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Sanna Eriksson
Research Associate
Profile
Biography
Sanna Eriksson is a Research Associate in the Department of Politics and International Relations. She is currently working with Professor Nick Ritchie on the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust-funded project ‘Developing theories of social change in the UK peace and security NGO community’.
Sanna completed her PhD in Women’s Studies at York in 2025. Her PhD research focused on the governance of middle-class women through mothering discourses in contemporary urban China. Her research is interdisciplinary and uses mixed methods, combining interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, TV drama analysis and document analysis.
Prior to undertaking her PhD, Sanna worked for a decade at York’s Centre for Applied Human Rights, coordinating the Centre and managing its Protective Fellowship Scheme for Human Rights Defenders at Risk. She has also worked at York’s Department of Sociology and held positions at the European Commission’s DG for Development and Cooperation and the Embassy of Finland in Beijing. She holds an MA in East Asian Studies from the University of Helsinki and an E.MA in Human Rights and Democratisation from EIUC, Venice.
Publications
Selected publications
Crawshaw, M. Eriksson, S., and Brown, M. (2023). Using a Volunteer Friends Support Scheme in a Temporary Relocation Programme’, in Journal of Human Rights Practice, 2023, 15(2): 581–594.
Eriksson, S. (2018) ‘Temporary Relocation in an Academic Setting for Human Rights Defenders at Risk: Good Practice Lessons and Challenges’, in Journal of Human Rights Practice, 10(3): 482-507.
Eriksson, S. (2010). ‘Fashioning Chinese Nationalism: Female Bodies as Political Signifiers in the Liangyou Huabao Magazine, 1933-1936’. In Iwatake, M. (Ed.), New Perspectives from Japan and China. Helsinki: Renvall Institute Publications.
