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Nobel Prize winner Thomas Schelling keynote speaker at the INAS conference

On the 7th and 8th of June, the International Network for Analytical Sociologists, INAS, will meet for its sixth conference, this time in Stockholm hosted…

New report on child poverty

No increase in child poverty in Sweden. That is the conclusion in a new report written by Carina Mood and Jan O. Jonsson; Ekonomisk utsatthet…

Stefan Svallfors keynote speaker at postdoctoral conference on the future of welfare state studies

The conference Future of Welfare State Studies Conference was held in Umeå for postdoctoral researchers, on May 15–17. It included parallel sessions focusing on the…

Jan O. Jonsson is a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies

Jan O. Jonsson is Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Social Research at Stockholm University, and an Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University. The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS) has decided to fund his large-scale project Children’s living conditions in a changing society: Socioeconomic and ethnic inequality.

Institute for Futures Studies has been granted financial support from Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the INAS Conference 7-8 June 2013

In June 2013, the 6th annual conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists (INAS) will be held in Stockholm, with the aim to create synergistic contacts between researchers within the field.

Bi Puranen moderates debate at UNESCO

On the 25–26th of March, UNESCO organizes a big international workshop titled “Measuring Social Public Policies: Inclusiveness and Impact” in Paris. The workshop is organized within…

New report on the effects of projects financed by the European Social Fund

The European Social Fund (ESF) aims to be more successful in helping people to get a job than Arbetsförmedlingen. The Institute for Futures Studies has studied the results…

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