Structural Inequalities and Everyday Lives (SOVV)

Our Research

This research and educational environment focuses on issues at the intersection of welfare and poverty issues and migration regimes. An important starting point is the need to explore how people's living conditions are affected by economic and global, local structural, and eco-social inequalities. Central to the environment is exploring how inequalities based on class, gender, race/ethnicity, age, functionality, sexuality, and citizenship shape people's lives and opportunities. Issues of social justice, decolonial and community-based social work, social mobilisation, and conditions for collaboration and knowledge development are therefore of particular interest in this environment.

Examples of current themes

• Co-creation and participatory methods in teaching and research
• Social work and social reproduction
• Poverty-conscious social work
• Climate justice, social and ecological sustainability, and disaster risk reduction
• Future-oriented exploration of alternative everyday lives