Division of Education and Sociology (APS)

Work life brings both challenges and personal satisfaction to people. At the Division of Education and Sociology we educate tomorrow’s HR consultants and students who will be able to take on future challenges of work life, through their deep knowledge in Pedagogy and Sociology. Research in the division contributes to knowledge about conditions and prerequisites for a sustainable work life, which include areas such as learning, innovation, leadership, gender equality, working conditions and health.

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Research

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Digital welfare technology and the transformation of care work

This project examines how care workers' practical use of digital welfare technology in elderly care can be better supported by managers and organized more efficiently.

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GROWL: Greening of Working Life

To meet climate goals, the world of work must undergo a transformation. The GROWL research group focuses on the people, organizations, and policies involved in the green transition of working life.

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Leadership in hybrid work

An increasingly large part of the work in the future will likely take place remotely with the support of digital tools. The project studies the challenges hybrid work creates for leadership concerning employee well-being and work performance.

Publications

2025

Ellinor Tengelin, Lisa Bjork, Linda Corin, Gunnel Hensing, Carin Staland-Nyman, Christian Ståhl, Monica Bertilsson (2025) Managers' Use of Organizational Resources when Supporting Employees with Common Mental Disorders: A Swedish Qualitative Study Journal of occupational rehabilitation (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Minna Salminen-Karlsson, Anna Fogelberg Eriksson (2025) Towards Pay Equity: An exploratory study of national wage statistics in the Nordic countries
Minna Salminen-Karlsson, Anna Fogelberg Eriksson (2025) Vägar till lika lön för likvärdigt arbete: En explorativ studie av nationell lönestatistik i Norden
Tina Lidström (2025) Re-shaping Teacher Professionalism Through Discursive Interaction: On Tensions Around the Idea of Teacher Assistants in Educational Reform
Christian Ståhl (2025) On the possibility of morphocide: can fossil capitalism be dismantled? Journal of Critical Realism (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Stefan Tengblad, Hasantha Dassanaike, Anuradha Iddagoda, Mahvish Kanwal Khaskhely, Jonathan Omolo, Andreas Wallo (2025) Implementing policies for decent work and economic growth: The role of sustainable human resources management Achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal 8: Economic Growth and Decent Work For All, p. 55-73 (Chapter in book) Continue to DOI
Andreas Fejes, Per Andersson, Johanna Köpsén, Mattias Nylund (2025) Adult education and teachers' work under a market code Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Maria Gustavsson, Ann-Charlotte Bivall (2025) The challenges clinical supervisors experience when supervising students in the workplace Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, Vol. 15, p. 127-138 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Cecilia Enberg, Anders Jidesjö, Ola Leifler, Donatella Puglisi (2025) Case Study Three: Challenge-Based Learning for Sustainability Education A Practical Guide to Understanding and Implementing Challenge-Based Learning, p. 131-139 (Chapter in book)
Ann-Charlotte Münger, Laura Korhonen (2025) Elever som utsätts för våld Medicinsk elevhälsa för rektorer, lärare och elevhälsoteam, p. 231-243 (Chapter in book)
Jason Martin, Per-Erik Ellström, Andreas Wallo, Mattias Elg (2025) Bridging the policy-practice gap: a dual challenge of organizational learning Learning Organization (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Karin Wastesson, Anna Fogelberg Eriksson, Maria Gustavsson (2025) First-line managers experience of their role and gender in elderly care Studies in Continuing Education, Vol. 47, p. 51-67 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Kajsa-Stina Benulic, Cecilia Enberg, Anna Ljung, Victoria Wibeck (2025) Why firms do not expect climate policies to have the intended effects - positioning in a polycentric governance landscape Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol. 68, p. 1148-1164 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2024

Anna-Carin Fagerlind Ståhl, Christian Ståhl (2024) Normbrytarnas roll i framtidens historia Arbetets och försörjningens utmarker, p. 233-249 (Chapter in book)
Viktor Vesterberg (2024) Book Review: Transforming subjectivities. Studies in human malleability in contemporary times in SOCIOLOGISK FORSKNING, vol 61, issue 3-4, pp 426-429 Sociologisk forskning, Vol. 61, p. 426-429 (Article, book review) Continue to DOI
Christian Ståhl (2024) Resonance and reflexivity as pathways to eudaimonia in the Anthropocene? European Journal of Social Theory (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Johanna Finnholm, Andreas Wallo, Karin Allard, Stefan Tengblad (2024) Reconceptualizing HR change agency: introducing a framework and propositions for future research Personnel review (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Diana Holmqvist, Filippa Millenberg (2024) Carving space to learn for sustainable futures: A theory- informed adult education approach to teaching European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, Vol. 15, p. 299-315 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Per Andersson, Song-ee Ahn, Johanna Köpsén (2024) Editorial: Spring 2024 Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training, Vol. 14, p. iii-v (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Clara Iversen, Marcus Persson, David Redmalm (2024) Playful framings of social robots in dementia care: reconsidering the principle of transparency in interactions with robot animals Ageing & Society (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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