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11 Nov 2022
Creating spaces for radical social change
Dr Colm Flaherty noticed that despite generally declining membership in Swedish political parties, political engagement is very much alive. He says it is observable in the mundane ...
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28 Oct 2022
David Wästerfors can't stop thinking about violence
Physical violence is rarely something people think about or act out. Even violence specialists - people with a propensity for violence and a capacity to cause devastating damage - ...
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24 Oct 2022
Oriana Quaglietta Bernal successfully defends her doctoral thesis
On Friday, 21 October, Oriana Quaglietta Bernal successfully defended her doctoral thesis, "In Her Words: Women's Accounts of Managing Drug-related Risk, Pleasure, and Stigma in Sw...
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13 Oct 2022
Aggressively patriarchal worldviews attracted Swedish women to the Islamic State
Contrary to popular belief, women played a prominent role in IS recruitment - especially in bringing in other women. A new study from Lund University shows that Swedish women joine...
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11 Oct 2022
Collective intoxication can give religious experience and more solidarity
Why do people across cultures gather in groups to get intoxicated? Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology in Lund Sébastien Tutenges has been researching nightclubs and...
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14 Sep 2022
Sociology Conference ARTS IN MOVEMENT Opens Today in our House
Today the volume in our building will rise with the chatter of about 70 visiting sociologists of the arts from Japan to Colombia and all over Europe.
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12 Sep 2022
Immigrant organizations in Sweden can play a more important role in aid and development
How do immigrant organizations in Sweden work with aid and development in their home countries? Other European countries work more actively than Sweden to use the knowledge about h...
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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...