Published 15 April 2020 People who trust others are less likely to die than those who are distrusting, conclude sociologist Jan Mewes and colleagues in “Trust, happiness and mortality: Findings from a prospective US population-based survey”, published in Social Science & Medicine. The effects of generalised trust - the belief that others, including strangers, can be trusted – were specifically not

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/survival-advantages-people-who-trust-strangers - 2025-04-19

Published 27 April 2020 Veronika Burcar Alm has co-authored the article ”Suspected or protected? Perceptions of procedural justice in ethnic minority youth's descriptions of police relations” published in Policing and Society. The researchers interviewed 121 ethnic minority youths living in Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, about their experiences with police practices. The young people say th

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/ethnic-minority-youths-experiences-police - 2025-04-19

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman-Rogowski) - published 19 May 2020 Photo: Corey Young, Unsplashed. Three researchers within the Social Science Faculty at Lund University have compiled an anthology challenging the notion of the refugee crisis of 2015. The book also investigates how Germany, Sweden, and Denmark use bureaucracy to control, discipline, and shape

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-northern-european-welfare-states-exercise-bureaucratic-violence-asylum-seekers - 2025-04-19

Published 10 June 2020 Although violence in close relationships also includes violence in sibling relationships, this is a form of violence that is rarely acknowledged. The sibling relationship is associated with various notions of sibling rivalry and sibling love. Sociologist Veronika Burcar Alm has participated in a book about children and young people in exposed life situations with perspective

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/fighting-your-sibling-ok-right - 2025-04-19

Published 29 June 2020 Many patient organisations collaborate with drug companies, resulting in concerns about commercial agendas influencing patient advocacy. In this new study Associate Professor of Sociology Shai Mulinari, has together with Andreas Vilhelmsson, Emily Rickard and Piotr Ozieranski, analyzed financial support from pharmaceutical companies to patient organisations in Sweden between

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/pharmaceutical-industrys-funding-patient-organisations-sweden - 2025-04-19

Published 10 August 2020 Veronika Burcar Alm, a teacher at the Department of Sociology, has this year been named Qualified Teaching Practitioner by the Faculty of Social Sciences' Teaching Academy. Meet the department's Qualified Teaching Practitioner Veronika Burcar Alm as she talks about her views on teaching and why she applied to the faculty's teaching academy.The faculty’s Teaching Academy is

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/teaching-and-learning-interaction - 2025-04-19

Published 8 July 2020 Swedish women talk about the shame, threats and fear that went into telling someone about being abused by their partner in this new article "Revealing hidden realities: disclosing domestic abuse to informal others" published by Susanne Boethius and Malin Åkerström in the Nordic Journal of Criminology, and available as Open Access. One in three women Violence against women in

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/women-hesitate-when-revealing-domestic-abuse - 2025-04-19

Published 28 September 2020 Petra Östergren next to a mural of a sex worker on Marion Street, Wellington, during her 2017 field studies in New Zealand, the only country in the world with an integrative policy.. Photo: Catherine Healy. Social anthropologist Petra Östergren’s research rethinks prostitution policies and receives international response and praise. Her chapter "From zero-tolerance to f

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/governing-sex-work-new-way-categorizing-prostitution-policy-may-be-standard-years-come - 2025-04-19

Published 22 September 2020 Meetings are common in contemporary working life, but they are often overlooked in academic studies and sometimes defined as empty or boring by employees. Three researchers of sociology now contribute with insights into the culture of meetings. Malin Åkerström, David Wästerfors and Sophia Yakhlef at the Department of Sociology in Lund have written the article Meetings o

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lets-pretend-not-meeting - 2025-04-19

Published 4 November 2020 Sociologist Tullia Jack's paper questions whether changes meant to increase life quality and provide basic human rights, are actually contributing to deepening social stratification. Tullia Jack has published the paper ‘Without cleanliness we can’t lead the life, no?’ Cleanliness practices, (in)accessible infrastructures, social (im)mobility and (un)sustainable consumptio

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/more-cleanliness-deepening-social-gaps - 2025-04-19

Published 5 November 2020 The impact party politics has on the circulation of information about COVID-19 is the topic of a new article in the Canadian Journal of Political Science. Doctoral Student of Social Anthropology Isabelle Johansson has together with researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside published the article titled: ”The Partisan Impact on Local Government Dissemination of CO

