At last Friday’s research seminarKatrin Ausprung from the Department of History and Sociology at Konstanz University in Germany came to talk to us about her reserach on discrimination in housing marke

A couple of weeks ago it was decided that the Institute for Futures Studies will support the project International Panel on Social Progress. It is a large project with high ambitions that mobilizes se

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A project on how the spread of digital information and communication technology in Sub-Saharan Africa has affected educational outcomes and inequalities.

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

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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.

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Finding new formats for presenting policy-relevant research results.

in: Journal of Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 45, 292-303. AbstractGroup differences in average grades prior to and after a step-wise introduction of blinded examinations at Stockholm Un

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This projects aims to solve ideological conflicts when it comes to climate politics, by suggesting climate work that aligns with the different ideologies' values.

Here you will find documentation from some of our previous research seminars. November 29th 2013: Contexts and conditions of ethnic discrimination. Evidence from field-experiments in German housing mark by Katrin AusprungRead the blog post