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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. PUBLICATION: Sociology researcher Shai Mulinari investigates, together with Andreas Vilhelmsson, how members of Denmark's pandemic planning committee experienced lobbying efforts by the manufacturer of Tamiflu, the antiviral that was stockpiled before the pandemic of 2009. Shai Mulinari and Andreas Vilhelmsson have pu

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-do-pharmaceutical-companies-lobby-authorities - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Sociology Professor Christofer Edling has, together with nine other researchers in sociology, political science, and social work, received a grant of 35 million SEK from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the project “Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/35-million-sek-project-elites-civil-society - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. PUBLICATION: Doctor of Sociology Terese Anving has published the article “Struggling to Make Ends Meet: Lone Mothers and Intergenerational Support in Sweden” in the journal Studies in the Maternal. Read or download the article at mamsie.bbk.ac.ukAbstractEconomic divisions have deepened in Sweden in recent years, and l

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lone-mothers-struggling-make-ends-meet - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Katrine Tinning at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral dissertation in Educational studies ”The Ambivalent Potentiality of Vulnerability. Museum Pedagogy in Exhibitions on Difficult Matters and its Ethical Implications” today at 1 pm in Stora Algatan's auditorium in Lund. The external reviewer was Associ

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/katrine-tinning-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Åsa Lundqvist, Professor at the Department of Sociology has just published a book about how the activation of women into paid work was accomplished. It looks at the ideational grounds and the concrete measures that created the conditions for increasing the employment ratio of women, and thus also a farewell to male br

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/creating-conditions-more-women-paid-work - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Liv Sunnercrantz at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral dissertation in sociology ”Hegemony and the Intellectual Function: Medialised Public Discourse on Privatisation in Sweden 1988-1993” today, 19th December, at 10:15 in Kulturens auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Emilia Palonen, Depa

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/liv-sunnercrantz-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCH GRANT: Olle Frödin, Johan Sandberg and Axel Fredholm at the Sociology Department in Lund and Shahamak Rezaei at Roskilde University have been awarded 4 million SEK for the project "Migration, Integration and Development: The Role of Transnational Immigrant Organizations in Sweden". The research project focuse

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/4-million-study-role-immigrant-organizations-integration - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lisa Flower analyses the emotional regime in the White House in The Conversation: “Donald Trump, loyalty and the ‘emotional regime’ in the White House”. “But what exactly is loyalty? And why did Comey put on his poker face when asked for it?“Read the whole article on theconversation.comLisa Flower’s personal page here

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/what-do-trumps-demands-loyalty-white-house-mean - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Social anthropologist Tova Höjdestrand writes about the so-called Parents' Movement is a Russia in the chapter “Nationalism and Civicness in Contemporary Russia: Grassroots Mobilization in Defense of Traditional Family Values” published in the book Rebellious Parents: Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and R

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/rebellious-russian-parents-defense-traditional-family-values - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 proje

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/society-reachable-all - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 c

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/primary-school-teachers-illness-caused-work - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/comparing-parental-support-sweden-and-germany - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/contradictions-private-schools-china - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/fear-being-left-over-turning-moral-panic - 2026-04-29

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 - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-collaboration-project-urban-creativity - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 immig

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/radical-shift-swedish-migration-policy-analysed - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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’

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/child-rights-gender-equality - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/funding-project-second-side-refugee-crisis - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/young-men-refrain-reporting-crimes - 2026-04-29