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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 asylum seekers’ lives. In 2015, the number of asylum seekers arriving in the EU doubled from the previous year, totalling at over 1.3 mill

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-northern-european-welfare-states-exercise-bureaucratic-violence-asylum-seekers - 2025-12-09

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 perspectives from research and pra

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/fighting-your-sibling-ok-right - 2025-12-09

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 2014 and 2018. They ha

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/pharmaceutical-industrys-funding-patient-organisations-sweden - 2025-12-09

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 a means to promote teach

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/teaching-and-learning-interaction - 2025-12-09

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 close relationships is

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/women-hesitate-when-revealing-domestic-abuse - 2025-12-09

Social anthropologist Petra Östergren’s research rethinks prostitution policies and receives international response and praise. Her chapter "From zero-tolerance to full integration. Rethinking prostitution policies" has now been published in The Sage Handbook of Global Sexuality. According to professor Hendrik Wagenaar at Kings College in London it is a "seminal typology of prostitution policies"

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/governing-sex-work-new-way-categorizing-prostitution-policy-may-be-standard-years-come - 2025-12-09

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 or Power Weeks? Boundary Work

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lets-pretend-not-meeting - 2025-12-09

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 consumption in Mysore, India on www.

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/more-cleanliness-deepening-social-gaps - 2025-12-09

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 COVID-19 Information: Assess

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-do-politics-impact-access-information-about-covid-19 - 2025-12-09

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 exposed the secret Swedish intell

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sociologist-examines-swedish-ib-scandal-1973 - 2025-12-09

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 welfare state in both policy and

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/competent-parents-steered-peers - 2025-12-09

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 discusses the initial discl

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/best-article-prize-2020-goes-sociology-article-victims-domestic-abuse - 2025-12-09

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 level across Europe. He ha

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/war-language-used-transnational-police-when-describing-their-work - 2025-12-09

In February, ClimBEco PhD students gathered for our annual winter meeting. For the second consecutive year – but hopefully for the last time – the meeting was held digitally due to pandemic restrictions, with a small lunch gathering at the conclusion. During this two-day event, participants presented their PhD research to each other in an interdisciplinary setting. They had the option of sharing e

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/climbeco-winter-meeting-2022-summary - 2025-12-09

Where, how often, and how much it is going to rain or snow in the future is difficult to predict. Anders Ahlström studies the importance of precipitation for ecosystems on Earth – and contributes with new knowledge in a complex and fraught area. Across the world, researchers are in agreement on future warming patterns. However, future precipitation is more difficult to predict, and climate models

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/importance-precipitation-ecosystems-earth - 2025-12-09

Thomas Pugh, principal investigator at BECC and researcher at MERGE, is one of the researchers behind a new study that is published in Science. In the study, the researchers compared results from three major modeling approaches that provide information on different aspects of risk on the impact of climate change on forests in the 21st century. Forests harbor enormous biodiversity and are a major c

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/climate-risk-analysis-earths-forests-21st-century - 2025-12-09

China has suffered an extreme heat wave this summer and the Yangtze River has been completely dried up in parts. This is the topic of a new episode of the Swedish podcast Kinapodden with MERGE-researcher Deliang Chen as one of the guests. China has suffered an extreme heat wave this summer. The Yangtze River has been completely dried up in parts, resulting in an acute energy shortage. In a new epi

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-researcher-deliang-chen-guests-kinapodden-talk-about-drought-along-yangtze-river - 2025-12-09

Effects of a warmer Arctic are not only negative for the climate, according to a new thesis from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University, Sweden. Modelling showed that moving the tree line upwards could increase carbon storage, as trees sequester more carbon in their biomass than tundra plants. But the results are uncertain. The Arctic – the area north of the Arctic Cir

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/complex-consequences-warmer-arctic - 2025-12-09

After this summer meeting, one cannot understate the importance of and unmistakeable delight in meeting in-person after a long, pandemic-sized hiatus. On the shores of the Baltic Sea, in the crisp early autumn of Skåne, a group of 28 ClimBEco PhD students spent two nights and two days getting to know one another and learning about the topic of sustainable coastal environments. Hosted by the Simris

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/reflections-climbeco-summer-meeting-2022 - 2025-12-09

The UN’s annual climate change conference takes place this year in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Over the course of two weeks, representatives of the world’s nations will gather to discuss how to achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement and contribute to the climate transition. At this year’s COP, the focus will be on topics such as climate finance, loss and damage, adaptation to climate change a

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-conference-cop27-topics-agenda - 2025-12-09