Evaluated by a robot. An experimental-ethnographic study of the automation of the recruitment process in a Swedish municipality

In a unique project the researchers will study the differences between an AI-based interview robot's and human recruiters' evaluations of jobseekers in a Swedish municipality during a year.

In: Power, Policy and Profit: Corporate Engagement in Politics and Governance. C. Garsten and A. Sörbom. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar: pp. 82-99. Power, Policy and Profit investigates the manifold ways in

In: Acker S., Ylijoki O-H., and McGinn M. The Social Production of Research: Perspectives on funding and gender. Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)/Routledge. Abstract Status as been descri

Annie Woube

I am an Associate Professor of Ethnology and conduct research on leisure and various forms of self-realization, with a focus on gender constructions, gender equality, and social equality. In my curren

Serious recreational sports as health and wellness promotion activities at work

The overall purpose of our project is to investigate the consequences of demanding forms of sports and recreational races as health and wellness promotion activities at work. What norms, conditions and prerequisites surround them? 

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

The British Journal of Sociology 2019, Volume 70, Issue 2 Abstract Research on privilege and education often focuses on institutions that are elite in a rather traditional way, for example schools that i

Journal of Development Economics 166 (2024) Abstract We investigate the long-run impacts of Christian missions on female genital cutting (FGC) in Africa. Our empirical analysis draws on historical data o

Eyewitness video and human rights practice

This project will study the interplay between eyewitness videos in a digital media landscape and human rights practice.

Organization Studies Abstract Traditionally, CPA scholarship has either assumed away policy intermediaries completely, or depicted them as corporate mouthpieces. Meanwhile, research on policy intermedia