The research project examines the association between exposure to violence, ill health and long-term sick leave to identify the conditions and opportunities for vocational rehabilitation for people who have been exposed to domestic violence..

While the future of autonomous vehicles seems to be approaching, there will still be instances where human intervention will be necessary. In this project we develop Extended Reality experiences to provide visions of this future, informed by current events and autonomous agent research.

This project offers a new understanding of how, under which circumstances and why different forms and degrees of coercive regulations and practices have shaped the labor market and working conditions in Sweden.

This qualitative study explores sexual consent in youths’ relationships

"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?

This project has three aims: to assess gendered trends in leave provisions across 31 countries since 1965, examine links between leave policies and gendered use using Eurostat Labour Force Survey data (2010, 2018), and explore how long-term exposure to leave rights influences mothers’ and fathers’ leave use.

Gender gaps in negotiation behaviour and shying away from exposure to social ranking. This project aims to provide new knowledge on why we see persistent gender gaps despite the convergence by gender in many factors.

How do leave to care for sick children and its wage effect vary with socioeconomic position and family status?

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

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.

We propose a set of empirical studies that further our understanding of gender differences in labor market outcomes. Drawing on our previous work, we study how economic gender gaps are affected by referral-based hiring, the gender composition of groups, and gender stereotypes.

Social-technical relations and practices within Sweden’s rural agriculture and harvesting industry.

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.

Baudin et al (2015) has pointed out that “childlessness is an overlooked reality that cannot be explained by the current economic studies on fertility” and that childlessness is not the same as low fertility. This project fills this knowledge gap by analyzing male childlessness and, in addition, fathers' parental leave at the extensive margin.

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?

A multi-method approach to the transition to parenthood in different-sex and same-sex couples.

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.

This research project builds on a new data set on hiring in academia – a sector known for its dearth of women at top positions. The data set is unique in its scope and detail, covering all recruitment and promotion processes at the level of assistant, associate, and full professor at Sweden’s 10 largest universities from 2018 to 2020.

This project will explore new aspects about gender equality in the labor market, with a focus on differences in career achievements between men and women. The objective is to investigate the roots of gender inequality and potential reforms that can help increase equality.

Research on the historical origins of gender equality in political representation is scarce. This project applies insights about the historical origins of gender inequality on labor markets on the case of political representation.

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

A feminist comparison of NATO discourses in Finland and Sweden 1991-2024

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.

Women's attitudes to the welfare state during the housewife era and today.

The aim of this project is to increase our understanding of the long-term health effects of hormone therapy given as part of gender-affirming care.

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.

This project examines how the rise of women´s employment and earnings affected trends in economic inequality among all households, across OECD and European countries since the 1980s.

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.

We address three questions: (1) Does the RUT reform contribute to increase employment among immigrants? (2) Does the RUT industry provide a stepping stone into more advanced and better paid jobs or a trap for low skilled in low paid professions? (3) Does RUT stimulate immigrants to start their own firms or attain managerial positions?

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.

In this project, within the field of spatial literary studies, I analyze how domesticity, modern architecture and ideas of a good home are depicted in short stories from Swedish journals from the 1930´s.

Relational and emotional labour in caring occupations

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'.

Care leave – the right to take time-off from work to provide care – is a key ingredient for sustainable work and a rare area of welfare state expansion. As women now make-up a majority or near majority of union members in many countries, this project examines when and how trade unions mobilize for care leave policies and to what effect.

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

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 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

Based on hitherto overlooked archival material, this research project studied Nell Walden’s significant impact on the Sturm organisation through a feminist reading of supportive labour that highlights the centrality of collaborative work within the modern art world.

This is a two-part workshop where we explore care, maintenance and repair in the context of space science education. We are developing innovative pedagogical methods to create a greater inclusion of these themes in space science discourses.

The project investigates why women's sick leave rates increase more than men’s when they become parents. We compare adoptive and biological parents to study the importance of going through a pregnancy for the risk of needing sick leave. We also compare same-sex and different-sex couples with children to study the importance of gender norms.

In this 3-year project, we advance research by focusing heterogeneity in career effects of parenthood, as we believe it can give us valuable clues to unveiling the underlying mechanisms of gender inequality.

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 aim of this project is to provide evidence on the outcomes of individuals who choose their high school program gender-atypically and start a program where they belong to the minority gender.

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

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.

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.

This project aims to identify causal mechanisms to a gender gap in negotiation behavior by employing three unique and overlapping methods: experiments, survey data and interventions.

The project aims to analyze to what extent personal relationships:

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.

Intimate technologies, such as insulin pumps, smart vibrators, and digital contraceptives, are typically designed for use at an individual level. However, their use and its consequences are often shared and social. This project examines how emerging intimate technologies within reproductive health come to be shared.

Work, health, and illness among women and men during five decades. This project focuses on how social and structural causes (e.g., labour market transformations and shifting work content) are related to – and possibly created – the gender gap in sickness absence.

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.

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.

We study how stereotypes and discrimination create persistent economic inequality at three key stages of individuals’ lives: university admissions, choice of a field of study, and labor market entry.

In this project we study the impact of technological change on inequality for labor market, family, demographic, and health outcomes of men and women, and for immigrants relative to natives.

The aim of this project is to show how Swedish consumer society was maintained and transformed in relation to gender and citizenship during World War II.

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.

The project's primary purpose is to increase the understanding of labor market and educational effects of gender transitioning on Swedish adults and youth whilst considering two theoretically specified contexts giving rise to oppression: one focused on gender and the other on being transgender.

Research project in criminal law that aims to analyse the Swedish statutory law on rape and what areas of attrition that are present in 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.

In this project, we investigate how the flexibilization of working life shapes the maneuvering space of women (and men) in work and family and how this, in turn, contributes to gender and class inequality in wages and (un)health

Pathways into and out of leadership positions in a gender and life-course perspective. This project fills some gaps within the research field by studying both those who do and do not become leaders, and movements into and out of management positions.

– on the legal preconditions and limits of young patients´self-determination and participation

Challenges and opportunities in female-dominated occupations. This program aims to enhance our understanding of why women still fall behind men in terms of wages, careers, health and social recognition. What extent inequalities can be attributed to the fact that women tend to work in female dominated occupations and in “people-oriented jobs”?

Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine has forced millions of people to flee their homes and seek safety in neighboring countries, not least in the Nordic Region. This postdoctoral project investigates the lived experiences of language among those Ukrainians who have fled to Sweden since the outbreak of the full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022.

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.

Mapping out socio-economic status inequalities between and within Swedish households.

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.

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.

Parents' division of labor across contemporary families. The transition to parenthood is critical in producing and amplifying gender inequalities in work and family life. After parenthood, mothers take on the vast majority of childcare responsibilities. This project reveals sources of gender inequality in work and care after parenthood.

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.

In this project, we investigate how workplace segregation by gender in Sweden has developed during the last twenty years. We also study the interplay between occupational segregation by gender and workplace segregation by gender, and to what extent the workplace segregation by gender accounts for the gender gap in labor incomes.

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