Internships & student work

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Internships 2025

Internship at Nordic Safe Cities – Fall 2025

Are you a student with an interest in society, democracy, digital development, and/or social innovation?
Do you want to spend a semester empowering youth democratic engagement, combating online hate,
and helping shape the Nordic Democracy Forum in Helsinki? Then an internship at Nordic Safe Cities
might be the perfect opportunity for you!

Application deadline: May 1, 2025

Internship at Nordic Safe Cities (PDF, opens in a new window)

Internships in research projects at the Department of Sociology in Lund

Internship courses SOCN20 and SOCN21.

Projects 2025

• Changing gender and class relations in the wake of RUT and ROT usage
• Death and dying under military occupation: asserting sovereignty in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara
• Gang recruitment in the 21st century
• VIRTUTRIALS: The Elusive Role of Physicality – Towards a new understanding of legal participation
• Trials in Transition: A study of video links in courts”
• E-ViVi: Enhancing videorecorded interviews and virtual hearings in Europe
• Nordic returnees from war-torn Ukraine

Information on the projects below. More projects may be added before 15 April.

The research project "Changing gender and class relations in the wake of RUT and ROT usage"

The Swedish RUT and ROT reforms, which allow tax deductions for outsourced household work and maintenance work have since their implementation – in 2007 and 2009 respectively – grown steadily both in terms of the number of individuals using the deductions and the cost they incur to the state. The project departs from the fact that using RUT and ROT services frees up time, and that time gained is larger than the hours deducted. The project concerns how this freed-up time is negotiated and invested, and the consequences thereof, with a particular focus on changing gender and class relations in the Swedish context. The project is based on both qualitative (interview data) and quantitative (administrative register) data.

Qualifications

We are looking for an intern with skills in either 1) qualitative data analysis or 2) quantitative analysis, or 3) both qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

For quantitative analysis these are the qualifications: Coding skills in R or Stata, Ability to conduct multivariate regression analysis, Experience with longitudinal data. Knowledge about specific data management, visualization, and causal inference tools in R or Stata is considered an asset.

For qualitative analysis these are the qualifications: Qualitative data analysis skills, Swedish language skills

General qualifications: Ability to undertake literature review, good ability to communicate findings in English

What does the internship involve?

• Undertake data analyses
• Present results of analyses
• Data management
• Undertake literature review
• Draft report on findings
• Participate in project meetings
• Engage in research seminars at the department

When?

The internship will start with the Autumn semester and involves 10 or 20 week.

Where?

The Department of Sociology in Lund?

How to apply

Send a letter of introduction (max an A4 page), your CV and degree certificates to elien [dot] dalman [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se and lisa [dot] eklund [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se. Your letter of introduction should describe who you are, your goals for the internship, and what you hope to gain from the internship.

Last application date

• 15 April 2025.

Contact information

Person responsible for the research project: lisa [dot] eklund [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (lisa[dot]eklund[at]soc[dot]lu[dot]se) 

If you have general questions about internships at the Department of Sociology, you are welcome to contact Britt-Marie Johansson britt-marie [dot] johansson [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se

The research project “Death and dying under military occupation: asserting sovereignty in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara”

This project investigates death and dying in contexts affected by military occupations where sovereignty is contested. Since control over people is a key aspect of sovereignty, questions of the legitimate use of violence, the proper handling of dead bodies, and links between corpses and national soil become important. This includes the enactment of supremacy and oppression, subversion and resistance. Using an anthropological perspective, this research will analyse how different actors use control over death and dying to assert and contest sovereignty in three on-going situations of occupation: the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara, and the Russian occupation of the Georgian territory of South Ossetia.

Previous research has shown that dead bodies can be powerful symbols in times of political instability. In these situations, dead bodies become sites of meaning-making and questions about proper burial, accountability, memorials etc. become important in novel ways. Moreover, when a person dies, the handling of the body becomes an arena for the performance of sovereignty – by states, but potentially various sub-, supra-, or trans-national actors as well. Consequently, death and dying are productive sites for an exploration of the contested nature of sovereignty under military occupation.

Qualifications

Successful applicants should have strong skills in qualitative methods and academic writing in English. It is an advantage if the applicant has language skills of relevance to one or more of the case studies. 

What does the internship involve?

This internship is designed to provide the individual selected with the opportunity for hands-on experience with qualitative research. Internship tasks could include conducting and transcribing interviews, doing participant observation, writing field notes and summarizing preliminary findings in a field report. If fieldwork will not be possible, an alternative task could be to write a literature review on death and occupation.

