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Social Sciences Faculty Library The Social Sciences Faculty Library (Sambib) is our faculty library. Here you can find, borrow and read course and reference books, journals and databases within your subject. You can also get help in finding literature and managing your references. The library reading rooms, computers and group rooms are at your disposal. Visit the Social Sciences Faculty Library's
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/library - 2025-07-11
Lund University cooperates with universities all over the world through bilateral agreements, educational and research programmes, networks and partnerships as well as research collaboration. Internationalisation is also a prioritised issue at the School of Social Work. The School of Social Work participates in a number of exchange programmes and staff and students alike are encouraged to pursue o
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/about-department/internationalisation - 2025-07-11
RRSW Most of the titles are in Swedish, with certain exceptions (all abstracts in English). 20242024:3 Hälso- och sjukvårdskuratorsprogrammet: Uppföljning av en nystartad utbildning av Tina Mattsson2024:2 Knockin' on heaven's door: Hur död och döende hanteras på utbildningar för några människobehandlande professioner av Torbjörn Hjort2024:1 Kunskap i socialtjänsten av Kerstin Svensson (redaktör),
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/research/publications/research-reports-social-work - 2025-07-11
Working Papers are shorter scientific texts written by researchers at the department. The papers are accepted for presentation at open national or international conferences, but not yet published in any other way, and shorter texts of other kinds authored by people working in the department.Pedagogical reports are a special form of Working paper. The texts are based on student papers theses and m
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Welcome to Lund University’s School of Social Work, which is located on two campuses: Campus Helsingborg and the School of Social Work in Lund. The School of Social Work has been training social workers since 1947. The School of Social Work was integrated into Lund University in 1977, as a department within the Faculty of Social Sciences. The School of Social Work has approximately 130 employees
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/about-department - 2025-07-11
The research area conducts research linked to changes in the public sector and civil society with a special focus on welfare policy and social work. Research projects in the field study the changing conditions and organization of welfare, as well as how civil society is affected by, affects, and is involved in the development of the welfare state. In the area, comparative analyzes are made of civi
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/research/research-areas/civil-society-and-social-movements - 2025-07-11
The research area's overall purpose is to develop a subject-specific migration research by studying how social work is conceptualized in migration-related issues, which interventions it gives rise to both within the framework of the established welfare institutions and beyond these institutionalized forms. Developing discipline-specific migration research is an overall aim of this research group.
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/research/research-areas/migration-and-mobility - 2025-07-11
69. Storgaard, Asbjørn (2023) A potential for democratic emancipation? Policy and discretionary practices in probation service Lund: School of Social Work, Lund University. 68. Jha, Rishi (2023) Unsettled City: Neoliberal redevelopment, state crisis, slum resettlement & biopolitical struggle in Mumbai. Lund: School of Social Work, Lund University. 67. Jönsson, Anders (2023) Professional paperwork:
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/research/publications/lund-dissertations-social-work - 2025-07-11
This is a selection of research projects at the department. See the Lund University Research Portal for a complete list of current projects.Ageing, Wellbeing and Neigborhood in Transition (2020 →)Beyond the welfare state: Europeanization of Swedish civil society organizations (2011 →)Beyond the welfare state (2011 →)Cash for Change; contingency management as reward or intervention (2018 →)Children
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The research of School of Social Work contains various areas. Many of our researchers are active in thematic groups, collaborating within the university, as well as with external partners. Addiction Research Ageing and Elderly Care Child, Youth and Family Civil Society and Social Movements Professions and Organisation Social Policy and Sustainability Social Vulnerability and Inequality Migration
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/research/research-areas - 2025-07-11
Over-indebtedness amongst young adults creates difficulties when entering adulthood and tends to be a long-term problem. Description “Over-indebtedness” indicates enduring difficulties to pay off debts and fixed expenses. During the 2010s, over-indebtedness has increased among Swedish households and manifested itself as a societal problem. Moreover, indebtedness increases among young people, both
The focus of this group's interest is the different organizations of social work and the organization of different practices. We thus join a tradition at Lund University of Applied Sciences to critically study institutions and institutionalization. Research topics The group works on research projects with varying methods and empirical basis. Some of the themes that unite the group's interest and t
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/research/research-areas/professions-and-organisation - 2025-07-11
For several years now, this well-established research group has focused on issues relating to vocational education, young people's living conditions and problems with establishment on the labor market. Several research council-funded projects have been carried out at the School of Social Work and the Department of Economic History. The research group includes researchers and PhD students from seve
Experiental Knowledge in Higher Education is a strategic partnership between twelve universities from ten countries in Europe. The three year project focuses on creating educations on experiental knowledge and building strategies for strengthening and individualizing professional educations (for social workers and nurses), to strengthen students in their personal and professional development. The
Promising practices or institutionalized ageism? Increasing numbers of people age with substance abuse and complex needs, yet research is scarce. Existing studies have focused on users’ problems or the gaps in standard treatment provision and eldercare. The proposed project will do the opposite, investigating promising eldercare arrangements for people with substance abuse and complex needs. These
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/specialist-eldercare-people-substance-abuse-and-complex-needs - 2025-07-11
15 credits What motivates people to volunteer in social work? How is voluntary social work organised, and where should the lines be drawn between the public sector, the market and civil society? This course highlights civil society’s roles and functions in contemporary social work. How and when to apply Read more about admissions requirements and how to apply. This course focuses on the roles and
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/education/courses/civil-society-and-social-work - 2025-07-11
Welcome to the School of Social Work! Teaching and research in collaboration with practictioners and serivce users at one of Swedens oldest universities. International cooperation A prioritised issue at the School of Social Work. Doctoral studies at the School of Social Work We announce, rank and appoint PhD-candidates every second year. Applications are accepted only following a vacancy announcem
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/start - 2025-07-11
Social work is digitalized and automated to an increasing extent. The development aims to solve problems in the practice of social work, but at the same time new challenges arise. The expanding field of research on digitalization in social work studies, among other things, how the practice and knowledge of social work is defined, created and re-created when digital solutions meet professionals and
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/digitalization-social-work - 2025-07-11
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that the failure to guarantee the right to adequate housing has had major consequences during this global crisis in Europe. CO-HOPE is a response to this health, housing and social crisis. CO-HOPE focuses on conducting a mixed methods evaluation of the resilience and transformative capacities of collaborative housing projects and inhabitants in five European coun
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/research/research-areas/migration-and-mobility/co-hope-collaborative-housing-pandemic-era - 2025-07-11
Democratic consequences of changing engagement in the Swedish disability movement The disability movement is a core part of democracy where disabled people can influence issues that affect them. However, membership has steadily declined in disability rights organisations, while engagement in online spaces has increased – a general tendency in civil society that has accelerated during the COVID-19
