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.
- 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)
- Ageing, Wellbeing and Neigborhood in Transition (2020 →)
- Between Care, Growth and Pressure: A qualitative study of family life and changing notions of care in the context of private tutoring (2025 → 2029)
- 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 →)
- CDR: Communication, Defense Willingness and Democratic Resilience (2025 → 2027)
- Children’s voices, rights and development: Future practices for a resilient childhood (2023 →)
- Civil society and populism: How the rise to power of populist parties affects State-civil society relations (2024 → 2027)
- Co-Hope: Collaborative housing in a Pandemic Era (2022 → 2025)
- DIG-NAV: Digital Navigation of Migrants in the Swedish Labour Market: an interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder approach (2025 → 2028)
- DigRep – Representation in the digital era: Democratic consequences of changing engagement in the Swedish disability movement (2022→ 2025)
- Economic Elites in the Climate change transformation (2023 → 2028)
- Economic Elites in Sweden (2025 → 2028)
- Evidence over Conviction: Young childrens development of emotional security and ajustment (2020 →)
- 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)
- 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)
- Global South—Global North Developments: The Asymmetries of Polycrisis, Risks, and Resilience (2024 →)
- 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)
- In dept - Young adults and the dimensions of guilt (2021 → 2025)
- InterResilience (2023 → 2025)
- 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 →)
- Social Work and Climate Change in India's North-East Region (2024 →)
- Specialist eldercare for people with substance abuse and complex needs: Promising practices or institutionalized ageism? (2019 →)
- Take away – disinvestment of established methods when implementing new psychosocial interventions for homeless people and people with mental health problems (→ 2025)
- Ups and Downs in Mental Health (2020 →)
- "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 →)
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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.