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08 July, 2019
Futures: Politics and psychology - how to gain support for climate policies podcast

Futures: Politics and psychology - how to gain support for climate policies

Combating climate change means implementing policies that will encourage people to act in a more sustainable way. But how can policies be constructed and implemented in a way that is acceptable to the

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25 January, 2024

Lunch seminar: Working with ghosted labour in supply-chain and data infrastructure to generate counter-claims around sustainability

Location: Big seminar room, Teknikringen 74D, floor 5 (KTH)This is a "Brown Bag Seminar" hosted by KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in Stockholm with Benjamin Gerdes, artistic researcher at the At this seminar, he will talk about his artistic research project "Ghost platform: Generating the "Complex image" of data, labour and logistics", funded by Vetenskapsrådet.

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15 June, 2012

Visual attention and information transfer in human crowds

2012. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109:7245-7250.http://www.pnas.org/content/109/19/7245.full.pdf+html

Type of publication: Journal articles | Andrew C. Gallup, Joe J. Hale, David J. T. Sumpter, Simon Garnier, Alex Kacelnik, John Krebs, Iain Couzin
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01 January, 2011

Patterns of Participation: Engagement among Ethnic Minorities and the Native Population in Oslo and Stockholm

Pp. 172-197 in Laura Morales and Marco Giugni, (Eds.), Social Capital, Political Participation and Migration in Europe: Making Multicultural Democracy Work. Palgrave Macmillan. Abstract There is a widespr

Type of publication: Chapters | Gunnar Myrberg, Jon Rogstad
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07 March, 2019

Should the probabilities count?

Philosophical Studies, June 2012, Volume 159, Issue 2,  pp 205–218. Online first. doi.org/10.1007/s11098-011-9698-1 Abstract When facing a choice between saving one person and saving many, some people ha

Type of publication: Journal articles | Berndt Rasmussen, Katharina
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17 October, 2018

School Demands and Coping Resources−Associations with Multiple Measures of Stress in Mid-Adolescent Girls and Boys.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(10), 2143, doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102143  Abstract Stress, and stress-related health complaints, are common among young people, espe

Type of publication: Journal articles | Plenty, Stephanie , , Östberg, V., Låftman S. B., Modin, B. & Lindfors, P.
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17 June, 2019

Is risk aversion irrational? Examining the “fallacy” of large numbers

Synthese, doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01929-5 Abstract A moderately risk averse person may turn down a 50/50 gamble that either results in her winning $200 or losing $100. Such behaviour seems rational i

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri
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11 January, 2016

Partners

Partners are research institutions that have a long-term and close relationship with the Institute for Futures Studies. Currently we collaborate closely with the following institutes: The Oxford Uehiro

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18 November, 2022
Rojan Karakaya

Rojan Karakaya

I work as a research engineer in two projects. In the project Ethnic stereotypes over time - a Nordic comparison, I implement and develop machine learning methods to investigate implicit bias in Swedis, I develop and maintain the entirety of the data collection infrastructure and I contribute to the quantitative analysis.

Master's Degree in Statistics
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31 October, 2016

Gender as an Employment Criterion?

As other fields, the academic sector is gender-segregated. While some disciplines are dominated by female students and researchers (especially in the humanities), others are dominated by male students

As other fields, the academic sector is gender-segregated. Which strategies are currently employed to deal with gender segregation? Are they working, and can we think of better strategies?
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