Our department's expertise includes environmental and developmental issues, school and education, governance and control, criminology and social policy. Power relations and social cleavages, especially those based on ethnicity, gender, sexuality and social class are the focus of much of the department's research.

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Adolescence

• Veronika Burcar Alm – young people's experiences of violence and threats
• 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

• Bo Isenberg – class, social differentiation, social stratification, segregation

Crime / Law

• Susanne Boethius – domestic violence
• Veronika Burcar Alm – young crime victims, victimization, victim-offender-mediation
• Lisa Flower – defence lawyers; criminal trials; emotions of legal professionals
• 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
• Liv Gaborit – prisons, Prisons in the global south
• Anna Hedlund – violence, violence prevention and prevention strategies, gun violence, criminal networks
• Isabelle Johansson – sex work, trafficking; anti-trafficking; prostitution policy
• Agneta Mallén – safety and fear of crime; cybercrime; victimology
• Oriana Quaglietta – illicit drug markets
• Anna Rypi – victim offender mediation
• Hanna Sahlin Lilja – fear of crime; crime statistics and how they can be understood
• Steven Sampson – corruption; anti-corruption
• David Sausdal – gang crime, cross-border crime, surveillance and policing. Has studied Danish criminal policy and can comment on differences between Denmark and Sweden.
• Marie Sépulchre – the right to non-discrimination based on disability
• 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
• Elton Chan – commodification of public space
• Lars Crusefalk – young adults' views on money and financial practices
• Ron Eyerman – political culture and cultural politics
• Alison Gerber – the intersection of value, culture, and public life
• 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
• David Wästerfors – scandals; corruption
• Malin Åkerström – social control; gifts and corruption
• Petra Östergren – human trafficking for sexual purposes

Disability

• Marie Sépulchre – disability activism and citizenship
• David Wästerfors – accessibilty in everyday life; gaming and disability

Education

• Dalia Abdelhady – immigrants and their children in school
• Mimmi Barmark – school choice; academic performance
• Axel Fredholm – working conditions in Swedish schools
• Antoinette Hetzler – conflict in school
• Tina Kindeberg – pedagogy; pedagogical rhetoric; teaching as profession
• 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

(Sociology of) Emotions

• Lisa Flower – emotion management in the Swedish courtroom
• 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

Family

• Dalia Abdelhady – immigrant families
• Linn Alenius Wallin – step-relations, families of choice, bonus-grandparenting
• Veronika Burcar Alm – sibling violence
• Lisa Eklund – abortion policy; parental support in Sweden
• Sara Eldén – children's perspective in child care relationships; Intergenerational care; private child care market
• Tova Höjdestrand – family policy, pro-family social movements
• Marie Larsson – contraceptives; reproductive work; intimate relationships
• Åsa Lundqvist – welfare state and family relations; parenting support policies; activation policies

Feminist Theory

• Dalia Abdelhady – postcolonial feminism
• Sara Eldén – family life; house work; child care
• Marie Larsson – gender; feminist science and technology studies
• Åsa Lundqvist – how labour markets and family policies impact gender relations
• Oriana Quaglietta – feminist criminology; "deviant" women

Geographical Regions

Africa

• Burundi - Simon Turner
• Congo - Anna Hedlund: Rebel groups in Eastern Congo
• Rwanda - Simon Turner

Asia

• Indonesia - Axel Fredholm: Popular participation and local democracy
• China - Lisa Eklund: Shortage of women in China, population issues
• Myanmar - Liv Gaborit: Prisons in the global south
• 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

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 (for all migration, integration, school, labor markets)

USA

• Dalia Abdelhady (for 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
• Colm Flaherty – meaning and identity within voluntary groups
• Bo Isenberg – individualisation, collective identity
• Uzma Kazi – identity formations of Muslims in Sweden

Media

• Dalia Abdelhady – news media and migration, hate speech, Islamophobia
• Agneta Mallén – sousveillance and citizen journalism
• Anton Törnberg – social media and Internet

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
• Olle Frödin – labour migration
• Nina Gren – refugees in Sweden
• Anders Kjellberg – labour migration in the restaurant and cleaning industries
• Mai Lundemark – migration/integration, trade union representation of migrants in Denmark
• Johan Sandberg – role of migrant organizations in labour market integration
• Priscilla Solano – migration-driven humanitarian assistance; refugee camps; human rights
• Simon Turner –refugee camps, transnational/diaspora politics

Military Sociology

• Håkan Silverup -– military violence, war crimes, warrior ethics and military masculinity

Political Sociology

• Dalia Abdelhady – Immigration/Integration policies, bureaucratic violence, immigrants’ political participation
• 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
• Anton Törnberg – extreme right movements on the Internet, online radicalization
• Petra Östergren – swedish sex work policy

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

Sustainability and Consumption

• 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 – how labour is organised in the Swedish construction industry
• 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
• 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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