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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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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WATCH: Workplace Analytic Tools and Co-workers’ Health

How are digital tools used to gather information about employees in the workplace? And what are the consequences of such use? These are central questions for the research project WATCH.

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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.

Publications

2025

Johan Andersson, Hongru Zhai, Reeta Kankaanpää, Carolina Bråhn, Erica Mattelin, Kirsi Peltonen, Ann-Charlotte Münger, Laura Korhonen (2025) Latent Profile Analysis of Mental Health Among Children and Young Adults With Refugee Backgrounds JAACAP Open (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Andreas Wallo, Cathrine Reineholm, Daniel Lundqvist, Helene Öhman (2025) Exploring leadership for workplace learning in hybrid work settings
Mattias Nylund, Per Andersson, Andreas Fejes, Johanna Köpsén (2025) Teachers transformation of curricula in Swedish adult education and its implications for the purpose of education Journal of Curriculum Studies (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Marcus Persson, Clara Iversen, David Redmalm (2025) Robot animals and the emotional labor of caregivers How that robot made me feel, p. 107-125 (Chapter in book) Continue to DOI
Olof Hjelm, Agneta Halvarsson Lundqvist, Jörgen Eklund, Marianna Lena Kambanou, Eleftherios Spyrou (2025) Grön omställning i svenska små och medelstora industriföretag: Åtta strategier för ett verkningsfullt stödsystem
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, Vol. 24, p. 21-36 (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

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