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)
• Determinants of Social Trust Among Adolescents (link to Lund University Research Portal)
• DiHeco - Digital Healthcare ECOsystem research and innovation capability building (link to dihecoproject.com)
• Following the money: cross-national study of pharmaceutical industry payments to medical associations and patient organisations (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. A study of relationships, commitments, and practices of care in everyday family life (link to Lund University Research Portal)
• MISTRA Sustainable consumption – from niche to mainstream (link to Lund University Research Portal)
• Revolving doors to the private sector? A sociolegal study on top state and region officials' transitions to the private sector and their regulation (link to Lund University Research Portal)
• RUT tax deductions for the elderly: New conditions for care practices (link to Lund University Research Portal)
• Scarred for Life? A Longitudinal Perspective on Unemployment and Social Trust (link to Lund University Research Portal)
• 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)
• 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)
• Urban Creativity Lund  (link to Lund University Research Portal)
• Ways Out of Street Crime: A Comparative Study of Street Crime Desistance in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. (link to The Nordic Research Council for Criminology)
• 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

• Corona Diaries (Contact: Christopher Swader)
• Cultivating Swedish-ness? Urban gardening and social inclusion among refugees (link to Lund University Research Portal)
• Digital arenas
• Direct From the Courtroom (link to Lund University Research Portal)
• Exploring the challenges of digitally reporting criminal trials in Sweden and Denmark (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
• Social Welfare Assessments: East Asian and Scandinavian Redistribution Models in a Global Context
• STEPS – Sustainable Plastics and Transition Pathways
• Support for Immigration in Post-2015 Refugee Crisis in Sweden (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)
• Trade Unions in Europe (27 EU countries) (link to Lund University Research Portal)
• Violence: its foreground and background

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