Collaboration with researchers
Researchers in social sciences can be hired for commissioned training, as well as for research projects and studies of various problems and issues. They also participate in several of the University's ongoing initiatives.
Thematic collaboration initiatives
Lund University's thematic initiatives provide meeting places for knowledge and development in specified areas. Social science researchers participate in several of the university's ongoing initiatives.
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Contract research
Social science researchers can be hired by authorities, organisations and companies for research projects and studies of various problems and issues. This can range from short-term projects or studies to projects or studies that extend over several years.
Our research areas are organised in a number of different departments. If you are interested in hiring a researcher, please contact the relevant department based on the area you are interested in.
Contact details for departments at the Faculty of Social Sciences
Professional education
Lund University offers courses aimed at professionals in companies, authorities and organisations and are offered in both Sweden and the rest of the world.
We offer both tailor-made courses and already packaged courses.
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Four researchers tell their stories
Four of our researchers tell us about their experiences on interacting with the surrounding society.
Hervé Corvellec on “flipped applications”:
– I have been involved a couple of times in something I call “flipped applications”, which is when a company, organisation or public authority is the main applicant and I am a co-applicant as a researcher. A particularly successful example of this was together with a company that rented signs instead of selling them.
– We had a mutual trust and I got a unique opportunity to sit as an embedded observer at project meetings and meetings with the reference customers. This allowed the research to be based more on observation and not just interviews. For its part, the company gained some of my expertise on the circular economy, and I know they took on board that knowledge.
Hervé Corvellec is professor of business administration at the Department of Service Studies, where he is an expert in the circular economy, among other areas.
Rebecca Selberg on collaboration with healthcare:
– I have worked with the intensive care units (ICUs) in Malmö and Lund on issues surrounding action strategies at work, in which I used Hirschman's Exit-Voice-Loyalty model as a way to initiate discussions on how we behave at work when feeling dissatisfied with something or seeing a need for change. I have also worked with the ICUs on issues of interprofessional teamwork, for example ethics.
- My collaboration resulted, among other things, in a competence development project for nursing staff, where nurses and assistant nurses work together and self-organise to promote nursing research. The collaboration has also led to several projects to follow up on lessons learnt from the pandemic.
Rebecca Selberg is senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology. Her research areas primarily involve working life, inequality and social change, new public management and the public sector. Rebecca has also been a Flexit researcher* in collaboration with SUS. In that collaboration, she continued her work within ICU, including evaluating the work efforts around covid care.
Erik Hannerz on collaboration surrounding young people's involvement in urban development of the harbour promenade in Simrishamn:
– Sydväst first contacted me prior to their work in Simrishamn about a very simple question relating to young people's use of public spaces, and this grew into a discussion about organising and motivating young people and led to my involvement in the project.
– A direct result of my participation was the inclusion of the association Streetcorner, which works with young people and creativity, often in socially marginalised areas. They built on our ideas, arranged workshops and helped to decorate the seating furniture designed for the project. This meant that a number of young people were involved as an active part of the project and were made to feel that they could influence their local environment and that their decorations became part of their city.
Erik Hannerz is a senior lecturer in sociology who researches issues related to identity, style, authenticity and creativity in relation to urban environments.
Katja Lindqvist on collaboration with Region Skåne:
– I have collaborated with municipalities and public authorities throughout my years as a researcher, but in recent years I have mainly developed my collaboration with Region Skåne's cultural administration.
– My recurring collaboration with Region Skåne's cultural administration has led to a more in-depth collaboration over the years. For example, I have been able to provide better contacts between Lund University and the cultural administration for initiatives concerning cultural collaboration – something that has become an area for development at the University in recent years.
Katja Lindqvist is an associate professor at the Department of Service Studies who researches into organisation and financing in the cultural sector. Katja has also been a Flexit researcher* focusing on regional investments in cultural and creative industries, through which she collaborates with Region Skåne's cultural administration.
* Flexit is a programme that is funded by the Riksbanken Jubileumsfond. A Flexit researcher works for a longer period within another organisation.