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All employees are welcome to participate in our digital faculty morning meetings. These meetings are held every month and are an opportunity for you to meet the dean and the vice deans who discuss and provide information on various current topics. These meetings are held alternately in Swedish and English in order to be accessible to all employees at the faculty. Previous morning meetings See pre
There are various methods of sharing information about our research and educational programmes outside the faculty.Press and mediaNews can be shared using press releases, articles, columns, film clips, news tips, posts on social media. Sometimes through different channels for the same piece of news. The Faculty Communications Section handles all press contacts and can be reached at press [at] med
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The School of Social Work offers these single subject courses taught in English: Social Work in Sweden, an introduction, 7.5 credits (undergraduate level) Social Policy in Europe, 15 credits (graduate level) Civil Society and Social Work, 15 credits (graduate level) Courses offered in Swedish
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/education/courses - 2025-08-01
7.5 credits The main aim of this introductory course is to provide basic knowledge of social work in Sweden. The goal is to enhance theoretical and practical knowledge of social work in Sweden, and highlight different types of actors and contexts where social work operates (public, private and/or voluntary sector). The course focuses on Swedish social work, but also embraces the students' prior kn
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/education/courses/social-work-sweden-introduction - 2025-08-01
15 credits The course explores processes of policy making in different welfare and social policy areas and at European, national and local levels. Emphasis is placed on coordination issues of these different regulatory levels. How and when to apply Read more about admissions requirements and how to apply. The course deals with themes such as the labour market, poverty and exclusion, migration and
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Social Sciences Faculty Library The Social Sciences Faculty Library (Sambib) is our faculty library. Here you can find, borrow and read course and reference books, journals and databases within your subject. You can also get help in finding literature and managing your references. The library reading rooms, computers and group rooms are at your disposal. Visit the Social Sciences Faculty Library's
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/library - 2025-08-01
Lund University cooperates with universities all over the world through bilateral agreements, educational and research programmes, networks and partnerships as well as research collaboration. Internationalisation is also a prioritised issue at the School of Social Work. The School of Social Work participates in a number of exchange programmes and staff and students alike are encouraged to pursue o
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RRSW Most of the titles are in Swedish, with certain exceptions (all abstracts in English). 20242024:3 Hälso- och sjukvårdskuratorsprogrammet: Uppföljning av en nystartad utbildning av Tina Mattsson2024:2 Knockin' on heaven's door: Hur död och döende hanteras på utbildningar för några människobehandlande professioner av Torbjörn Hjort2024:1 Kunskap i socialtjänsten av Kerstin Svensson (redaktör),
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/research/publications/research-reports-social-work - 2025-08-01
Working Papers are shorter scientific texts written by researchers at the department. The papers are accepted for presentation at open national or international conferences, but not yet published in any other way, and shorter texts of other kinds authored by people working in the department.Pedagogical reports are a special form of Working paper. The texts are based on student papers theses and m
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/research/publications/working-papers - 2025-08-01
Welcome to Lund University’s School of Social Work, which is located on two campuses: Campus Helsingborg and the School of Social Work in Lund. The School of Social Work has been training social workers since 1947. The School of Social Work was integrated into Lund University in 1977, as a department within the Faculty of Social Sciences. The School of Social Work has approximately 130 employees
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The research area conducts research linked to changes in the public sector and civil society with a special focus on welfare policy and social work. Research projects in the field study the changing conditions and organization of welfare, as well as how civil society is affected by, affects, and is involved in the development of the welfare state. In the area, comparative analyzes are made of civi
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/research/research-areas/civil-society-and-social-movements - 2025-08-01
The research area's overall purpose is to develop a subject-specific migration research by studying how social work is conceptualized in migration-related issues, which interventions it gives rise to both within the framework of the established welfare institutions and beyond these institutionalized forms. Developing discipline-specific migration research is an overall aim of this research group.
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/research/research-areas/migration-and-mobility - 2025-08-01
69. Storgaard, Asbjørn (2023) A potential for democratic emancipation? Policy and discretionary practices in probation service Lund: School of Social Work, Lund University. 68. Jha, Rishi (2023) Unsettled City: Neoliberal redevelopment, state crisis, slum resettlement & biopolitical struggle in Mumbai. Lund: School of Social Work, Lund University. 67. Jönsson, Anders (2023) Professional paperwork:
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This is a selection of research projects at the department. See the Lund University Research Portal for a complete list of current projects.Ageing, Wellbeing and Neigborhood in Transition (2020 →)Beyond the welfare state: Europeanization of Swedish civil society organizations (2011 →)Beyond the welfare state (2011 →)Cash for Change; contingency management as reward or intervention (2018 →)Children
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The research of School of Social Work contains various areas. Many of our researchers are active in thematic groups, collaborating within the university, as well as with external partners. Addiction Research Ageing and Elderly Care Child, Youth and Family Civil Society and Social Movements Professions and Organisation Social Policy and Sustainability Social Vulnerability and Inequality Migration
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The research area Child, Youth and Family is a well-established theme at the School of Social Work at Lund University. Research projects in the field focus on children's and young people's living conditions and everyday life, families with children, parenthood and the effects of class, gender and ethnicity. Comparative studies are made, of family policy, family practices and child protection syste
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/research/research-areas/child-youth-and-family - 2025-08-01
Courses and programmes at the School of Social Work. The School of Social Work offers three single subject courses taught in English, as well as an interdisciplinary master's programme taught in cooperation with other departments at the Faculty of Social Sciences. The BSc programme in Social Work covers a broad range of topics preparing the students for future careers in different fields of social
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/education - 2025-08-01
Researchers at the School of Social Work are working to change the direction of Swedish policies to help the homeless. The objective is to get away from the system of moving individuals through different levels of housing, which most Swedish municipalities use today. It is argued that the system, which means that the homeless must qualify to live independently by climbing upward in the housing hie
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/research/research-areas/social-vulnerability-and-inequality/housing-first - 2025-08-01
The complex realities of ageing and eldercare needs to be studied with a variety of methods and approaches, with a focus on structural, interpersonal and personal aspects and with regard to the perspectives of those who receive care and those who provide care. The School of Social Work's research group for ageing was founded 1993 by Professor Rosmari Eliasson-Lappalainen. The group brings together
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/research/research-areas/ageing-and-eldercare - 2025-08-01
