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HETZLER GIVES TALK IN GOTHENBURG ON WAR AT WORK. Professor Antoinette Hetzler is invited to the Working life/Welfare seminar at the University of Gothenburg on 6 February 2018. Antoinette Hetzler will be presenting a chapter from a forthcoming book called The Transformation of Work in Welfare State Organizations.The chapter looks at how 569 primary school employees in Sweden, women and men, betwee

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/primary-school-teachers-illness-caused-work - 2025-10-25

Åsa Lundqvist, Professor at the Department of Sociology has, together with Ilona Ostner, published a comparative study on parental support ‘Parenting and parenting support in Germany and Sweden: Convergence and persistent dissimilarities’, in the Journal of Family Research. The researchers' abstract:Parenting support constitutes a long-established part of both the Swedish and the German portfolio

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/comparing-parental-support-sweden-and-germany - 2025-10-25

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH: Chinese private schools may come across as a contradictory phenomenon: An authoritarian and officially socialist government needs to rely on education as an instrument of national unification and ideological control. So why would they allow for private schools and profit-making in the educational sector? However, far-reaching privatisation processes have been shaping the Chin

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/contradictions-private-schools-china - 2025-10-25

MARRIAGE AS A NORM AMONG YOUNG ADULTS IN CHINA: Lisa Eklund has published the chapter "The sex ratio question and the unfolding of a moral panic? Notions of power, choice and self in mate selection among women and men in higher education in China" in the book Scarce women and surplus men in China and India. The study investigates how sex ratio imbalance influences mate selection among young adults

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/fear-being-left-over-turning-moral-panic - 2025-10-25

SOCIOLOGIDAGARNA 2018: The Swedish Sociological Association's bi-annual conference titled "Sociology in a Polarized World" took place in Lund last week and was hosted by the Department of Sociology. This year's conference, March 7-9, was among the largest in the history of the association, with a peak of 268 delegates attending on International Women’s Day, March 8th. It was also among the first o

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hundreds-sociologists-came-lund-discuss-divided-world - 2025-10-25

Senior lecturer in Sociology Erik Hannerz will co-coordinate a Pufendorf-project about urban creativity together with Peter Bengtsen at the Division of Art History and Visual Studies. It was recently announced that the 2018-2019 thematic projects at the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies at Lund University will include a project focused on urban creativity.Urban creativity is an umbrella ter

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-collaboration-project-urban-creativity - 2025-10-25

Johan Sandberg's article "Beyond Granted Asylum-Labor Market Integration Challenges in Sweden" has been published in the latest issue of SAIS Review, on migration and its consequences. The article analyses recent changes to Sweden’s immigration policy and draws upon statistical data to show the effect of the new immigration regime.It discusses the structural economic challenge of integrating immig

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/radical-shift-swedish-migration-policy-analysed - 2025-10-25

SWEDISH PARENTING SUPPORT: Lisa Eklund and Åsa Lundqvist, at the Department of Sociology, have published an article in the Journal of Family Studies (12/6). The article Children’s Rights and Gender Equality in Swedish Parenting Support: Policy and Practice aims to explore how ‘children's rights’ and ‘gender equality’ are articulated in parenting support policies in Sweden, and how these policies a

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/child-rights-gender-equality - 2025-10-25

Priscilla Solano has received a three-year grant from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet VR) for a research project that will study ”a second side to the refugee crisis” - how civil society organisations filled the gaps left by EU national policies and fulfilled refugees’ and migrants’ basic needs: food, a place to stay and legal assistance. Priscilla Solano’s International postdoc-proj

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/funding-project-second-side-refugee-crisis - 2025-10-25

Anna Rypi, Veronika Burcar Alm and Malin Åkerström have published an article about young male crime victims with an immigrant background in the journal Nordic Social Work Research. Interactions between the police and young people with an immigrant background are well researched internationally and are often discussed in the context of discrimination. Such interactions may explain, at least in part

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/young-men-refrain-reporting-crimes - 2025-10-25

Mikael Klintman has written a chapter looking at political consumerism in the toy sector in The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism. The chapter looks at political consumerism in the toy sector, offering a brief history of consumer concerns and distinguishing among four strands of political consumerist research in this sector.Manufacturers cannot assume that parents and other carers do their

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/challenges-making-toy-dreams-come-true - 2025-10-25