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-do-politics-impact-access-information-about-covid-19 - 2025-04-19

Published 10 November 2020 Alexandra Franzén, doctoral student of sociology, has published the article “But ÖB Bengt Gustafsson took me by the hand and thanked me. A comparison between Jan Guillou's and Peter Bratt's accounts of the IB-publication in 1973 and 2017 ” in the Political Science journal Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. In May 1973, the Swedish journalists Peter Bratt and Jan Guillou expose

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sociologist-examines-swedish-ib-scandal-1973 - 2025-04-19

Published 12 February 2021 SWEDISH PARENTING SUPPORT: Lisa Eklund and Åsa Lundqvist at the Department of Sociology in Lund have published the article "Governing as peers : Reluctant experts and competent parents in the Swedish welfare state" in the French-language, international journal: Lien social et Politiques. Abstract In recent years, parenting support has gained traction in the Swedish welfa

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/competent-parents-steered-peers - 2025-04-19

Published 24 March 2021 Susanne Boethius and Malin Åkerström at the Department of Sociology in Lund are winners of the Nordic Journal of Criminology Best Article Prize 2020 with the article "Revealing hidden realities: disclosing domestic abuse to informal others". The study draws on interviews with 21 Swedish women who have been victims of domestic abuse and their social networks. The article dis

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/best-article-prize-2020-goes-sociology-article-victims-domestic-abuse - 2025-04-19

Published 2 June 2021 Even though much of their time is spent in less dramatic situations, transnational police from a range of different counties describe their own work in terms of fighting and combat. David Sausdal, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, has spent six years ethnographically researching transnational policing efforts at both the national and international leve

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/war-language-used-transnational-police-when-describing-their-work - 2025-04-19

Av sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - publicerad 11 februari 2021 Låt oss presentera Hamilton – en robot med kapacitet att analysera flera olika antikroppar samtidigt – och mycket snabbare än vad som tidigare varit möjligt. Titta in i roboten och se hur det ser ut när Hamilton arbetar. Film: Rasmus Bennet Det finns bara tre robotar med den specifika antikroppstekniken

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Av sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - publicerad 19 mars 2021 Jul- och nyårshelgen blev inte som Caroline Nilsson tänkt sig. Istället för att vara ledig från jobbet som forskningssjuksköterska i POInT-studien, fick hon rycka in och förstärka en covidavdelning på Skånes universitetssjukhus i Malmö.   Tillbaka på forskningsmottagningen efter sex veckor på en covidavdeln

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/forskningssjukskoterskan-caroline-om-tiden-pa-en-covidavdelning - 2025-04-19

Publicerad 6 april 2021 Artikel i tidskriften Forskning & Framsteg om forskningen som lett fram till bland annat Point-studien. I en ny studie visar svenska forskare i ett internationellt forskarlag att felaktig aktivering av de immunceller som kallas NK-celler är ett tidigt steg när barn drabbas av typ 1-diabetes. Frågan är nu om sjukdomsutvecklingen går att förhindra. Läs hela artikeln på Forskn

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/felaktigt-aktiverade-immunceller-bakom-diabetes-hos-barn - 2025-04-19

Publicerad 16 april 2021 Läs artikeln av vår dietist Carin Andrén Aronson på nutritionsfakta.se, en webbplats om mat och hälsa. Typ 1-diabetes och celiaki (glutenintolerans) är två kroniska sjukdomar där det egna immunförsvaret bryter ner kroppsegna organ. Bägge dessa autoimmuna sjukdomar är ärftliga och har gemensamma gener på kromosom 6. Högriskgener kopplade till typ 1-diabetes och celiaki finn

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/gluten-celiaki-och-typ-1-diabetes-finns-det-nagot-samband - 2025-04-19

Av sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - publicerad 19 april 2021 Alexander Dahl är hemtam på studiemottagningen i Helsingborg. Här i provtagningsrummet har han varit många gånger. Foto: Sara Liedholm 20-årige Alexander Dahl har deltagit i flera studier med syfte att förhindra typ 1-diabetes. Han har ätit glutenfritt, gjort glukosbelastningar och lämnat otaliga blodprove

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/sista-besoket-efter-20-ar - 2025-04-19