"With long-term commitment, Professor Hans Swärd has been interested in the most vulnerable in society and their living conditions for several decades. Through his research, Hans Swärd has achieved improvements and a paradigm shift in how to think about the homeless, including contributing to a move from seeing people as a social problem to focusing on the structural factors that cause homelessness. With his broad commitment to social work and social policy, Hans Swärd has also contributed very valuable knowledge about the development of the ‘chipped’ welfare state "

Alexandru Panican, Associate professor and Senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, Lund Universitty, is the president of the Swedish Association for Social Work Research (FORSA).