Research Groups
Childhood, Youth and Family Life
The research group on Childhood, Youth and Family Life is currently conducting several kinds of interdisciplinary research projects about the everyday life of children and young people across institutions and families. These research endeavors aim to uncover the consequences of ongoing modernization for children and young people as well as for institutions and family life.
Working Life and Learning (FORALL)
The research group combines an interest in learning in the working life with an interest in lifelong learning. We carry out research in the developmental conditions and course of development of the working life, such as possibilities and conditions for learning in the working life. “Work” is of great importance, not just for the individual human being. As a collective practice in relation to changes on an institutional and societal level it makes a difference. In our research into learning our focus is on subjective perspectives on lifelong learning to signal that this kind of research cannot capture the complexities of its object, if the question of competency development is reduced to an adaptation to external demands.
Gender, Body and Everyday Life
Gender is a category, which in every culture is utilized to define the framework for the individual’s actions. The meaning of gender can vary over time and across cultures; the category, however, always makes a difference. Therefore the research group has put particular focus on gender across the different fields of research. We wish to explore the meaning of gender in and through different contexts, thereby to develop understandings of the meanings of the gender across various fields of research and from different theoretical perspectives.
The research group develop and share knowledge on social innovation processes, learning and competency development, and innovative management styles. The perspective is interdisciplinary and in part draws on psychological, pedagogical, and sociological perspectives, while also drawing on barrier-breaking knowledge, which applies to the areas we study.
Subject, Technology and Social Practice
The research group focuses on investigations of human beings’ subjectivity, experiences, and activites in their everyday life across different contexts. In connection with the plurality of contexts that people are a part of in conjunction with others, technologies are pivotal for coordination, sociality, and subjectivity. Through the investigation of the social arrangements of human practice (such as e.g. at a work place, children’s institution, a health practice), the research endeavors to highlight connections between problems, perspecives, and technologies of everyday life – and also to analyze the ways in which these connections influence the way human subjects understand each other and act together.
The research group creates knowledge about strategies, efforts and processes, which inhibit or promote human health.
The research group for health promotion is organized as an independent and interdisciplinary research team.