In recent years, an unprecedented number of voluntary climate commitments have been made by a wide array of non-state and subnational actors.

The purpose of this project is to assess the role of housing benefits for inadequate housing conditions. We assume that the role and functioning of housing benefits cannot be understood in isolation, but needs to be analyzed in conjunction with rental market regulations and more general social policy structures.

The research study investigates how and why school choice programmes are designed differently across European cities and what consequences this has for parental freedom to choose and educational equality. This will be investigated in three, inter-connected projects.

The project produces valuable knowledge of why gendered patterns in paid work, care and housework remain. We highlight processes behind working parents’ division of work, as well as the importance of demands and expectations in work life and family life for parents’ choices and priorities.

The school in Sweden is supposed to be equal, but where children and young people live and which school they attend has become of decisive importance for their opportunities to reach the national knowledge requirements. Two schools that break this pattern piqued the researchers' curiosity.

Consequences of the de-institutionalisation of Swedish elder care for older people and their family members

This research program addresses long-term change in relation to ageing at the societal level as well as applying a life-course perspective on ageing as seen from the individual level.

This project examines how supranational and non-state actors are anticipating changes in the biosphere and how they are developing their capacities to be able to rapidly respond to humanitarian crises and surprises in the multilateral contexts in which they operate.

In my dissertation, I research aspects of hindrances and possibilities for user participation in the social services' individual and family care (IFO).

Biodiversity dilemmas in ordinary places

The aim of the project has been to investigate the political discussions about, and the bureaucratic handling of, Swedish drug abuse treatment during the years 2001-2015.

Careers in the Swedish labor market from the 1960's and onward: From stability to instability? A common picture of today's labor market is that careers have become more complex in contrast to the labor market of the past characterized by permanent jobs. The pace of change is often assumed to be rapid. But is this correct?

By doing analyzes focusing on time from education to job, length of employment spells, and career patterns, we shed light on changes for birth cohorts born from the 1940s and onwards. Our analyses are based on register data and the occupational biographies in the Level of Living Surveys.

How do leave to care for sick children and its wage effect vary with socioeconomic position and family status?

In recent decades, European countries have seen substantial changes in family constellations. Using longitudinal data from five European countries, we examine whether the consequences of family constellations are constant for children and adults across European countries.

Computer gaming and educational outcomes among youth: how does gaming relate to achievement and school relevant behavior? Using a multidimensional perspective on education and unusually detailed measures of computer gaming, this project addresses mechanisms suggested by theories in the field.

CISMOB’s main vision is to promote innovative ways to reduce carbon footprint and increase sustainability. This project aims to improve efficiency in the use of urban transport infrastructure through ICT. The project also looks into how public transport was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Understanding the socio-political construction of 'creativity' in the European city.

Criminal careers from adolescence to retirement age in individuals with experience of out-of-home care: prevalence, patterns and intergenerational associations (CRIMCAR)

New data-driven solutions have the potential to improve the situation for co-morbid elderly people. In this project we identify, analyze and pilot test such innovative data-driven solutions for elderly by supporting collaboration between care providers.

AI and data-driven autonomous decision-making will play a leading role in the digitalization of critical infrastructures for electricity, water, and transportation. This project explores our future smart societies.

This project aims to support the creation, organization, and implementation of an interdisciplinary research school that brings together Burkinabe, Malian, Swedish, and Tanzanian researchers and research projects in a common collaborative framework.

Democracy, Autocracy, and International Cooperation is a research project exploring why, how, and under what conditions countries’ political regimes affect how they behave in international cooperation. The project is funded by the European Research Council and the Swedish Research Council.

DEMOCLIM explores new democratic governance methods in the design and implementation of effective and socially just climate policies that emerge in the face of climate protests in four Scandinavian cities; Oslo, Bergen, Stockholm and Gothenburg.

We propose a set of empirical studies that further our understanding of gender differences in labor market outcomes. Drawing on our previous work, we study how economic gender gaps are affected by referral-based hiring, the gender composition of groups, and gender stereotypes.

