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School Segregation in Sweden: Challenges, Opportunities and Intervention (SIS)
Swedish education system has become uniquely market-driven with a high degree of choice and student mobility after the school reforms in the past decades.Coupled with the societal...
Conflict or cooperation? – Learning from historical land use tensions in Arctic Sweden
Arctic Sweden is subject to a rapid expansion of green transition industries, generating growth and reduced CO2 emission, but also tensions slowing transition and feeding local con...
Echoes of History: Analysis and Decipherment of Historical Writings
Exploring historical sources is vital for understanding our collective past. Recent initiatives have focused on analyzing sources of the same origin in various well-known languages...
Are cities creating or attracting healthy individuals? Causality and selection in urban health
This programme investigates the impact of urban and rural environments on residents’ health. While urban residents are generally healthier than their rural counterparts, health gap...
Sign language abilities of older deaf and hard of hearing individuals in Sweden.
This study aims to examine the linguistic and cognitive spatial abilities in a sample of older signers, representative of the older signing population in Sweden. The linguistic ski...
Inflation measurement and the dark side of the digital
The contrasting agendas of two separate research fields are here brought into a productive relation. On the one hand, during the past 30-years, many economists have voiced concern...
Making rock art today – encounters with practicing Samburu rock art painters
Kenya’s Samburu warriors still make rock art and express their cultural identity through images of humans, animals, and weapons painted and carved on cliffs and rock shelters.In th...
Juridification in the welfare sector: challenging professional discretion?
This project aims to shed light on how juridification processes influence the discretion of welfare professions and, by extension, their ability to provide welfare services of high...
Eating, praying, but not "loving"? Actionality in Kutu and Kwere
Language offers a lens through which we can discern how humans classify the world around them.Theories of language that are based solely on data from well-documented languages can...
Global diplomati: Nytt fokus för internationella relationer 1400-1850
The project seeks to construct a new and global history of diplomacy. Spanning 1400 to 1850, it aims to uncover non-European diplomatic practices, examine lost diplomatic practices...
The Long Arm of Plutocracy: Economic Restrictions of Political Candidacy Eligibility in Sweden, Before and After the 'Democratic Breakthrough'
The aim of the research project is to map and analyse the development, administrative control and consequences of the economic dimensions of eligibility criteria for political cand...
Surviving Aridification – a Framework for Ancient Resilience (SAFAR)
Why do some communities suffer during dry periods while others remain stable, or even thrive?The answer to this question is not simple and lies in a combination of socio-political,...
Plagiarism hunting in early modern Europe (1665–1730): Knowledge circulation and its limits
This project elucidates why and how European scholars began to pay a new kind of attention to plagiarism in the seventeenth century. By examining treatises, journals, correspondenc...
Temporalities of science: Constructing past, present, and future of knowledge 1945-1980
This project explores perceptions of the past, present and future of scientific knowledge – or “temporalities of science” – between 1945 and 1980.The era saw increased collaboratio...
How is collusion initiated? Empirical analyses based on price data from hundreds of markets
Most markets involve repeated interaction. Rather than fierce competition, this makes markets vulnerable to coordination between firms aimed to increase profits (collusion), either...
Needs-based school funding – a path to improving student achievement and reducing educational inequalities?
In many countries, including Sweden, a substantial portion of students lack basic skills, and skill gaps by socioeconomic background are growing. Needs-based school funding is a po...
Financial Homo Ignorans in the digital era: How does identity affect our financial behavior and well-being?
This project aims to better understand the role of identity-protective cognition in financial decisions as social media becomes one of the main sources of financial knowledge in th...
Three NOTs to untie: ej, icke and inte in the history of Swedish.
A curious difference between the Scandinavian languages concerns the standard negator: Swedish uses inte, whereas the others use ikke/ekke.The change in default negator from ej to...
Methods and econometric theory for the design of complex randomized experiments in the social sciences
Randomized experiments are one of the most reliable ways to investigate causality. However, their use is limited because a lack of foundational econometric and statistical theory....
A pluricentric perspective on the teaching of Swedish in compulsory school in Finland and Sweden – Policies, ideologies and practices in increasingly heterogenous language educational contexts.(PluSwe)
Swedish is a pluricentric language, i.e. it is spoken in several countries. The project explores how Swedish is taught in Finland and Sweden in grades 1–9. In both countries severa...