By moa [dot] bejersten [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (Moa Bejersten) - published 28 October 2024 On Friday 25 October, Daniel Karlsson successfully defended his thesis "At least I have this freedom: Subjectivity and self-precarization among digital freelancers in the Swedish cultural industries" and is now a doctor of sociology. External reviewer professor Dan Kärreman, Copenhagen Business School. Th

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/daniel-karlsson-doctor-sociology-after-defending-his-thesis-digital-freelancers - 2025-04-11

By moa [dot] bejersten [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (Moa Bejersten) - published 25 November 2024 Uzma Kazi with supervisors Erika Willander and Christofer Edling. On Friday 22 November, Uzma Kazi successfully defended her thesis ‘Swedish-(Par)Desi: Belonging Narratives of Second-Generation Pakistani Muslims in Sweden’ and was awarded the title of Doctor of Sociology. External reviewer Tahseen Shams

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/uzma-kazi-doctor-sociology-after-defending-her-thesis - 2025-04-11

By moa [dot] bejersten [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (Moa Bejersten) - published 16 December 2024 In his dissertation, Staffan Edling, a recent PhD graduate in sociology from Lund University, examines how knowledge and politics interact within the Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO). He shows that the boundary between fact-finding and political advocacy is often blurred - and sometimes disappe

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/staffan-edling-has-defended-his-thesis-los-investigative-work - 2025-04-11

Published 19 December 2024 On Friday 13 December, Petra Östergren successfully defended her thesis ‘Sweden's Ban on Sex-Purchase: Morality politics and the governance of prostitution’ and can now call herself a doctor in social anthropology. The thesis examines Sweden's 1998 ban on buying sex. The material was collected between 2009 and 2019 and analyses the law from legal, political and social pe

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/petra-ostergren-has-defended-her-thesis-swedish-sex-purchase-act - 2025-04-11

By moa [dot] bejersten [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (Moa Bejersten) - published 9 January 2025 At the turn of the year, the Department of Gender Studies became the Division of Gender Studies alongside the Divisions of Social Anthropology and Sociology in a new larger Department. The work with the merger include reviewing all system technical aspects so that the transition will take place as smoothly

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-year-new-department - 2025-04-11

Published 17 December 2014 We have launched a new website! Have a look around, and please let us know what you think. The School of Social Work has launched a new website, in both a Swedish and English version. Please complete our mini survey and let us know what you think! If you have any  other questions or comments, please contact the department's web editor.

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/new-website - 2025-04-11

Published 3 December 2014  Håkan Jönson and Tove Harnett, researchers at The School of Social Work, and Annika Taghizadeh Larsson (Linköping University) and Stina Johansson (Umeå University) have received 3.1 million from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte) for the project "Would a disability model mean better care for the elderly?"In June 2014 Forte announced

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/sek-3-million-research-ageing - 2025-04-11

Published 12 December 2014 Lund University's Vice-Chancellor Per Eriksson will be stepping down at the end of the year. There will be a farewell reception today, 12 December.As leaving gifts, Per Eriksson has asked for donations to help eradicate homelessness in Sweden, including to the School of Social Work's Housing First project.Read more about the Vice-Chancellor here.Read more about Housing F

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/vice-chancellor-asks-donations-eradicate-homelessness - 2025-04-11

Published 27 January 2015 Senior lecturer Anna Angelin has recently published an article on service participation in social work education in Norway and Sweden. In the article Angelin compares two participatory projects that have developed and implemented practices that integrate service users into academic social work education: the Norwegian HUSK project and the Social Work as Mobilization and E

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/article-service-user-integration-looks-lunds-unique-course - 2025-04-11

Published 9 February 2015 Innovation in Social Welfare and Human Services, by Marcus Knutagård, lecturer at the School of Social Work, and Rolf Rønning, Professor at the University of Lillehammer, has just been published by Routledge. The new book explores the popular concept of innovation and what it actually means in a health and social welfare context. The authors discuss relevant differences b

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/new-book-innovation-social-and-human-services - 2025-04-11

Published 16 February 2015 Marcus Knutagård, senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, is one of the authors of the indepth publication "The Finnish Homelessness Strategy – An International Review", which was recently completed. The report looks at work on homelessness done in the United Kingdom, Sweden and the USA, focusing particularly on operating practices that could be used in work on hom

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/researcher-contributes-report-finnish-homelessness-strategy - 2025-04-11

Published 2 March 2015 The School of Social Work recently hosted an online seminar on grounded theory, which drew participants from New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, Canada, the UK, Italy and Lithuania. The virtual meeting was the first gathering of a group that has emerged on Facebook, around a common interest in the research methodology. The seminar was organised by Ulrika Sandén and her advisers

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/grounded-theory-contentment-and-norwegian-fjord - 2025-04-11

Published 31 March 2015 Earlier this spring, Jan Magnusson, senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, travelled to Nepal to make new contacts and explore possibilities of sending students on Minor Field Studies scholarships there. He also met with officials and teachers at Tribhuvan University, as he is helping the university develop their master’s programme in social work. The School of Socia

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/contacts-nepal-open-future-student-visits - 2025-04-11

Published 15 April 2015 A film production is under way about service user participation in education and research in Europe. The resulting film will be screened at the opening of the conference "Social Work Education in Europe: towards 2025", which will be held in Milan, this summer. The School of Social Work at Lund University is involved in organizing the conference thorugh PowerUs, a network th

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/film-covers-integration-service-users-education - 2025-04-11

Published 18 September 2015 The new volume EU Civil Society. Patterns of Cooperation, Competion and Conflict, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. Editors of the book are Håkan Johansson, professor at the School of Social Work, and Sara Kalm, senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Lund. Other contributors from the School of Social Work areJayeon Lee, Anna Meeuwisse, Gabr

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/new-book-eu-and-civil-society - 2025-04-11

Published 12 October 2015  Due to an anonymous threat to the university and its students via the app Jodel and which the police regards very seriously, the university will be closed on Monday for all students and staff at all campuses. More information will be posted at the university home page www.lu.se during the day. If you have any questions you can call 046-222 07 00 from 8 am.

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-closed-monday-october-12 - 2025-04-11

Published 13 October 2015 Lund University reopens on TuesdayA decision to reopen Lund University was taken in the afternoon of Monday 12 October following the closure that has been in force since Sunday night. Activities are expected to be running as usual from Tuesday morning.  The decision is based on new information from the Region Syd police. Investigations have revealed that the threat direct

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-opens-again - 2025-04-11

Published 16 October 2015 The Swedish Crime Victim Compensation and Support Authority's (Brottsoffermyndigheten) praises Nora Germundsson, a student at the School of Social Work, for her bachelor thesis about the expectations of the country's women's shelters. Nora Germundsson was awarded second prize for her thesis "We need the voices - strong voices" - a qualitative study of new expectations of

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/student-wins-prize-bachelors-thesis - 2025-04-11

Published 30 October 2015 In the spring of 2015 Lisa Hindström and Aleksandra Goreczna wrote their bachelor thesis about sex education in Grenada, after receiving an MFS scholarship for field studies. This is the report from their travels. When we decided to apply for a Minor Field Studies scholarship from The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, we were both abroad on internation

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/report-minor-field-study - 2025-04-11

Published 6 November 2015 Carina Gallo, senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, and assistant professor of criminology at Holy Names University (HNU), has been awarded the Burmeister Award by the Division of Distance Learning of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). Gallo shares the award with Julaine Fowlin, PhD, former instructional designer at HNU, for thei

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/carina-gallo-receives-award-innovative-teaching - 2025-04-11