Different paths to employment: special features of the Finnish social security system and problem areas in international comparison

Criminal investigations often require physical evidence. At the same time, society is increasingly digitized and internet-connected. This places greater demands on the police. How will criminal investigations need to change in the future?

This project is aimed at elderly with multiple illnesses. We identify and design innovative services, based on data-driven solutions. The goal is to proactively prevent mistreatment in health care and re-enrollment in advanced hospital care.

This action research project will transform mental healthcare in Uganda. We develop a digital solution to facilitate care and support, and give access to expertise to those most in need. Solutions will be modelled on Swedish systems, but informed by a local needs assessment to ensure relevance in Uganda and user centred care.

The responsibility to offer support and treatment for people with gambling problems and their significant others was clarified in Swedish legislation in 2018. The aim of this study was to explore barriers for and experiences of help-seeking among people with gambling and alcohol problems.

Understanding how the foreign-born population perceives and responds to further in-migration in the host country is essential for evaluating social cohesion. This project studies how migrants perceive, respond to, and are shaped by further migration.

Over the last 20 years, the divorce rate has doubled among women and men aged 60 and older in Sweden, in contrast to the flat trend in the rest of the adult population. The project is examining reasons to and consequences of late life divorces on living conditions.

Almost 60 percent of the images and illustrations found in teaching materials in social studies, contributes with information that is not found in the text. Therefore, it is important to develop students' knowledge and understanding of visual literacy.

Why are educational inequalities by gender and immigrant background not those we would expect given students’ aspirations, confidence, and stress?

The project aims to increase understanding of the drivers of inequalities among families involved with child welfare services in Sweden.

Education and Employment Careers of Refugee Youth who arrived as Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children. This project construct a very large and comprehensive panel data set from different sources, making it possible to follow children who have arrived in Sweden between 2003 and 2017.

The overall objective of this program is to study educational segregation in Sweden in the light of three major phenomena during the past 30 years: far-reaching school reforms, immigration, and women starting to dominate men in educational outcomes.

The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a global health crisis. It is expected to lead to lasting changes in all policy areas of global cooperation and transnational governance – including health, mobility, trade, industry, finance, and sustainability.

As the recent fiery debates about ‘flight shame’ and ‘meat shame’ illustrate, there is no clear and convincing ethical account of who has a duty to do exactly what with respect to climate change.

Baudin et al (2015) has pointed out that “childlessness is an overlooked reality that cannot be explained by the current economic studies on fertility” and that childlessness is not the same as low fertility. This project fills this knowledge gap by analyzing male childlessness and, in addition, fathers' parental leave at the extensive margin.

This project researches Nordic models of fatherhood and gender equality as hotbeds of welfare innovation and explores to what extent some countries are trying to ‘import’ similar models.

The FISS conference ‘Social Security Systems: Challenges, Responses, Impacts and Sustainability’ is an international research conference to be held in Sigtuna, 12-14 June 2023.

This project examine why fathers working in occupations requiring the highest qualifications, such as medical doctors and lawyers, claim more than twice the length of father leave than those in occupations requiring the least qualifications, such as cleaners and machine operators.

This project uses register-linked data of the new Swedish Generations and Gender Survey 2020 (GGS2020)and its predecessor, the GGS2012, to compare changes in fertility intentions of Swedish women and men over the recent decade of Swedish fertility decline.

The aim of this proposal is to map the current diversified field of foster care by using register data and by distributing a survey to municipalities nationwide.

Foster children as midlife adults: For whom and under what circumstances may placement in foster care counteract social and health-related adversity across the life course?

Will the decrease in possibilities to get child maintenance support lead to an increase in parental conflicts and leading to economic issues becoming more dominant in custody issues?

The aim of this project is to expand our understanding of how individuals from different social groups become political representatives, and how this selection of politicians maps in to specific outcomes.

A multi-method approach to the transition to parenthood in different-sex and same-sex couples.

Diversity is seen by Volvo as a tool for recruiting sought-after staff that can contribute to strengthened innovation capacity. For this to become a reality, research shows that diversity needs to be paired with active work for inclusion.

Research on the historical origins of gender equality in political representation is scarce. This project applies insights about the historical origins of gender inequality on labor markets on the case of political representation.

