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How do immigrant organizations in Sweden work with aid and development in their home countries? Other European countries work more actively than Sweden to use the knowledge about home countries that exists within these organizations. Sociologists from Lund Axel Fredholm, Johan Sandberg and Olle Frödin write about this in the research article "The Migration-Development Nexus Revisited: Immigrant Or

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/immigrant-organizations-sweden-can-play-more-important-role-aid-and-development - 2025-10-19

Today the volume in our building will rise with the chatter of about 70 visiting sociologists of the arts from Japan to Colombia and all over Europe. The Department of Sociology in Lund is hosting the ESA research network conference called "ARTS IN MOVEMENT" or the "2022 ESA RN02 Sociology of the Arts Mid-term Conference 14-16 September 2022"! ESA, the European Sociological Association, holds 37 r

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sociology-conference-arts-movement-opens-today-our-house - 2025-10-19

Contrary to popular belief, women played a prominent role in IS recruitment - especially in bringing in other women. A new study from Lund University shows that Swedish women joined the Islamic State as part of a religiously motivated gendered counterculture against Swedish values of gender equality, modern gender roles and gender norms. Online, Swedish IS women propagandise sharia law, gender seg

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/aggressively-patriarchal-worldviews-attracted-swedish-women-islamic-state - 2025-10-19

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 mean to the users; how users

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/oriana-quaglietta-bernal-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2025-10-19

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 his thoughts in the book Vio

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/david-wasterfors-cant-stop-thinking-about-violence - 2025-10-19

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 culture. Political engagement is changing form in Sweden. The place to find political action today is in everyday life, rather than solely in

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/creating-spaces-radical-social-change - 2025-10-19

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 creativity and a strong sense of meaning. Friendly colleagues would be nice. What about a comfortable workspace or an in

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/capturing-evasive-concept-job-quality - 2025-10-19

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 a humanitarian crisis by civil society. Priscilla Solano at the Department of Sociology in Lund has published the article "Migrating through the Corridor of Death: The Making of a Complex Huma

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/migration-transformed-crisis - 2025-10-19

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 inevitable phenomena: the pandemic, climate change and digitalisation. Four sociologists from Lund University contribute with chapters in the book. Never in modern times has wo

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/pandemic-climate-and-digitalisation-three-major-adaptations-working-life-right-now - 2025-10-19

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 in the public sphere in Egypt from the outbreak of the 2011 uprising to the re-emergence of the authoritarian regime in 2014. He found that women engaged in social movements

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/unanimous-examination-committee-approves-imad-rasans-dissertation - 2025-10-19

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 factors influenced enrolment in day-care centres in southern Sweden for children born between 1900 and 1935. The study shows that at the beginning of the 20th century it was unusual for childr

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/who-was-swedish-day-care-meant - 2025-10-19

David Wästerfors, Veronika Burcar Alm and Erik Hannerz have published an article in New Media & Society dealing with crime case discussions on the Swedish platform Flashback. The article shows how the interactions form a "bumpy" path as the Flashback-writers together try to achieve knowledge, evidence and authority regarding the various crimes being discussed. Much of today's public discussion on

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sleuthing-online-bumpy-path-net-detective - 2025-10-19

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 substantial deterioration in terms of democratic rights and freedoms in recent years. Drawing upon recent protest movements in Hong Kong and the ways in which protesters appropriated and transformed different urban spac

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/elton-chan-our-new-doctor-sociology-has-defended-his-thesis-public-space-hong-kong - 2025-10-19

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 usage is becoming incre

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lars-crusefalk-ends-phd-student-journey-and-transitions-doctor-sociology - 2025-10-19

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, union density has declined, but the country still has the second highest unionisation rate in the world, only surpassed by Iceland. Almost seven out of ten employees in Sweden are union members. In June of this year, the European T

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anders-kjellberg-co-authors-comprehensive-book-trade-unions-eu-countries - 2025-10-19

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 Arena Idé. The share of

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sweden-world-leading-union-membership-despite-declining-union-density - 2025-10-19

Don't miss the latest episode of MultiPark's podcast Meet our scientists. MultiPark's newest research group leader, Henrik Ahlenius, shares his expertise about stem cells in aging and neurodegenerative diseases. In this episode, Henrik explains the fascinating interplay between aging, neurodegenerative diseases and stem cells - critical areas of study that Henrik Ahlenius has passionately pursued

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/meet-our-scientists-podcast-henrik-ahlenius-about-stem-cells-aging-and-neurodegeneration - 2025-10-19

This week marked the kickoff of MultiPark's Advanced Neuroscience Course. In this exclusive program, students from around the world unite to explore neuroscience and the complexities of neurodegenerative diseases. During the Advanced Neuroscience Course, students gain insights from leading researchers and get hands-on lab experience, working closely with labs that match their interests. The course

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/advanced-neuroscience-course-future-neuroscientists - 2025-10-19

A study at Lund University reveals that traumatic brain injury alters the small vessels in the brain, resulting in an accumulation of amyloid beta — a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. The findings suggest that vascular dysfunction could be an early driver in neurodegenerative disorders rather than being caused by neuronal damage. The study is published in Acta Neuropathologica. An increased risk o

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/cracking-alzheimers-code-how-brain-trauma-triggers-disease - 2025-10-19

This year, MultiPark has the pleasure of welcoming two new research groups. The Mackenzie Lab aims to decode the neurobiological underpinnings of emotion through experimental studies in animal models. Jacob Vogel’s team uses AI to analyze clinical data for improved understanding as well as patient-tailored diagnosis and care of neurodegenerative disease patients. Say hello to Åsa Mackenzie and Jac

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/multipark-grows-new-research-groups - 2025-10-19