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Carola Aili has published a co-authored article on "Dual learning – a challenge for higher education in the new landscape of governance” in the journal Tertiary Education and Management (online publication August 18, 2015, together with Lars-Erik Nilsson). The article is aimed at those who are interested in how higher education can deal with the radical changes in professional work brought about b

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-does-governance-affect-higher-education - 2025-11-07

Lotta Johansson has published her article “Post-qualitative line of flight and the confabulative conversation: a methodological ethnography“ in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (online first, 2015). The article can be downloaded at tandonline.com Abstract:This paper is a methodological ethnography aiming to highlight the difficulties in using conventional methods in co

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/post-qualitative-research-encourages-new-concepts-and-methods - 2025-11-07

Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson, PhD in Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, will be working as a visiting researcher at the Department of Sociology for three months this autumn. Her main research areas are qualitative methods, crime, social work, risk-taking, and youth studies. – In my research I focus on youth, crime and social work. I’m currently working on my postdoctoral research on vulnerabl

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/visiting-researcher-looks-vulnerable-young-peoples-risk-taking - 2025-11-07

Veronika Burcar has published a co-authored article (together with Louise Hellgren and Hanna Andersson) in the journal Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift 1 (2015): '"Du kan ju inte bli slagen av en tjej liksom" - en studie av män som utsatts för våld i nära relationer’. Veronika Burcar“You can’t be beaten by a girl, you know” – a study of men who have been subjected to domestic violence in Swedish: "Du

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/study-domestic-violence-against-men - 2025-11-07

Anders Persson has published an article in Vetenskapssocietetens årsbok 2015 titled: "Online chess and chat interaction – game and gaming conditions in face to face and online chess”. The article aims to answer if, how and why the game of chess changes when played online on the Internet.The author distinguishes between chess played face to face (f2f) and the role assumed or mask taken on in a game

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/persson-playing-online-chess - 2025-11-07

Shai Mulinari has together with Malin Ideland (Malmö) and Tora Holmberg (Uppsala) published an article in Science and Technology Studies: "Money, Money, Money? Politico-Moral Discourses of Stem Cell Research in a Grant Allocation Process". Read the whole article on lup.lub.lu.seShai Mulinari AbstractConcerns have been raised about the marketization of science through the prevailing funding regime.

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/mulinari-stem-cell-research-and-marketization-science - 2025-11-07

Goran Basic has published an article analyzing the retold experiences of 27 survivors from the 1990s war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The article ”Conditions for Reconciliation: Narratives of Survivors from the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina” is published in Journal of Criminal Justice and Security.Read the article on lu.se/lup Goran Basic's personal page here on the departments website.  Abstract:Th

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/survivors-conditions-reconciliation - 2025-11-07

Agneta Mallén has been interviewed for an article on citizen journalism and sousveillance in The Journalist. “Rachel Broady on how secret recording is fast becoming a news form, with worrying consequences for the victims and journalism."“Trial by sousveillance” in The Journalist, pages 18-19 (September/October 2015)Agneta Mallén's personal page on the department's website.   

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/news-created-citizen-journalism-and-secret-recordings - 2025-11-07

Goran Basic has published an article on the ideal victim and competition for victimhood in the stories after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The article is in Serbian. ”Idealna žrtva i nadmetanje za dobijanje statusa žrtve u pričama preživjelih rata u Bosni i Hercegovini”. Temida, 18(2), 2015: 7-30.See article on lup.lub.lu.seGoran Basic's personal page here on the departments website. Abstract

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/competition-victimhood - 2025-11-07

Abdulhadi Khalaf has written the preface to a recently published book called "Bahrain’s Uprising - Resistance and Repression in the Gulf". The book explores the contentious politics of Bahrain, and charts the way in which a dynamic culture of street protest, a strong moral belief in legitimate democratic demands and creative forms of resistance continue to hamper the efforts of the ruling elite to

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-book-explores-creative-forms-resistance-bahrain - 2025-11-07

Due to an anonymous threat made toward the university and its students via the app Jodel, 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 on the university websites www.lu.se and www.lunduniversity.lu.se during the day. If you have any questions you can call +46 46-222 07 00 from 8 am Monda

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-closed-monday-12-october - 2025-11-07

A 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 posted on the Jodel app was not a uniqu

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-reopens-tuesday - 2025-11-07

Daniel Görtz defended his dissertation in sociology " Ethnified police practices. How ethnicity is done in police work" on 29th of September at 10:00 in Edens hörsal, Paradisgatan 5, Lund University, Lund. External reviewer: Professor Liv Finstad, UiOSupervisors: David Wästerfors and Malin Åkerström, the Department of Sociology, Lund University.Examining committee:Vesa Leppänen Lunds Universitet,K

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/daniel-gortz-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-11-07

Susanne Boethius defended her dissertation in sociology "Men, violence and moral work. Reports from help-seeking men at treatment centrers working with violence in close relationships" on 2nd October at 14:00 in the auditorium of Kulturen, Lund. External reviewer: Tove Pettersson, Kriminologiska institutionen, Stockholm University.Supervisors: Malin Åkerström and Christofer Edling, the Department

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/susanne-boethius-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-11-07

Our researchers Goran Basic, Sophia Yakhlef and Malin Åkerström have published two new reports on their Project Turnstone. Turnstone is a study of the cooperation between the border police and coastguards in the Baltic Sea area.Based on empirical material (interviews and field observations), the purpose is to map and analyse how the staff of the different organizations experience, understand, and

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/passenger-safety-and-police-and-coastguard-collaboration-baltic-sea-area - 2025-11-07

Anders Kjellberg has been awarded 75 000 sek from The Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds (Arbetslöshetskassornas Samorganisation, SO) today. The ceremony took place at Juricium, Lund University. The Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds awards a prize every two years to highlight research on unemployment insurance.Anders Kjellberg's personal page

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anders-kjellberg-has-received-75-000-sek - 2025-11-07

Ola Stjärnhagen defended his dissertation in sociology "Ekonomisk tillväxt i välfärdskapitalismen. En jämförande studie av BNP per capita-tillväxten i rika OECD-länder 1970-2000" on 24th November at 10:15 in auditorium 128, Stora Algatan 4, Lund. External reviewer: Professor Kenneth Nelson, Institutet för social forskning, Stockholm University.Supervisors: Antoinette Hetzler and Kjell Nilsson.Exam

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/ola-stjarnhagen-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-11-07

Goran Basic has published a new article (in Bosnian) linked to the project War Sociology: ”Pomirenje i nepomirljivost u pričama preživjelih poslije rata u Bosni i Hercegovini” (Reconciliation and implacability in narratives of survivors after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina). The article is published in the journal Kriminalističke teme. Časopis za kriminalistiku, kriminologiju i sigurnosne studi

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/conditions-reconciliation-bosnia-and-herzegovina - 2025-11-07

Anders Hylmö has published a chapter on social class, political trust and protests in times of economic crisis in the book Austerity and Protest. The book Austerity and Protest: Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis asks what the relationship is between economic crises and protest behaviour. Does the experience of austerity, or economic hardship more broadly defined, create a greater pote

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/does-class-matter-anti-austerity-protests - 2025-11-07

Abdulhadi Khalaf is one of three editors of the newly released book ”Transit States: Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf”. Abdulhadi Khalaf has also contributed with the chapter The Politics of Migration.AbstractThe states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar) form the largest destination for labour migration in the global S

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/labour-migration-and-citizenship-gulf - 2025-11-07