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Topics:

Academic Research, Adolescence, Class, Conspiracy theories/Anti-science/Fake news, Consumption, Crime/Law, Culture, Disability, Education, (Sociology of) Emotions, Energy and Society, Evolution and Society, Family, Feminist Theory, Geographical Regions, Globalisation, Identity, Industry, Media/Social media, Medicine and Health, Migration/Integration, Military Sociology, Political Sociology, Queer Theory, Rural Sociology, Social Psychology, Space, Sustainability and Consumption, Work/Organisation

Academic Research

• Erik Brattström – Science, technology and innovation policy and implementation
• Maria Löfgren Martinsson – Academics' employability
• Tobias Olofsson – Knowledge processes and new technologies in archaeological research; assessment of scientific quality and promising research by academic panels

Adolescence

• Susanne Bregnbæk – Institutionalized youth
• Johan Sandberg – Effects of retracting study allowances from Swedish high school students
• David Wästerfors – Young people’s experiences of incarceration, school and violence in detention homes; gaming among disabled youths

Class

• Elien Dalman – Social inequalities; social mobility; social stratification; social class and gender
• Bo Isenberg – Class, social differentiation, social stratification, segregation

Conspiracy theories, anti-science and fake news

• Mikael Klintman – Knowledge resistance in controversial issues

Consumption

• Mikael Klintman – Consumption as status marker

Crime / Law

• Susanne Boethius – Domestic violence
• Lisa Flower – Legal professionals, courtroom digitalization, criminal trials
• Henriette Frees Esholdt – Islamic State, Islamist radicalization and terrorism, Swedish foreign fighters, women in terrorism, unofficial propaganda on social media, women's operational military roles in ISIS
• Isabelle Johansson – Sex work, trafficking; anti-trafficking; prostitution policy
• Anders Kjellberg – Work-related crime
• Agneta Mallén – Safety and fear of crime; victimology
• Steven Sampson – Corruption; anti-corruption
• David Sausdal – Crime prevention and fear of crime, gang crime, cross-border crime, surveillance and policing. Has studied Danish criminal policy and can comment on differences between Denmark and Sweden.
• Aube Tollu – Terrorism; jihadism
• Jesse Wiles – Trials, courtroom digitalization, domestic terrorism
• David Wästerfors – Theories about physical violence; life in detention homes; crime solving citizens
• Malin Åkerström – Bribes and corruption; criminal lifestyles; domestic violence

Culture

• Dalia Abdelhady – Media representations
• Ron Eyerman – Political culture and cultural politics
• Henriette Frees Esholdt – Women in Salafi jihadistic environments; honour-based social control among ethnic minorities
• Alison Gerber – The intersection of value, culture, and public life
• Nina Gren – Political violence and recovery strategies
• Erik Hannerz – Graffiti; punk; DIY; subcultural lifestyles
• Bo Isenberg – Forms of community, cultural expression
• Ulf Johansson Dahre – Human rights and indigenous peoples
• Mikael Klintman – Cultural evolution
• Christer Lindberg – Shamanism; North American indigenous people's culture
• Christopher Mathieu – Cultural policy
• Ann Mari Sellerberg – Swedish forest owners
• Christopher Swader – Personal relationships; modernization; loneliness; capitalist culture
• Sébastien Tutenges – Alcohol, drugs, sex work, night life; street culture, violence; religion, radikalisation, extremism
• Anna Wiemer – Subcultures (cosplay & club culture)
• David Wästerfors – Scandals; corruption
• Malin Åkerström – Social control; gifts and corruption
• Petra Östergren – Human trafficking for sexual purposes

Disability

• Agneta Mallén – Difficulty of reporting violence and child neglect in children with disabilities
• David Wästerfors – Accessibilty in everyday life; gaming and disability

Education

• Dalia Abdelhady – Immigrants and their children in school
• Mimmi Barmark – School choice; academic performance
• Annika Elwert – Pre-school education in a historical perspective; sex education in a historical perspective
• Axel Fredholm – Working conditions in Swedish schools
• Antoinette Hetzler – Conflict in school
• Maria Löfgren Martinsson – Academics' employability
• Freja Morris – How more administrational work affects teachers and teaching
• Fredrik Sandberg – Adult education
• David Wästerfors – School work in detention homes; school motivation for criminal youth; school work for young people with criminal experiences

(Sociology of) Emotions

• Lisa Flower – Emotions in court
• David Wästerfors – Emotions in relation to scandals and violence; emotional attractions of critizens’ crime interests

Energy and Society

• Katinka Johansen – Post-normal science, energy planning, energy policy and EIA processes (Environmental Impact Assessments) in Denmark
• Mikael Klintman – Renewable energy use among households

Evolution and Society

• Mikael Klintman – Mismatches between ancestral and modern societies

Family

• Dalia Abdelhady – Immigrant families
• Linn Alenius Wallin – Step-relations, families of choice, bonus-grandparenting
• Lisa Eklund – Abortion policy; parental support in Sweden
• Sara Eldén – Children's perspective in child care relationships; intergenerational care; private child care market
• Annika Elwert – Inter-ethnic marriage; homogamy
• Nina Gren – Family relations in the middle east
• Tova Höjdestrand – Family policy, pro-family social movements
• Åsa Lundqvist – Welfare state and family relations; parenting support policies; activation policies
• Agneta Mallén – Early coordinated efforts for children who risk ending up in criminality
• Aube Tollu – Sex; intimate relationships

Feminist Theory

• Dalia Abdelhady – Postcolonial feminism
• Sara Eldén – Family life; house work; child care
• Åsa Lundqvist – How labour markets and family policies impact gender relations
• Aube Tollu

