This presentation focuses on interviews with 24 Swedish teacher educators about how their work has changed over the last fifty years. One aim of the study is to explore and understand the ways in which teacher educators in northern Sweden, both men and women, of different ages and with different subject expertise, have positioned themselves and met with new demands made on them. Teacher education, like teaching, has changed in a number of ways: for example, it has become more research-based, more consciously professionally oriented, and also come to be seen as a feminised profession i.e. having more women than men. A second aim of the paper is to explore the reasons for these changes, and how recent research and gender' regimes' have been experienced and understood. Keywords: Teacher education, Sweden, gender, transitions, research.