Research projects
These pages present the department's current research projects, including our doctoral projects.
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.
Current doctoral projects
The department's PhD students are engaged in many interesting doctoral projects which you will find presented on their personal pages below.
Between Politics, Economy and Family: adult migrants in Sweden maintaining long-distance care with their stay-behind parents
Lyudmyla Corney
Embodying the Ayahuasca Shaman: Learning to Practice the Medicine in Peru
Jesse Wasson
Generals and Admirals in their everyday work in the military office - how to deal with complexity, bureaucracy and contradictions
Håkan Silverup
How people use self-tracking technologies to make lifestyle changes
Mary Fraser Berndtsson
Institutionalized Swedish elderly care during the late 1900
Anton Petersson
In my secret life – an anthropological inquiry into paying for sex
Isabelle Johansson
Learning and Earning. Part-Time Work among Upper Secondary School Students in Sweden
Anna Kallos
Opting Out or Missing Out: A Study of Women’s Employment in the Middle East
Jaleh Taheri
Prepping for an unknown forecast: Extreme weather events, nonhuman agency and individual adaptations to climate change in Swedish gardens
Felicia Hedetoft
Rise and fall and rise again – the Swedish nuclear phaseout trajectory through the prism of knowledge
Kristoffer Berglund
Social trust among adolescents
Alexander Saaranen
Taking "Love Jihad" Seriously: romantic relationships and violent movement participation
Aube Tollu
Teaching Computers to See: An Ethnographic Analysis of Machine Learning
Isak Engdahl
The politicization of care in women’s movements: The case of Zimbabwe
Yvonne Jila
The sexuality of asylum: Experiences of Queer Refugees from Iran to and through Turkey
Eda Farsakoglu Hatice
The Social Life on Darknet
Tove Gustavsson
The socially differentiated reorganization of small islands in Denmark
Jens Westerskov Andersen
The Social Processes and Spaces of Virtual Club Culture
Anna Wiemer
Traces of Distinction in Algorithmic Recommender Systems: Spotify and Digital Class Analysis
David Bazan Royuela
Transnational practices of future-making in the Iraqi diaspora(s)
Alice Francies Al Maleh
Vegan Activism and New Understandings of Nature in the Anthropocene
Naja Yndal-Olsen