Researching through small and medium-sized cities.

The project examines geopolitical impacts on state and stakeholder perceptions of Arctic governance in Sweden and in international organizations such as the Arctic Council, European Union, and United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea.

The Role of Integrated Governance for a Just and Legitimate Adaptation to Climate Risks.

The Historical Data Archive (H-DATA) is a hub of historical country-level data going as far back as the French revolution or even further and offers unparalleled depth of data and temporality, enabling researchers to answer critical questions about the past but to also understand the origins of, and find historical parallels to, present-day problems.

Women's attitudes to the welfare state during the housewife era and today.

Research shows that one's health and illness-related identity is decisive for which health-promoting, disease-preventing and rehabilitative measures the individual performs. How people perceive themselves in the sense of I'm healthy, I'm sick etc. thus appears as an important basis for people's future health.

A key feature of global governance is the possibility to monitor governments alleged of noncompliance with international treaties. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) routinely conduct onthe-spot monitoring missions to assess if governments are violating international conventions.

Why do young people use psychoactive substances? Has substance use been normalized or is it still abnormal? Knowledge of this is needed for society to be able to understand and handle changes in consumption and attitudes that have been observed at an aggregate level in recent years.

A comparison of second-generation migrants and natives in Uppsala.

A comparison of second-generation migrants and natives in Uppsala.

Why is it more likely that people support redistribution in some countries than in others? This question has been studied extensively because a broad support for redistribution to a large extent explains governments’ welfare state efforts.

Medical devices collect huge sets of patient data every day, at every hospital, around the world. What if these data could be used to improve diagnostic tools? This PhD thesis project explores how medical data can be used in a safe way.

The present research project aims to study career guidance and counseling for newly arrived youth and young adults in upper secondary education and adult education, with specialattention to the conditons for social inclusion and recogntion.

Can self-employment increase upward mobility? The main objective of this project is to study income mobility among natives and immigrants and we ask specifically if self-employment can increase upward mobility.

The overarching goal of this project is to understand the combined influences of origin and destination contexts on immigrant childbearing.

This project aims to describe and understand the fundamentals of integration of youth, and its variation across five countries (Norway, Sweden, England, Germany and the Netherlands). We use the large-scale CILS4EU/CILS-NOR data on young people of immigrant and majority origins.

This project explores the prevalence of intensive parenting norms in Sweden and their implications for childbearing, well-being and work trajectories, as well as differences in the nature of the norms across social and demographic groups.

This program emphasizes the multidimensional character of inequality. We integrate the analysis of several central welfare dimensions and study how they cross-cut each other and co-evolve. Our approach is dynamic, following the development of e.g., economic resources, education, health and well-being across individual lives and generations.

The changing balance between public service provision, cash benefits and employment in Europe.

To develop criminological theory on how penal power travels beyond the nation state, this project combines theory in sociology, international relations and international law to explore the overall research question ‘How do Scandinavian states engage in penal exports?’

A comparative research project on social policy and social development in East Asian countries. The project creates East Asian Social Policy Dataset (SPEAD). The new dataset enables systematic research that compares the role of social policy in social development and political and social underpinnings of policy change in Korea with other countries.

The purpose of the project is to develop and evaluate scientifically based pedagogical approaches, methods and tools within the domain of air combat training, to systematically plan, evaluate and follow up training and training results.

A large proportion of immigrants in Sweden face difficulties in getting employed, and the situation is especially problematic for some country of origin groups. Two explanations that have been found to be important by previous research are education and discrimination.

In my research I focus on corpus linguistics and discourse analysis of linguistic power structures, especially linguistic othering, in the Czech language.

The purpose of the project is to shed light on how bullying in working life is handled within the framework of legal labour law trials.

Why, how, and with what consequences do global governance institutions gain, sustain and lose legitimacy? These issues are at the heart of LegGov – a six-year research program in Stockholm, Lund, and Gothenburg.

