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Covid-19 | 2021 Autumn semester

Information to students at the School of Social Work.

School of Social Work, Allhelgona kyrkogata 8, Lund.

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Teaching and research in collaboration with practictioners and service users at one of Sweden's oldest universities.

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Doctoral studies at the School of Social Work.

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22 Apr 2021 | News

How Covid impacts experience-based knowledge in social work?

About 70 teachers, researchers, and representatives from different service user organisations from nine countries highlighted the matter during the conference Experience-based knowledge in the shadow of the pandemic. The conference was arranged by the international network PowerUs.

9 Oct 2019 | News

Housing First is effective if given adequate political support

The Housing First model is effective, but needs more political support to increase its impact across Europe, a new Europe-wide study from the Housing First Europe Hub shows. Marcus Knutagård, researcher at Lund University School of Social Work is one of the authors of the new report that will be rel...

Elites and Civil Society Elites seminar 10 April 2019. Photo: Patrik Hekkala

6 May 2019 | News

Seminar brings together several international researchers

During a whole day in April researchers in elite studies discussed the relevance of central theoretical and empirical knowledge about elite research for studying civil society elites.

11 Mar 2019 | News

Doctoral student wins early career prize

Carolin Schütze has been awarded the ReNEW Early Career Paper Prize in social sciences for the best conference paper at the Third Nordic Challenges Conference, 2019.

4 Oct 2018 | News

"Discrimination discourse is incompatible with hegemonic masculinity"

In an article recently published in the European Social Work Research journal, researchers Anna Rypi, Malin Åkerström and Veronika Burcar Alm attempt to shed light on why young men with an immigrant background who are subjected to violent crimes rarely report the incidents to the police.