Research projects
This is a selection of research projects at the department.
See the Lund University Research Portal for a complete list of current projects.
- Active listening in social work – from abstract principle to interactional practice (2025 → 2026)
- AGE-15: Pathways towards Age-friendly Neighbourhoods: Transnational research, knowledge transfer, collaborative approaches and capacity building for the transition towards the 15-minute city (2025 → 2027)
- Between Care, Growth and Pressure: A qualitative study of family life and changing notions of care in the context of private tutoring (2025 → 2029)
- CDR: Communication, Defense Willingness and Democratic Resilience (2025 → 2027)
- Civil society and populism: How the rise to power of populist parties affects State-civil society relations (2024 → 2027)
- DIG-NAV: Digital Navigation of Migrants in the Swedish Labour Market: an interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder approach (2025 → 2028)
- Discontinuing Opioid Maintenance Treatment for Opioid Addiction: Developing Evidence-Based Support for Safe Tapering (2026 → 2028)
- Economic Elites in the Climate change transformation (2023 → 2028)
- Economic Elites in Sweden (2025 → 2028)
- Experiental Knowledge in Higher Education (2022 → 2026)
- FlyWell: how to reduce air travel and at the same time maintain a high quality of life (2023 → 2026)
- Food Aid from Faith based organisations (2021 → 2026)
- HouseWell: Planning and development of Collaborative Housing and Shared Housing as Intermediate Forms of Housing for promoting older adults' health and well-being (2024 → 2028)
- Implementation of the I‑Risk method support from a management and leadership perspective (2026 → 2028)
- Juridification of children’s welfare in cases of domestic violence: the reform of sheltered housing as a child‑rights dilemma (2026 → 2029)
- Nordharm (2025 → 2029)
- Nordic Food Aid Research Network (NoFAiR)
- Profiled eldercare and indentity (2015 →)
- Regulating the Polluter Elite: Exploring policy measures limiting carbon footprints of the rich (2024 → 2027)
- Social and emotional learning as an early primary prevention (2021 →)
- Text-based social service delivery and professional practice in Singapore and Sweden: supporting user wellbeing (2026 → 2027)
- Towards a Knowledge‑Based Treatment Practice: ADHD, Substance Use Disorders, and the Path to Equitable Care (2026 → 2030)
- "What are they doing?" The Swedish social services interventions Contact Person and Contact Family for children (2024 → 2026)
Lund University Research Portal
All research and publications at the School of Social Work
Civil Society Elites?
Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies. Funded by Riksbankens jubileumsfond 2018-2023.
Nordharm
A Nordic research initiative focused on developing sustainable models of health and social care for older adults who live with both care needs and alcohol‑ or drug‑related problems.