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Child and youth studies
By new research in the field the overall aim is to spread knowledge about the conditions of children and young people and thereby strengthen their positions in society. Many of the projects are conducted in cooperation with external partners.
The work and the projects conducted at the centre is divided into three domains.
See also information about the collaboration projects.
Development, family and overall conditions
Ongoing projects:
- To seek self: the child's place in the migration literature
- Parenting Across Cultures
- The father - child relationship: A longitudinal study over 33 years
- Children's participation in the family (PhD project)
- Children's responses to periodic parental unemployment and economic adversity
- Adolescent risk behavior and communication with parents(PhD project)
- The workintegrated learning of social workers when implementing evidence-based family support (PhD project)
- Children growing up with economic disadvantage: Children and parents' experiences of receiving economic support from a charitable foundation
- Bygga broar till något nytt - om tvärprofessionell samverkan i skolan för att stödja ungas livsval (PhD project)
- Unga människors tankar kring den egen identitet och egna livsvillkor samt klass som social kategori.
- Ensamkommande barn och ungas copingstrategier (PhD project)
- Trade Union Support for Fathers' Use of Work-Family Benefits
Finished projects:
- Unga människors beslutsfattande i det dagliga livet
- Föräldrars insyn och inflytande på ungdomars Internetanvändande
- Självdefinierade kontexter i barns och ungdomars vardag
- Unga föräldrar - idag och igår
- Ungdomars sexuella utveckling i traditionella och nya vardagsmiljöer
- Föräldraskap och barnuppfostran: Attityder, attributioner och agency (PhD project)
- När många vill hjälpa till – barns upplevelse av sociala barnavården
- Unga människor med funktionsnedsättningar i gränslandet mellan barn och vuxenliv (PhD project)
- Homelessness and Belonging in Siobhán Parkinson’s Young Adult Novel Breaking the Wishbone (Belysande av hemlöshet och dess orsaker bland unga vuxna i Irland.)
- Mixed-up mess of a botched family’: Re-Locating ‘the Family’ in Siobhán Parkinson’s
- Young Adult Novels Sisters… No Way! and Bruised (ifrågasättande av vad ’familjen’ innebär i dessa ungdomsromaner)
Learning, education and culture
Ongoing projects:
- Motivational Teaching In Swedish Secondary English (MoTISSE)
- Location, place, and space in religious education
- Survey on how pupils with refugee-background are received in Swedish compulsory schools
- Teacher students' positioning in, opinions about and feelings towards teacher education. A longitudinal study on students' languaging.
- Lärarkunskaper och läraridentiteter i den nya lärarutbildningen
- Högre utbildning för personer med intellektuella funktionsnedsättningar
- Child2ling
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Teaching and communication in the training school – a cooperative project
Finished projects:
- The Contradictory Features of Assessment Activities. An Ethnographic Study on Assessment Activities in a Preschool Context in Sweden. (PhD project)
- Individuella utvecklingsplaner i grundskolan
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Läsning och kroppsligt meningsskapande - Religious education in contemporary pluralistic Sweden (PhD project)
- IUP med skriftliga omdömen – elevers delaktighet, agens och identitetsskapande
- Men, masculinities and teaching in early childhood education: international perspectives on gender and care
- Bedömning i förskolekontext: Kulturell och social reproduktion (PhD project)
Leisure, peer relations and health
Ongoing projects:
- Particip@tion on internet? Pupils with intellectual disabilities and identification processes on internet.
- Young people with intellectual disabilities, identity and social media (PhD project)
- Diabetes i ungdomars vardag
- Adherence to pharmacological therapy in adolescents with ADHD and asthma
- Critical perspectives on non-critical “ADHD” diagnostics of children and young people
- Narratives as natural resources in mental health care
- Critical events, values and national identity
- Young people's decision-making in their every-day life
- SMYR - Social Media and Youth Research
- Risktagande bland ungdomar i en existentiell och genusordnad värld
Finished projects:
- Identifikationer och tillhörighet hos unga romska kvinnor
- Gymnasieungdomar och livstolkning
- Samarbete mellan skola och socialtjänst kring barn i behov av stöd
- Förebyggande av våld i relationer mellan ungdomar
- Samarbete kring socialt utsatta barn och ungdomar
- Barns och ungas rätt till hälsosamma relationer