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Child and Youth Studies

Child and youth studies is an interdisciplinary field with a focus on childhood as both a period in life and as a social structure. Children’s lives, experiences, relations and everyday life are central to researchers in the field.

Faculty of Health and Society

At the Faculty of Health and Society, research is carried out in the fields of both medicine and social sciences — representing a creative shift where research addresses issues at the intersection of these two fields.

Sustainability Studies

Sustainability Studies is rooted in the social movements for democracy and the environment of the 1960s and 1970s. It deals with the tensions between the three pillars of economics, environmental and social sustainability, and the concept of sustainable...

Social Work

The research subject social work concerns traditional social issues regarding the welfare of children and families, substance misuse and addiction, ageing, disability, and poverty and other manifestations of structural inequality. Research is carried out...

Centre for Work Life Studies

At the centre, we conduct multidisciplinary research focused on work life and organisation. Our research concerns work environment, collaboration, leadership and organisation. We develop tools and methods that can contribute to the application of research...

From Typology to Practice – Racialized Emotional Labor in Welfare Organizations

Faculty of Technology and Society

The Faculty of Technology and Society (TS), conducts education and research with a focus on technology and natural sciences, in close collaboration with industry and other social actors and higher education institutions. The two departments at the faculty...

Reinforcing the Centaur state: Evictions, family policing and racism in Sweden