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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 - 2026-01-11
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 migrants in the practical welfar
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/brief-interview-carolin-schutze - 2026-01-11
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 socially vulnerable groups in Helsingborg. This is shown in a new report, written by Arne Kristensen and Marcus
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/seven-years-housing-first-success-story - 2026-01-11
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, Service Studies, Social Ant
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/postdoctoral-positions-great-social-challenges - 2026-01-11
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 homeless, including contributin
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/hans-sward-awarded-forsa-prize - 2026-01-11
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 Influencing Contemporary Chi
On 14 and 15 April, the School of Social Work, in collaboration with SASNET, hosted a workshop on nationalisms in South Asia. The convenors were Frank Korom from Boston University, Jan Magnusson from the School of Social Work and the Director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson. The core idea of the workshop was formed in opposition to a generation of scholarship which argued that nationalism was strictl
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/comparing-nationalist-actors-south-asia - 2026-01-11
"We have no alternative but to look for new ideas and imaginaries of welfare and social inclusion in the absence of growth", says Max Koch in an interview in the Green European Journal. Read the entire interview with Max Koch and Jean Lambert, a Greens/EFA MEP from the UK, on the Green Journal Website.Professor Max Koch's research deals with capitalist restructuring and its impact on social inequa
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/max-koch-welfare-and-work-within-planetary-limits - 2026-01-11
The 6th International Degrowth Conference in Malmö will take place from August 21-25. The 6th International Degrowth Conference in Malmö, Sweden, titled “Dialogues in turbulent times” is organized by the Institute for degrowth studies. This conference aims at expanding the geographical and thematic scope of degrowth discussions, as well as building dialogues with critical social theories, sciences
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/malmo-hosts-degrowth-conference - 2026-01-11
In an article recently published in the European Social Work Research journal, researchers Anna Rypi, Malin Åkerström and Veronika Burcar Alm attempt to shed light on why young men with an immigrant background who are subjected to violent crimes rarely report the incidents to the police. The young men who were interviewed mainly portrayed their decisions not to notify the police in the context of
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/discrimination-discourse-incompatible-hegemonic-masculinity - 2026-01-11
Carolin Schütze has been awarded the ReNEW Early Career Paper Prize in social sciences for the best conference paper at the Third Nordic Challenges Conference, 2019. In her award-winning paper entitled “Feeling Fear in Times of Polarization. A Systematic Content Analysis of Bureaucrats’ Commentary on Migrants using the Concept of Ontological Security”, Schütze addresses the question of immigratio
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/doctoral-student-wins-early-career-prize - 2026-01-11
During a whole day in April researchers in elite studies discussed the relevance of central theoretical and empirical knowledge about elite research for studying civil society elites. The research seminar was filled with discussions about ”shadow elites” in America influencing important geopolitical decisions without visible political leadership, and the power decline of bureaucratic elite groups
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/seminar-brings-together-several-international-researchers - 2026-01-11
The Housing First model is effective, but needs more political support to increase its impact across Europe, a new Europe-wide study from the Housing First Europe Hub shows. Marcus Knutagård, researcher at Lund University School of Social Work is one of the authors of the new report that will be released on World Homelessness Day, 10 October. On World Homelessness Day, the Housing First Europe Hub
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/housing-first-effective-if-given-adequate-political-support - 2026-01-11
About 70 teachers, researchers, and representatives from different service user organisations from nine countries highlighted the matter during the conference Experience-based knowledge in the shadow of the pandemic. The conference was arranged by the international network PowerUs. “We discussed many creative solutions to improve user participation in social work educations, as well as the possib
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/how-covid-impacts-experience-based-knowledge-social-work - 2026-01-11
Senior lecturer Lupita Svensson is one of the researchers in a research group that has received funding for a project that will explore how the digitization of everyday life, including consumption, credit management and communication, affects economic vulnerability among young adults. The project, which will last for a year, os led by Stefan Larsson, Lund University Internet Institute, and funded
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/sek-1-million-research-project-online-consumption-and-vulnerability - 2026-01-11
Something to announce
https://www.cgbkansli.lu.se/en/article/testnews - 2026-01-11
Genom att studera kalla atomer har forskare på ett unikt sätt kunnat observera ett förstadium till en kvantfasövergång, och därigenom studera fysikaliska processer som kan liknas vid den så kallade Higgsmekanismen. Upptäckten kan bland annat ge mer kunskap om kvantmekaniska processer som liknar de förlopp där ämnen ändrar form från gas, vätska eller fast form till ett annat tillstånd. Resultatet k
https://www.fysik.lu.se/artikel/unik-observation-av-forstadium-till-higgsmekanismen - 2026-01-11
Christelle Prinz, professor i fasta tillståndets fysik, och Edouard Berrocal, forskare i förbränningsfysik, får 150 000 euro vardera för att vidareutveckla forskningsresultat som av anslagsgivaren Europiska forskningsrådet bedöms ha stor innovationspotential. Spårar virus i kroppen på nytt sätt Under flera år har fysikern Christelle Prinz utvecklat nanoteknik för att på olika sätt diagnosticera oc
https://www.fysik.lu.se/artikel/prestigefyllda-erc-anslag-till-nytt-covid-test-och-ny-spektrometer - 2026-01-11
Hon vill kasta nytt ljus över den mörka materian som länge gäckat forskarvärlden. Nu tilldelas partikelfysikforskaren Caterina Doglioni 20 miljoner kronor från Europeiska forskningsrådet, ERC. Caterina Doglioni, biträdande lektor i partikelfysik, får cirka 20 miljoner kronor för att under fem år bygga upp en forskargrupp som ska söka efter nya partiklar som kan ge ledtrådar till den mystiska mörka
https://www.fysik.lu.se/artikel/prestigefyllt-anslag-till-partikelfysiker - 2026-01-11
Fysiska institutionen vill uppmärksamma professor emeritus Bengt Forkman som nyligen har gått ur tiden. Han ger viktiga bidrag till den svenska forskningen inom kärnfysik och är också med och lägger grunden till dagens synkrotronljusforskning i Lund. Han kommer att vara ihågkommen för sitt stora engagemang, envishet, osjälviskhet och humanism. Bent Schröder och Kristina Holmin Verdozzi minns honom
https://www.fysik.lu.se/artikel/till-minne-av-bengt-forkman - 2026-01-11
