This project builds on the research project Staging Migration, which creates new knowledge on the potential of children's theater to stage an inclusive Sweden. The results point to the ways that theater creates meeting places for psychosocial identification, social analysis, and critical reflection that contribute to civil repair.

The pre-school as a sexual education arena and a discursive space for educators and children.

The project takes as its starting point recent years' discussions about the inadequate work environment in Swedish preschools and examines what work environment could mean in relation to children's conditions and everyday life in preschools.

Antisemitism is a recurring phenomenon in contemporary Sweden that manifests itself in a wide range of social contexts. Reports show the persistence of antisemitism in the everyday lives of Jewish youth. The aim of the current research project is to investigate the semiotics of antisemitism and youth’s experiences of antisemitism in contemporary Sweden.

The desire to prevent and deter sexual violence has made "child privacy" a concept in an educational context, and in 2018 the preschool's privacy mission was expanded.

Scaffolding young children’s self-regulation and cleanness practices

In our research we study constructions of children and the preschools responsibilities concerning sexuality, sex education and integrity.

A central concept in the planned work is ‘imaginal coping’, which Clark (2003) defines as the use of imagination to transform the suffering of the disease.

The project concerns conversation patterns in an institutional environment, a pediatric oncology unit at a children's hospital. Of the 50 newly diagnosed children who come to the unit each year, five children have been selected and followed up while they were in the hospital.

Through a multi-theoretical perspective, the project explores methodologies to research children's participation in research, as well as how different methodologies within a research project could produce different, and sometimes unexpected, forms of participation. A focus on ethics is central to this project.

The overall goal of the research project is to contribute to a possible shift in preschool work on ecological sustainability by emphasizing the social and relational aspects of sustainability in children's interactions with other species.

In 2022, the Swedish Gender Equality Agency received a government assignment to translate and adapt an American evidence-based violence prevention programme, Dating Matters, for the Swedish context. The assignment includes allowing external researchers to carry out a process evaluation of the adapted programme.

The difference in childrens' knowledge concerning mathematics can seem to increase already before theie schoolstart.

Public and local narratives about boys’ rulebreaking activities in school.

Preschool teacher students' learning processes during VFU

An ethnographic study of conversations around delicate issues.

Enhancing Preschool Children’s Attention, Language and Communication Skills: An Interdisciplinary Study of Socio-emotional Learning and Computerized Attention Training

In the evaluation of the new framework plan, the project will, among other things, study to go back to some of the municipalities they visited at the time and investigate whether there have been changes based on the framework plan.

In this dissertation project, Johanna Wallin explores how nations are (re)constructed in everyday life among families in Sweden with multiple nationalities. Through ethnographic fieldwork, the study investigates when, how, and where nations become relevant in the everyday lives of families with multiple nationalities.

Transport and mobility are intrinsic parts of people’s everyday life, but inhabitants in socially vulnerable areas make fewer trips per person and per week compared to the national average, make fewer leisure related trips including trips to relatives and friends, and carry out fewer trips by car.

The project ‘Fathers and children in child health care’ is an ethnographic study about institutional talk. The aim of the study is to investigate the interaction between fathers and professionals (nurses) in child health care (BVC).

Humor can work both inclusively and exclusively and be both normative and subversive. Humor also enables a conversation space, where it can be pronounced that otherwise may not be said.

How systematic quality work based on pupils needs and interests can look like.

This doctoral project by Rasmus Kyllönen focuses on issues related to children's participation in the public sphere and their creation of childhood publics.

A dissertation project by Rickard Grimefall examining how, from queer theoretical perspectives, young masculinities have been portrayed in Swedish children's cinema during the period 1990–2020.

One of the research specializations at the Department of Child and Adolescent Studies. The research area has been assessed as a leading research area at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Stockholm University.

The majority in violent extremist groups are men, yet the role of masculinity in extremist ideology, organization, recruitment, and radicalization has largely been neglected. This workshop will draw together Nordic scholars to explore masculinity in right-wing, left-wing, and Islamic extremists, as well as in ‘manosphere’ and far-right movements.

A research project that conducts a comprehensive analysis of how concepts related to masculinities are described and what issues are focused on in reports published by the Nordic Council of Ministers with a focus on gender equality, during the period 2019–2024.

The research project is an evaluation of the violence prevention training program Mentor in Violence Prevention (MVP), specifically effects of MVP in school as part of universal prevention of violence and abuse, especially boys' violence against girls even if other forms of violence are also included.

