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7

Dec

Panel discussion: Work, organisation and working life

7 December 2023 15:00 to 17:00 | Other
Illustration of the earth surrounded by computers and connections.
Bild: Pete Linforth/Pixabay

This year, the Department of Sociology is organising four panel discussions with students and researchers as part of the department’s 75th anniversary. The aim is to enable students and researchers to meet and discuss topics and questions about research and teaching. The discussions are moderated by students.

Highlighting research on work, organisation and working life the fourth (and final) panel takes place on December 7. Participating staff are Anna Ilsöe, Anna Kallos, Christopher Mathieu and Bertil Rolandsson.

The event starts at 15:00 in Edebalksalen, Allhelgonaskolan. 

Light refreshments will be served. 

Students and staff are warmly welcome!
 

THE PANEL

Anna Ilsöe

Anna Ilsøe is head of a number of research projects on digitalisation of work including The Digital Economy at Work funded by the Velux Foundations core-group programme. She is also the Danish partner in the Horizon Europe project TransEuroWorks. Anna Ilsøe teaches courses within organizational sociology and the sociology of work. She supervises several PhD students writing dissertations on the future of work.

Anna Kallos

The research interest of the PhD project concerns part-time work among upper secondary school students in Sweden. The project will draw on both national survey data and in-depth interviews with working students, in order to examine the prevalence of school students’ part-time labour, characteristics of those who work and their reasons for working.

Christopher Mathieu

Chris teaches primarily in the fields of organisational and labour sociology, cultural sociology, human resource management and development studies. He has conducted research on gender in the Swedish and Irish information technology sectors, urbanization in southern Africa, film production, career development, job quality and cultural policy.

Bertil Rolandsson

Bertil Rolandsson is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and visiting research fellow at the Department of Sociology at Lund University. His expertise includes organizational reforms and the consequences of digitalization for our working lives. His research often address how different institutionalized values ​​become organizing principles, or how governance, legitimacy or trust problems arise and are handled in connection with various digitalization initiatives.

About the event

Location:

Edebalksalen, Allhelgonaskolan (Room 216)

Target group:

Students and staff at the Faculty of Social Sciences

Contact:

axel [dot] fredholm [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se