Agnes Andersson, Dean
Which of the faculty management’s areas will you be responsible for?
To keep the whole together, with a focus on the faculty's major issues during the coming period – campus development, the organisational project and internationalisation. I will also be responsible for certain specific areas such as gender equality and equal opportunities, skills supply and ethics. In relation to the university, my role will be to highlight the social science perspectives in different contexts.
What are you looking forward to in your new assignment?
To contribute, together with the department managements, to the promotion of the creative and high-quality research and education conducted by the departments. To further develop collaboration contacts regionally and locally, a continued good dialogue with the student union and to encourage collaborations across faculty boundaries.
You will not be working as a dean full-time - what does the rest of your position consist of?
I am leading a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council with a focus on urbanization in Africa, with a team of researchers in Uganda, Tanzania and Ghana. I also participate as a researcher in a couple of projects on poverty, agriculture and image analysis based on satellite data in sub-Saharan Africa, under the leadership of my colleague Ola Hall. Together, I expect them to fill the time I don't spend on my assignment as dean.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Hanging out with my partner David and my daughters, preferably combined with cooking, traveling and outdoor life.
Björn Badersten, Deputy Dean
Which of the faculty management’s areas will you be responsible for?
I will be responsible for educational issues.
What are you looking forward to in your new assignment?
To gain a more comprehensive faculty and university perspective on education and research, and to collaborate with the faculty's many talented teachers and administrators.
What do you work with in addition to your role as Deputy Dean?
I look forward to being able to return a little to my research on ethics, aesthetics and politics after many years as Head of Department at the Department of Political Science.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Playing tennis, skiing, sailing and hiking. I have a continuing hiking and climbing project - "high mountains on islands"!
Åsa Lundqvist, Vice Dean
Which of the faculty management’s areas will you be responsible for?
I will be responsible for research and doctoral studies.
What are you looking forward to in your new assignment?
Doctoral studies have always been close to my heart. Doctoral students are our future and those who could further develop, and perhaps also question, previous analyses and approaches. I look forward to working with both doctoral students and supervisors in my new role. I am also very much looking forward to learning more about the faculty's and the university's researchers and research. In this way, I hope to continue working in the same spirit as my predecessor, i.e. to represent the social sciences at the university in the best possible way and also to make it easier for colleagues to continue to conduct and develop their research, within, between and beyond our departments.
What do you work with in addition to your role as Vice Dean?
During this first year, in addition to my assignment as vice dean, I am also the director of the faculty's new method centre. And I'm writing my next book, "Rethinking Families and Society", in which I try to connect different perspectives in family sociology in order to investigate whether we can actually learn something new. I also have the privilege of supervising doctoral students, which I will of course continue to do.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
I like to spend time with loved ones, and to read (almost) all kinds of prose.
Charlotte Simonsson, Vice Dean
Which of the faculty management’s areas will you be responsible for?
My main area of responsibility is external engagement, but it also intervenes in communication-related issues. In addition, I am also the project manager for the organisational project that aims to create larger institutions.
What are you looking forward to in your new assignment?
Many things, but to name a few, I am pleased to be able to continue the work we have started in the faculty's External Engagement Council. For example, SAMtal in Lund and our joint forum with Lund Municipality for issues related to social sustainability.
Change management is rarely easy, but I hope that the project group will be able to contribute to making the process as good as possible and that we will eventually end up with a more robust organisational structure than the one the faculty has today.
What do you work with in addition to your role as Vice Dean?
I will mainly devote myself to research and in January I will start a new project on communication in the digitalized, flexible working life together with a colleague.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Spend time in our cottage in Småland, where I prefer to walk in the woods, paddle kayak and spend time with the family. I also like to read novels and have been in the same book club for over 25 years.