CV — Tobias Olofsson, PhD

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, awarded November 4, 2020, Uppsala University, Sweden. Dissertation: “Mining Futures: Predictions and Uncertainty in Swedish Mineral Exploration” Nominated for the Swedish Sociological Association’s Best Thesis Award 2020- 2021

M.Sc., Sociology, Stockholm University, Sweden, 2013

B.Sc., Sociology, Stockholm University, Sweden, 2011

Employment

2025-current: Researcher, SCORE - Stockholm Center for Organisational Research, Stockholm University, Sweden

2024-current: Assistant professor, Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden

2021-2024: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden

2020-2021: Researcher, Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden

2020-2021: Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden

2014-2015: Head of section/Program director, Folkuniversitetet, Östersund, Sweden

Peer reviewed articles and book chapters

Olofsson, T. (in press) Entangled disasters: Relations and vulnerabilities in the transformation and dissolution of Kiruna and Malmberget in Staupe-Delgado, Reidar & Bartoszewicz, Monika (eds.) Disastrous Anticipations, London: Routledge.

Olofsson, T. (2025) Making Mining Good: Tracing the semiotics of justification in mineral exploration and mining, Valuation Studies, 12(1): 119-42.

Olofsson, T., Mulinari, S., Hedström, M., Knaggård, Å., & Vilhelmsson, A. (2022) The making of a Swedish strategy: How organizational culture shaped the Public Health Agency’s pandemic response, SSM – Qualitative Research in Health, 2: 100082

Olofsson, T. (2022) Do commodity prices incentivize exploration permit application? An explorative study of an anecdotal relation, Mineral Economics, 35: 133-141

Fürst, H & Olofsson, T. (2021) Det här är framtiden: Fiktiva förväntningar om e- boken och ljudboken under det tidiga 2000-talet (This is the future: Fictive expectations about e-books and audio books in the early 2000s) in Pennlert, Julia & Ilshammar, Lars (eds.) Från Strindberg till Storytel: Röster om korskopplingar mellan ljud och litteratur, Göteborg: Daidalos: 231-267

Olofsson, T. (2020) Imagined Futures in Mineral Exploration, Journal of Cultural Economy, 13(3): 265-277

Olofsson, T. (2019) “The Death of Place: Exploring Discourse and Materiality in Debates on Rural Development” in Holmberg, Tora et al. (eds.) Death Matters: Cultural Sociology of Mortal Life, London: Palgrave MacMillan: 65-85

Datasets and other

Olofsson, T. & Vilhelmsson, A. (2023) Timeline of government interventions and events regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden December 31, 2019, to May 5, 2023. (Version 2) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7981865

Olofsson, T. & Vilhelmsson, A. (2022) Dataset: COVID-19 Epidemic Policy and Events Timeline (Sweden), Data in Brief, 40, 107698

Olofsson, T., Vilhelmsson, A. Hedlund, M. Knaggård, Å & Mulnari, S (2021) Sweden in Jasanoff. S, Hilgartner, S. Hurlbut, J. B., Özgöde, O & Rayzberg, M (eds.) Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge, Politics, Report produced for Schmidt Futures and the Social Science Research Council and the Futures Forum on Preparedness

For more information, including presentations, teaching, and professional activities, please see my full CV.