Research projects
These pages present the department's current research projects, including our doctoral projects.
Current research projects
- A New Biologism? How Medical Research, Policy and Clinical Practice Approach Ethnic Differences in Health (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- Corona Diaries
- Cultivating Swedish-ness? Urban gardening and social inclusion among refugees (link to Lund University Research Portal)
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- Digital arenas
- DiHeco - Digital Healthcare ECOsystem research and innovation capability building (link to dihecoproject.com)
- Direct From the Courtroom (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- Determinants of Social Trust Among Adolescents (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- Experiences of policing among ethnic minority youth in the Nordic countries (EPEN)
- FAMIW: Family, Migration and Welfare (link to Lund University Research portal)
- Help or hindrance? An exploration of how criminal trials and legal professionals are depicted in live blogs published on news websites (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- Intergenerational care in Sweden (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- MISTRA Sustainable consumption – from niche to mainstream (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- Parenting strategies around children's education in urban China, South Korea and Singapore: A comparative ethnographic study (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- ‘Precariousness at Work: Women Employees in Nordic Companies Outsourced to China, India, and Vietnam' (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- Rewriting the city: graffiti and the subcultural appropriation of space
- Show & Tell: Scientific representation, algorithmically generated visualizations, and evidence across epistemic cultures (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- Sino-Nordic Welfare Research Network (SNoW) (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- Social Welfare Assessments: East Asian and Scandinavian Redistribution Models...
- Support for Immigration in Post-2015 Refugee Crisis in Sweden (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- Tackling Precarious and Informal Work in the Nordic Countries (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- The New Scientific Revolution? AI and Big Data in Biomedicine (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- The Politics of Parenting Support (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- The Role of International Migrant Organizations in Labour Market Integration in Sweden (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- Threats and Violence in School
- Trade Unions in Europe (27 EU countries) (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- Trouble in School
- Violence: its foreground and background
- Urban Creativity Lund (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- Work less, live more? (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- Working life research at Lund University (link to Lund University Research Portal)
Recently completed research projects
- Exploring the challenges of digitally reporting criminal trials in Sweden and Denmark (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- Care for children in an era of private market services (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- STEPS – Sustainable Plastics and Transition Pathways
- Sustainable Product Chains for Plastics (SUSPLAST) (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- Call the Police? (link to Lund University Research Portal)
- QuInnE. Quality of jobs and Innovation generated Employment Outcomes
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
Creative Labor in the Platform Economy
Daniel Karlsson
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
Identity Formations of Second-Generation Pakistani Muslims in Sweden
Uzma Kazi
Institutionalized Swedish elderly care during the late 1900
Anton Petersson
In my secret life – an anthropological inquiry into paying for sex
Isabelle Johansson
Intergenerational care in stellar families in Sweden
Linn Alénius Wallin
Opting Out or Missing Out: A Study of Women’s Employment in the Middle East
Jaleh Taheri
Exploring Young People’s Contraceptive Work in Sweden
Marie Larsson
Knowledge production in political organisations
Staffan Edling
Learning and Earning. Part-Time Work among Upper Secondary School Students in Sweden
Anna Kallos
Sexköpslagens, funktioner och meningar. En etnografi över den svenska sexköpslagen (About Swedish sex work policy and discourse)
Petra Östergren
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 Urgency to Do Right: On the Bureaucratic Work of Teachers
Freja Morris
Traces of Distinction in Algorithmic Recommender Systems: Spotify and Digital Class Analysis
David Bazan Royuela
Vegan Activism and New Understandings of Nature in the Anthropocene
Naja Yndal-Olsen
All our active projects in the Lund University Research Portal
The Department of Sociology's currently running projects and our latest contributions to the field of social science.