Ongoing projects - Welfare and Life course

The New Meanings of Social Citizenship: On Activation and Medicalization in National Insurance                                                                                                                        Primary investigator: Prof. Rafael Lindqvist

DISCIT: Making Persons with Disabilities Full Citizens                                                  Primary investigator: (for the Swedish team) Prof. Rafael Lindqvist

Disability Research (projects conducted by doctoral students)

Encountering Vulnerability: Exploring Everyday Interaction in Sheltered Housing

Primary investigator: Richard Johansson, MSsc.

Social Gerontological Studies: Elderly People, Aging and Elderly Care (projects conducted by senior researchers)

Into the Digital Age: older non-users’ understandings and experiences of digital technologies and how they relate to understandings of aging and old age                      Primary investigator: Magdalena Kania-Lundholm

Caring for dying patients with immigrant backgrounds and their families: do understandings of cross-cultural interaction and ethnic ‘Otherness’ play a role?
Primary Investigator: Prof. Sandra Torres

Media representations of ethnic ‘Otherness’ in elderly care: a comparative study of Swedish and Finnish daily press reporting on migration, ethnicity and culture-related issues within the context of elderly care from 1995-2008
Primary Investigator: Prof. Sandra Torres

Social Gerontological Studies: Elderly People, Aging and Elderly Care (projects conducted by doctoral students)

Couples that Live with Dementia                                                                                    Primary investigator: Anita Wejbrandt, MSsc

Caring for dying patients with migrant background: A study on how institutional categorization is negotiated by health care professionals in end-of-life care
Primary investigator: Pernilla Ågård, MSSc

Welfare and inequality within the health and social care sector and in schools (projects conducted by senior researchers)

Women survivors of female genital mutilation/cutting as ambassadors of Change: A participatory action research for eradication of FGM/C in Somaliland
Primary investigator: Beth Maina Ahlberg

Sexual and Gender-based Violence in the Refugee Crisis: Vulnerabilities, Inequalities and Responses                                                                                                                    Primary investigator: Prof. Jenny Phillimore and Prof. Hannah Bradby

Making sense of suicide: communicative suicide prevention based on help-seekers’ and volunteers’ meaning making on a suicide helpline                                                         Primary investigator: Ph.D. Clara Iversen

Strengthen Community Based Care to minimize health inequalities and improve the integration of vulnerable migrants and refugees into local communities (MigHealthCare)  Primary investigator: Professor Hannah Bradby.

Understanding racism in healthcare: Developing and implementing anti-racist strategies through shared knowledge production and evaluation                                                   Primary investigator: Professor Hannah Bradby.

Speaking of money: Problem presentation, service and response when families with children call the Social Insurance Agency (2016-2018)
Primary investigator and contact person for project: Marie Flinkfeldt Ph.D.

The Diversity Barometer: A Panel-Based Investigation of Attitudes
Primary investigator: Associate Prof. Irving Palm

Understanding the practice and developing the concept of welfare bricolage                Primary Investigators: Prof. Jenny Phillimore (Birmingham University, UK) and Prof. Hannah Bradby 

Children’s participation in risk assessment interviews                                              Investigator (sub project): Clara Iversen, Ph.D.

The different aspects of health:Relations between mortality, morbidity, functional status and subjective health in European populations

Primary investigator: Professor Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen

Attitudes towards religion among Swedish citizens living abroad                            Investigator: Erika Willander, Ph.D.  (Church of Sweden's Unit for Analysis)

Nordic patterns of religious practice                                                                              Principal investigator: Erika Willander, Ph.D.  (Church of Sweden's Unit for Analysis)

International research on confirmation work                                                            Principal investigator: Erika Willander, Ph.D.  (Church of Sweden's Unit for Analysis)

The Religious Beliefs of Priests in the Church of Sweden                                              Primary investigator: Erika Willander, Ph.D.  (Church of Sweden's Unit for Analysis)

Welfare and inequality within the health and social care sector and in schools (projects conducted by doctoral students)

Moments on the City Bus: A Microsociology of Non-verbal Interaction and Social Coding in Urban Bus Riding.
Primary investigator: Magdalena Vieira, M.A. in sociology and M.A. in cultural anthropology

Sociological perspectives on the management of antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic misuse                                                                                                                            Primary investigator: Hedvig Gröndal, MSsc 

Understanding Racialised Discrimination in Health Care through Shared Knowledge Production                                                                                                                        Primary Investigator: Sarah Hamed, DDS, MSc