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NEW PROJECT investigates promises of accessibility for persons with disabilities. Associate Professor David Wästerfors has together with Kristofer Hansson at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences and Hanna Egard at Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society, received a research grant from FORTE for a project on Accessibility and its Resistance. Everyday deviations from spatial and soci
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/society-reachable-all - 2025-11-07
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 - 2025-11-07
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 - 2025-11-07
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 - 2025-11-07
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 - 2025-11-07
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 - 2025-11-07
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 - 2025-11-07
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 - 2025-11-07
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 - 2025-11-07
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 - 2025-11-07
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 - 2025-11-07
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 - 2025-11-07
Josefine Östrup Backe defended her thesis Enacting "the local" in culinary tourism: A study of culinary actors and their practices on february 7. As the competition between destinations grows, the need to stand out and offer memorable and unique experiences also grows. Culinary experiences and activities with elements of “the local” are a growing niche, which mirrors the trend of knowing where the
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/enacting-local-culinary-tourism-study-culinary-actors-and-their-practices - 2025-11-07
Ruth Bedoya Lopez from Colombia is currently studying the master's programme with specialisation Culture and Creativity. We asked her what she thinks about her studies. What is the best thing about your programme?"The best thing about this programme is to encounter professors and colleagues from different backgrounds. The programme also helps us to develop critical thinking and offers us a good th
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/everything-i-love-one-programme - 2025-11-07
In an recent published article, Stefan Gössling, Daniel Scott and C. Michael Hall compares the impacts of COVID-19 to previous epidemic/pandemics and other types of global crises and explores how the pandemic may change society, the economy, and tourism. The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is challenging the world. With no vaccine and limited medical capacity to treat the disease, nonpharmaceutical i
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-article-pandemics-tourism-and-global-change-rapid-assessment-covid-19 - 2025-11-07
Master's student in Strategic Communication, Heiram, tells you how it is! About Campus HelsingborgLund is the main city where the majority of departments of Lund University are located. However, there are campuses of Lund University in other cities of the Skåne region. Today, I will introduce Campus Helsingborg, where I’m studying my master’s program which is Strategic Communication! Campus Helsin
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/are-you-going-study-campus-helsingborg - 2025-11-07
Andréas Ivarsson from Sweden studies a Master's in Service Management with specialisation Supply Chain Management. We asked him what he think's about his choice of education. What is the best thing about your programme?"I would say that our programme's strength lies in the fact that it's so broad, which gives you loads of opportunities when you graduate. You can really find your own niche within s
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/service-management-gives-you-edge - 2025-11-07
The global coronavirus pandemic has hit the tourism industry hard worldwide. Not only that, but it has exposed a lack of resilience to any type of downturn, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. While the virus may or may not be temporary, the climate crisis is here to stay - and tourism will have to adapt, says Stefan Gössling, professor of sustainable tourism. Tourism has bee
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/what-covid-19-can-teach-tourism-about-climate-crisis - 2025-11-07
Read our masterstudent M Nafees Emtiaz Chowdhury´s article about his experiences from his vacation in Sweden. When I came to Helsingborg in Sweden to pursue my Master program in Service Management at Lund University on 31st of August, 2019 it was autumn here. Soon the orange leaves of the trees faded away as winter came and everything seemed so gloomy. The sunlight used to go away at 2 pm at noon
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation - 2025-11-07
Did you know this? Five quick facts about our master´s programme in Service management.
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/five-facts-about-service-management - 2025-11-07
