Published 24 March 2020 Professor Antoinette Hetzler has contributed to the anthology Feeling Safe in School: Bullying and Violence Prevention Around the World, published by Harvard Education Press. Professor Hetzler’s expertise concerns conflicts in Swedish schools. In her chapter “Abusive Behaviour in Swedish Schools: Setting Limits and Building Citizenship” she writes:“Sweden has gone further t

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/antoinette-hetzler-featured-international-anthology-violence-prevention-school - 2025-07-07

Published 15 April 2020 People who trust others are less likely to die than those who are distrusting, conclude sociologist Jan Mewes and colleagues in “Trust, happiness and mortality: Findings from a prospective US population-based survey”, published in Social Science & Medicine. The effects of generalised trust - the belief that others, including strangers, can be trusted – were specifically not

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/survival-advantages-people-who-trust-strangers - 2025-07-07

Published 27 April 2020 Veronika Burcar Alm has co-authored the article ”Suspected or protected? Perceptions of procedural justice in ethnic minority youth's descriptions of police relations” published in Policing and Society. The researchers interviewed 121 ethnic minority youths living in Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, about their experiences with police practices. The young people say th

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/ethnic-minority-youths-experiences-police - 2025-07-07

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman-Rogowski) - published 19 May 2020 Photo: Corey Young, Unsplashed. Three researchers within the Social Science Faculty at Lund University have compiled an anthology challenging the notion of the refugee crisis of 2015. The book also investigates how Germany, Sweden, and Denmark use bureaucracy to control, discipline, and shape

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-northern-european-welfare-states-exercise-bureaucratic-violence-asylum-seekers - 2025-07-07

Published 10 June 2020 Although violence in close relationships also includes violence in sibling relationships, this is a form of violence that is rarely acknowledged. The sibling relationship is associated with various notions of sibling rivalry and sibling love. Sociologist Veronika Burcar Alm has participated in a book about children and young people in exposed life situations with perspective

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/fighting-your-sibling-ok-right - 2025-07-07

Published 29 June 2020 Many patient organisations collaborate with drug companies, resulting in concerns about commercial agendas influencing patient advocacy. In this new study Associate Professor of Sociology Shai Mulinari, has together with Andreas Vilhelmsson, Emily Rickard and Piotr Ozieranski, analyzed financial support from pharmaceutical companies to patient organisations in Sweden between

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/pharmaceutical-industrys-funding-patient-organisations-sweden - 2025-07-07

Published 10 August 2020 Veronika Burcar Alm, a teacher at the Department of Sociology, has this year been named Qualified Teaching Practitioner by the Faculty of Social Sciences' Teaching Academy. Meet the department's Qualified Teaching Practitioner Veronika Burcar Alm as she talks about her views on teaching and why she applied to the faculty's teaching academy.The faculty’s Teaching Academy is

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/teaching-and-learning-interaction - 2025-07-07

Published 8 July 2020 Swedish women talk about the shame, threats and fear that went into telling someone about being abused by their partner in this new article "Revealing hidden realities: disclosing domestic abuse to informal others" published by Susanne Boethius and Malin Åkerström in the Nordic Journal of Criminology, and available as Open Access. One in three women Violence against women in

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/women-hesitate-when-revealing-domestic-abuse - 2025-07-07

Published 28 September 2020 Petra Östergren next to a mural of a sex worker on Marion Street, Wellington, during her 2017 field studies in New Zealand, the only country in the world with an integrative policy.. Photo: Catherine Healy. Social anthropologist Petra Östergren’s research rethinks prostitution policies and receives international response and praise. Her chapter "From zero-tolerance to f

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/governing-sex-work-new-way-categorizing-prostitution-policy-may-be-standard-years-come - 2025-07-07

Published 22 September 2020 Meetings are common in contemporary working life, but they are often overlooked in academic studies and sometimes defined as empty or boring by employees. Three researchers of sociology now contribute with insights into the culture of meetings. Malin Åkerström, David Wästerfors and Sophia Yakhlef at the Department of Sociology in Lund have written the article Meetings o

