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Research projects

These pages present the department's ongoing research projects, including our doctoral projects.

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All our projects in the Lund University Research Portal

Current doctoral projects

The department’s PhD students are engaged in a wide range of research projects. You can find presentations of their work on their personal pages in the Lund University Research Portal.

Discover some of our latest research projects

A selection of the latest research projects from the Department of Sociology in Lund University's research portal.

Handlingsinriktad reflexiv tillit: Ett samverkansprojekt för att stärka hållbarhetskommunikation och minska kunskapsresistens

Processing Unit for Reuse and Intelligent Filtration of Greywater

Collective bargaining and trade union revitalization in EU

Economic consequences of forced sterilizations

GANG_REC: Researching gang recruitment and culture in the 21st century

Anthropomorphic AI and emergent vulnerabilities: An empirically informed legal evaluation of the protection of users of AI chatbots (AAI)

Maintenance in transformation

Emotions and rituals in practitioner-client interaction in a heterogenous society

Valuing waste and value of waste: Contestations and collaborations between waste pickers and producers

Gender struggles in the new conjuncture. Gender, sexuality and the future of human rights in the 21st century

Partnervåld mot äldre personer: Utsatthet och hjälpsökande

The elusive role of physicality in virtual trials: Towards a new understanding of legal participation

Särskilt förstärkta avdelningar – vardagliga villkor och samspel

Networked resistances

Needs-based school funding - a path to improving student achievement and reducing educational inequalities?

Digitizing the Discipline: Early Computing and the Making of Historical Knowledge in Sweden

Mobility Lund University-National University of Singapore (NUS)

The United Nations University Hub: Water in a Changing Environment (WICE)

Global South—Global North Developments: The Asymmetries of Polycrisis, Risks, and Resilience

Frictional Humanitarian Homebuilding – Swedish Civil Society Actors in the Occupied Palestinian Territories from 1967 to the present

Frictional humanitarian homebuilding - Swedish Civil Society Actors in the Occupied Palestinians Territories from 1967 to the Present

Needs-based school funding - a path to improving student achievement and reducing educational inequalities?

Death and dying under military occupation: asserting sovereignty in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara

CONNECTED – building supportive connections between community and care for people with palliative care needs, and their significant others.

Police and crime victim interactions – a study of the emotional dynamic in preliminary investigations of intimate partner violence

Tillvaratagande, analys och utveckling av åtgärder för att vända trenden och för att minska risken för ohälsa och personalflykt från hälso- och sjukvården

Svensk beredskap för smygande hälsokriser och organisatoriskt lärande efter svininfluensan, värmeböljan och coronapandemin

Prepping for Security in Sweden

Scandinavian suspicions: A study of private investigators, sidewards surveillance, and social paranoia

De stridbara svenskarna. Konfliktrepertoarer och demokratisering i Sverige, 1820–1939

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