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Research projects

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

Current research projects

Recently completed research projects

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

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

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

Knowledge production in political organisations
Staffan Edling

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

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

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