The Welfare Research Group
Focusing on inequality, health & social care and critical studies, this group’s research is conducted in a range of national and international settings, and adopts various theoretical and methodological standpoints.
Description
The Welfare research group brings together scholars with a wide variety of theoretical and methodological expertise and a shared interest in problematizing and exploring issues and posing research questions pertaining to welfare related matters, such as inequality, diversity, and social in/exclusion. Group members conduct research focusing on, among other things, the power dynamics of institutional settings, patients/clients within health care and social welfare, as well as on implications of policy and practice in these areas.
Research projects
- The labor market and educational effects of gender transitioning in Sweden
- Does IBIC contribute to better practice?
- Labor market inclusion in theory and practice
- Manifestations of inequality in the post-Industrial labor market
- CIVEX: Exclusion from civic engagement of a diverse older population
- Is palliative care equal?
- The resilience and accountability of the welfare state
- Transnational Filial Care in the Context of Migration and Ageing Description
- The Construction of Homelessness as a Social Category
- Social Comparison Among Students in the School Environment and Its Impact on Mental Health