Immigrant women in European labour markets: connecting culture, institutions, and human capital

Why do immigrant women experience a double disadvantage in the labour market? Understanding the reasons is the first step towards creating efficient measures to change the situation.

I coronapandemins fotspår - reaktioner i världen

Bi Puranen, generalsekreterare för World Values Survey berättar hur man under 2020 börjat studera hur 25 000 personer i världen (varav 2 000 i Sverige) reagerat på coronapandemin.

PR och politik. Intervju med Anna Tyllström

Hur går det egentligen till när företag försöker påverka politiken via PR-konsulter? Anna Tyllström, forskare i företagsekonomi, gav sig ut på fältet i Almedalen för att studera taktikerna. Läs mer om

Waiting for Integration Louis Henri Seukwa

Forskaren Louis Henrik Seukwa från Hamburg University, berättar om projektet EduAsyl på Framtidsfokus Waiting for integration anordnat av Institutet för Framtidsstudier den 5 februari. EduAsyl är ett

Why do we need social progress? On July of 2014 a monumental task began as hundreds of the world's leading academics came together to set new standards for a just, secure and healthy global society. T has been tirelessly forming a non-partisan report addressed to all social actors, movements, organizations, politicians, and decision-makers in order to provide an architecture for present and future global issues and crises.

Sakli(g)t 2024: Sveriges första sakprosafestival

Sakli(g)t is Sweden's first festival of literary non-fiction, organized by the Rikstolvan cultural centre outside Simrishamn in collaboration with the Institute for Futures Studies and Linnaeus UniverGiven the central role of non-fiction as a knowledge-transmitting link between science and the public, Sweden needs an arena where the narrative non-fiction book is the focus of in-depth discussions on the politically increasingly hot issues of facts, truth, narrative, reality and how form and aesthetics affect both knowledge itself and what knowledge becomes viable in today's technologically mobile media landscape. Such meeting places for producers and consumers of the documentary genre have long existed in the neighboring Nordic countries, but have not yet existed in Sweden.This year's program includes author talks with Åsa Wikforss, Nicolas Lunabba, Saga Cavallin, Johan Hilton, Lyra Ekström Lindbäck, Gudrun Schyman, Lasse Berg and Elena Kostiutjenko. In total, 50 authors will appear at the festival. Read the . Get .Together with Rikstolvan, the Institute is a co-founder of the festival, which was launched last year. A permanent establishment of the festival has been made possible with funds from the Institute for Futures Studies, Linnaeus University, the Nature & Culture Foundation, the Swedish Academy, the Swedish Arts Council, Simrishamn Municipality and Region Skåne.

Att förstå korruption, seminarium med Bo Rothstein

Korruption utgör ett allvarligt hot mot välstånd, demokrati och välbefinnande, och de empiriska bevisen för dess skadliga effekter på samhället bara växer. Det har dock visat sig vara väldigt svårt at

Location: Kulturhuset, Sergels torg in Stockholm Buy your ticket at Billetto > The philosopher William MacAskill is known to many as one of the founders of Effective Altruism, the movement that has rec

Welcome to the first lecture in the new series CUSP - Critically Urgent Societal Problems - that we arrange in collaboration with the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) in Uppsala. At this first

2023:3. Expertgruppen för Studier i Offentlig ekonomi. Abstract Trots nästan dagliga nyhetsrapporteringar som pekar på motsatsen har det totala våldet per capita i Sverige inte ökat sedan början av 2000