Geographical Regions

• Africa

  • Burundi, Rwanda - Simon Turner

• Asia

  • Indonesia - Axel Fredholm: Popular participation and local democracy
  • China - Lisa Eklund: Shortage of women in China, population issues
  • China - Susanne Bregnbæk: Chinese society
  • Russia - Tova Höjdestrand: Family life; homelessness; conservatism; nationalism
  • Russia - Christopher Swader: Russian society, social change in Russia, social values in Russia

• Europe

  • Cyprus - Charalambos Demetriou: Political violence
  • France, Germany - Dalia Abdelhady: Migration, integration, school, labor markets
  • Ireland - Charalambos Demetriou: Political violence
  • Romania - Steven Sampson: Socialist bureaucracy and the post-socialist transition
  • Russia - Tova Höjdestrand: Family life; homelessness; conservatism; nationalism
  • Russia - Christopher Swader: Russian society, social change in Russia, social values in Russia
  • Åland - Agneta Mallén: Crime and crime control in the Åland Islands

• Middle East

  • Israel/Palestine - Nina Gren: The occupied territories
  • The Middle East - Jaleh Taheri: Women's participation in the work force
  • The Middle East - Dalia Abdelhady: All migration, integration, school, labor markets

• USA

  • Dalia Abdelhady: All migration, integration, school, labor markets
  • Ron Eyerman

Globalisation

• Bo Isenberg – Social change, complexity, ambivalence
• Kjell NIlsson – Globalisation and social transformation
• Johan Sandberg – Global recruitment of highly skilled workers

Identity

• Ron Eyerman – Collective identity and collective memory
• Bo Isenberg – Individualisation, collective identity
• Uzma Kazi – Identity formations of Muslims in Sweden

Industry

• Rasmus Ahlstrand – The organisation of the Swedish building industry
• Shai Mulinari – The pharmaceutical industry
• Tobias Olofsson – Mines; mineral prospecting; natural resources

Media / Social media

• Dalia Abdelhady – News media and migration, hate speech, Islamophobia
• David Bazan Royuela – TikTok, algorithms and inequalities
• Isak Engdahl – Algorithms; ethical AI
• Lisa Flower – Liveblogging in the news
• Agneta Mallén – Sousveillance and citizen journalism
• Anna Wiemer – Digital public space, online subcultures

Medicine and Health

• Shai Mulinari – Pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical industry; medical research and social categories

Migration / Integration

• Dalia Abdelhady – Refugees, transnationalism and diaspora, transition from school to work
• Susanne Bregnbæk – Refugees
• Annika Elwert – Labour migration reforms; inter-ethnic marriage
• Olle Frödin – Labour migration
• Nina Gren – Refugees in Sweden
• Anders Kjellberg – Labour migration in the restaurant and cleaning industries
• Johan Sandberg – Role of migrant organizations in labour market integration
• Simon Turner – Refugee camps, transnational/diaspora politics

Military Sociology

• Alexandra Franzén – Security services, intelligence services
• Håkan Silverup – Military violence, war crimes, warrior ethics and military masculinity

Political Sociology

• Dalia Abdelhady – Immigration/integration policies, bureaucratic violence, immigrants’ political participation
• Erik Brattström – Water governance
• Charalambos Demetriou – Social movement radicalization; political violence
• Staffan Edling – Ideologically motivated social science research
• Jan Mewes – Welfare states and popular opinion; social trust
• Kjell Nilsson – Comparative social policy by studies of welfare systems
• Petra Östergren – Swedish sex work policy

Queer theory

• Aube Tollu – LGBTQ+

Rural sociology

• Jens Westerskov Andersen – Island studies

Social Psychology

• Carl-Göran Heidegren – Sociological theory (classical and modern), cultural sociology, sociology of knowledge
• Bo Isenberg – Groups, individualisation, community
• Katinka Johansen – Energy transitions, place attachment (the emotional bond between person and place), change resistance
• David Wästerfors – Gaming and play; self and society

Space

• Anna Wiemer –  Public space, digital space, hybrid space

Sustainability and Consumption

• Erik Brattström – Sustainability transitions
• Bo Isenberg – Consumption and class, consumption and individualisation
• Katinka Johansen – Energy transitions and social psychology, energy cultures
• Mikael Klintman –  Sustainable innovation; social sustainability
• Anna-Lisa Lindén –  Consumption; housing; environmental impact

Work / Organisation

• Dalia Abdelhady – Youth in the labor market, migrants and refugees in the labor market
• Rasmus Ahlstrand – Work organisation; subcontracting, flexibility, precarious and informal work, gig-work; migrant labour; industrial relations; construction-, and cleaning work
• Isak Engdahl – Big tech
• Lisa Flower – Legal profession
• Axel Fredholm – Threats and violence at the work place
• Henriette Frees Esholdt – Multi-ethnic work places; social relations at the work place
• Olle Frödin – Labour migration
• Antoinette Hetzler – Threat and violence at the work place; organization of the public sector
• Bo Isenberg – Flexibility, precariousness, craftsmanship
• Sandra Jönsson – Work-related bullying, digital harassment and bystanders, organisational forms and leadership
• Anders Kjellberg – Trade unions, employers' associations; industrial relations
• Maria Löfgren Martinsson – Higher education and career; HR related issues
• Christopher Mathieu – Career development, job quality; equality in the IT sector
• Shai Mulinari – The medicinal drug industry
• Kjell Nilsson – Social policy and the labour market
• Steven Sampson – Ethics in the private sector
• Johan Sandberg – Global recruitment of highly skilled workers
• Ann Mari Sellerberg – The trade industry, its workers and organization
• Håkan Silverup – Military organization and profession
• Jaleh Taheri – Women's participation in the work force in the Middle East
• Malin Åkerström – Administration; meeting cultures

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