The Mimir Center for Long Term Futures Research

A research environment at IFFS with a mission to carry out world leading, rigorous academic basic research on issues regarding the long-term future of civilization.

Helena Hammarskiöld

I am the initiator and project manager of the project Expanding minds - together. I run an organization for cross-sector collaboration projects as a way to foster innovation among both organizations and

Current Sociology, 66(3), pp. 356-372. doi.org/10.1177/0011392116681385  Abstract Although intimacy is an area characterized by great variety and complexity, both popular and academic discourses have tra

Is it possible to study emotions using mathematical models? Frank Schweizer is one of the resesarchers who have tried and he finds for example that we are quite nice to each other online. He came to te

Using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy from 1986 to 2002, this paper examines how job- and worker flows have been distributed across age groups. It finds that the flows vary b

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

Maja Fjaestad

I am an expert coordinator at the Centre for Health Crises at KI and Associate Professor at KTH. I previously worked as State Secretary for the Swedish Minister for Health and Social Affairs and before for strategic development and Nordic cooperation at the Prime Minster’s office. I have also worked as researcher at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH. I have also been visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Desk officer at the Ministry of Industry and political adviser in energy issues to Minister of Energy, Mona Sahlin.

Synthese 196(7): 2885–2906. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1587-5 Abstract The concept of information has well-known difficulties. Among the many issues that have been discussed is the alethic nature of a se

Point of you

Developing a new format for research communication, where performative elements and the participants' own experiences serve as the starting point for discussion.

A growing number of voters in Europe abstain from their right to vote in democratic elections. Most of them are citizens with low socio-economic status. The gap in political participation is most pron