Published 5 September 2018 The trial against Telia and former employees who are charged with bribery after purchasing 3G licenses in Uzbekistan in 2007 begins this week. Our researcher Isabel Schoultz is in Stockholm's District Court investigating how the company is handling the crisis. – Simply put, you can say that the actual situation may have triggered crime, as it is difficult to combine high

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Published 6 November 2018 The digital platform Child Rights Online has now been launched in 14 countries and will provide teachers and aspiring teachers with a better understanding of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to offer children and young people a more inclusive and equal schooling. In recent years, the Child Rights Institute at Lund University has worked with the international digi

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Published 14 November 2018 Patrik Olsson and Rustam Urinboyev visited Tashkent in Uzbekistan in October to give policy advise on crime prevention and anti-corruption issues and were interviewed by Uzbek television. Two of our researchers in Sociology of Law, Senior Lecturer Patrik Olsson and Senior Research Fellow Rustam Urinboyev, are currently invited to give policy advise to the Academy of Gene

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Published 3 December 2018 Staffan Michelson defended his doctoral thesis in Sociology of Law ”Empowerment and Private Law. Civil Impetus for Sustainable Development” Friday 30th November at one o'clock in the room Pufendorfsalen at the Faculty of Law, in Lund. The dissertation is the result of a study of private law viewed as a source of power for individuals to enhance values they favour. As an a

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Published 9 January 2019 ONGOING RESEARCH: Amin Parsa’s research on migration and the use of new technology in tracing mobility focuses on how the use of such technology can potentially reshape our laws. – I want to show how our use of new technology is shaping the way that we do law, says Amin Parsa.– Generally my research is about the relationship between law and technology. Artificial intellige

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By emma [dot] lord [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Emma Lord) - published 19 February 2019 Thomas Duke Labik Amanquandor graduated from the University for Development Studies, Wa Campus, and was awarded the overall best student of his year for his academic achievement, but also for his extra contributions to the community. Ghana’s “overall best student 2018” is studying Sociology of Law in Lund. La

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Published 3 May 2019 Martin Joormann defended his doctoral thesis in Sociology of Law ”Legitimized Refugees: A Critical Investigation of Legitimacy Claims within the Precedents of Swedish Asylum Law” today Friday 3rd May at 10 o'clock in Kulturen's Auditorium, Tegnérsplatsen in Lund. The external reviewer was Professor Åsa Wettergren, Göteborg University.Abstract på engelskaThis study focuses on a

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Published 7 October 2021 Alexandra Franzén outside of the AF-building in Lund where Jan Guillou and Peter Bratt gave a speech about the IB-scandal the evening before they were imprisoned for their publication. Spy scandals as a power struggle between three actors: whistleblowers, journalists and the intelligence service. On Friday 1 October Alexandra Franzén at the Department of Sociology defended

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Published 18 January 2022 The Department of Sociology in Lund will receive three years of funding for a large collaboration project looking at insecure and informal work in the Nordic countries. Researchers Rasmus Ahlstrand and Sara Eldén, here at the Department of Sociology in Lund are part of the project "Tackling Precarious and Informal Work in the Nordic Countries (PrecaNord)" which has been g

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Published 17 January 2022 When the American research field "Fear of Crime" was introduced in Sweden in the 1980s, it was translated "otrygghet", a word with a previously established meaning in Swedish. The meaning of the word "otrygghet" has since then changed significantly in Sweden. From being used to signify economic and materialist unpredictability, "otrygghet" has come to be used almost exclu

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Published 4 January 2022 The everyday life in two day-care centres of psychiatry in the municipality of Copenhagen is examined in a new sociology thesis from Vibeke Klitgaard. Focus lies on the patients' communication and behavior as well as the stigmatization they experience from the social environment. Vibeke Klitgaard defended her thesis "Social (dis) order in district psychiatry: A systems the

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Published 16 February 2022 Associate Professor Sébastien Tutenges and Researcher Susanne Boethius of the Department of Sociology at Lund University are Editor-in-Chief and Co-Editor of the Nordic Journal of Criminology since the turn of the year. Looking forward to the new job! In an interview for The Nordic Research Council for Criminology (NSfK), the new Editor-in-Chief Sébastien Tutenges says h

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Published 11 February 2022 In his doctoral thesis in sociology "Structures of subcontracting: Work organisation, control, and labour in the Swedish building sector", Rasmus Ahlstrand analyses the increased use of subcontractors and explores new forms of work organisation in the Swedish building sector. A key contribution of his study is the concept of masked staffing, which refers to unauthorised

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Published 9 February 2022 In his article "Does remote work weaken trade unions?*" Anders Kjellberg, Professor of sociology, discusses how the balance of power in the labour market is changed when working from home increases in society. He also writes about the new trade union issues that distance working raises in industries where it is widespread. Those affected are primarily white-collar workers

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Published 11 October 2022 Photo: Lea Trier Krøll Why do people across cultures gather in groups to get intoxicated? Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology in Lund Sébastien Tutenges has been researching nightclubs and festivals for two decades to answer this question. His new book "Intoxication" offers valuable new insights into a wide variety of experiences. This book takes us to bars

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Published 26 May 2022 Alison Gerber, Senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology. Photo: Sindre Lo Gerber. On 21 May the Young Academy of Sweden elected six new, prominent researchers representing fields ranging from brain surgery, analytical sociologoy and energy transformation. One of them is Alison Gerber, senior lecturer in sociology here at the Department of Sociology at Lund University. W

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Published 7 June 2022 Associate Professor Dalia Abdelhady has studied how a Turkish newspaper's attempts to write inclusive portrayals of Syrian refugees still contributed to politicising and "othering" them as a group. In a paper published in Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, Dalia Abdelhady studies portrayals of Syrian refugees in the Turkish newspaper

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Published 16 June 2022 Colm Flaherty and his supervisors Charalambos Demetriou (left) and Bo Isenberg (right). Photo: Theo Hagman-Rogowski On Thursday, June 16, Colm Flaherty successfully defended his thesis A Politics of Community: Identity, Stigma, and Meaning in the Extra-Parliamentary Left, and is from here on out a doctor of sociology. Flaherty spent his doctoral studies exploring changing fo

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By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 20 June 2022 Children of immigrants are sorted on the basis of preconceived notions with measures that do not take into account their own perspectives. Photo: iStockphoto. How does migration and globalisation shape the lives of individuals in various countries and how does it affect the children of immigrants in terms of

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By emma [dot] lord [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (Emma Lord) - published 12 September 2022 How do immigrant organizations in Sweden work with aid and development in their home countries? Other European countries work more actively than Sweden to use the knowledge about home countries that exists within these organizations. Sociologists from Lund Axel Fredholm, Johan Sandberg and Olle Frödin write abo

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