Research subject Children and Young People's Living Conditions, Health / Well-being and Vulnerability

This thesis address young people´s friendship and peer relations in an upper secondary school in Sweden. More specific, the everyday life of how friendship boundaries are drawn, challenged and repaired, will be analyzed.

From an interdisciplinary perspective, the child/childish/naive will be highlighted as a possible ethical starting point. Ethics is otherwise usually based primarily on the rationality of the adult man, which is most evident in utilitarianism.

In our research we study constructions of children and the preschools responsibilities concerning sexuality, sex education and integrity.

A central concept in the planned work is ‘imaginal coping’, which Clark (2003) defines as the use of imagination to transform the suffering of the disease.

The project concerns conversation patterns in an institutional environment, a pediatric oncology unit at a children's hospital. Of the 50 newly diagnosed children who come to the unit each year, five children have been selected and followed up while they were in the hospital.

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

An ethnographic study of conversations around delicate issues.

About young people's cultures and everyday life in the Swedish countryside.

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.

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

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.

Social vulnerability as an ethical and pedagogical question.

Families' apartment accommodation and children's mobility.

Negotiations on the child's best interests in court and family law.

A treatise on discursive practices concerning vulnerability.

From the perspective of the legal system what can we learn from chi

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.

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

The overall purpose of the dissertation project is to investigate the experiences of children who are in the Swedish asylum reception system for families with children.

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