"Tolfterna" was an association founded by, among others, Ellen Key in 1892. Its goal was partly to give working class women the opportunity of popular education, partly to even out the differences between the bourgeois and the socialist women's movement through discussion groups. How did it work out in practice? What class-related tensions occurred?

identification of hotspot environments for coastal blue carbon sequestration and guidance for sustainable management of the Baltic coastal landscapes under global change (CLIM-SCAPE)

This study seeks to investigate the significance of gender, ethnicity and social class when decisions of compulsory care of young people are being made. Throughout history, the control of boys have concerned their externalizing behaviour while control of girls primarily has focused on restricting and disciplining their sexual behaviour.

for Food Security, Adapting to Climate Change, Sustainable Resource Management and Inclusive Development

The me-too petition #TystnadTagning received media- and political attention in Sweden and the performing arts became a case illustrating a larger problem on the Swedish labor market: health effects of sexual harassment and sexual violence and the culture of silence that surrounds them.

Over the last 20 years, the divorce rate has doubled among women and men aged 60 and older in Sweden, in contrast to the flat trend in the rest of the adult population. The project is examining reasons to and consequences of late life divorces on living conditions.

Enacting Sex Education: a practice based study concerning an interdisciplinary knowledge content in Swedish secondary school.

The book that is to be the result of the project, Equality Law, volume 68 in the Scandinavian Studies in Law series, addresses equality from different perspectives. In total, over 15 researchers will contribute to the collection.

Doctoral thesis study on how the controversial relationship between the prohibition of discrimination and equality-enhancing affirmative action measures has developed in Swedish discrimination legislation. Full title is: (Un)equal treatment – Equality enhancing measures and equal treatmemt in the genealogy of Swedish discrimination legislation.

This project researches Nordic models of fatherhood and gender equality as hotbeds of welfare innovation and explores to what extent some countries are trying to ‘import’ similar models.

The FUSE project examines different paths that students can take to apply for a degree in physics. The focus is on students from under-represented groups, such as women and people from families with non-academic backgrounds.

This project examine why fathers working in occupations requiring the highest qualifications, such as medical doctors and lawyers, claim more than twice the length of father leave than those in occupations requiring the least qualifications, such as cleaners and machine operators.

Since 2010, fertility rates in Sweden have been declining. This development is rather surprising since Swedish family policies are internationally acclaimed for facilitating childbearing and childrearing. The researchers in this project seek to identify the factors that drive these developments.

Will the decrease in possibilities to get child maintenance support lead to an increase in parental conflicts and leading to economic issues becoming more dominant in custody issues?

Diversity is seen by Volvo as a tool for recruiting sought-after staff that can contribute to strengthened innovation capacity. For this to become a reality, research shows that diversity needs to be paired with active work for inclusion.

Is the nomination process for selecting teacher of the year at Stockholm University influenced by gender stereotypical thinking?

In what has been described as a “gray divorce revolution”, late life divorce is rapidly increasing in the Western world. Among Swedes 60+ divorce rates have almost doubled since the millennium. Still, grey divorce remains almost invisible both in family sociology and gerontology.

Who feels welcomed in mathematics and physics at university level and why? We study the path of students from under-represented groups into these fields and the identities that they build as they engage with these subject areas.

The project’s aim is to use an intersectional approach to investigate the role of employer hiring discrimination in the reproduction of ethnic by gender segregation and inequality in the labor market.

This project explores the prevalence of intensive parenting norms in Sweden and their implications for childbearing, well-being and work trajectories, as well as differences in the nature of the norms across social and demographic groups.

The starting point of this project is that research on intergenerational socioeconomic persistence needs to resolutely shift the perspective away from ‘normative’ careers of ‘typical’ men to the actual Swedish population. We aim to broaden the perspective and redevelop concepts and theories to fit the experience of the entire population.

Maintaining desistance is about struggling. It is about leaving a destructive and unwanted way of life behind in pursuit of something else, something unknown, something 'normal'.

Research project based at Stockholm University and funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond: the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and the Social Sciences, 2019-2021.

The main aim of NORDICORE is to create knowledge that will further advance gender balance and diversity in research and innovation. The research design uses mixed methods and data are acquired from a wide range of sources. Thus, it allows to pinpoint specific mechanisms behind gender inequalities.

(...) of trafficked victims: a case study of Finland and Sweden

Path2Integrity is a European project – funded by the European Commission – that raises awareness about research integrity and educates on how to argue in favour of responsible research and reliable research results.

The purpose of this project is to investigate the role of performance evaluations in the labor market.

The project focuses on the practiced language policies of two public libraries with the mandate to promote linguistic diversity and inclusion.

The project addresses the question of how queer and transfeminist theories contribute to our understanding of feminist and intersectional performance studies today and investigates new generations of performance artists to expand the boundaries of intersectional queer and transfeminist performance studies in a global perspective.

Over the past decade fertility rates in Sweden have declined somewhat unexpectedly. This development has occurred in tandem with even greater fertility declines in the other Nordic countries. The projects explores why.

- a collaborative, comparative study in the Indo-Pacific

a collaborative, comparative study in the Indo-Pacific

The six year research programme Sivin-Child (Coordinated intervention systems against violence in close relationships), explores how different aspects of social work, from detection and investigation to support and follow-up can be coordinated.

The Swedish Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) is part of an international data infrastructure, the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP). The infrastructure includes a register-linked survey of adults to which a contextual database covering their adult lives is matched.

Our main aim is to study the effects of bacterial phosphoantigens (HMBPP and IPP) on appetite. We introduced these into mice by gavage and followed the differences in weight gain and gene transcription from relevant tissues. An unexpected effect on male salivary glands focused our interest also on their effects on immune response.

Research project in criminal law that aims to find out what is the current law regarding the Swedish regulation of rape and what problems/bias exist with the current regulation.

How does masculinity take shape in the therapy room? What does masculinity mean and how can it be given meaning - for the patient and for the therapist? In this project, the different meanings of masculinity are interpreted within the framework of psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Understanding changes in levels of occupational sex segregation in Sweden and Europe during half a century

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.

This project brings more nuance to the history of suffrage in Sweden. As history is usually written, 1921 marks the end of the struggle for suffrage. But rather than regarding the reform of 1921 as a definitive democratic breakthrough, the research project examines the events of the following century as a continuing but non-linear process of democratisation.

"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.

Studies on crime, gender, ethnicity and social class.

The project has shed light on women's crime as a social problem and studied society's attention to, understanding of and reaction to women's crime. The overall purpose has been to 1) analyze the development of women's crime, 2) study the image of the criminal woman and the emergence of women's crime as a social problem.

It is currently estimated that there are up to 300 000 Kenyan citizens working in the Gulf states on temporary contracts. Conditions for women domestic workers are particularly harsh. Reports of physical, psychological and sexual violence are frequent.

One aim of this project is to produce a Nordic overview of research and statistics on the socio-economic patterns and cultural aspects of parental leave take-up by young parents under 30 years of age. Another aim is to examine the consequences of these patterns for gender equality in the labour market and in family life.

Vulnerability of minor girls and young women to honor-related oppression and violence due to exceeding the family's requirements for decent dress