Ass prof, Sociology of migration and ethnicity, Paula Mählck completed her PhD dissertation on Gender in Higher education at the Department of Sociology, Umeå University, Sweden in 2003 “Mapping Gender in academic workplaces: Ways of reproducing gender inequality within the discourse of equality”. Since then she has expanded her research to also studying multidimensional patterns of exclusion/ discrimination focusing particularly on the mutual constitution of gendered and racialised structures of inequality in higher education and in research policy. 

She has been a guest researcher at the African Gender Institute (AGI), University of Cape Town and a visiting PhD student at the Bob Hawke research institute, University of South Australia. She is affiliated to Remeso Institute, Linköping University and a research associate at the the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change, Glasgow University

She is currently working as a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Education, Stockholm University in Sweden. Her teaching has mainly been within the fields of Sociology, Sociology of science and critical race studies in Education, Critical education and postcolonial and decolonial learning.

Her most recent research project, MIRROR (VR 2026-2028), focuses on healthcare education for migrant women, in collaboration with Professor Marianne Teräs and Sofia Antera.

She has been involved in several international and comparative research projects on globalisation of work relations in academia and in other workplaces, transnational academic mobility and inequality in academic recruitment from the perspective of gender and race. Lately she has expanded her research to feminist labour studies and domestic worker labour migration from Kenya to the Gulf States. She has been the PI for several research council funded projects such as  “Research Policy and Research practice in the global knowledge economy” (VR/UVK2011-2012), Work at any cost? An ethnographic interrogation into domestic worker Migration Industry from Kenya to the Gulf states (FORMAS 2021-00984)