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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 Social Work at Lund Universit

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/contacts-nepal-open-future-student-visits - 2025-12-17

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 that was formed at the ini

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/film-covers-integration-service-users-education - 2025-12-17

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, Gabriella Scaramuzzino and Rober

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/new-book-eu-and-civil-society - 2025-12-17

 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 - 2025-12-17

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 directed at Lund University post

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-opens-again - 2025-12-17

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 women's shelters. The thes

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/student-wins-prize-bachelors-thesis - 2025-12-17

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 international placements in different

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/report-minor-field-study - 2025-12-17

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 their proposal, “Exploring Pol

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/carina-gallo-receives-award-innovative-teaching - 2025-12-17

Some forty Swedish top researchers and university delegations visited Singapore with the aim of developing research partnerships. Kristina Göransson, Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Work, represented Lund University's Faculty of Social Sciences at the Swedish Academic Collaboration Forum (SACF) in Singapore on 3-4 November. The project's aim is to make Swedish research better known abroad

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/seminar-develop-contacts-singapore - 2025-12-17

On October 29, Anna Meeuwisse and Roberto Scaramuzzino were in Rome to present the results of a survey of Italian social workers. The survey originated in a project run at the School of Social Work between 2005 and 2008: 'Municipal individually-oriented social work in four Nordic capital areas' (FAS 2005-2008). The questionnaire is about social workers' workers' conditions, about their views on so

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/researchers-present-italy - 2025-12-17

Alexandru Panican, researcher from the School of Social Work at Lund University and Richard Ulmestig from Linnaeus University has published an article about the Swedish welfare state and social assistance in the prestigious Citizenship Studies Journal. In the article Social Rights in the shadow of poor relief - Social Assistance in the universal Swedish welfare state the researchers analyse social

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/researchers-published-prestigious-journal - 2025-12-17

Increasing globalisation and international mobility have changed couple formations around the world. More people have a partner from abroad and, although it is often a migrant from a neighbouring country, cohabitation and marriage with migrants from distant countries have become more common. This has highlighted similarities and differences in the marriage patterns of men and women. Until the turn

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/women-and-men-show-more-similarities-when-choosing-foreign-partner - 2025-12-17

How can tourism organisations approach the question of appropriate quantity of tourists? Mikael Klintman, sociology professor is one of the speakers in a row of short talks presenting research on sustainable consumption. Mikael Klintman and other researchers from Lund University present results in films from Mistra Sustainable Consumption, a research programme aiming to stimulate a shift towards m

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sustainable-tourism-part-film-cavalcade - 2025-12-17

Christofer Edling, professor of Sociology and dean at the Faculty of Social Science at Lund University, has been appointed as a member of the government’s new advisory committee on research. He expects interesting discussions and to highlight social science research. The advisory committee is appointed to advise the government in the preparation of the research and innovation bill which is estimat

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/professor-christofer-edling-member-new-government-advisory-committee - 2025-12-17

Three projects with researchers from the Department of Sociology have received research grants from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ). The researchers who will receive funding are Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren and David Sausdal. Read about the projects on the RJ website (in Swedish): Dalia Abdelhady: Learning to labor, learning to succeed: a comparative study of the the children of immigrants Nina Gren:

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/three-researchers-awarded-funding-foundation - 2025-12-17

Palestinians in the occupied territories experience great despair and resignation. Social anthropologist Nina Gren's research in the area and contact with residents over 20 years has consistently revealed frustration and feelings of hopelessness. In her article 'Palestinian conflict: how despair can drive people to violence, even if it puts their lives in danger' in The Conversation, Nina Gren des

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/nothing-lose-hopelessness-may-increase-violence-palestine - 2025-12-17

No less than four Department of Sociology projects have recently received funding from the Swedish Research Council. The researchers behind the projects are Jan Mewes, Christopher Swader, Lisa Flower, Shai Mulinari, Sébastien Tutenges, Susanne Boethius and David Wästerfors. The following projects will get funds from the Swedish Research Council, with links to Swecris – the Swedish research databas

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/several-projects-get-funding-swedish-research-council - 2025-12-17

On Tuesday 19 December, Marie Larsson successfully defended her thesis "The Work of Contracepting: Young people's experiences and practices with contraceptives in Sweden" and is now a doctor of sociology. Marie Larsson's thesis highlights the work that underpins young people's experiences and practices around contraceptive methods. Interviews with young people aged 18 to 29 show that the work of c

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/marie-larsson-has-defended-her-thesis-contraceptive-work-and-now-doctor-sociology - 2025-12-17

Lila Lee-Morrison, researcher at the Department of Sociology, was recently awarded the prestigious Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant 2023 in the books category. The grant supports writing about contemporary art and aims to ensure that critical writing remains a valued way to engage with the visual arts. The grant is awarded in three categories - articles, books and short texts. Lila Lee-Mo

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lila-lee-morrison-awarded-andy-warhol-foundation-arts-writers-grant - 2025-12-17

At Lund University's grand annual ceremony, the Student Award for Excellence in Teaching was presented to Oriana Quaglietta Bernal, Department of Sociology. Oriana Quaglietta Bernal completed her PhD last year and was surprised that she has already been awarded the prize. At the award ceremony, held at the University’s annual academic ceremony on 26 January, she was joined by a Nobel laureate and

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/oriana-quaglietta-bernal-awarded-honourable-teacher-prize - 2025-12-17