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13 Feb 2024
To share the unshareable - Strong equality ideal in young people's contraceptive work
Making independent decisions about your body and your life is a big part of being a human being in Sweden today. Part of this is taking care of your sexual health and choosing whet...
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29 Jan 2024
Oriana Quaglietta Bernal awarded honourable teacher prize
At Lund University's grand annual ceremony, the Student Award for Excellence in Teaching was presented to Oriana Quaglietta Bernal, Department of Sociology.
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23 Jan 2024
Lila Lee-Morrison awarded the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
Lila Lee-Morrison, researcher at the Department of Sociology, was recently awarded the prestigious Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant 2023 in the books category. The grant s...
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19 Dec 2023
Marie Larsson has defended her thesis on contraceptive work and is now a doctor of sociology
On Tuesday 19 December, Marie Larsson successfully defended her thesis "The Work of Contracepting: Young people's experiences and practices with contraceptives in Sweden" and is no...
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12 Dec 2023
Several projects get funding from the Swedish Research Council
No less than four Department of Sociology projects have recently received funding from the Swedish Research Council. The researchers behind the projects are Jan Mewes, Christopher ...
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22 Nov 2023
Nothing to lose - Hopelessness may increase violence in Palestine
Palestinians in the occupied territories experience great despair and resignation. Social anthropologist Nina Gren's research in the area and contact with residents over 20 years h...
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27 Oct 2023
Three researchers awarded funding from foundation
Three projects with researchers from the Department of Sociology have received research grants from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ). The researchers who will receive funding are Dal...
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24 Oct 2023
Professor Christofer Edling member of the new government advisory committee
Christofer Edling, professor of Sociology and dean at the Faculty of Social Science at Lund University, has been appointed as a member of the government’s new advisory committee on...
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16 Oct 2023
Sustainable tourism part of film cavalcade
How can tourism organisations approach the question of appropriate quantity of tourists? Mikael Klintman, sociology professor is one of the speakers in a row of short talks present...
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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 ...
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22 Nov 2022
Capturing the evasive concept of job quality
The Department of Sociology's Christopher Mathieu is one of the editors of a new and heavy tome clarifying the complex and much-debated issue of the quality of jobs.