We’re happy to share new research co-authored by one of our colleagues: How do Europeans want to fight climate change? Comparing and explaining public support for a wide variety of policies. By @mfair.bsky.social and @joakimkulin.bsky.social, and Ingemar Johansson 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S014...

🔔We are happy to share a new article about care workers: Robot dilemmas: Deception and digital emotional labor in dementia care work @davidredmalm.bsky.social @claraiversen.bsky.social 👉 tidsskrift.dk/njwls/articl... #CareWork #Sociologyresearch #AcademicResearch

📢 Call for Papers! Our colleagues at REMESO – the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society – will host the LiU 50 Years Conference: Migration in an Era of Crises. 🗓 6 November 2025 📍 Linköping University, Campus Norrköping 🔗 Full program: liu.se/en/event/mig...

Interesting online seminar hosted by the Institute for Analytical Sociology, "The Shadow Side of Rootedness: How Geographic Stability Across Generations Increases Radical-Right Attitudes" 👤 Andreas Wimmer, Columbia University 🗓 Thu 2 Oct, 14:30 CET📍https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/69925595285

🔔We’re happy to share new research from our department Impersonal Intimacy: A Situational Approach 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0803... #Sociology #Research #Emotions #AcademicPublishing

🎓 Reminder of doctoral thesis defense at our department: Hannes Landén. 🗓 Fri 19 Sept 2025, 14:15–16:00 📍 University Main Building, Room X Organised by the Department of Sociology. #ThesisDefense #UppsalaUniversity #Sociology

📖We are happy to share a new book: Constructing Objectivity: Emotions in Legal Decision-making 👉 uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di... Exploring emotions in legal decision-making and the sociology of emotions #Sociology #Emotions #AcademicResearch uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

📚 Reminder: Today, we host the book launch of Rational Anger – An International Comparison between Legal Systems, arranged with the Higher seminar series in Sociology. 🗓 Wed 10 Sept, 15:30–17:00 📍 Room 22-0025, Uppsala University #BookLaunch #Sociology #UppsalaUniversity

Read Cecilia Nordquist's full thesis here 👉 uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di... #Disputation #Sociology #UppsalaUniversity

📢 Disputation at our department: Cecilia Nordquist defends her thesis “The Weight of the Bargain: Investigating Prosecutors' Emotions in Plea Bargaining Interaction in a United States Court” 🗓 12 Sept 2025, 13:15–15:00-📍 Humanistiska teatern, Engelska parken #Disputation #SociologyOfEmotions

📢 The Center for Gender Studies will host the following seminar: Making violence invisible and blaming women in sexual crime convictions. 🗓 September 10, 2025, 14:15–16:00 📍 Center for Gender Studies, Room 12:07 (KWB) 👩‍🏫 Lecturer: Sofia Orrbén #GenderStudies #UppsalaUniversity #ResearchSeminar

🚨New article out: Attitudes towards childbearing, population, and the environment in Sweden. The article examines the connection between climate change worry and fertility outcomes 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New editorial out: Constructing objectivity: emotions in legal decision-making. Read it here 👉 www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc... #LegalStudies #SociologyofEmotions #Sociology #Research

📝 Ahead of Wednesday’s book launch, don’t miss this blog post by Nina Törnqvist: “Time and Time Again: The Role of Time and Timing in Access Negotiation” 🔗 www.in-court.org/blog/2025070... #Sociology #Research #LegalSociology #UppsalaUniversity

📚 Warm welcome to the book launch of Rational Anger – An International Comparison between Legal Systems. 🗓 Wednesday 10 Sept, 15:30–17:00📍 Room 22-0025, Dept. of Sociology, Uppsala University. 🔗 doi.org/10.4324/9781...

📢 Doctoral Thesis Defense Sociology Department: Cecilia Nordquist defends her dissertation, “The Weight of the Bargain: Investigating Prosecutors' Emotions in Plea Bargaining. 🗓 12 Sept 2025, 13:15–15:00 📍English Park, Humanities Theatre. uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

We are pleased to share a new publication: Occupational Earning Potential: A New Measure of Social Hierarchy in Europe and the US.' The study introduces Occupational Earnings Potential (OEP), a simple measure of economic advantage across occupations. 🔗 academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

We’re excited to share new research from our department using large-scale social network analysis. Read here: Anatomy of a Swedish population-scale network osf.io/preprints/so...

