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Book release: Stefan Svallfors - The Inner World of Research
Register: The seminar is free of charge, but you need to register, REGISTER HERE The Inner World of Research - On Academic Labor is a book about the misery and joy of life as a researcher. It deals with ess
The Swedish Mujahideen. An exploratory study of 41 Swedish foreign fighters deceased in Iraq and Syria.
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2018.1463615 Abstract This study analyzes the demographics, criminality, and network relations of forty-one deceased Swedish foreign fighter
Predicting how US public opinion on moral issues will change from 2018 to 2020 and beyond
Royal Society Open Science, vol. 9, issue 4 Abstract The General Social Survey, conducted every 2 years, measures public opinion on a wide range of moral issues. The data from the 2020 survey are expect
Environmentalism around the globe. An introduction to the 2020 ISSP environment module and selected country-level findings
International Journal of Sociology Abstract Environmental problems such as climate change, air and water pollution, and biodiversity loss affect humans globally. The International Social Survey Programm
Christian Munthe: The Price of Precaution
Christian Munthe, Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Gothenburg and comments by Olle Häggström, Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Chalmers. "The Price of Precaution: Evaluating Acti
Gustaf Arrhenius elected to a council which will help government with sustainability
During the Swedish politician's week in Visby, the government decided to appoint a scientific council for sustainable development. The council will strengthen the link between politics and academia. Th
Geoengineering – a serious alternative or a dangerous idea?
Geoengineering is a term used to describe techniques for large-scale manipulation of the climate to reduce the Earth's average temperature. These controversial ideas are now being debated more extensi
Learning to play
In 2007, the Swedish gambling agency ran a simple gambling game called LIMBO. Gamblers were invited to stake 10 kronor on a number of their choice between 1 and 99,999. The person choosing the smalles
Completed: Good and just allocation of health-related resources
How should health-related resources be allocated at the population-level? This project explores some problems with conventional approaches and presents a new one.
It' about class: Why children with immigrant parents have lower grades but higher ambitions
Previous research has shown that children of immigrant parents have worse grades in school than children with at least one parent born in Sweden. Yet, these children have higher ambitions with their edI