Gökhan Kaya at the Department of Sociology defended his doctoral thesis in sociology ”Aspirations, capital and identity: four studies on the determinants of life chances for young Swedes with an immigrant background”, on 12th September at 14:00 in Stora Algatan's auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Susanne Urban, Institutet för Bostads- och urbanforskning, UppsalaMain supervisor an

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/gokhan-kaya-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-10-25

Erik Hannerz at the Department of Sociology and Peter Bengtsen at the Division of Art History and Visual Studies recently attended the annual Street Art & Urban Creativity Conference in Lisbon, Portual. Here they presented their plans for the upcoming Pufendorf research theme on Urban Creativity. The theme will run 1 October 2018 - 31 May 2019. During this period, an interdisciplinary group of eig

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/urban-creativity-kicks-presentation-lisbon - 2025-10-25

Anders Hylmö at the Department of Sociology has defended his doctoral thesis in sociology ”Disciplined Reasoning. The mainstream-heterodoxy divide and styles of reasoning in Swedish economics” today, 28th September at 10:00 in Eden's auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Elizabeth Popp Berman, Sociology Department, University at AlbanyChair person of the defence: Professor Mats Benne

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anders-hylmo-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-10-25

Ska genetikforskare informera forskningsdeltagare om de upptäcker sjukdomsrisker hos deltagarna? Ja, skulle många säga, om informationen är till nytta för deltagarna. Men hur vet vi om komplex genetisk information är relevant för enskilda människor? Enligt Jennifer Viberg Johansson, aktuell med en ny avhandling i forsknings- och bioetik, behöver både etiker och genetiker förhålla sig till att nytt

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/genetisk-risk-ska-forskare-beratta - 2025-10-25

Örebroforskare har identifierat tidiga förändringar i ämnesomsättningen hos barn som senare utvecklar typ 1-diabetes – ett viktigt steg för att kunna förebygga sjukdomen. Detta är ett av flera forskningsresultat som presenterades på Nordic Metabolomics Conference. – Vi har identifierat tidiga förändringar när det gäller ämnesomsättningen av fett som påverkar immunsystemet. Dessa förändringar sker

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/forandringar-i-amnesomsattningen-paverkar-immunforsvaret-0 - 2025-10-25

Råg, havre eller vete spelar ingen större roll. Bara de innehåller fullkorn så skyddar de mot typ 2-diabetes. En portion havregrynsgröt och en fullkornsmacka om dagen räcker för att minska risken för diabetes med 34 procent hos män och 22 procent hos kvinnor, visar en stor nordisk studie. Studien, gjord av forskare på Chalmers och Cancerinstitutet i Köpenhamn ger en kraftfull bekräftelse av tidiga

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/fullkorn-basta-skyddet-mot-typ-2-diabetes - 2025-10-25

Alla som är intresserade; allmänhet, patienter, anhöriga eller personal, hälsas välkomna till en eftermiddag med diabetesföreläsningar på temat "hopp". Program:13.00–13.45 Så här triggas autoimmun (typ 1) diabetes-finns det hopp om bot?Åke Lernmark, Professor, CRC, SUS. 13.45–14.30 Går det att bota diabetes? Kan transplantationer inge hopp? Alireza Biglarnia, Överläkare, Njurtransplantationssektio

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/diabetesforelasningar-i-malmo-2410 - 2025-10-25

Kost och träning kan hjälpa gravida kvinnor med övervikt och fetma att begränsa sin viktökning under graviditeten, visar den hittills största amerikanska studien i sitt slag. Rönen publiceras i den vetenskapliga tidskriften Obesity. Många överviktiga och feta kvinnor går upp alltför mycket i vikt under sin graviditet vilket ytterligare försämrar deras redan förhöjda risk för allvarliga komplikatio

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/kost-och-livsstilsrad-hjalper-gravida-behalla-vikten - 2025-10-25

Det som formar vår hälsa senare i livet är inte bara hur vi själva lever, eller hur vi hade det i barndomen, eller i moderlivet. Nej, redan hur våra föräldrar mådde och levde när vi blev till, kan bidra till att påverka vår hälsa. Peter M Nilsson, professor i klinisk kardiovaskulär forskning vid Lunds universitet, vill att det satsas brett på hälso- och livsstilsrådgivning för ungdomar och för dem

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/lev-halsosamt-dina-framtida-barns-skull - 2025-10-25