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30 Aug 2017
The Guardian writes about gap mending
Gap mending is an analytical tool that helps teachers and researchers in social work to reflect upon what, in their practice, increases, maintains or mends gaps between professiona...
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28 Aug 2017
SoPact is open for applications
Are you a Skåne-based entrepreneur or part of a startup working to make a positive impact on the planet? SoPact, part of the School of Social Work, is a startup accelerator for soc...
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12 Jun 2017
First student receives international certificate
At the graduation ceremony in the main university hall on 31 May, Alida Karlman received her BSc in Social Work, and, as the first student at the department, a Certificate of Inter...
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7 Jun 2017
Change agents on child rights told their stories
Last week some 60 people gathered in the conference room at Palaestra in Lund for the seminar ”Universities' role in sustainable change work” hosted by Lund University Commissioned...
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18 May 2017
"A different kind of social work"
Jan Magnusson, lecturer at the School of Social Work, has recently returned after visiting the School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai. One of the...
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17 May 2017
Max Koch to speak at LSE
On 25 May, Professor Max Koch will speak at the London School of Economics, together with Dr Milena Buchs (University of Leeds). The event is part of a seminar series called Climat...
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27 Apr 2017
Lotta Jägervi awarded the Oscar II scholarship
Lotta Jägervi has received the Oscar II scholarship for her dissertation "Villiga stödjare och motvilliga offer: Självpresentation och identitetsskapande hos stödjare och brottsoff...
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25 Apr 2017
Refugee reception and universities as agents of social innovation
How have universities adapted to the refugee crisis in Europe? How can universities find constructive solutions through their own educational activities? Norma Montesino, Christel ...
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18 Apr 2017
New dissertation looks at support services for abused women in Sweden
Sara Helmersson has defended her thesis Between Sisterhood and Treatment - Renegotiations in a Changed Support Field for Abused Women.
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5 Apr 2017
New certificate to strengthen international profile
The School of Social Work has launched a new Certificate of International Merits (CIM), a credential to be issued alongside the degree. This is a new opportunity for students to su...
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29 Mar 2017
Service user participation survey gets 3.5 million SEK in EU-funding
The European Social Fund provides 3,5 million SEK in funding for researchers at the School of Social Work to participate in a joint EU-project with Belgian and Dutch colleagues ...
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19 Jan 2017
Professor Jaber F. Gubrium awarded an Honorary Doctorate
The School of Social Work and the Department of Sociology have nominated Professor Jaber F. Gubrium for an honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University.
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17 Jan 2017
Book addresses International Children’s Rights in Education
The book "Realising Child Rights in Education. Experiences and Reflections from the International Training Programme on Child Rights, Classroom and School Management" contains pres...
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15 Dec 2016
Opening hours during the Christmas season
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8 Nov 2016
PhD students organise an international workshop
Carolin Schütze and Erin Kennedy and Cynthia Phiri, PhD students at the School of Social Work, have organised an international PhD workshop in Copenhagen. The workshop covered emer...
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17 Oct 2016
Swedish-Indonesian conference focuses on children’s rights
Last week a group of researchers from the University Muhammadiyah, Surakarta, Indonesia participated in a two-day conference, organised by Child Rights Institute at Lund University...
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7 Sep 2016
New anthology describes gap-mending in Europe
Cecilia Heule and Arne Kristiansen, researchers and teachers at the School of Social Work share their experiences in gap-mending pedagogy in a new European anthology: The Service ...
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23 May 2016
New Book on Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare
Max Koch professor at the School of Social Work has together with Oksana Mont from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University edi...
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13 Apr 2016
Economic development leads to a greater carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions
Must greater prosperity necessarily lead to a greater carbon footprint and increased greenhouse gas emissions? “In theory, no, but in practice this seems to be the case”, says rese...