Stina Bergman Blix

Professor at Department of Sociology; Faculty

Telephone:
+46 18 471 50 89
Mobile phone:
+46 72 999 97 09
E-mail:
stina.bergmanblix@uu.se
Visiting address:
Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H
Postal address:
Box 624
751 26 UPPSALA

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Academic merits:
PhD, Docent in Sociology
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Short presentation

Stina Bergman Blix' research concerns the sociology of emotions and her theoretical interest includes rationality, social interaction, decision-making, emotional cultures, and professionalization processes. Her latest projects investigate emotions in court from several perspectives: in and around court hearings, and how objectivity is constructed in legal decision-making. She leads the ERC-project JUSTEMOTIONS (2018-2025) and coordinates the Research Group Emotion-Justice-Interaction (EmoJI).

Keywords

  • qualitative methods
  • social interaction
  • professionalization
  • emotion theory
  • theatre and acting
  • law and emotion
  • empathy
  • rationality

Biography

Stina Bergman Blix is a professor in sociology. She has been a visiting scholar at Bologna University, Italy; a visiting professor at London School of Economics and Political Science, England; a Score Fellow at Stockholm University; and an Honorary Visiting Scholar at Flinders University, Australia. She has previously worked as a researcher at Stockholm University

Bergman Blix is co-founder and coordinator of the research group Emotion-Justice-Interaction (EmoJI), and she currently leads the ERC-project "The Contruction of Objectivity: An International Perspective on Judicial Decision-Making" (2018-2025) involving 10 researcher in four countries. In 2015-17, she was the coordinator of the European Sociological Association Emotion Research Network, and she is still an active member and part of the advisory board. She is Editor in Chief of Frontiers in Sociology - Emotions Section and member of the Editorial Board of the journal Emotions & Society.

Research

Forthcoming project

Emotions and rituals in practitioner-client interaction in a heterogenous society (2025-2029), financed by the Swedish Research Council

For more details, see project webpage

Ongoing projects

Police and crime victim interactions - a study of the emotional dynamic in preliminary investigations of intimate partner violence (2024-2027), financed by the Swedish Crime Victim Authority

For more details, see project webpage

JUSTEMOTIONS - The Construction of Objecitivity - An International Perspective on the emotive-cognitive process of judicial decison-making (2018-2025), financed by ERC.

For more details, see project webpage

Completed projects

The Construction of Objectivity (2017-2020), financed by the Swedish Research Council (VR), and made in collaboration with Åsa Wettergren and Moa Bladini from Gothenburg University and Nina Törnqvist at Uppsala University.

For more details, see project webpage

Emotions in Court (2012-2016), financed by The Swedish Research Council (VR) and by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE), and made in collaboration with Åsa Wettergren from Gothenburg University.

For more details, see project webpage

Rehearsing Emotions (2004-2010), PhD project, faculty funded

For more details, see project webpage

Media

Justemotions: a short introduction

Must a judge be able to doubt, and how do they become certain in their ruling? What emotions do prosecutors and judges use when making decisions in criminal cases?

https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/embed/15071

(O)uttalade känslor – från teatern till domstolen

Professor installation - Lecture in Swedish from 2023 about the professionalization of emotions in different arenas.

https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/embed/15296

Stina Bergman Blix

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