Research project Welfare, health and educational success for young people
The project rests on two intertwined interests. The first one is scientifically-oriented, aiming at making an empirically grounded and theoretically informed contribution to the broad research field exploring life conditions of children and young people that grow up in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Neighborhoods’ resources and relations, the ways schools deal with equity in a context of social divisions and segregation and health are three empirical and analytical pillars of the project. By focusing on so called spaces of inclusion and spaces of empowerment, the study aims also at identifying opportunity making policies, contexts and practices.
The second interest is policy-oriented. The ambition is to in close cooperation with a number of schools in Stockholm region use the scientifically generated conclusions as a template for development of a set of policy proposals for how the devastating impacts of segregation and increasing inequality could be mitigated. Another ambition is to support municipalities and schools in the process of enactment of these proposals.