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20 Jun 2022
The Other Side of the Story – How Children of Immigrants Experience Life
How does migration and globalisation shape the lives of individuals in various countries and how does it affect the children of immigrants in terms of integration, identity, and cu...
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16 Jun 2022
Welcome to doctorhood, Colm Flaherty
On Thursday, June 16, Colm Flaherty successfully defended his thesis A Politics of Community: Identity, Stigma, and Meaning in the Extra-Parliamentary Left, and is from here on out...
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7 Jun 2022
Turning refugees into politics impedes their social integration
Associate Professor Dalia Abdelhady has studied how a Turkish newspaper's attempts to write inclusive portrayals of Syrian refugees still contributed to politicising and "othering"...
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26 May 2022
Sociologist one of six new, prominent researchers selected for the Young Academy of Sweden
On 21 May the Young Academy of Sweden elected six new, prominent researchers representing fields ranging from brain surgery, analytical sociologoy and energy transformation. One of...
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16 Feb 2022
New editors of the Nordic Journal of Criminology
Associate Professor Sébastien Tutenges and Researcher Susanne Boethius of the Department of Sociology at Lund University are Editor-in-Chief and Co-Editor of the Nordic Journal of ...
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11 Feb 2022
Rasmus Ahlstrand has defended his thesis on the changing Swedish building sector
In his doctoral thesis in sociology "Structures of subcontracting: Work organisation, control, and labour in the Swedish building sector", Rasmus Ahlstrand analyses the increased u...
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9 Feb 2022
Does remote work weaken trade unions?
In his article "Does remote work weaken trade unions?*" Anders Kjellberg, Professor of sociology, discusses how the balance of power in the labour market is changed when working fr...
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18 Jan 2022
Three years of funding for large Nordic collaboration on insecure and informal work
The Department of Sociology in Lund will receive three years of funding for a large collaboration project looking at insecure and informal work in the Nordic countries.
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17 Jan 2022
Hanna Sahlin Lilja has defended her thesis on fear of crime research in Sweden
When the American research field "Fear of Crime" was introduced in Sweden in the 1980s, it was translated "otrygghet", a word with a previously established meaning in Swedish. The ...
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4 Jan 2022
Vibeke Klitgaard has defended her thesis
The everyday life in two day-care centres of psychiatry in the municipality of Copenhagen is examined in a new sociology thesis from Vibeke Klitgaard. Focus lies on the patients' c...
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7 Oct 2021
Alexandra Franzén has defended her thesis
Spy scandals as a power struggle between three actors: whistleblowers, journalists and the intelligence service. On Friday 1 October Alexandra Franzén at the Department of Sociolog...
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2 Jun 2021
War language is used by transnational police when describing their work
Even though much of their time is spent in less dramatic situations, transnational police from a range of different counties describe their own work in terms of fighting and combat...
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24 Mar 2021
Best Article Prize 2020 goes to sociology article on victims of domestic abuse
Susanne Boethius and Malin Åkerström at the Department of Sociology in Lund are winners of the Nordic Journal of Criminology Best Article Prize 2020 with the article "Revealing hid...
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12 Feb 2021
Competent parents steered by peers
SWEDISH PARENTING SUPPORT: Lisa Eklund and Åsa Lundqvist at the Department of Sociology in Lund have published the article "Governing as peers : Reluctant experts and competent par...
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10 Nov 2020
Sociologist examines the Swedish IB-scandal of 1973
Alexandra Franzén, doctoral student of sociology, has published the article “But ÖB Bengt Gustafsson took me by the hand and thanked me. A comparison between Jan Guillou's and Pete...
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5 Nov 2020
How do politics impact on access to information about Covid-19?
The impact party politics has on the circulation of information about COVID-19 is the topic of a new article in the Canadian Journal of Political Science.
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4 Nov 2020
Is more cleanliness deepening social gaps?
Sociologist Tullia Jack's paper questions whether changes meant to increase life quality and provide basic human rights, are actually contributing to deepening social stratificatio...
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28 Sep 2020
Governing sex work. New way of categorizing prostitution policy may be the standard for years to come
Social anthropologist Petra Östergren’s research rethinks prostitution policies and receives international response and praise. Her chapter "From zero-tolerance to full integration...
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22 Sep 2020
Let's pretend this is not a meeting!
Meetings are common in contemporary working life, but they are often overlooked in academic studies and sometimes defined as empty or boring by employees. Three researchers of soci...
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10 Aug 2020
Teaching and learning in interaction
Veronika Burcar Alm, a teacher at the Department of Sociology, has this year been named Qualified Teaching Practitioner by the Faculty of Social Sciences' Teaching Academy.