investigators

Cogito Machina - Investigating the emergence of artificial general intelligence
Is AGI emergent? In order to know, several questions need to be answered and this project aims to provide the answeres. What is AGI? What is required for a system to have it, and how might we know whether AGI is emergent in a system.
Investigating sequences in ordinal data: A new approach with adapted evolutionary models.
Political Science Research and Methods, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 449-466. doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2018.9 Abstract This paper presents a new approach for studying temporal sequences across ordinal variables. I
Kari Andén-Papadopoulos: Justice by digital open source research – visual evidence and the limits of the legal regime of truth
Venue: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm Research seminar with Kari Andén-Papadopoulos, Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm university. At the Institu
The quality of compliance: investigating fishers’ responses towards regulation and authorities
Fish and Fisheries, Early view: doi:10.1111/faf.12197. Abstract A substantial amount of scientific effort goes into understanding and measuring compliance in fisheries. Understanding why, how and when f
Acceptance of homosexuality through education? Investigating the role of education, family background and individual characteristics in the United Kingdom.
Social Science Research, 71, 109-128. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2017.12.006 Abstract Higher educated people tend to be more accepting of homosexuality than lower educated people. This has inspired clai
Is there room for everyone within Swedish labor market policy?
The labor market has changed in recent decades, demanding a high level of education. Meanwhile, a high percentage of the individuals who have sought refuge in Sweden the past two years have been to sc
Jules Holroyd: Holding each other accountable for implicitly biased behaviour
Jules Holroyd, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Nottingham. ABSTRACTMany of us will have implicit racial biases: dispositions to certain affective or cognitive responses

Bi Puranen
Secretary General of the World Values Survey Association and Principal Investigator of WVS Sweden. I am affiliated as Senior Research Fellow to the Institute for Futures Studies. My research is focused

Amber L. Beckley
Amber is Associate Professor in Criminology at Stockholm University and Senior Lecturer at Örebro University. Her research focuses on how developmental factors influence criminal offending and victimi
The good man's racism?
It is becoming common for political parties with xenophobic views to appear in parliaments in Europe, Sweden is no exception. There is an ongoing debate about xenophobia and diversity in the media, in