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For quick contact, please email the researcher directly. You can also contact: webbredaktor [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (webbredaktor[at]soc[dot]lu[dot]se) 

You can also contact head of research Simon Turner (sociology and social anthropology) or Ov Cristian Norocel (gender studies) concerning topics not listed.

Current topics:

• Crime, public safety and the justice system
• Migration, borders and integration
• The labour market, gig work and working conditions
• Gender equality, #MeToo and sexual rights
• Education, young people and social inequality

Also welfare and healthcare, digitalisation and AI, racism and discrimination, family and generations, environment and sustainablility and more topics below.

Work, labour market and organisations

Gig work, job insecurity, trade unions, public sector, leadership, finance, professions

• Anders Kjellberg – trade unions, employer organisations, industrial relations
• Bo Isenberg – flexibility, precarity, craft work
• Christopher Mathieu – career development, job quality
• Dalia Abdelhady – migrants in the labour market, youth in the labour market
• Helle Rydström – labour and working conditions in a global perspective, manufacturing outsourced to Asia, related crises and resilience
• Håkan Silverup – professions, military organisation
• Johan Sandberg – global recruitment, highly skilled labour, labour market integration
• Lisa Flower – legal professions
• Olle Frödin – labour migration
• Rasmus Ahlstrand – work and working life, outsourcing/subcontracting chains, insecure employment, migrant labour, ROT/RUT tax deductions
• Rebecca Selberg – working conditions in the public sector (especially healthcare), organisation and leadership, emotions at work
• Sandra Jönsson – workplace bullying and harassment, leadership, organisational forms
• Shai Mulinari – the pharmaceutical industry 
• Terese Anving – work and care, domestic services (RUT), inequality, welfare transformation

Welfare, healthcare and social care

Welfare state, healthcare, palliative care, New Public Management, care in family life

• Helle Rydström – gendered ’care’, emotions, embodiment, everyday crises, and resilience
• Lisa Eklund – RUT, gender equality, care work, parenting, the changing welfare state
• Nanna Dahler – welfare state and family, reproductive power, adoption
• Rebecca Selberg – healthcare and working conditions, New Public Management, welfare crises
• Susanne Bregnbæk – institutionalisation of youth, day-care, social policies
• Terese Anving – care work, domestic services (RUT), welfare transformation
• Åsa Lundqvist – family policy, parental support policies, activation policies

Migration, integration and borders

Migration, asylum, citizenship, diaspora, labour market, racism

• Annika Elwert – migration policy reforms, intermarriage
• Dalia Abdelhady – migration and integration, labour market, migrant families
• Diana Mulinari – gender and migration, racism/anti-racism
• Johan Sandberg – migrant organisations, labour market integration
• Maja Sager – migration and asylum, undocumented migrants, migrant and asylum rights movements, citizenship, border policy
• Nina Gren – refugees and integration, Palestine/diaspora, the Middle East
• Olle Frödin – labour migration
• Susanne Bregnbæk – asylum seekers, precarity, paradigm shift law, statelessness
• Tiago Duarte Dias – Kurdish diaspora (Sweden/Denmark), identity

Crime, justice and public safety

Gangs, crime prevention, domestic violence, terrorism, courts, trafficking

• Birke Friedländer – political violence, state responses to far-right violence
• Cecilia Nordquist – courts, trials, legal professions, the digitisation of the courts
• David Sausdal – gangs, crime prevention, policing, Denmark–Sweden comparisons
• David Wästerfors – physical violence, incidents of violence in youth residential homes, schools and youth social care services, corruption, crime-related discussions and online vigilantism, minority youth and the police 
• Erik Hannerz – gang crime, violence on social media, violent subcultures, graffiti and the spatial dimensions of crime
• Jesse Wiles – courts and digitalisation, domestic terrorism
• Lisa Eklund – sexual harassment
• Lisa Flower – courts, trials, digitalisation of the judiciary
• Marta Kolankiewicz – law and justice, racism in the legal system, reproductive rights
• Mikaela Linell – digitalisation for courthouses and trials, witnesses and testimony
• Susanne Boethius – domestic violence
• Tove Westberg – the darknet, drug markets (online), harm reduction, digitalisation

Politics, governance, public opinion and democracy

Political sociology, welfare state, trust, representation, social movements, extremism

• Charalambos Demetriou – political violence, radicalisation of social movements
• Erik Brattström – policy and implementation, science/technology/innovation, water governance
• Helle Rydström – global inequalities, industrialisation, welfare crises, civil society, and resilience in Asia 
• Jan Mewes – welfare states, public opinion, social trust
• Mia Liinason – transnational movements, civil society, feminism in Sweden
• Ov Cristian Norocel – right-wing populism and extremism, political communication, normalisation, crisis politics

