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Tack till alla som deltog i jubileumsfirandet under 2025, då Campus Helsingborg fyllde 25 år! Under jubileumsåret kommer det ske en rad olika evenemang och händelser för att uppmärksamma att Campus Helsingborg har funnits i 25 år. Ett större firande kommer att koncentreras till den 10 oktober 2025 med ett dagsprogram för medarbetare och inbjudna gäster och ett kvällsprogram endast för medarbetare.
https://www.ch.lu.se/internt/artikel/jubileumsfirande-25-ar - 2026-06-27
Lunds universitet har påbörjat ett arbete med förändringar i ledning och styrning av verksamheten i Helsingborg. Målet är att göra styrningen enklare och mer sammanhållen, så att det som redan fungerar väl kan utvecklas vidare. Samtidigt ska det strategiska ledarskapet stärkas, med fortsatt fokus på tvärvetenskap, samverkan och nytänkande. Här hittar du aktuella uppdateringar om förändringsarbetet
https://www.ch.lu.se/internt/artikel/ledning-och-styrning-i-helsingborg - 2026-06-27
In Januari 2023, the Department of Service Management and Service Studies has changed name to the shorter version Department of Service Studies. With the name change, the department wants to convey clarity, professionalism and closeness to the research. The name change means that "Service management" disappears from the department's title. The Bachelor's and Master's programmes offered by the depa
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-name-department-ism-has-become-ses - 2026-06-27
The Faculty of Social Sciences will during the autumn term 2023 elect a new dean, deputy dean and Faculty Board for the upcoming three-year term (1 January 2024 - 31 December 2026). The Faculty Nominating Committee now wishes to receive nominations to these positions no later than 20 April. Nomination letter The nomination letter below has been sent by e-mail to all staff at the Faculty of Social
The application process and assessment criteria have been revised for this year’s application. Lecturers, senior lecturers and professors on indefinite-term contracts, or associate senior lecturers, at the Faculty of Social Sciences are entitled to apply to the Faculty teaching academy to have their teaching skills assessed and be admitted as a Qualified Teaching Practitioner or Excellent Teaching
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/applying-assessment-teaching-skills - 2026-06-27
Spy scandals as a power struggle between three actors: whistleblowers, journalists and the intelligence service. On Friday 1 October Alexandra Franzén at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral thesis in sociology, which investigates three cases of spy scandals in Western democracies. Alexandra Franzén's thesis defence took place on Friday 1 October at 13:15 in Eden's Auditorium in Lund
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/alexandra-franzen-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-06-27
The Department of Sociology in Lund will receive three years of funding for a large collaboration project looking at insecure and informal work in the Nordic countries. Researchers Rasmus Ahlstrand and Sara Eldén, here at the Department of Sociology in Lund are part of the project "Tackling Precarious and Informal Work in the Nordic Countries (PrecaNord)" which has been granted funding within the
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/three-years-funding-large-nordic-collaboration-insecure-and-informal-work - 2026-06-27
When the American research field "Fear of Crime" was introduced in Sweden in the 1980s, it was translated "otrygghet", a word with a previously established meaning in Swedish. The meaning of the word "otrygghet" has since then changed significantly in Sweden. From being used to signify economic and materialist unpredictability, "otrygghet" has come to be used almost exclusively in a crime context.
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hanna-sahlin-lilja-has-defended-her-thesis-fear-crime-research-sweden - 2026-06-27
The everyday life in two day-care centres of psychiatry in the municipality of Copenhagen is examined in a new sociology thesis from Vibeke Klitgaard. Focus lies on the patients' communication and behavior as well as the stigmatization they experience from the social environment. Vibeke Klitgaard defended her thesis "Social (dis) order in district psychiatry: A systems theory analysis of psychiatr
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/vibeke-klitgaard-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-06-27
Associate Professor Sébastien Tutenges and Researcher Susanne Boethius of the Department of Sociology at Lund University are Editor-in-Chief and Co-Editor of the Nordic Journal of Criminology since the turn of the year. Looking forward to the new job! In an interview for The Nordic Research Council for Criminology (NSfK), the new Editor-in-Chief Sébastien Tutenges says he very much looks forward t
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-editors-nordic-journal-criminology - 2026-06-27
In his doctoral thesis in sociology "Structures of subcontracting: Work organisation, control, and labour in the Swedish building sector", Rasmus Ahlstrand analyses the increased use of subcontractors and explores new forms of work organisation in the Swedish building sector. A key contribution of his study is the concept of masked staffing, which refers to unauthorised ways of organising labour t
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/rasmus-ahlstrand-has-defended-his-thesis-changing-swedish-building-sector - 2026-06-27
In his article "Does remote work weaken trade unions?*" Anders Kjellberg, Professor of sociology, discusses how the balance of power in the labour market is changed when working from home increases in society. He also writes about the new trade union issues that distance working raises in industries where it is widespread. Those affected are primarily white-collar workers in both the private and p
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/does-remote-work-weaken-trade-unions - 2026-06-27
Why do people across cultures gather in groups to get intoxicated? Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology in Lund Sébastien Tutenges has been researching nightclubs and festivals for two decades to answer this question. His new book "Intoxication" offers valuable new insights into a wide variety of experiences. This book takes us to bars, nightclubs, festivals, nightlife resorts, under
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/collective-intoxication-can-give-religious-experience-and-more-solidarity - 2026-06-27
On 21 May the Young Academy of Sweden elected six new, prominent researchers representing fields ranging from brain surgery, analytical sociologoy and energy transformation. One of them is Alison Gerber, senior lecturer in sociology here at the Department of Sociology at Lund University. Why did you apply to The Young Academy of Sweden? - Because I want to contribute to making Swedish academic res
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sociologist-one-six-new-prominent-researchers-selected-young-academy-sweden - 2026-06-27
Associate Professor Dalia Abdelhady has studied how a Turkish newspaper's attempts to write inclusive portrayals of Syrian refugees still contributed to politicising and "othering" them as a group. In a paper published in Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, Dalia Abdelhady studies portrayals of Syrian refugees in the Turkish newspaper Zaman from 2011 to 20
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/turning-refugees-politics-impedes-their-social-integration - 2026-06-27
On Thursday, June 16, Colm Flaherty successfully defended his thesis A Politics of Community: Identity, Stigma, and Meaning in the Extra-Parliamentary Left, and is from here on out a doctor of sociology. Flaherty spent his doctoral studies exploring changing forms of political participation in Sweden through several extra-parliamentary leftist groups and organisations guided by radical left-libert
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/welcome-doctorhood-colm-flaherty - 2026-06-27
How does migration and globalisation shape the lives of individuals in various countries and how does it affect the children of immigrants in terms of integration, identity, and cultural expressions? Do they themselves use the word integration? These questions occupy sociologist Dalia Abdelhady who is about to conclude a study of three populations in the US, in France and in Germany, based on thei
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/other-side-story-how-children-immigrants-experience-life - 2026-06-27
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 - 2026-06-27
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 - 2026-06-27
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 - 2026-06-27
