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How much crime can foreign background explain? with Amber Beckley

Can the number of people with foreign background living in an area explain the level of crime in that same area? In this talk Amber Beckley gives us the numbers and finds a correlation that points cle

Jerzy Sarnecki

Jerzy Sarnecki is professor emeritus of general criminology at Stockholm University. He is a senior professor at the University of Gävle and Mid Sweden University and a researcher at the Institute for

This article addresses the matter of “urban spillover” in rural population development, i.e. how urban localities tend to push a ring of diffuse urban growth outwards as they expand in area. The data

This paper reviews the contents of emerging EU policies in the area of health and discusses their implications for the Nordic health care systems. A central question is whether any coherent, common Eu

Klas Markström

I am Associate Professor in Mathematics at Umeå University. My main area of research is graph theory and combinatorics. Here I study both deterministic structural problems and problems regarding the pr

Instructions for subscribing to IFFS calendar with your Google Calendar account (applies for computer) Go to https://calendar.google.com/ and sign in to your google account. Click the gearbar to the right

On January 12th, Dagens Nyheter published an interview with David Sumpter, professor of applied mathematics. David , who is currently working at both Uppsala University and the Institute for Futures St

On Friday the 24th of January our seminar series begins again here at the Institute for Futures Studies.The four first seminars all touch our research area segregation. Martin Ljung from the Research

In 2018 the Institute for Futures Studies will host the Kerstin Hesselgrens gästprofessur, held by Janine R Wedel, an American anthtropologist and professor at George Mason University i USA. Janine Wed at the institute in 2016. Follow that link and listen to Janine's TEDx-talk about the shadow elite affecting American politics.