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

AIDA – Attention and decision making children and adolescents with developmental psychiatric conditions – examine decision-making and attention in children with developmental psychiatric conditions, particularly depression, autism, and ADHD.

The school in Sweden is supposed to be equal, but where children and young people live and which school they attend has become of decisive importance for their opportunities to reach the national knowledge requirements. Two schools that break this pattern piqued the researchers' curiosity.

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.

ADHD is one of the most prevalent psychiatric conditions, consuming a large proportion of resources in psychiatric care, often accompanied by long waiting lists to receive proper assessment.

The goal of the research project is to investigate in a multifaceted way how different types of knowledge about attendance in preschool can contribute to enabling an equal education system for all children in Sweden.

Starting school is a major change where the child becomes a student and part of school life. This brings not only a new daily reality but also new expectations about how the student is and should be. This dissertation examines how Swedish compulsory school shapes ideas about the student and how this affects the individual’s opportunities.

This qualitative study explores sexual consent in youths’ relationships.

Analyses of local variation in measures aimed at youth not in employment, education or training

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.

In recent decades, European countries have seen substantial changes in family constellations. Using longitudinal data from five European countries, we examine whether the consequences of family constellations are constant for children and adults across European countries.

This project analyzes childhood predictors of crime and victimization across life. It focuses on aspects such as childhood problem behavior and family home environment.

Does childhood trauma influence offspring development? Testing a trans-generational response hypothesis.

Children and youths exposed to 'stigma-related trauma': Narration, agency and support needs is a research project led by Anneli Silvén Hagström at the Department of Social Work.

Conflicting goals in compulsory care for young people?

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.

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.

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.

Reading development in newly arrived high school students addresses a well-defined educational need: the automatization of decoding in second language learner reading. Decoding is critical for comprehension and therefore for learning.

Criminal careers from adolescence to retirement age in individuals with experience of out-of-home care: prevalence, patterns and intergenerational associations (CRIMCAR)

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.

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

Why are educational inequalities by gender and immigrant background not those we would expect given students’ aspirations, confidence, and stress?

Poverty theories emphasize the social side of poverty, yet we have little knowledge about the social repercussions of poverty among children and youth: do poorer children suffer in terms of peer relations, do they participate less in leisure activities, and do they have less civic engagement? If this is the case, what are the mechanisms behind?

Education and Employment Careers of Refugee Youth who arrived as Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children. This project construct a very large and comprehensive panel data set from different sources, making it possible to follow children who have arrived in Sweden between 2003 and 2017.

Ending Childhood Obesity is a national initiative aiming to prevent overweight and obesity in preschool children aged 0–6 in Sweden. Thereby, we hope to contribute to the reduction of mental illness, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases.

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.

PhD project that aims to examine constructions of family, family life and human relationships in legal regulation and application.

This project examines how high achieving students decode school practices and embark on a successful educational career. The project aims to capture the mechanisms and factors that contributed the academic success of 52 students from households with high or low educational background, with parents with migrant or of non-migrant background.

The aim of this proposal is to map the current diversified field of foster care by using register data and by distributing a survey to municipalities nationwide.

Foster children as midlife adults: For whom and under what circumstances may placement in foster care counteract social and health-related adversity across the life course?

There is a lack of empirical research on the processes behind the fact that females on average do better than males in school, and we still lack knowledge about why there is such a strong horizontal gender segregation in education. This project tests hypotheses on how gender differences in education arise and are maintained.

– participation, decision-making and responsibility in an uncertain medico-legal landscape.

We investigate how bacteria in the gut microbiota influence the efficacy and toxicity of chemotherapy in vitro and in vivo – both in experimental models and in patients.

Why do young people use psychoactive substances? Has substance use been normalized or is it still abnormal? Knowledge of this is needed for society to be able to understand and handle changes in consumption and attitudes that have been observed at an aggregate level in recent years.

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.

Each year, around 1 percent of European children are placed in out-of-home care (OHC ). In Sweden, the risk of placement is greatest during the teenage years. However, a significant proportion of all children are placed in OHC as infants (<12 months).

This project aims to describe and understand the fundamentals of integration of youth, and its variation across five countries (Norway, Sweden, England, Germany and the Netherlands). We use the large-scale CILS4EU/CILS-NOR data on young people of immigrant and majority origins.

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.

Speakers make use of intonation in order to highlight the most important part of an utterance (its focus) and listeners rely on it in order to comprehend the message. In this project we study how Swedish kindergarten children develop the skill to produce and to interpret focus intonation, be means of, among others, eye-tracking experiments.

The concept of matching refers to the process when a foster home is selected to fit an individual child in placement. Matching is important for the quality of care, as the foster carers need necessary resources to meet the child’s needs.

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.

This project concerns the opportunities to strengthen educational and professional chances for students without complete compulsory education, a group running increased risks of future social exclusion. These young people are normally channeled into one of five introductory programs (IP), preparing for studies and/or work.

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

Two thousand children and youth in eight municipalities will be subject to a prospective, longitudinal study of their trajectory through the child welfare system for six years. The study is conducted by an interdisciplinary research team with academic competence in social work, sociology, law and criminology, collaborating with FoU-Nordväst.

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

Multidisciplinary network to unite Nordic researchers with expertise in longitudinal welfare research.

As societies are increasingly ethnically diverse, social integration is of increasing importance. Organised leisure activities (OAs) are framed as an additional arena of intergroup contact, with conditions especially conducive for promoting social integration. This project examines the extent to which OA-participants experience intergroup contact.

The project offers insights into whether and how increasing income inequality spills over into disparities in future generations' educational outcomes. The evidence provided is instrumental to understanding the long-term challenges for the Swedish welfare state to provide equal opportunities for its citizens.

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?

