The main purpose of this work is to assist the secretariat in administrative matters including maintaining the web site, the Facebook and the Twitter accounts, organising events, editing the Newslette Fund-raising is a substantial part of our work and the person we’re seeking will also be asked to assist in this work (complete the forms, submit the paperwork and follow up on behalf of the association). All communication will be in English. The person we are looking for will be placed at the Institute for Future studies in the very centre of Stockholm.

International review of social psychology, vol 37:1 Abstract Feygina and colleagues (2010, Study 3) reported that people who prefer the status quo can be encouraged towards pro-environmental responses w

Many things that we deeply care about are related to the topic of religion: gender norms, sexual morals, work ethics but also altruism, charity and community. It is therefore an important question to Contrary to what you might expect, religion continues to play an important role in countries all over the world, as the figure shows.

Have you used prenatal testing to determine if the fetus you or your partner is carrying has Down’s syndrome? If the answer is yes, you are not alone. The interest in genetic screening for Down’s synd

Open seminar on the European system for receiving and introducing asylum seekers. Migration is in many European countries on the one hand considered a problem, even a threat, on the other hand a possib

Waiting for Integration Maren Gag

Forskaren Maren Gag vid Passage gGmbH i Hamburg berättar om ett exempel från forskningsprjektet EduAsyl på Framtidsfokus Waiting for integration anordnat av Institutet för Framtidsstudier den 5 februa

Waiting for Integration Christian Åbergh

Christian Åbergh från Svenska ESF-rådet ger en introduktion till Framtidsfokus Waiting for integration anordnat av Institutet för Framtidsstudier den 5 februari 2013 på Westmanska palatset i Stockholm

Completed: Waiting for Life

A minitour with screening of the film "Waiting for Life" and a panel discussion including three former life-sentenced men, two criminologists and a documentary filmmaker will be made in San Fransisco, Washington DC and Stockholm. How can culture and meaningful content change life in prison?

Philosophical transactions A. Royal Society Publishing Abstract Social norms have been investigated across many disciplines for many years, but until recently, studies mainly provided indirect, implicitresearch may move beyond unequivocal praising of social norms as the missing link between selfinterestedbehaviour and observed cooperation or as the explanation for (the lack of) social tipping. It provides the toolkit to understand explicitly where, when and how social norms can be a solution to solve large-scale problems, but also to recognize their limits. This article is part of the theme issue ’Emergent phenomena in complex physical and socio-technical systems: from cells to societies’. 

Waiting for Integration Anne Bathily

Anne Bathily från ECRE berättar på Framtidsfokus Waiting for integration, anordnat av Institutet för Framtidsstudier den 5 februari 2013, om vad som görs på EU-nivå för att utveckla asylmottagningen.