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The future of working life in Europe is analysed in a new anthology which, with the help of multiple researchers, looks primarily at three major changes taking place in working life right now. These changes are due to three inevitable phenomena: the pandemic, climate change and digitalisation. Four sociologists from Lund University contribute with chapters in the book. Never in modern times has wo

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/pandemic-climate-and-digitalisation-three-major-adaptations-working-life-right-now - 2025-11-29

On Thursday, 26 January, Imad Rasan successfully defended his doctoral thesis, "Women in the Public Sphere in Egypt 2011–2014". Through interviews and document analysis, Imad Rasan investigated how women activists participated in the public sphere in Egypt from the outbreak of the 2011 uprising to the re-emergence of the authoritarian regime in 2014. He found that women engaged in social movements

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/unanimous-examination-committee-approves-imad-rasans-dissertation - 2025-11-29

The history of Swedish day-care is examined in a new study that provides insight into Sweden's day-care system during the early 20th century. Together with Luciana Quaranta, Annika Elwert has looked at which factors influenced enrolment in day-care centres in southern Sweden for children born between 1900 and 1935. The study shows that at the beginning of the 20th century it was unusual for childr

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/who-was-swedish-day-care-meant - 2025-11-29

David Wästerfors, Veronika Burcar Alm and Erik Hannerz have published an article in New Media & Society dealing with crime case discussions on the Swedish platform Flashback. The article shows how the interactions form a "bumpy" path as the Flashback-writers together try to achieve knowledge, evidence and authority regarding the various crimes being discussed. Much of today's public discussion on

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sleuthing-online-bumpy-path-net-detective - 2025-11-29

Friday 5 May Elton Chan defended his thesis which explores the production and transformation of public spaces in Hong Kong, a city that is steeped in neoliberal ideals and has seen substantial deterioration in terms of democratic rights and freedoms in recent years. Drawing upon recent protest movements in Hong Kong and the ways in which protesters appropriated and transformed different urban spac

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/elton-chan-our-new-doctor-sociology-has-defended-his-thesis-public-space-hong-kong - 2025-11-29

On 11 May, Lars Crusefalk finished his PhD studies with a successful defence of his thesis "Financial journeys: Reasoning about debt and money among young adults in Sweden". He is the 132nd doctoral candidate to complete PhD studies at the Department of Sociology. Swedish households are among the most indebted in the EU. Home loans make up most of the debt, but other credit usage is becoming incre

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lars-crusefalk-ends-phd-student-journey-and-transitions-doctor-sociology - 2025-11-29

The neoliberal agenda dominating the EU for the past 40 years has been a severe challenge for the trade unions, which have lost organisational strength. Even in Sweden, union density has declined, but the country still has the second highest unionisation rate in the world, only surpassed by Iceland. Almost seven out of ten employees in Sweden are union members. In June of this year, the European T

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anders-kjellberg-co-authors-comprehensive-book-trade-unions-eu-countries - 2025-11-29

The proportion of unionised blue-collar and white-collar workers fell in 2022 after an increase in the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021. Despite this, Sweden has the world's second highest level of unionisation. This is shown in the report 'The Swedish model from a Nordic perspective: unionisation and the new basic agreement' by Professor Anders Kjellberg for the think tank Arena Idé. The share of

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sweden-world-leading-union-membership-despite-declining-union-density - 2025-11-29

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 - 2025-11-29

 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 SEK 15 million in funding

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/sek-3-million-research-ageing - 2025-11-29

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 First here.

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/vice-chancellor-asks-donations-eradicate-homelessness - 2025-11-29

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 Entrepreneurship course, al

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/article-service-user-integration-looks-lunds-unique-course - 2025-11-29

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 between the private and pub

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/new-book-innovation-social-and-human-services - 2025-11-29

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 homelessness in Finland.Access

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/researcher-contributes-report-finnish-homelessness-strategy - 2025-11-29

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 Dr. Lars Harrysson at

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/grounded-theory-contentment-and-norwegian-fjord - 2025-11-29

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 - 2025-11-29

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 - 2025-11-29

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 - 2025-11-29

 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 - 2025-11-29

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 - 2025-11-29