David Miller, Professor of Political Theory, FBA, Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College Abstract States often justify their restrictive immigration policies by appealing to their right of self-determ

What significance does your name have for your chances of getting a job? We ask Moa Bursell, a sociologist and research leader at the Institute for Futures Studies, who has researched discrimination i

International Migration Review, s. 1-28. DOI: 10.1111/imre.12170 Abstract We examine differences in the intensity of employer stereotypes of men and women with Arabic names in Sweden by testing how much

Seminar during "Digital Health Days". Digital Health Days 2014 are held at Stockholmsmässan in Älvsjö, on the 25th and 26th of August. Anders Ekholm, deputy director at the Institute for Futures Studies

European Sociological ReviewFull text Abstract Scholars have documented ethnic and gender discrimination across labour markets since the 1970s by using field experiments (correspondence tests) in which

Richard Bradley on climate change assessments and policy decision making

This is a recording from a research seminar at the Institute for Futures Studies in February 2016. The full name of the seminar is: Confidence and probability. Climate change assessments and policy ma

Instructions for subscribing to IFFS calendar with your Outlook account. Log in to Outlook Kalender. Click on Add calendar and choose From internet: A screen pops up to the right of the screen, add the fo

Working Paper 2016 no.1(Published in Journal of Professions and Organization, Vol 4 (1):55-69 (2017). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/jow008) This paper focuses on “policy professionals”, i.e. people whinfluence the course of affairs, while their working-life satisfaction comes from getting their message into the media without becoming personally exposed. The key resource of policy professionals is context-dependent politically useful knowledge, in three main forms: “Problem formulation” involves highlighting and framing social problems and their possible solutions. “Process expertise” consists of understandingthe “where, how and why” of the political and policy-making processes. “Information access” is the skill to be very fast in finding reliable and relevant information. These motivations and skills underpin a particular professionalism based in an “entrepreneurial ethos”, which differs from both the ethos of elected politicians, and that of civil servants, and which has some potentially problematic implications for democratic governance.

Futures  Volume: 101, pp. 46–54. doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2018.06.007  Abstract Among scholars dedicated to Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), the risks and possibilities of actively contac

Full title: Ethics, E-Cigs, and the Tobacco End Game: Trading off mortality of the world's #1 cause of death in the near term, medium term, and long term future REGISTER HERE > Research seminar with DPlease note the time and that the speaker will join us online.