Published 24 October 2022 On Friday, 21 October, Oriana Quaglietta Bernal successfully defended her doctoral thesis, "In Her Words: Women's Accounts of Managing Drug-related Risk, Pleasure, and Stigma in Sweden". For the past five years, Oriana Quaglietta Bernal studied why women in Sweden start, continue, and sometimes stop using drugs. Her thesis explores female drug experiences and what they me

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/oriana-quaglietta-bernal-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2025-07-09

Published 28 October 2022 Physical violence is rarely something people think about or act out. Even violence specialists - people with a propensity for violence and a capacity to cause devastating damage - are belligerent only a fraction of their time awake. Sociology professor David Wästerfors is an anomaly. He has thought about violence a lot. This fall, Professor Wästerfors published some of hi

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/david-wasterfors-cant-stop-thinking-about-violence - 2025-07-09

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman-Rogowski) - published 11 November 2022 Photo: Markus Spiske, Unsplash Dr Colm Flaherty noticed that despite generally declining membership in Swedish political parties, political engagement is very much alive. He says it is observable in the mundane activities of everyday life, and studying it can teach us a lot about Swedish

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/creating-spaces-radical-social-change - 2025-07-09

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman-Rogowski) - published 22 November 2022 The Department of Sociology's Christopher Mathieu is one of the editors of a new and heavy tome clarifying the complex and much-debated issue of the quality of jobs. It is easy to imagine what it is like to have a good job: good pay, low stress, short hours, a lot of freedom and creativi

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/capturing-evasive-concept-job-quality - 2025-07-09

By emma [dot] lord [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (Emma Lord) - published 18 January 2023 The so-called "Beast" (cargo train) with migrants. Photo: Priscilla Solano (some faces have been blurred). Since the 1980:s border policies in both Mexico and the United States have transformed the outflow of migrants from Central America. By the turn of the 21st century the outflow of migrants began to be called

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/migration-transformed-crisis - 2025-07-09

Published 26 January 2023 The Department of Sociology's researchers Åsa Lundqvist, Susanne Boëthius, Chris Mathieu and Anders Kjellberg. Photo: Emma Lord and Christer Lindberg. The future of working life in Europe is analysed in a new anthology which, with the help of multiple researchers, looks primarily at three major changes taking place in working life right now. These changes are due to three

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/pandemic-climate-and-digitalisation-three-major-adaptations-working-life-right-now - 2025-07-09

Published 26 January 2023 Imad Rasan and his supervisor Chris Mathieu shortly after the examination committee annouced their unanimous approval. Photo: Theo Hagman-Rogowski On Thursday, 26 January, Imad Rasan successfully defended his doctoral thesis, "Women in the Public Sphere in Egypt 2011–2014". Through interviews and document analysis, Imad Rasan investigated how women activists participated

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/unanimous-examination-committee-approves-imad-rasans-dissertation - 2025-07-09

Published 24 April 2023 Current preschool Eriksgården in Landskrona. The photo is probably from 1901, when the building was called "The Asylum for Small Children". Photo: Landskrona museum. The history of Swedish day-care is examined in a new study that provides insight into Sweden's day-care system during the early 20th century. Together with Luciana Quaranta, Annika Elwert has looked at which fa

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/who-was-swedish-day-care-meant - 2025-07-09

By emma [dot] lord [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (Emma Lord) - published 24 May 2023 Researchers at the Department of Sociology followed and observed 14 Flashback threads for several years and also interviewed 30 informants related to online crime case communities. Photo: Unsplash, Agence Olloweb. David Wästerfors, Veronika Burcar Alm and Erik Hannerz have published an article in New Media & Society

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sleuthing-online-bumpy-path-net-detective - 2025-07-09

Published 5 May 2023 Elton Chan defended his doctoral thesis "The Last Urban Frontier: Commodification of Public Space and the Right to the City in Insurgent Hong Kong" in the Eden Auditorium in Lund. Photo: Emma Lord. Friday 5 May Elton Chan defended his thesis which explores the production and transformation of public spaces in Hong Kong, a city that is steeped in neoliberal ideals and has seen

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/elton-chan-our-new-doctor-sociology-has-defended-his-thesis-public-space-hong-kong - 2025-07-09

Published 11 May 2023 On 11 May, Lars Crusefalk finished his PhD studies with a successful defence of his thesis "Financial journeys: Reasoning about debt and money among young adults in Sweden". He is the 132nd doctoral candidate to complete PhD studies at the Department of Sociology. Swedish households are among the most indebted in the EU. Home loans make up most of the debt, but other credit u