Multimodal communication, power and identity creation. About children's communication with each other about age and gender.

Research project Navigating a local school market: the geography of school choice in three schools, Anna Ambrose

Neuropsychiatric diagnoses fron the perspective and life course of young adults: health, identity and resistance.

How do young adults living with their parents experience and describe their housing situation, and what are their hopes for their future? How do they negotiate their relationships with other family members and close ones in relation to their housing situation?

Although intimate partner violence (IPV) is more common among youths than adults, it is unnoticed and poorly researched in Sweden. Internationally, there is a paucity of studies on young partner-violent men’s experiences of network responses, which can be decisive for the initiation, persistence and cessation of violence.

This doctoral thesis project by Anneli Hippinen Ahlgren focuses on pedagogical content knowledge in School age Educare.

Didactic design and digital learning tablets in preschool.

The preschool is today an established children's institution that creates and reproduces ideas about children and childhood - via speeches, texts and pictures in and about the preschool. Such beliefs are crucial both for children's everyday life and for the action and living conditions the preschool offers children, parents, guardians and staff.

Social vulnerability as an ethical and pedagogical question.

Quality of Teacher Education Programme for Primary School, School-Age Education and Care.

The project's goal is to develop design-driven certified services that take into account the people who will live in the residential areas that are built within the framework of sustainable cities.

Intergenerational and interspecies relations in the Anthropocene.

The purpose of the project Staging Migration is to produce theoretical and empirical knowledge about the potential of children's theater to stage an inclusive Sweden, and to investigate whether and how social boundaries between ”us” and ”them” may be reproduced as an unintended consequence.

In her dissertation project, Alexandra Zahariadis Palmaers is interested in discourses about children, play and governance in policy and other source materials related to Swedish preschool during the period 1970-2020.

An opportunity to traverse gender norms connected to Arts and STEM?

University education has historically been seen as exclusive and mainly attracting students from homes with a high level of education, higher education has in recent decades become more obvious to many people.

How does "vertical living" affect the organization of children's everyday mobility and play? There is a great need for qualitative knowledge about how family background, diversity in neighborhoods, and area structure influence families' organization of children's mobility and play.

The project Swedish sex education 1882-2014: Norms about sexuality in an educational historical perspective has been granted 4.2 million from VR. Researchers involved in the project are Professor Anne-Li Lindgren and senior lecturer Sara Backman Prytz. The project will run for four years.

Teaching development research. about the youngest preschool children's Swedish vocabulary and language development.

Negotiations on the child's best interests in court and family law.

The project is an interdisciplinary study of Swedish nature documentaries from the 1940’s and 1950’s, combining theoretical perspectives from eco-critical and childhood studies within a cinema studies framing.

The overall purpose of the project is to investigate students' learning and to develop assessment instrument for assessing students' knowledge of programming to support and develop the teaching of programming in Swedish compulsory school.

In 1999, Sweden recognized five recognized national minorities. The dissertation is based on this and sheds light on how children and young people are involved in more or less political practices.

The preschool's hall – the time-spatial organization of children, educators and parents in the public sluice between outside and inside.

The project uses life stories as a method. Empirically, it is based on in-depth interviews with 15 unaccompanied children and young people originating in Afghanistan.

One of the reasons given by parents and students for applying from the suburbs to the inner city school is the opportunity to learn a so-called “good Swedish” . The idea of ​​a good Swedish spoken by specific students in specific places can be described as a form of language ideology, ie a normative notion of language and its users.

This doctoral thesis project by Anders Jacobson focuses on violence prevention as a practice that intertwines teaching, values policy, methods, organization and approaches with focus on Preschool Class and School-Age Educare.

The aim of this doctoral thesis project is to study and analyze the everyday life of rural families with children in the sparsely populated areas of northern Sweden.

The thesis is about health work in preschool during the period 1900-1980 and is interested in both preschool health practices and preschool as an actor in broader public health work in society.

Environmental humanities and human-animal studies meet preschool children's storytelling practices, for example knowledge in bioethics, biosemiotics and zoopoetics.

Young men’s sexual practices are surrounded by many different narratives. In media debate, policy and research, young men are understood to have the right to pleasure and enjoyment in and through sexual relations.

Research project Young people's identity formation in separatist rooms online.

The overall goal of the project is to shed light on young people's experiences of social support from, among others, parents and peers.