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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

Published 28 March 2024 The Inverse Modelling group at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES), Lund University, seeks to appoint a post-doctoral fellows to work on the quantification of biogenic and anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions based on assimilating relevant observational data. The main duties involved in a post-doctoral posistion is to conduct research.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/pdf_ccmodelling - 2025-07-05

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 30 July 2024 Postdoctoral fellow in Earth Observation of land cover and vegetation dynamics in the Middle East. The Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) announce one vacant position as a 2-year postdoctoral fellow with an orientation towards

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/open-position-postdoctoral-fellow-earth-observation - 2025-07-05

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 7 August 2024 Photo by Jan Huber on Unsplash. Researcher Patrik Vestin writes in a " news and views " article in Nature that the woody surfaces of trees may take up methane on a scale of global importance. This is a missing piece in the estimation of global methane budgets, and hence in climate models. Future resear

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/bigger-role-trees-global-carbon-cycling - 2025-07-05

Published 16 October 2024 Photo by E. Diop, Unsplash. Africa, despite its large area and thus large impact on the global carbon cycle, is relatively unexplored with respect to ecosystem functions and impact on climate change. Now one of few in situ studies over a long period of time, 2010-2022, shows that the Sahel area has lost a lot of its power as a carbon sink during the time period examined.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/reduced-carbon-sink-power-sahel - 2025-07-05

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 10 April 2025 The study shows that rewilding-inspired forest management has several benefits, including for biodiversity. Photo by Scott Walsh on Unsplash Allowing nature to cover up after human activities, known as rewilding, has several benefits. It improves the resilience of ecosystems, increases biodiversity and

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/rewilding-good-planet-and-people - 2025-07-05

Published 30 January 2018 Erika Andersson Cederholm was the key note speaker on the conference. On January the 11th the tourism students on the Masters' programme of 2016, arranged a conference on the theme of tourism practices. As a part of the course "Value creation and innovation in tourism", the students of the Master programme with the specialisation Tourism, organized this conference that th

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/tourism-practices-today-and-tomorrow - 2025-07-05

By sara [dot] norberg [at] ism [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Norberg) - published 15 February 2018 The students in the Bachelor programme Service Management, second semester, visited Ikea's origins in Älmhult to learn more about the company as well as make their own observations in the store. Within the scope of the course "The store", the visit aimed to give students an understanding of the mechanisms

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/students-specializing-retail-visited-ikea-almhult - 2025-07-05

Published 15 March 2018 Filippa Elestam, Linn Forsander, Sophia Lindberg, Maike Steigemann and Jonathan Lundberg from Service Management, and Louise Johansson from Strategic Communication, was part of the project group for Agoradagen. Some students work harder than others, arranging this year's work fair, Agoradagen, while studying full-time. But when you are an engaged student you also benefit. T

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/campus-engagement-prepares-students-work-life - 2025-07-05