Malin Ljungbergs dissertation is about everyday life, caregiving and time among parents who co-reside with autistic adult children who are not in employment, education or vocational training (NEET).

Fewer swedes are having children and fewer couples are getting married. Previous explanations no longer seem to be relevant, so what can explain the declines? In this research project the researches will examine this, using register data and survey data.

Research shows that an increasing segregation has created a tangible inequality between different municipalities and individual schools. Where children and young people live and which school they attend has become of decisive importance for the possibility of reaching the knowledge requirements and continuing their studies.

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.

This ground-breaking project brings together top universities to create digital tools for teen mental health. Our aim is to leverage diverse data for inclusive support.

How are resources allocated to different vulnerable groups in need of social support? What are the principles and processes behind the allocation of municipal funds? This is a currently overlooked question, despite this being crucial for the allocation of resources to vulnerable groups with complex problems spanning different sectors.

The project aims to analyze to what extent personal relationships:

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes that children have the right to give their opinions freely on issues that affect them. To enjoy their human rights children with disabilities may in addition to age appropriate support, need adaptations to manage their disability, to enable them to attain their rights and freedoms.

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

The purpose of this study is to investigate national, organisational and individual dimensions of school attendance problems (SAP) among 15 to 17-year-olds in Sweden, the UK, Germany and Japan.

School is a context of central importance in young people's lives, and also an environment that can contribute to shaping behaviour.

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.

The research program is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Department of Criminology (Stockholm University), the Department of Social Work (Stockholm University), and the Social Affairs Administration of the city of Stockholm. The research will span over six years, starting in the fall of 2024.

Longitudinal and intergenerational effects of gendered segregation.

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.

We study the importance of stereotypes and discrimination for inequality at key stages of an individual’s life: university admission, field of study choice, as well as labor market entry and exit.

In this project we study how student support and tuition fee systems in different countries are associated with student welfare, and whether this has consequences for higher education participation.

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.

How school systems respond to migration has an enormous impact on migrant integration. The project TEAMS - Teaching that matters: Understanding Levers of Integration in Scotland, Finland and Sweden addresses the urgent need to understand and help teachers meet the needs of migrant students.

The project follows "Soc för unga" which aims to make social services more known and accessible to children and young people. Specifically, the project focuses on the part of this work where social services, schools and young people together have developed a material for teaching about social services in schools.

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.

During the covid pandemic, the Swedish school student movement emerged as a major critic of distance education, but what has it looked like historically? How did the school student movements come about and how have they developed?

We study how gut microbes and factors in the mucosal environment communicate with immune cells; and how these interactions connect to immune maturation as well as to the development of immune-mediated diseases like allergy and asthma.

Young people played an important role in the growing sports movement in late 19th century Sweden. During the post-war period, sport became by far the most popular association activity for young children. This project examines attitudes towards children within sports in Sweden, and how these attitudes have developed and changed.

There is limited evidence on the net benefits of class size reductions for students, teachers and parents. This project's aim is to understand how class size impacts educational mechanisms, health and teacher hiring, both in the short run and in the long run.

This project will use Swedish high-quality population register data on students who attended grade 9 in 1990-1997 to study the impact of a student’s rank order position in the school on their mental health measured in the late teens and in early adulthood.

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

"The public responsibility for children in foster care: preconditions, strategies and meanings of social services monitoring" is the name of a research project led by David Pålsson.

The aim of this project is to better understand the role that Swedish Sign Language plays in hearing habilitation for children.

The aim of this project is to shed new light on the history of democracy in schools by exploring the emergence and transformations of the school based student movement.

Many countries have introduced student loans to support higher education participation and funding. However, the proportion of students who use loans seems to vary greatly across higher education systems. In this project, we investigate institutional and individual-level factors that influence student loan uptake.

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.

The project "Understanding health inequalities experienced by self-identified sexual minorities, same-sex partners, and their children", aims to broaden the knowledge about health inequalities experienced among those who identify themselves as belonging to a sexual minority and their children, as well as among those living in a same-sex relationship.

Out-of-home care (OHC; foster-family care and residential care) experience is linked to numerous negative life-course outcomes, including poor health, premature death, criminal involvement and poor employment prospects. However, it remains unclear to what extent adolescents living in foster-family care have elevated risks for victimization compared to peers

"Violence between young people in close relationships – prevalence, context and young people's own voices" is the name of a research project led by Carolina Överlien in collaboration with Sibel Korkmaz, Stefan Wiklund and Helene Lagerlöf at the Department of Social Work.

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.

In this project, we study how others are affected when one person experiences a large, positive change in wealth in the form of a lottery win. We consider multiple outcomes, including criminal behavior, political participation and family formation.

In the citizen science project “What do the school walls say” teachers and students will help scholars to investigate how the school system’s democratic mission is reflected in the signs, notes and messages on classroom walls, in corridors and other public spaces of schools.

Education is an important basis for children's development and is usually described as a way out of vulnerability. The project deals with the educational careers of a particularly vulnerable group, namely children with experience of community care in the form of placements in foster homes or institutions.

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.

The project "Who decides on a child's health care? An interdisciplinary study on the child's right to participation in decisions concerning care and treatment" explores how the interaction between children, custodians and health care staff affects children's right to participation, determination and integrity in their own health care.

YOUNGWORK engages a highly qualified team of researchers to study how labour market trajectories unfold during early adulthood, and how labour market outcomes relate to factors on the personal, family, or school level.

The aim of this project is to examine young adults’ educational and life careers in areas that are perceived as culturally and economically disadvantaged and how their educational and life careers can be enhanced.

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.

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

A diagnosis of ADHD often comes with benefits such as medical treatment and educational interventions. An ADHD diagnosis can also lead to negative aspects such as stigma and exclusion in social settings or from certain jobs.