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25 Sep 2023
Women and men show more similarities when choosing a foreign partner
Increasing globalisation and international mobility have changed couple formations around the world. More people have a partner from abroad and, although it is often a migrant from...
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3 Jul 2023
Sweden world leading in union membership despite declining union density
The proportion of unionised blue-collar and white-collar workers fell in 2022 after an increase in the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021. Despite this, Sweden has the world's second ...
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24 May 2023
Sleuthing Online - a bumpy path for the net detective
David Wästerfors, Veronika Burcar Alm and Erik Hannerz have published an article in New Media & Society dealing with crime case discussions on the Swedish platform Flashback. The a...
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11 May 2023
Lars Crusefalk ends PhD student journey and transitions to Doctor of Sociology
On 11 May, Lars Crusefalk finished his PhD studies with a successful defence of his thesis "Financial journeys: Reasoning about debt and money among young adults in Sweden". He is ...
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5 May 2023
Elton Chan, our new doctor of sociology, has defended his thesis on public space in Hong kong
Friday 5 May Elton Chan defended his thesis which explores the production and transformation of public spaces in Hong Kong, a city that is steeped in neoliberal ideals and has seen...
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24 Apr 2023
Who was Swedish day-care meant for?
The history of Swedish day-care is examined in a new study that provides insight into Sweden's day-care system during the early 20th century. Together with Luciana Quaranta, Annika...
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26 Jan 2023
Unanimous examination committee approves Imad Rasan's dissertation
On Thursday, 26 January, Imad Rasan successfully defended his doctoral thesis, "Women in the Public Sphere in Egypt 2011–2014".
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26 Jan 2023
The pandemic, the climate and digitalisation: three major adaptations of working life right now
The future of working life in Europe is analysed in a new anthology which, with the help of multiple researchers, looks primarily at three major changes taking place in working lif...
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18 Jan 2023
Migration Transformed into Crisis
Since the 1980:s border policies in both Mexico and the United States have transformed the outflow of migrants from Central America. By the turn of the 21st century the outflow of ...
