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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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

 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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

The Swedish Crime Victim Compensation and Support Authority's (Brottsoffermyndigheten) praises Nora Germundsson, a student at the School of Social Work, for her bachelor thesis about the expectations of the country's women's shelters. Nora Germundsson was awarded second prize for her thesis "We need the voices - strong voices" - a qualitative study of new expectations of women's shelters. The thes

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/student-wins-prize-bachelors-thesis - 2025-12-19

In the spring of 2015 Lisa Hindström and Aleksandra Goreczna wrote their bachelor thesis about sex education in Grenada, after receiving an MFS scholarship for field studies. This is the report from their travels. When we decided to apply for a Minor Field Studies scholarship from The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, we were both abroad on international placements in different

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/report-minor-field-study - 2025-12-19

Carina Gallo, senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, and assistant professor of criminology at Holy Names University (HNU), has been awarded the Burmeister Award by the Division of Distance Learning of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). Gallo shares the award with Julaine Fowlin, PhD, former instructional designer at HNU, for their proposal, “Exploring Pol

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/carina-gallo-receives-award-innovative-teaching - 2025-12-19

Some forty Swedish top researchers and university delegations visited Singapore with the aim of developing research partnerships. Kristina Göransson, Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Work, represented Lund University's Faculty of Social Sciences at the Swedish Academic Collaboration Forum (SACF) in Singapore on 3-4 November. The project's aim is to make Swedish research better known abroad

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/seminar-develop-contacts-singapore - 2025-12-19

On October 29, Anna Meeuwisse and Roberto Scaramuzzino were in Rome to present the results of a survey of Italian social workers. The survey originated in a project run at the School of Social Work between 2005 and 2008: 'Municipal individually-oriented social work in four Nordic capital areas' (FAS 2005-2008). The questionnaire is about social workers' workers' conditions, about their views on so

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/researchers-present-italy - 2025-12-19

Alexandru Panican, researcher from the School of Social Work at Lund University and Richard Ulmestig from Linnaeus University has published an article about the Swedish welfare state and social assistance in the prestigious Citizenship Studies Journal. In the article Social Rights in the shadow of poor relief - Social Assistance in the universal Swedish welfare state the researchers analyse social

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/researchers-published-prestigious-journal - 2025-12-19

Pint* of Science är en årlig internationell vetenskapsfestival som äger rum varje maj över hela världen. Målet är att ta forskare närma samhället för att berätta om de senaste händelserna i vetenskapens värld. Med att delta i evenemang kommer du att kunna träffa och diskutera med de män och kvinnor som formar morgondagens vetenskap. Sofie Ceberg representerar Lunds Universitet Här hittar du festiv

https://www.msf.lu.se/artikel/pint-science - 2025-12-19

FLASH-bestrålning är en form av strålbehandling där behandlingen levereras med ultrahög dosrat, över 100 Gy/s. Vid en behandling ges en hög dos på ca 30 Gy. Studier har visat att denna typ av behandling kan ha en skonande effekt på normalvävnad, samtidigt som tumörkontrollen bibehålls. Det är dock viktigt att veta att strålningen levereras till precis rätt volym. På LU och SUS pågår just nu forskn

https://www.msf.lu.se/artikel/how-does-c-rad-catalyst-hd-enable-research-flash-radiotherapy - 2025-12-19

Swedish Radiation Research Association for Young Scientists (SWE-RAYS) håller en workshop 23-25 augusti i Stockholm. SWE-RAYS riktar sig till unga forskare inom strålningsrelaterade fält. Sista dagen för anmälan är 15:e juni. Läs här för mer info!

https://www.msf.lu.se/artikel/swe-rays-2022 - 2025-12-19

Lena Jönsson har tilldelats Vårdvetenskapliga Studentföreningens medlemmars Pedagogiska Pris 2022 med följande motivering: "Lena är en lärare för studenter på röntgensjuksköterskeprogrammet och undervisar i strålningsfysik. Studenter benämner henne som den bästa föreläsare de har haft, är pedagogisk, bryr sig och finns alltid tillgänglig för studenterna. Hon uppmuntrar och är alltid öppen för fråg

https://www.msf.lu.se/artikel/pedagogiskt-pris-till-lena-jonsson - 2025-12-19

Se den nya filmen om sjukhusfysikerutbildningen!

https://www.msf.lu.se/artikel/ny-film-om-sjukhusfysikerutbildningen - 2025-12-19

In the light of the ongoing invasion in Ukraine, Lund University wants to show our support for students and employees that may be affected. To our current knowledge, no Lund University students or staff members are in Ukraine at the moment. However, we recognise that these are stressful and upsetting times for many and we want to remind those of you who are directly affected by the situation about

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/regarding-situation-ukraine - 2025-12-19