How can we in a systematic way understand what is causing better health in people? And how can we most efficiently use the resources of the public sector to turn around the development towards greater

Household-distributed national accounts: New perspectives on the distribution of income and wealth in Sweden, 1930-2020

This project examines new perspectives on economic inequality in Sweden.

Completed: Cultural Evolution in Digital Societies

This project will build on evolutionary models and insights to study how conditions change with new information pathways, and technologies capable of acting with increasing authonomy from human control.

BRIDGEGAP

A multidisciplinary project researching corruption with innovative methods and technologies.

The History of the Family Abstract In pre-industrial Taiwan, an uxorilocal marriage, in which a man moved in with his bride’s family, was a familial strategy used to continue family lineage and to enhan

How are environments of violent extremism organized? How do people move between these, in and out of these and what do their criminal careers look like?

Here you can find information on the Institutes previous research programs during the 2000s. Contact us for more information about previous research programs. Gustaf Arrheniusfirst research program was n and comprised five themes that were all interdisciplinary; Our responsibility towards future generations, Democracy in the 21st century, New technologies and the future of humanity, Discrimination, sexism and racism, and Equality.

World Values Survey

World Values Survey is a global research network studying trends in values all over the world. Their secretariat is located at the Institute for Futures Studies.

Throughout history, people have consulted everything from oracles to crystal balls in order to predict the future. But it was not until the 1960s that interest developed in a more systematic study of

The World Values ​​Survey (WVS) is a worldwide network of researchers studying values ​​and their impact on social and political life. The network mainly collects data on people's values ​​via extensi