The worldwide migration today are at historical levels. Previous research has shown that migrants live longer than natives, but also that migrants have higher morbidity rates. In other words, they live longer, but with poorer health. This project will examine this paradox, focusing on the migrant populations of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

Alcohol, drugs and tobacco constitute a major public health concern in Sweden. This project contributes with new knowledge about the extent to which the local preventive ANT-work in Sweden varies between municipalities and whether the work leads to reduced ANT-related problems.

How can the reception of newly arrived young people in different municipalities be successfully organized to provide better opportunities to complete their education and the transition to upper secondary school? That is the main question that the researchers in the project want to find answers to.

This project aims at evaluating long term causal effects of educational contents on voter turnout and health outcomes, as well as to analyze the determinants of educational choices. Educational contents is an underdeveloped area of research although it is widely assumed to affect a number of outcomes.

How can culture and urban planning be integrated, so that culture can be better used as a resource for social development? This project aims to develop those types of processes.

Inequality in the length of life is the most fundamental of all inequality, but has been overlooked in the study of international migrants. For migrants, this represents a complex mix of their previous conditions in the origin country, the migration process, and current and often disadvantageous conditions in the host country.

Couple co-residence is declining in Finland and Sweden. In particular, increasingly, less well-off individuals are not sharing a household with their romantic partners. Why is this so? This project proposes that changes in sex-ratios within groups who traditionally form unions together impact on the share never-partnered in the population.

This PhD project broadens the use of enterprise modelling to understand complex organisational structures. The results can help local actors, decision-makers, and policymakers align their efforts with global sustainable development goals.

Residential segregation in combination with school choice polices has lead to increased school segregation, and this is no longer solely an urban phenomenon.

This project concerns discourses on Swedish national identity in contemporary Sweden.

At a time when the UN climate negotiations appear to be making little progress, non-state initiatives on climate change are thriving.

Multidisciplinary network to unite Nordic researchers with expertise in longitudinal welfare research.

Perceptions, reactions and reporting of client-related threats and violence in four different areas.

As societies are increasingly ethnically diverse, social integration is of increasing importance. Organised leisure activities (OAs) are framed as an additional arena of intergroup contact, with conditions especially conducive for promoting social integration. This project examines the extent to which OA-participants experience intergroup contact.

In this project we are studying automated decision-support in municipal-based work with social assistance. The focus is directed towards, e.g., approval rates, variations in decisions and consequences for applicants as well as professionals.

Planners as agents for the transition towards sustainable cities and regions – implications for future needs in expertise and education

In Nicoline Annetorp Roth’s dissertation, patient participation and care coordination for older adults transitioning from hospital to home care are explored in relation to socio-political trends in the old-age care field.

Fewer swedes are having children and fewer couples are getting married. Previous explanations no longer seem to be relevant, so what can explain the declines? In this research project the researches will examine this, using register data and survey data.

Research shows that an increasing segregation has created a tangible inequality between different municipalities and individual schools. Where children and young people live and which school they attend has become of decisive importance for the possibility of reaching the knowledge requirements and continuing their studies.

Many policies currently being enacted to slow climate change and environmental degradation will have distributive - and thereby political - implications.

This project analyzes how distributional effects of de-carbonizing policies are moderated by redistributive social policies, and how this in turn affects the support of incumbent governments. The project generates new knowledge on how countries can develop socially sustainable de-carbonizing policies.

PrecaNord breaks new ground by offering a multi-level analysis of the prevalence, trends and institutional contexts of precarious and informal work in Finland, Norway and Sweden.

In a near future we do not need to own cars or bikes. Instead we buy and consume personal transport as a service. How does that change society? PriMaaS is a project about developing the MaaS-concept – Mobility-as-a-Service.

Network that gathers junior and senior researchers working with questions concerning privatisation and competition of services provided through the municipal personal social services in the Nordic countries.

"Privatising the central core of social work – staffing agencies and decision-making in the personal social services" is the full name of a research project led by Emelie Shanks.

This project will investigate how major geopolitical powers formulate transformative strategies for decarbonization and resilience to large-scale climate risk.

This ground-breaking project brings together top universities to create digital tools for teen mental health. Our aim is to leverage diverse data for inclusive support.

