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Research program: Young people´s education, career development and welfare. The program concerns young people
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Research program: Young people´s education, career development and welfare The program concerns young people in school and in transition from school to work, young people´s welfare and career development at individual, institutional och political level, adopting class, gender and ethnicity perspectives. International comparisons are central. .
Research program Young people´s education, career development and welfare • - connects educational, welfare and youth research, which especially in Sweden and also often internationally constitute separate research fields, in need of increased integration. • includes research on transitions between school, higher education & work, and career guidance – an a research area which is neglected to a high extent in Sweden.
Research program Young people´s education, career development and welfare: Ongoing projects The Individual - Pathways and Choices. Career choices and counselling in social, multi-cultural and gender perspectives (the Swedish Research Council 2005-2008).Prof. Lisbeth Lundahl National research network Career choice and counselling (the Swedish Research Council 2006-2008). Prof. Lisbeth Lundahl Active citizenship? On democracy education in upper-secondary school (the Swedish Research Council 2007-2009).Prof. Elisabet Öhrn Upper secondary-education as a market (the Swedish Research Council 2008-2010).Prof. Lisbeth Lundahl Gender and Career in the Academy (the Swedish Research Council2009-2012). Prof. Elisabet Öhrn Young people´s life habits and health – a school-based welfare study. Part I:Norm compliance, living habits and health (2008-2010, Swedish Council for Working-life and Social Research). Prof. Lennart Nygren The national school inspection (Post doc-project funded by the Swedish Research Council2008-2012). Dr. Linda Rönnberg The Significance of Time for Learning (post doc project 2009-2014). Dr. Mikaela Nyroos
Research program: Young people´s education, career development and welfare headed by prof. Lisbeth Lundahl, BUSV, includes 19 faculty: three professors, two associate professors, seven senior researchers and seven PhD students
Research program: Young people´s education, career development and welfare International collaboration (projects, research applications, publishing) Researchers at University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada Hamburg University, Germany University of Edinburgh, Scotland Hitotsubashi University,Tokyo, Japan University of South Australia Helsinki university, Finland University of Østfold, Norway
Research program: Young people´s education, career development and welfare Research networks … headed by researchers of the program National research network Career Development and Career Guidance Nordic Research Network: Critical Perspectives on Young People, Welfare and Education (NordCrit) … which program researchers participate in Policy Studies and Politics of Education (EERA) Nordic Education Policy Network (NERA) National Education Policy network .
Research program: Young people´s education, career development and welfare • Preliminary plans 2009-2010 • New project applications • Career development, Health and welfare of young people • NordCrit-symposium (ECER) Vienna 2009 • Svedish and international book publication from the project The Individual - Pathways and Choices, • International book publication from the project Active citizenship? On democracy education in upper-secondary school • Recruitment of professor and associate professor • Intensified international exchange
Research program: Young people´s education, career development and welfare Homepage: http://www.busv.umu.se/forskning/fungas.html .