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lars-crusefalk-ends-phd-student-journey-and-transitions-doctor-sociology - 2025-07-09

Published 26 June 2023 Professor Anders Kjellberg has worked at the Department of Sociology at Lund University since 1978. His research focuses on trade unions, employers' associations and industrial relations. Foto Kennet Ruona. The neoliberal agenda dominating the EU for the past 40 years has been a severe challenge for the trade unions, which have lost organisational strength. Even in Sweden, u

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anders-kjellberg-co-authors-comprehensive-book-trade-unions-eu-countries - 2025-07-09

Published 3 July 2023 The proportion of unionised blue-collar and white-collar workers fell in 2022 after an increase in the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021. Despite this, Sweden has the world's second highest level of unionisation. This is shown in the report 'The Swedish model from a Nordic perspective: unionisation and the new basic agreement' by Professor Anders Kjellberg for the think tank Ar

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sweden-world-leading-union-membership-despite-declining-union-density - 2025-07-09

Publicerad 3 februari 2016 I Lokaltidningen Lund går det att läsa 26 oktober 2016  Nyligen tilldelas Odeum och dess director musices Patrik Andersson Lunds universitetshistoriska sällskaps pris på 25 000 kronor.  Årets mottagare får priset med motiveringen ”för den stora betydelse Odeum genom sitt studentburna musicerande har för Lunds universitet, den akademiska miljön och staden Lund. Patrik And

https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/universitetshistoriskt-pris-till-odeum - 2025-07-09

Publicerad 26 oktober 2016 Wilhelm Theodor Gnosspelius, född i Stockholm 28 december 1809 och avliden i Lund 13 augusti 1887, var violinist, organist, dirigent, musikorganisatör och tonsättare. Han var verksam i Stockholm från 1822, i Linköping från 1843 och i Lund från 1858. Gnosspelius skrev musik i klassisk-romantisk stil, främst tillfällighetskantater, men också kammar- och kyrkomusik. Han ble

https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/lar-dig-mer-om-wilhelm-gnosspelius-en-av-odeums-director-musices - 2025-07-09

Publicerad 14 november 2016 Inte bara första pris i division 1 utan också hederspris till dirigent Roger Andersson och pris för bästa sektion i division 1 till slagverkssektionen kom brassbandet hem med efter helgens SM i Värnamo. Lunds universitets brassband har under ledning av bandets dirigent Roger Andersson vunnit första pris i division 1 i svenska mästerskapen i brassband. Tävlingarna hölls

https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-brassband-tog-hem-brassbands-sm - 2025-07-09

Publicerad 6 februari 2017 Festivalhelgen Lund Contemporary blev en stor publiksuccé, med 1600 besökare på totalt 9 evenemang.   Musikalisk rundvandring på Skissernas Museum. Foto: David Riebe 20 uruppföranden fördelade på sju välbesökta konserter, en föreläsning om förhållandet mellan musik och bildkonst på Skissernas Museum och en paneldebatt om vår tids musik i Kapellsalen - allt detta lockade

https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/lund-contemporary-drog-1600-besok - 2025-07-09

Publicerad 12 november 2018 Fotograf Olof Forsberg Lunds universitets brassband har under ledning av dirigent Roger Andersson vunnit första pris i division 1 i svenska mästerskapen i brassband. Tävlingarna hölls under Svenska Brassbandfestivalen 9-10 november i Värnamo, där ett 30-tal brassband från hela Sverige deltog. Lunds universitets brassband segrade i första divisionen med totalt 92 poäng a

https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/vinst-till-lunds-universitets-brassband - 2025-07-09

Publicerad 7 december 2018 Crafoordska stiftelsen har tilldelat Odeum 75 000 kr i bidrag till festivalen Lund Contemporary. Festivalen anordnades för första gången 2017 och blev då en publiksuccé. Nästa upplaga, Lund Contemporary 2019, går av stapeln 7-10 februari. Läs mer om festivalen och dess program här!

https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/75-000-kr-till-lund-contemporary - 2025-07-09

Publicerad 11 februari 2019 Tonsättare och dirigenter tackar för applåderna efter den stora körkonserten "9-9-9" under Lund Contemporary 2019. Lund Contemporary 2019 lockade en månghövdad publik. Efter helgen kunde vi summera totalt ca 1350 besök. Festivalen bjöd på 10 olika evenemang och mer än 30 (!) världspremiärer av nyskrivna musikstycken! Liksom första upplagan av festivalen, för två år seda

https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/lund-contemporary-drog-storpublik-igen - 2025-07-09