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Effective preventive work or thought policing? Police employees’ understanding, assessment and management of radicalization
Research problem and scientific questionsThe Police authority is tasked with preventing radicalization – the process that leads individuals to support or practice ideologically mot...
Transformative ethics
Imagine that you have been deaf since birth. A cochlear implant would allow you to hear for the very first time.With your new ability, your life would be completely different, for...
Sexual corruption. Understanding, measuring and preventing abuse of power for sex
Sexual corruption refers to the abuse of entrusted authority for sexual gain.Previous research has largely neglected the broad and complex implications of sex as a currency in corr...
Systemic Risk Assessment for Resilient Urban Decarbonisation - How can deep uncertainty and systemic risk be incorporated in efforts to accelerate towards climate neutral cities?
Cities stand at the frontline of the climate challenge.Significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions while adapting to the effects of climate change requires robust strategies th...
STS4ForestStress: Developing Spectral, Temporal, and Spatial Analysis Techniques for Monitoring Forest Stress under Changing Climate
The European forest is experiencing growing stress due to climate change.Fires, drought, insect and disease outbreaks are devastating forests, significantly impacting forest vitali...
Social dumping between center and periphery: prevalence and extent, policy mechanisms and lived experiences of housing-insecure persons in Sweden
Research problem and specific questionsThe last few years have seen frequent reports of ‘social dumping practices’ (SDPs) in Swedish news media.As the story goes, metropolitan muni...
Infrastructures of energy justice: enabling equitable energy transitions in an infrastructural world
Amid dire climate risks new low-carbon energy infrastructures are pioneered across the world, yet energy justice research underlines how renewable energy projects can reinforce gen...
Climate Cooling from Volcanic Super-eruptions and European Epidemics during Preindustrial Times
PurposeThis six-year project will elucidate socio-ecological mechanisms for how super-eruptions cause sudden changes in climate, and hence epidemics or even pandemics. Focus is on...
It’s all about the money" - On household economic discourses through thick and thin, from everyday talk about money to financial violence and financial consequences of intimate partner violence
Research questionIn a world where intimate partner violence remains a pervasive global challenge, seven years have passed since the initiation of the Swedish ten-year strategy to c...
How do the unemployed apply for jobs and what can we do to help them do better?
Research problem and specific questionsThis project consists of four work packages (WP:s) which revolve around unemployed workers´ job search behavior.Together they aim at understa...
Vaccination in pregnancy study (VIPs) – studies of vaccine uptake, safety and effectiveness in mother and child
Research problem and specific questionsInfants are at risk of contracting severe respiratory infections such as whooping cough and infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)....
Prospecting for transition metals – market conditions, actors and social consequences
As energy transitions accelerate, the focus of governments and companies is shifting from the supply of traditional fossil-fuels to the supply of critical minerals.One example is E...
Characterization of non-exhaust emissions from heavy duty vehicles through field measurements on individual vehicles
Non-exhaust emissions (NEE) from road traffic, consisting of wear particles from tyres, brakes, road surfaces and resuspension of road dust, contribute significantly to city air po...
Toxic Foods: An Ethnographic Exploration of Processes of Food Contamination in Bangladesh
This project will qualitatively investigate how substances harmful to human health are added to food in Bangladesh.Weak state enforcement enables widespread overuse of nitrogen fer...
Faces of Inequality: An Empirical Study Using Passport Photos and AI to Assess Appearance-Based Discrimination in Sweden
Research problem and specific questionsLookism, appearance-based discrimination, is pervasive.Studies suggest looks-based earnings inequality in the US rivals the racial wage gap (...
A sense of justice? Attitudes to punishment in Sweden
Research problem and specific questionsThere is a great political interest in trying to satisfy the public’s will.Although it is often assumed that the public is more punitive than...
The environmental, economic and societal implications of a green tax policy on nitrogen fertilizer
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions cause climate change.The use of environmental taxes is widely recognized for reducing GHG emissions, but there is limited research on their effective...
JUSTPOWER: Democracy and justice challenges in energy transformations
Amid escalating climate risks and unprecedented investments in clean energy, undemocratic political regimes are on the rise.Energy transition projects themselves can catalyse undem...
Work life, inflammation, and cardiovascular disease - a Nordic biobank study (Inflamm@work)
Research problem and purpose: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death in Sweden. Work-related exposures have been associated with inflammation and increased...
Improving health promotion for people living in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas
Research problem:One of the major consequences of socio-economic inequality is the reinforcment of health inequality.The limited uptake of health promotion is contributing to poore...