Research projects

See the Lund University Research Portal for a complete list of current projects.

• Ageing, Wellbeing and Neigborhood in Transition (2020 →)
• Beyond the welfare state: Europeanization of Swedish civil society organizations (2011 →)
• Beyond the welfare state (2011 →)
• Cash for Change; contingency management as reward or intervention (2018 →)
• Children’s voices, rights and development: Future practices for a resilient childhood (2023 →)
• Co-Hope: Collaborative housing in a Pandemic Era (2022 → 2025)
• DigRep – Representation in the digital era: Democratic consequences of changing engagement in the Swedish disability movement (2022→ 2025)
• Evidence over Conviction: Young childrens development of emotional security and ajustment  (2020 →) 
• Experiental Knowledge in Higher Education (2022 → 2026)
• Food Aid from Faith based organisations (2021 → 2026)
• From delinquency to anxiety – historical and present categorisations of mental health issues among children in care (2017 →)
• Global social work and human mobility: comparative studies on local government and good social work practices in the euro-mediterranean region (2022 → 2025)
• Home care as integrated in older peoples lives (2022 → 2024)
• In dept - Young adults and the dimensions of guilt (2021 → 2025)
• InterResilience (2023 → 2025)
• Nordic Food Aid Research Network (NoFAiR)
• Postgrowth Welfare Systems (2021 → 2024)
• Profiled eldercare and indentity (2015 →)
• Social and emotional learning as an early primary prevention (2021 →)
• Social Rights and Housing for the Ageing Population, a LU Thematic Collaboration Initiative (network 2018 → 2024)
• Specialist eldercare for people with substance abuse and complex needs: Promising practices or institutionalized ageism? (2019 →)
• Sustain@Home; Socially sustainable housing policies for people ageing with disability (2019 → 2023)
• Sustainable development in Small Island Developing States (2020 → 2024)
• Take away – disinvestment of established methods when implementing new psychosocial interventions for homeless people and people with mental health problems (→ 2025)
• The attitudes and opinions of addiction counsellors regarding a harm reduction perspective on the treatment of substance use disorders (2023 → 2024)
• The indignity of being hungry and the indignity of having to receive food: How do professionals create dignity in the encounter with help-seekers? (2023 → 2024)
• Ups and Downs in Mental Health (2020 →)
• Urban Social Innovation: A Framework for Welfare in Transition (2019 → 2024)
• "What are they doing?" The Swedish social services interventions Contact Person and Contact Family for children (2024 → 2026)
• Why me? cognitive representation of illness in relation to BIPQ (2019 →)