Department of Social and Welfare Studies (ISV)

ISV encompasses a range of operations focusing on social and welfare issues. From these perspectives we study various life phenomena and challenges.

Currently we have over 230 employees, distributed in seven divisions and three faculties. Teaching and research account for equal proportions of our activities, percentage-wise. The number of full-year students at the undergraduate and graduate levels is approximately 1,400, and the number of doctoral students approximately 70. Our operations are located on Campus Norrköping.

Our teaching and research focus on man and society. For us it is the interaction between teaching, research and the surrounding community that sets the tone.

Department management

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Divisions

Arbetsterapeutstudenter undersöker en modell av en skalle / Occupational therapy students examining a model of a skull

Division of Occupational Therapy

The Division of Occupational Therapy carries on education and research in occupational therapy. Research is focused on disabilities in everyday life and comprises children and young people, adults and the oldest old.

Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society

REMESO pursues research and education on transnational migration, ethnic diversity and citizenship in relation to changes in labour and welfare. The Institute has a PhD programme, a Graduate School and MA and BA programmes.

Learning, Aesthetics, Natural Science

LEN (Learning, Aesthetics, Natural Science) is the Division at ISV engaged in education and research within The Faculty of Educational Sciences at Linköping University, Campus Norrköping.

Sjuksköterska och patient i samtal / Nurse and patient in conversation

Division of Nursing Science

The Division of Nursing Science (OMV/ISV) carries on education and research in nursing science. Research is mainly focused on heart disease, self-care, migration and health.

Division Social work

The Division of Social work carries on education and research in social work. The research is focused on people's lives and experiences, origins and consequences of social problems and social work practice.

Division Ageing and Social Change

ASC conducts research on key social, political and cultural issues of ageing. While providing basic and advanced academic training within these fields, ASC also contributes to the proliferation of knowledge about ageing within society.

News

COST Training School at Campus Norrköping

The Division Ageing and Social Change (ASC) at the Department of Social and Welfare Studies (ISV) will hold the international COST Training School ‘Theory and Methods in Research on Ageism and Age-discrimination’.

Master’s students graduate in ethnicity and migration

Linköping University started an international master’s programme in ethnicity and migration two years ago. The first intake of students has now completed the programme, and will graduate in June.

Migration to Norrköping the focus of student report

Sports and culture – how can they facilitate integration? These are some of the questions investigated by master’s students from Linköping University in the report “Norrköping- City of Immigration”.

Good marks for teacher training programme

The Swedish Higher Education Authority has completed a pilot assessment of teacher training programmes for pre- and primary school levels. The LiU programme that was assessed received the grade “High quality”.

Labour market professor on Asian tour

Brexit – hard or soft? In Asia there is a huge demand for information on how Brexit will affect relations with Britain. LiU’s Charles Woolfson has set out on a tour of Asia to disseminate his research on the topic.

Stay put or move? Older people and the housing market

The population of Sweden is becoming older. If suitable housing is to be available in the future for everyone, towns must ensure an adequate supply of good housing in which we can grow older.