We’re happy to share more research from our department: “Navigating Constraints: Activist Strategies in the Vietnamese LGBT Movement” Published in TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 📖 Read more here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We're happy to share a new research article co-produced by Miia Bask from our department. "Participation of Children in the Process of Matching With Foster Families": onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #sociology #NewPublication #AcademicResearch #ChildAndFamilyStudies

🎓 One of our PhD students is preparing to defend her thesis next semester! Today, we want to share her research on the sociology of emotions: 🔗 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1... #AcademicResearch #EmotionsInSociology #Sociologyresearch

📢 We’re happy to share a new opportunity in our department! Check out the details and apply here: 🔗 www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-... #JobOpening #UppsalaUniversity #AcademicJobs

📊 Research on Gender Gaps in Sickness Benefits in Sweden (1994–2018): A recent study using administrative data over three decades reveals persistent gender disparities in the withdrawal of sickness benefits in Sweden. 🔍 Read the full article: doi.org/10.1371/jour... #PublicHealth #AcademicResearch

🚨Research from our department exploring the relationship between postpartum depression and social status #sociologyresearch #sociologyandinequality www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Commentary on ageing and migration by Prof. Sandra Torres, part of the Welfare Research Group in our department. 🔍 Read here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🔗 About the research group: www.uu.se/en/departmen... #Ageing #Sociology

🌍 Research from our department by Professor @mfair.bsky.social exploring global attitudes & behaviours around climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ClimateChange #Sociology #EnvironmentalResearch

📘 We are happy to share the Editorial from Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs written by ‪@matildahellman.bsky.social‬ journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1... Key theme: shifts and continuities in Nordic alcohol and drug research.

🔔Research from our Sociology Department: Youth Civic Engagement in Vietnam: Envisioning Social Change Through Everyday Actions. edizionicafoscari.it//it/edizioni... #Sociology #YouthEngagement

🔔Our colleagues at the Centre for Gender Research will host the seminar: “Show Yourself” – queer Sámi sensibilities in contemporary cinema, with Kata Kyrölä (UCL & University of Turku). www.uu.se/en/centre/ge...

📣 We are pleased to share a new publication from our department: "Why Zoom Hurts: A Cultural Sociological Approach" Maria Törnqvist (Uppsala University) & Magdalena Kania Lundholm (Dalarna University) Published in Culture Unbound Available online: cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view...

📢 We are pleased to invite you to the next session in the Higher Seminar series, "The Current Situation in Sociology." Date: Monday, May 26 Time: 14:00 Location: Room 2-1025 Title: A Retrospective Smorgasbord and Neurath’s Boat Speaker: Professor Peter Sohlberg www.uu.se/en/contact-a...

🔔Our department is pleased to share new research in environmental sociology by Professor @mfair.bsky.social His article, “Does climate change explain declining public trust in science? Evidence from panel data” 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🔔Reminder: tomorrow’s seminar with @manuelaboatca.bsky.social focuses on how Roma people have been excluded from Europe’s historical narratives of racism and enslavement, and how Europe's politics of memory remain incomplete without recognizing anti-Roma racism and the history of Romani enslavement

🔔Sharing research from our colleague Mia Bask: Matching the general or the specific child with a foster home? explores how Swedish social workers make decisions in foster care placements without clear guidelines and what knowledge they assess. #SocialWork 🔗 academic.oup.com/bjsw/article...

Happy to share our PhD students' work: The Politics of Platform Folklore: Emotion, Identity, and Sense-Making in Far-Right Populist Twitter Communities. Read the article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #digitalsociology#sociology#newresearch

We’re happy to host @manuelaboatca.bsky.social on May 7 She’ll speak on how Romani histories are erased from Europe’s memory, examining anti-Roma racism and the legacies of enslavement through Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s concept of "unthinkable history." #AcademicTalks uni-freiburg.de/frias/prof-d...

