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Disrupted Temporalities
By the end of 2022 permacrisis, an “extended period of insecurity and instability”, was coined as the word of the year (UK). It was the outcome of the range of entangled crises; cl...
Localizing foreign policy? Subnational governments and civil society mobilization to recognize and prevent mass-atrocities
This project analyses how foreign policy issues are pursued and navigated by political and civil society actors at municipal and other subnational government levels. While foreign...
Ageing Regions: Turning liabilities into opportunities for regional development
This project addresses the impacts of an ageing society on regions in Sweden and Denmark. An ageing society, characterized by high old-age dependency ratios and an ageing workforce...
Sonic Continuity as Perceived Tradition in the Liturgical Music of the Swedish Reformation
During the 16th century liturgical singing in Sweden underwent profound changes. Singing in Swedish, Finnish and German was introduced, melodies and texts were altered, with new fu...
Divided Parliaments? Polarization, Moralization, and the Risk of Gridlock
In well-functioning democracies, political representatives are capable of compromising to pass legislation that solve problems facing citizens. This entails the need to respond to...
Decoding the marketization of education in Sweden through computational analyses
The radical transformation of the Swedish educational system during the last decades in a neo-liberal direction is often viewed as both paradoxical and puzzling.A substantial body...
Trends, determinants, and outcomes of religious affiliation in a highly secular context: Studying religion through national register data in Finland
The Nordic countries are among the most secular societies in the world.However, religion remains salient for many parts of life and traditional narratives of secularization are fac...
The ComplEExity Project: Swedish secondary school students’ use of Extramural English (EE) and its impact on L2 writing development
Swedish students learning English as a foreign language (L2) are increasingly exposed to English outside the classroom, referred to as Extramural English (EE), through activities s...
Conflict Markets: An investigation of the market's role in a violent consumer culture
In light of daily reports on anti-democratic actions and violent organized crime in different countries, marketing scholars have called for more research to add marketing voices to...
Illicit desire: Notions of sexual morality in premodern Arab-Islamic literature
Premodern Islamic legal-religious tradition is characterized by a strict sexual morality with rigid boundaries between licit and illicit sexual behavior, with harsh penalties for e...
Who Benefits from Development Programs?
Many development programs in low-income countries (e.g., cash transfers, employment support, or business training) seek to (i) increase living standards of the poor, and (ii) reduc...
Role of interoceptive prediction errors in the generation of negative emotions during sickness
The question of how emotions are triggered remains obscure.A recent influential theory is built on predicting coding, which states that the brain makes predictions and constantly c...
Bodies of objects: The role of grave goods in the construction of Viking Age persons
Why were people buried with things?In past societies, grave goods often played intrinsic part in funerary practices, and so too in the Viking Age, but what was their purpose? In Vi...
Estimands and variable importance for evidence-based policy making
In spite of well-known drawbacks, standard regression analysis such as cox-regression and logistic regression are used in observational studies to identify and disentangle risk fac...
Scandinavian suspicions: A study of private investigators, sidewards surveillance, and social paranoia
We are surveilling each other.In contemporary societies, we are no longer just monitored by conventional Orwellian actors but increasingly also by the local shop owner, neighbors,...
Employment or crime? New evidence on how the criminal justice system shapes life trajectories of young people.
How to reduce the social exclusion of youth from disadvantaged populations is a topic of urgency in today’s Swedish society.The main task of the justice system is to prevent crime,...
Does it take a village? The role of social networks in socioeconomic fertility differentials
In recent years, higher socioeconomic groups started to have more children than lower socioeconomic groups in Sweden and in many other developed countries.Previous research focusin...
The animated nature Prodigies and portents in the Roman World
In 192 BCE an ox suddenly began to speak. Roma, cave tibi it said, Rome be on your guard. It was regarded as a prodigy and the Senate decided that the ox should be attentively look...
The impact of women’s and men’s careers on the family and children
Despite significant progress in the last decades, substantial gender gaps in the labor market remain, with women being underrepresented in high ranked professional positions and am...
The trajectory and distributional typology of phonological change
Sound patterns, and their interactions with word structure, vary widely across the languages of the world; how systematic is this variation, and where does it come from? Researcher...