New year and new exciting projects! One of them is named Anxieties of Democracy, which will investigate in what ways representative democracy may be said to be in crisis, to explain why this is so, and

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

Staffan Julén

I am Head of communications at the Institute for Futures Studies, documentary film director and producer. At the institute I have among other things been working on a research project financed by the where I examined how artistic subjective narration can develop the documentary film. 

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

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

Mark Budolfson

Mark Budolfson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Geography and the Environment, and the Population Wellbeing Initiative, University of Texas at Austin. He wo

Alternative facts and fake news. These are phenomenons that March for Science wants to counteract. March for Science will be organized in 400 cities around the World on the 22nd of April, highligting th

Listen to our Director Gustaf Arrhenius'talk "Ethical, legal and political implications of self driving vehicles", held at the Transport Initiative Seminar at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothe

A large number of Swedish researchers are asking the Swedish research councils in coAlition S to withdraw their support from Plan S. Plan S is an initiative to promote the immediate and open access of

The PRIMatE Data Exchange (PRIME-DE) Global Collaboration Workshop and Consortium 2020. Accelerating the evolution of nonhuman primate neuroimaging, Neuron, 105:600-P603.Nonhuman primate neuroimaging