Digitalisation, social media and AI

Algorithms, TikTok, big tech, digital activism, citizen journalism

• Lisa Flower – live news blogging
• Mia Liinason – digital technologies and social movements, digital cultures
• Mikaela Linell – digital interaction focused on trials and testimonies, digitalisation of trials and courtrooms

Gender, sexuality and LGBTQIA+

#MeToo, queer/trans issues, sexual rights, masculinity, history of sexuality

• Elin Lundell – queer/trans and religion, experiences in religious communities
• Helle Rydström – gendered violences, masculinities, LGBTQ recognition in Asia
• Irina Schmitt – LGBTQIA+/queer/trans issues in education and academia, legal gender, intersectional identity
• Jens Rydström – history of sexuality, LGBTQ rights, queer/crip studies
• Mia Liinason
• Sunny Gurumayum – young people’s narratives of sexuality, storytelling

Racism, discrimination and intersectionality

Racism and anti-racism, Islamophobia/antisemitism, intersectional inequalities, justice system

• Bo Isenberg – segregation, class
• Dalia Abdelhady – racialisation, Islamophobia, intersectional inequality
• Diana Mulinari – racism/anti-racism, intersectionality, migration
• Maja Sager – racism and the legal system, migration/asylum
• Marta Kolankiewicz – racism and justice, courts
• Mathilda Ernberg – racialisation, belonging, nation-building processes

Family, relationships and generations

Parenthood, family policy, intergenerational care, homogamy

• Annika Elwert – intermarriage, homogamy
• Christopher Swader – intimacy, loneliness
• Dalia Abdelhady – migrant families
• David Wästerfors — foster care and money, the financial considerations of foster care
• Helle Rydström – family constellations, masculinity, socialisation, emotions, violences, crises, and resilience in Asia 
• Lisa Eklund – parenting, childbirth, intergenerational care, family policy
• Maja Sager – family separation as a result of migration policy, reproductive racism
• Nanna Dahler – welfare state and family, adoption
• Nina Gren – family relations in the Middle East
• Susanne Bregnbæk - family-state relatinships (China and Denmark), youth, parenting
• Terese Anving – care in family life, intergenerational care
• Tova Höjdestrand – pro-family movements, conservatism and nationalism (Russia)
• Åsa Lundqvist – family relations, family and parental support policy

Education, young people and inequality

School choice, attainment, school environment, conflict, adult education, youth justice

• Annika Elwert – early childhood education and sex education (historical perspectives), allocation of resources to schools and its effects on student performance and educational inequality
• Dalia Abdelhady – children of immigrants in schools, children of immigrants in the labour market
• David Wästerfors – schooling for young offenders, youth detention institutions
• Fredrik Sandberg – adult education, workplace learning
• Irina Schmitt – LGBTQIA+/queer/trans and equality in education and academia
• Mimmi Barmark – school choice, educational outcomes
• Susanne Bregnbæk – higher education in China, unemployment, precarity, refugees in Denmark

Culture, identity and religion

Subcultures, cultural policy, collective memory, religion/secularity, representation

• Alison Gerber – value, culture and public life
• Christopher Swader – values, modernisation, capitalism
• Dalia Abdelhady – diasporic identities, collective memory
• David Wästerfors — volunteers in the war in Ukraine,  voluntary participation in war, the culture of war and identities
• Diana Mulinari – religion, fundamentalism and reproductive rights
• Elin Lundell – queer/trans and religion
• Erik Hannerz – graffiti, punk, DIY cultures, subcultures
• Irina Schmitt – LGBTQIA+/queer/trans justice
• Mia Liinason – LGBTQ+ and religious traditions
• Ov Cristian Norocel – religion, gender and right-wing populism
• Susanne Bregnbæk – religion in China
• Tiago Duarte Dias – football culture, identity in diaspora

Environment, energy, sustainability and consumption

Renewable energy, sustainable development, consumption and class, science scepticism

• Bo Isenberg – consumption and class, individualisation, social sustainability
• Erik Brattström – sustainable development, policy
• Helle Rydström –  climate catastrophes, crises, precariousness, resilience, and gender in Asia
• Mikael Klintman – renewable energy, sustainability, consumption, knowledge resistance, evolutionary mismatch

Knowledge, research and science scepticism

Academic freedom, research policy, evaluation, conspiracy theories and fake news

• Erik Brattström – policy and implementation in science, technology and innovation
• Mikael Klintman – science scepticism, knowledge resistance
• Rebecca Selberg – academic freedom, “cancel culture”