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 220 employees, distributed in seven divisions and four 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.

Management

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ingrid.hellstrom@liu.se

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Central office ISV

Kåkenhus Building, House 1, Floor 5, Kungsgatan 40

Campus Norrköping

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.

Staff

Marianne Abramsson

Senior Lecturer

Nicklas Adamsson

Senior Coordinator

Sara Ahlstedt

Assistant Lecturer

Anders Albinsson

Assistant Lecturer

Kristin Alfredsson Ågren

Assistant Lecturer

Anita Andersson

Senior Lecturer

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’.

Adults rarely stand up against domestic violence

Children who speak about domestic violence are met with a variety of reactions from adults who are close to them. They can get support and practical assistance, but the adults rarely take a stand and report what has happened.

Queer life-courses: Living and ageing as an lhbtq-identified person

A thesis describes life-courses of some elderly lhbtq-identified people. Several are worried about the future: how will they be met by the elderly care system.

Cloudy skies on the Costa del Sol

Homelessness, ill health and the fear of dying in a foreign country. These are elements in the narratives of Swedish pensioners who have emigrated to Spain. Anna Gavanas book describes them as actors in a debate about migration and integration.

American award to LiU professor

Tiny Jaarsma, professor in caring sciences at the Department of Social and Welfare Studies has received a Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Heart association, AHA.

Success for the new international master’s programme

Ethnic and Migration Studies at REMESO (The Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society) is the Faculty of Arts and Science’s first international master’s programme in Norrköping.