Social Change, Learning and Social Relations (SLSR)
The aim of the alliance is to make it possible for teachers doing research to meet on a formal and informal basis and to take part in cross disciplinary and innovative research.
The common goal for SLSR is to investigate and create knowledge relating to the way conditions for social relations and learning have changed in late modernity. The traditional questions of sociology and pedagogy have to be problematized and developed to enable the pursuit of new study types of social relations and learning within the global network society. Gender relations and multicultural aspects are given specific importance. Through the SLSR network members have approached this area of research using a multi-disciplinary and innovative strategy.
Within the network three research groups have been established. These are:
The Social Organisation of Participation (DSO) research group
The aim of this group is to study processes of inclusion and exclusion from both a structural, organisational and individual perspective. The goal is to formulate an adequate scientific vocabulary and create understanding about both enforced and voluntary social exclusion. Social inclusion and exclusion will be studied in different arenas such as working life, the labour market, leisure, family life, social welfare and schools.
Director: Åke Nilsén
The Learning and Educational Relations (SOLUR) research group
The aim of this group is to pursue national and internationally important and useful research about social and educational relations, encompassing teaching and learning in higher education. The research is characterized by a cross-disciplinary approach involving different academic disciplines and perspectives, and the experiences and demands of those who are active within the social practice of higher education. One of the most important goals is to formulate and shed light on questions brought up by the rapid changes seen in the planning, implementing and evaluation of activities within higher education. Director: Anders Nelson
Well-being, Social Relations and Learning
This is a research group consisting of social psychologists and pedagogues that has been formed around the area of well being, which means to in a broad perspective study how well being is constituted as a significant object in Western Culture, and how individuals through socialization learn to understand well being differently through relating to different groups. This topic is directly related to one of of the profile areas of the University collegeofHalmstad. A common theoretical base is a social relational perspective. The first task we have agreed on is to make an anthology about the social psychology of well being. The members of the group are Martin Berg, Eva Flodin, Christopher Kindblad, Anna Ryding, Henrik Stenberg, Bengt Tjellander and Niklas Westberg.Contact person is Christopher Kindblad.
Doctoral students within the unit have formed an informal group.
Coordinator: Boel Larsson
The research network is led by a working group consisting of representatives from the three research groups and the doctoral students.
This is led by Associate professor Marta Cuesta.
Docent Marta Cuesta SLSR
