The results highlight that the quality of the fathers' involvement is essential in the management of a child's chronic illness. It is important for pediatric diabetes health care professionals to assess the quality of fathers' involvement to promote the child's health.