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lets-pretend-not-meeting - 2025-07-07

Published 4 November 2020 Sociologist Tullia Jack's paper questions whether changes meant to increase life quality and provide basic human rights, are actually contributing to deepening social stratification. Tullia Jack has published the paper ‘Without cleanliness we can’t lead the life, no?’ Cleanliness practices, (in)accessible infrastructures, social (im)mobility and (un)sustainable consumptio

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/more-cleanliness-deepening-social-gaps - 2025-07-07

Published 5 November 2020 The impact party politics has on the circulation of information about COVID-19 is the topic of a new article in the Canadian Journal of Political Science. Doctoral Student of Social Anthropology Isabelle Johansson has together with researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside published the article titled: ”The Partisan Impact on Local Government Dissemination of CO

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-do-politics-impact-access-information-about-covid-19 - 2025-07-07

Published 10 November 2020 Alexandra Franzén, doctoral student of sociology, has published the article “But ÖB Bengt Gustafsson took me by the hand and thanked me. A comparison between Jan Guillou's and Peter Bratt's accounts of the IB-publication in 1973 and 2017 ” in the Political Science journal Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. In May 1973, the Swedish journalists Peter Bratt and Jan Guillou expose

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sociologist-examines-swedish-ib-scandal-1973 - 2025-07-07

Published 12 February 2021 SWEDISH PARENTING SUPPORT: Lisa Eklund and Åsa Lundqvist at the Department of Sociology in Lund have published the article "Governing as peers : Reluctant experts and competent parents in the Swedish welfare state" in the French-language, international journal: Lien social et Politiques. Abstract In recent years, parenting support has gained traction in the Swedish welfa

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/competent-parents-steered-peers - 2025-07-07

Published 24 March 2021 Susanne Boethius and Malin Åkerström at the Department of Sociology in Lund are winners of the Nordic Journal of Criminology Best Article Prize 2020 with the article "Revealing hidden realities: disclosing domestic abuse to informal others". The study draws on interviews with 21 Swedish women who have been victims of domestic abuse and their social networks. The article dis

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/best-article-prize-2020-goes-sociology-article-victims-domestic-abuse - 2025-07-07

Published 2 June 2021 Even though much of their time is spent in less dramatic situations, transnational police from a range of different counties describe their own work in terms of fighting and combat. David Sausdal, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, has spent six years ethnographically researching transnational policing efforts at both the national and international leve

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/war-language-used-transnational-police-when-describing-their-work - 2025-07-07

By Agata [dot] Garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 17 March 2021 Photo: Mostphotos Researchers at Lund University have designed a new bioink which allows small human-sized airways to be 3D-bioprinted with the help of patient cells for the first time. The 3D-printed constructs are biocompatible and support new blood vessel growth into the transplanted material. This

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-bioink-brings-3d-printing-human-organs-closer-reality - 2025-07-07

By Alexander [dot] Doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 19 March 2021 Prof. Malin Parmar (right) with researcher Tiago Cardoso (left). Photo credit: Kennet Ruona. Congratulations to Prof. Malin Parmar, who has been elected as one of three new members of the Board of Directors at the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR). The Developmental and Regenerative N

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/malin-parmar-elected-isscr-board-directors - 2025-07-07

By Alexander [dot] Doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 23 March 2021 Immunofluorescence image of toxic alpha-synuclein aggregates (green) accumulating in astrocytes (purple). The nuclei of the cells are shown in blue. Credit: Laurent Roybon. In a collaborative study with other European research groups, scientists from Lund University in Sweden have shed new light on how

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-insights-toxic-protein-aggregate-formation-parkinsons-disease-size-matters - 2025-07-07

By Alexander [dot] Doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 30 March 2021 Developmental changes to the cellular proteome of blood progenitor cells. Image credit: Maria Jassinskaja In a recent study, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center uncover developmental differences in the molecular machinery of the cells that maintain the blood system. These findings provide new insight

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/researchers-reveal-keys-molecular-machinery-governing-immune-cell-production - 2025-07-07