Our Department is happy to invite you to our Higher Seminar tomorrow afternoon! 🗓: 23 April 2025 🕒: 15:30–17:00 English Park, Room 2-1025 🎙 Professor Maria Krysan (University of Chicago) Title: "Don't Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It" #Sociology #AcademicEvents#SegregationStudies

We share an editorial by our colleague Alinia Minoo: Mobility, Power, and the (Re)production of Inequality and Injustice 🔗 www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc... #Sociology #MigrationStudies #SocialJustice #Inequality

New editorial coauthored by our professor @sbblix.bsky.social : "Sociology of Emotion and Affect in the Age of Mis-, Dis-, and Mal-Information" Read the entire text here 👉 www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc... #Sociologyofemotions

New from our department! Rational Anger: Emotions and the Power of Critique explores the rationales behind legal anger, its logic, and its origins. This book builds on judges' and prosecutors' perspectives. 📘Open Access www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon... #SociologyEmotions #BehavioralSciences

📚 Seminar Reminder: Today our department will host a seminar on Economic Sociology: Foundations, Developments, and Challenges ⏰ Time: 13:15–17:00📍 Location: Engelska Park, Room 2-1024 🎤 Lecturer: Professor Andrea Maurer

Our colleagues at the Centre for Gender Research are hosting the seminar "Leaking milk, and falling hair: Embodied experiences and technological remakings of becoming a mother to a dead child" 9 April 2025-14:15–16 Room 12:07 Speaker: @stinewadrian.bsky.social uit.no/ansatte/stin...

📢 Next Wednesday: Prof. Andrea Maurer (Uni Trier) joins the Higher Seminar at our sociology dept. Topic: Economic Sociology: Foundations, Developments, and Challenges Explore her work: ttps://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-61619-9 #sociology #econSoc #seminar #academicEvents

📢 Our college @matildahellman.bsky.social has recently published two timely pieces on the challenges facing science under the second Trump administration: a call to resist anti-science policy and an editorial on DEI in research. 🧪 doi.org/10.1177/1455... 🌍 doi.org/10.1177/1455...

📢 Higher Seminar on the Situation of Sociology: Join us Monday, March 31 at 14:00 in room 2-1023 (Sociology department UU) for a two-part seminar: a discussion and a presentation led by Peter Sohlberg and Mats Franzén. #Sociology #AcademicEvents

🎓PhD student Kalkidan Yohannes will defend her dissertation: The dynamics of women’s homelessness in Ethiopia 📅 Thursday 27 March 🕘 09:15 AM 📍 University Main Building, Room IV, Biskopsgatan 3 🔗 Or Zoom: uu-se.zoom.us/j/67261182045 uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record... #Urbansociology #Academicevents

We're excited to invite you to the opening of the exhibition “Sleepless Nights Are a Daily Reality for Us” A Photovoice Study with Homeless Women in Addis Ababa.📍 Gottsunda Centrum Kulturhus. 🕔 From March 24 at 5 PM till March 30. Project: www.uu.se/centrum/womh... #sociologyandhealth #research.

The Department of Human Geography, in collaboration with IBF and our department, is hosting Maria Krysan, LAS Distinguished Professor in Sociology at the University of Illinois, Chicago, as a visiting research fellow this spring! Don’t miss her guest Lecture: April 10, 15:15–16:30 -Ekonomikum B115.

We’re excited to share a recent study [email protected], @jlucastilley.bsky.social ,@ylvamoberg.bsky.social, von Essen, and Burn offering a detailed sociodemographic overview of the Swedish transgender population 🔗: read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a... #Sociologyresearch #Demography

Special talk tomorrow: Francesca Ru, one of our PhD students, will share part of her research on urban markets. Topic: "An Urban Marketplace Under Pressure: The Steady Gentrification Process of Porta Palazzo (Turin) 📅 March 18th, 13:15-14:45 🔗 uu-se.zoom.us/j/61244674512 #Urbansociology