Published 18 April 2017 Photo: Patrik Hekkala Sara Helmersson has defended her thesis Between Sisterhood and Treatment - Renegotiations in a Changed Support Field for Abused Women. The thesis sheds light on two types of support services for abused women in Sweden: voluntary women's shelters and specialised public sector units for people with experience of violence in intimate relationships. Sara H

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/new-dissertation-looks-support-services-abused-women-sweden - 2025-07-09

Published 25 April 2017 How have universities adapted to the refugee crisis in Europe? How can universities find constructive solutions through their own educational activities? Norma Montesino, Christel Avendal and Carolin Schütze are part of a collaborative European research project about higher education and issues related to migration and forced displacement. The first step will be to talk to

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/refugee-reception-and-universities-agents-social-innovation - 2025-07-09

Published 27 April 2017 Lotta Jägervi has received the Oscar II scholarship for her dissertation "Villiga stödjare och motvilliga offer: Självpresentation och identitetsskapande hos stödjare och brottsoffer", which she defended at the School of Social Work in 2016. The Oscar II Scholarship is annually awarded to the authors of the best doctoral theses at each of the Lund University faculties. Lott

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/lotta-jagervi-awarded-oscar-ii-scholarship - 2025-07-09

Published 17 May 2017 On 25 May, Professor Max Koch will speak at the London School of Economics, together with Dr Milena Buchs (University of Leeds). The event is part of a seminar series called Climate Change, Inequality and Social Policy. Max Koch and Milena Buchs will be presenting their new book "Postgrowth and Wellbeing: Transitions to Sustainable Welfare" (which will be published by Palgrav

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/max-koch-speak-lse - 2025-07-09

Published 18 May 2017 Jan Magnusson, lecturer at the School of Social Work, has recently returned after visiting the School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai. One of the purposes of the trip was to learn more about their work in Ladakh, a region devastated by flashfloods in 2010. The School of Social Work has had a partnership with TISS since 2010, and Jan Magnusso

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/different-kind-social-work - 2025-07-09

By emma [dot] lord [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Emma Lord) - published 7 June 2017 Last week some 60 people gathered in the conference room at Palaestra in Lund for the seminar ”Universities' role in sustainable change work” hosted by Lund University Commissioned Education, Child Rights Institute at Lund University and partners. The event marked the start of a new online global platform aiming t

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/change-agents-child-rights-told-their-stories - 2025-07-09

Published 12 June 2017 At the graduation ceremony in the main university hall on 31 May, Alida Karlman received her BSc in Social Work, and, as the first student at the department, a Certificate of International Merit. Alida completed her work placement within the programme in the Cayman Islands, working at institutions which dealt with addiction and domestic abuse. She and Emma Jonerud, a fellow

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/first-student-receives-international-certificate - 2025-07-09

Published 28 August 2017 Are you a Skåne-based entrepreneur or part of a startup working to make a positive impact on the planet? SoPact, part of the School of Social Work, is a startup accelerator for social ventures – entrepreneurs working to solve social, cultural or environmental needs in society. SoPact is open for applications for their next three-month accelerator programme for social entre

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/sopact-open-applications - 2025-07-09

Published 30 August 2017 Gap mending is an analytical tool that helps teachers and researchers in social work to reflect upon what, in their practice, increases, maintains or mends gaps between professionals and service user groups. Teachers and researchers at the School of Social Work, Lund University, have been developing this method since 2005, when the first "Mobilisation course" was taught. T

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/guardian-writes-about-gap-mending - 2025-07-09

Published 7 September 2017 Photo: EESC Professor Johansson was invited by the European Economic and Social Committee to speak at a public hearing on financing civil society organisations by the EU. On 6 September Professor Håkan Johansson participated in a hearing on Financing of civil society organisations by the EU at the EESC (European Economic and Social Committee). The goal of the hearing was

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/hakan-johansson-spoke-brussels-civil-society-funding - 2025-07-09

Published 15 September 2017 A new book by Max Koch, professor in social policy at the School of Social Work, and Milena Buchs (University of Leeds) presents a detailed and critical discussion about how human wellbeing can be improved in a postgrowth era. One of the reviewers writes :“Endless economic growth will destroy the planet but a post-growth economy threatens security and wellbeing. Büchs a

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/new-book-welfare-postgrowth-society - 2025-07-09

Published 13 October 2017 The issues of undocumented migrants and deportations of unaccompanied minors have increasingly become a challenge in social work. Vanna Nordling’s doctoral dissertation is a study of how social workers handle their role as on the one hand support workers but also representatives of institutions of control. How did the social workers you interviewed negotiate being support

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/social-workers-challenged-irregular-migration - 2025-07-09

Published 25 October 2017 Susanna Johansson, Senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, is one of the editors of a new book offering an interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of the Barnahus model. This edited collection explores the background and implementation of the Nordic Barnahus (or 'Children's House') model – recognised as one of the most important reforms related to children w

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/new-book-nordic-barnahus-model - 2025-07-09

Published 27 October 2017 Professor Håkan Johansson  has received more than SEK 35 million to lead a project about elites in civil society: "Civil Society Elites" A comparative study of the composition, reproduction, integration and questioning of elites in European Civil Society. " The money is awarded by Riksbankens jubileumsfond. Read an interview with Håkan in Swedish here.

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/35-million-research-civil-society-elites - 2025-07-09

Published 27 October 2017 Kristina Göransson has received five million from the Riksbankens jubileumsfond for the project "Parents' strategies for children's education in China, South Korea and Singapore: A Comparative Ethnographic Study".Read an interview with Kristine in Swedish here.

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/research-project-parenting-receives-funding - 2025-07-09

Published 31 October 2017 This fall PhD candidate Carolin Schütze is a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. What have you been working on since you got there?I recently gave a presentation about migration in the Swedish welfare state and discussed a new working paper, which is part of my dissertation project. The paper focuses on the role of attitudes towards migran

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/brief-interview-carolin-schutze - 2025-07-09

By ulrika [dot] oredsson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Oredsson) - published 21 December 2017 The city of Helsingborg first implemented the Housing First method seven years ago. Since then, the number of homeless per 10,000 inhabitants has fallen sharply. The programme, introduced by researchers at the School of Social Work, has also brought about additional positive effects for soc

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/seven-years-housing-first-success-story - 2025-07-09

Published 24 March 2018 At least Three (2 year) Postdoctoral positions on Great social challenges at the Faculty of Social Sciences. To be appointed as a postdoc requires a PhD in any of the following research subjects offered at the Faculty of Social Sciences: Communication and Media Studies, Education, Gender Studies, Human Ecology, Human or Economic Geography, Political Science, Psychology, Ser

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/postdoctoral-positions-great-social-challenges - 2025-07-09

Published 28 March 2018 Professor Hans Swärd has been awarded the biennial Swedish Association for Social Work Research (FORSA) Prize. "With long-term commitment, Professor Hans Swärd has been interested in the most vulnerable in society and their living conditions for several decades. Through his research, Hans Swärd has achieved improvements and a paradigm shift in how to think about the homeles

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/hans-sward-awarded-forsa-prize - 2025-07-09

Published 28 February 2018 Susanna Johansson and Lina Ponnert have published an article in the British Journal of Social Work. The article aims to analyse juridification and standardisation as two legal dimensions influencing contemporary child-protection work, and to discuss their implications for practice.  Read the while article online: Juridification and Standardisation: Two Legal Dimensions I

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/johansson-and-ponnert-juridification-and-standardisation-contemporary-child-protection - 2025-07-09