The first draft of the report of the International Panel of Social Progress (IPSP), "Rethinking Society for the 21st Century", is out now! We welcome you to comment on the online platform  https://comme

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

Salad Hilowle

Salad Hilowle (born in 1986, Mogadishu, Somalia) is a Stockholm-based artist who traces historical narratives, excavates and ponders the impact of the African diaspora on history and how it permeates

Abstract Few get children while enrolled in higher education, nevertheless one fourth of female university students in Sweden has children. Using a large longitudinal data set containing educational ac

Deviant Behavior Volume 36, Issue 7, pages 565-580. DOI:10.1080/01639625.2014.951569 Abstract This study examines if graffiti initiation leads to greater deviant behavior. Swedish students (N = 1,010) co

CFO and Head of Research CoordinationTel: +46 8 402 12 00 (vx)E-mail: [email protected] In my role as the Manager of Research Coordination, I lead our team of research coordinators. Research at

Peter Hedström, Director of the Institute for Futures Studies, will leave the Institute in August 2014. Peter will then be Professor of Sociology at Linköping University, where he will build a new rese

Frontiers in Sustainability vol 4 Abstract Resilience is often presented as a championing solution for tackling the multi-level environmental, security, health, and financial threats facing the whole hum

The conversational context and conceptual engineering

Conceptual engineering concerns what it is for a concept to be defective and therefor ameliorated or abolished. The goal of this project, however, is to shift the focus to the role of the context, which might help us understand conflicts about the meaning of our words.

On the 4th of December, an article was published on DN Debatt on xenophobia among the Sweden Democrats voters. The article refers to a study that was initiated when the writers Peter Hedström and Tim