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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Marcus Knutagård, senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, is one of the authors of the indepth publication "The Finnish Homelessness Strategy – An International Review", which was recently completed. The report looks at work on homelessness done in the United Kingdom, Sweden and the USA, focusing particularly on

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/researcher-contributes-report-finnish-homelessness-strategy - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The School of Social Work recently hosted an online seminar on grounded theory, which drew participants from New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, Canada, the UK, Italy and Lithuania. The virtual meeting was the first gathering of a group that has emerged on Facebook, around a common interest in the research methodology. T

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/grounded-theory-contentment-and-norwegian-fjord - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Earlier this spring, Jan Magnusson, senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, travelled to Nepal to make new contacts and explore possibilities of sending students on Minor Field Studies scholarships there. He also met with officials and teachers at Tribhuvan University, as he is helping the university develop the

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/contacts-nepal-open-future-student-visits - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A film production is under way about service user participation in education and research in Europe. The resulting film will be screened at the opening of the conference "Social Work Education in Europe: towards 2025", which will be held in Milan, this summer. The School of Social Work at Lund University is involved i

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/film-covers-integration-service-users-education - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The new volume EU Civil Society. Patterns of Cooperation, Competion and Conflict, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. Editors of the book are Håkan Johansson, professor at the School of Social Work, and Sara Kalm, senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Lund. Other contributors from the Scho

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/new-book-eu-and-civil-society - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.  Due to an anonymous threat to the university and its students via the app Jodel and which the police regards very seriously, the university will be closed on Monday for all students and staff at all campuses. More information will be posted at the university home page www.lu.se during the day. If you have any questio

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-closed-monday-october-12 - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University reopens on TuesdayA decision to reopen Lund University was taken in the afternoon of Monday 12 October following the closure that has been in force since Sunday night. Activities are expected to be running as usual from Tuesday morning.  The decision is based on new information from the Region Syd poli

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-opens-again - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Swedish Crime Victim Compensation and Support Authority's (Brottsoffermyndigheten) praises Nora Germundsson, a student at the School of Social Work, for her bachelor thesis about the expectations of the country's women's shelters. Nora Germundsson was awarded second prize for her thesis "We need the voices - stron

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/student-wins-prize-bachelors-thesis - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In the spring of 2015 Lisa Hindström and Aleksandra Goreczna wrote their bachelor thesis about sex education in Grenada, after receiving an MFS scholarship for field studies. This is the report from their travels. When we decided to apply for a Minor Field Studies scholarship from The Swedish International Development

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/report-minor-field-study - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Carina Gallo, senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, and assistant professor of criminology at Holy Names University (HNU), has been awarded the Burmeister Award by the Division of Distance Learning of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). Gallo shares the award with Julaine Fowl

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/carina-gallo-receives-award-innovative-teaching - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Some forty Swedish top researchers and university delegations visited Singapore with the aim of developing research partnerships. Kristina Göransson, Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Work, represented Lund University's Faculty of Social Sciences at the Swedish Academic Collaboration Forum (SACF) in Singapore on

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/seminar-develop-contacts-singapore - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On October 29, Anna Meeuwisse and Roberto Scaramuzzino were in Rome to present the results of a survey of Italian social workers. The survey originated in a project run at the School of Social Work between 2005 and 2008: 'Municipal individually-oriented social work in four Nordic capital areas' (FAS 2005-2008). The qu

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/researchers-present-italy - 2026-04-17

Alexandru Panican, researcher from the School of Social Work at Lund University and Richard Ulmestig from Linnaeus University has published an article about the Swedish welfare state and social assistance in the prestigious Citizenship Studies Journal. In the article Social Rights in the shadow of poor relief - Social Assistance in the universal Swedish welfare state the researchers analyse social

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/researchers-published-prestigious-journal - 2026-04-17

Job search safari, Learning Swedish and How does Sweden's social insurance agency work... Don't miss out on all the International Citizen Hub Lund activities this autumn. International Citizen Hub Lund International Citizen Hub Lund has a role to enlighten, coordinate, and connect international employees and their families to Sweden’s various authorities, local associations, educational institutio

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/new-sweden-heres-your-guide - 2026-04-17

During the summer, Kristina Lång's research received a lot of attention in the media, nationally as well as internationally. The study showed that AI-assisted breast cancer screening is a safe alternative to radiologists' double-reading, reducing the workload of the overburdened profession by as much as 44 percent. We asked Kristina Lång about her experiences. Also, tips on how to increase outreac

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/increasing-outreach-cancer-research-about-ai-assisted-screening-attracts-media - 2026-04-17

Web stats show an increased use of the internal web in employees' daily work. The new Intramed has made a difference for the employees at the Faculty of Medicine, the LU Staff pages conclude. It became clear that members of staff were not satisfied with the existing IT environment, which was splintered, and that email was the primary channel for internal communication. Several of those interviewed

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/summing-new-intramed-provided-sharpened-internal-communication-and-reduced-e-mail-flow - 2026-04-17

How should undergraduate students and PhD students get basic knowledge about sustainable development? And how should the teachers and researchers of the faculty strengthen their compentency in sustainability issues? Magnus Sandberg, Senior Lecturer and leader of the faculty's working group for education and research for sustainability, explains. What do you want to achieve in your working group? –

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/how-integrate-sustainable-development-your-teaching - 2026-04-17

September 28 is the official launch of SciLifeLab Lund, a part of a major governmental investment in national research infrastructure. 200 participants are expected to Forum Medicum to get a glimpse of the fantastic research resources and capabilities available through SciLifeLab, both in Lund and at the partnering sites. Lund is one of the four new sites that were established in 2022. The sites i

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/kick-scilifelab-lund - 2026-04-17

The Board of the Faculty of Medicine (MFS) has held a meeting. At the beginning of the year, a commission was appointed under the leadership of Nils Danielsen to review the possibilities of making further savings in CCM (our animal department) due to high costs. During the board meeting, Nils Danielsen presented the conclusions in the final report submitted by the commission for further considerat

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/report-faculty-board-meeting-20-september - 2026-04-17

Due date for the application is 25 September. When universities employ Associate Senior Lecturers (BULs), these often have very varied conditions for their research. Some have substantial support from faculty funding and some have extensive external support. However, most of them do not have large research funds initially and the money that is available cannot always be used for their "own" projec

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/royal-physiographic-society-announcing-special-bul-grant - 2026-04-17