Research subject Everyday Life, Culture and Communication in the Lives of Children and Young People

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 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.

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.

Computer gaming and educational outcomes among youth: how does gaming relate to achievement and school relevant behavior? Using a multidimensional perspective on education and unusually detailed measures of computer gaming, this project addresses mechanisms suggested by theories in the field.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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