When?

20 weeks period.

Where?

The Department of Sociology in Lund

How to apply

Send a letter of introduction (max an A4 page) and your CV to Nina Gren (nina [dot] gren [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se)  Your letter of introduction should describe who you are, your goals for the internship, and what you hope to gain from the internship.

Last application date

• April 15, 2025.

Contact information

Person responsible for the research project: Nina Gren nina [dot] gren [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (nina[dot]gren[at]soc[dot]lu[dot]se) 

If you have general questions about internships at the Department of Sociology, you are welcome to contact Britt-Marie Johansson, britt-marie [dot] johansson [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se.

The research project "Gang recruitment in the 21st century"

In this digital and global age, criminal gangs have adapted their recruitment strategies. This project delves into these strategies by interviewing and observing a diverse range of actors, including young individuals exhibiting an interest or attraction towards gangs, individuals already involved in gangs, those who have left their gangs, and other relevant stakeholders.

Qualifications

We are looking for interns with a criminological and gang-research interest and/or experience.

What does the internship involve?

Desk research, empirical work, analyses, the co-writing of publications, and day-to-day project organization

When?

The autumn academic term

Where?

The Department of Sociology.

How to apply

Send a short letter of introduction (max an A4 page), your CV and degree certificates to david [dot] sausdal [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se. Your letter of introduction should describe who you are, your goals for the internship, and what you hope to gain from the internship.

Last application date

• April 15 2025

Contact information

Person responsible for the research project: David Sausdal david [dot] sausdal [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (david[dot]sausdal[at]soc[dot]lu[dot]se) 

If you have general questions about internships at the Department of Sociology, you are welcome to contact Britt-Marie Johansson britt-marie [dot] johansson [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se

Three research projects are looking for interns

Projects

• VIRTUTRIALS: The Elusive Role of Physicality – Towards a new understanding of legal participation
• Trials in Transition: A study of video links in courts
• “E-ViVi: Enhancing videorecorded interviews and virtual hearings in Europe

About the research projects

All of these projects are focused on exploring the use of digital technologies in courts and how they impact on the experience and practice of justice.

Qualifications

• Experience of conducting ethnographic observations, particularly in legal contexts (this requires Swedish fluency)
• Sociological theories, with a focus on interactionism and emotion sociology
• Teamwork
• Independence

What does the internship involve?

The internship will involve with working with various tasks including background research, conducting ethnographic fieldwork, document data collection, organizing workshops.

When?

Between 10-20 weeks.

Where?

The Department of Sociology in Lund

How to apply

Send a letter of introduction (max an A4 page), your CV and degree certificates to lisa [dot] flower [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se. Your letter of introduction should describe who you are, your goals for the internship, and what you hope to gain from the internship.

Last application date

• April 15th 2025

Contact information

Person responsible for the research project: lisa [dot] flower [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se

If you have general questions about internships at the Department of Sociology, you are welcome to contact Britt-Marie Johansson britt-marie [dot] johansson [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (britt-marie[dot]johansson[at]soc[dot]lu[dot]se)

The research project “Nordic returnees from war-torn Ukraine“ 

About the research project

The Russian-Ukrainian war has attracted a vast number of voluntary personnel from across the world. There are many media reports and policy briefs on these volunteers, but almost no academic research. This project examines Nordic volunteers who are, or have been, in Ukraine to help the Ukrainian forces. Interviews will be conducted with individuals from Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, and follow-up interviews will be made with some of them to shed light on the personal challenges they go through. Moreover, online data will be collected. The focus of the internship is on coding data.

Qualifications

Successful applicants should have strong skills in qualitative methods and cultural theory. It is an advantage if applicants can speak Swedish/Norwegian/Danish.

What does the internship involve?

This internship is designed to provide the individual selected with the opportunity for hands-on experience with qualitative research. Internship tasks primarily include: transcription, collecting online data, and data coding.

When?

September 1, 2025 – January 18, 2026

Where?

The Department of Sociology in Lund

How to apply?

Send a letter of introduction (max an A4 page) and your CV to susanne [dot] boethius [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se. Your letter of introduction should describe who you are, your goals for the internship, and what you hope to gain from the internship.

Last application date

• April 15, 2025

Contact information

Person responsible for the internship: Susanne [dot] boethius [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanne[dot]boethius[at]soc[dot]lu[dot]se)

If you have general questions about internships at the Department of Sociology, you are welcome to contact Britt-Marie Johansson, britt-marie [dot] johansson [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se.