Private companies are increasingly adapting to climate change, and these responses can have widespread effects on society, affecting areas like water access, safety, and public services. Our project seeks to map and explain these public-private interactions in climate adaptation and assess their potential to advance democratic and effective adaptation.

National infrastructure for research about social relations, work and health across the life course.

The purpose of this research project is to conduct a comparative study of radical right-wing parties in Europe.The general aim is to identify factors that explain why such parties have succeeded in some countries, while largely failing in others.

A doctoral thesis exploring how participatory democracy is reinforced through consultations at both the EU and national levels, with Sweden as a case study.

Recovered, in treatment, or dead? A 20-year follow-up of women and men in Swedish substance use treatment.

This project evaluates refugees' health status and the effect of different asylum policies. We examine who takes the voluntary health screenings, as well as the health impact of having access to primary care during the asylum process, the type of residence permit (temporary or permanent), and the support given to unaccompanied minors.

Questions about how regional spatial planning can contribute to reducing climate impact and how regional actors can manage land use conflicts have been neglected in Sweden, despite the fact that this is an important arena for addressing many of today's acute sustainability challenges. This research project aims to contribute to reducing this knowledge gap.

For many years, research has stressed the importance of regional planning for addressing challenges related to sustainable development.

This research project documents results, main challenges and successes of an international training programme on ICT regulation and formulates suggestions for improvement. Analyses of documentation and reports from programme participants are complemented by an OECD/DAC framework evaluation.

A comparative study using individualized scalable neighbourhoods

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of digital assessment in higher education increased dramatically. What are the teachers’ experiences from this? And what are the key opportunities and challenges in designing and implementing digital assessment?

Rising to the Challenge of the Climate Transition: EU's Leadership in a Just and Effective Transformation towards Climate Neutrality amidst Turbulence, Crises, and Political Conflicts.

Risk and resilience: Pathways to (ill)health among men and women with experiences of childhood adversity (RISE)

SWECOV is the Swedish Register-based Research Project on COVID-19. SWECOV is a multidisciplinary research collaboration focused on using quantitative methods and comprehensive register data about the whole Swedish population to answer important questions about the consequences of the pandemic.

School is a context of central importance in young people's lives, and also an environment that can contribute to shaping behaviour.

How does workplace and neighbourhood segregation shape the employment trajectories of refugees and their children?

Segregation typically refers to the clustering of certain groups in residential areas, schools, or workplaces. But segregation is intimately related to how people interact with one another. This project thus considers segregation from the angle: access to urban amenities that promote social interactions, and their effect on integration.

Shaping the Online Public Sphere: How and Why do Democracies Regulate Social Media Platforms and with what Consequences?

Work, health, and illness among women and men during five decades. This project focuses on how social and structural causes (e.g., labour market transformations and shifting work content) are related to – and possibly created – the gender gap in sickness absence.

The six year research programme Sivin-Child (Coordinated intervention systems against violence in close relationships), explores how different aspects of social work, from detection and investigation to support and follow-up can be coordinated.

Increased rates of immigration have led to rising concerns about integration in Europe. Social ties are often argued to promote integration by helping immigrants locate work and housing.

Project aim: to investigate whether indicators of “effective schools” is linked to students’ school performance and psychological health, and also explore ‘contrasting contexts’ to the Swedish school setting.

As the Nordic population ages, there is a need to look at differences between different groups that arise as a result of how our health and care systems look.

The expectations on global climate institutions to deliver are growing, and as a consequence these institutions appear to be more contested than ever before. This project examines why some individuals believe in the legitimacy of global climate governance while others do not, focusing on an understudied factor: social inequality.

The research program is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Department of Criminology (Stockholm University), the Department of Social Work (Stockholm University), and the Social Affairs Administration of the city of Stockholm. The research will span over six years, starting in the fall of 2024.

The overall aim of the project is to increase knowledge about the importance of social class relations for social cohesion and political divides in modern welfare states. A central focus is how social networks and existing political institutions together shape contemporary sociopolitical cleavages, from a country-comparative perspective.

Disadvantaged groups in Sweden in the 2000s.

The purpose of the project Staging Migration is to produce theoretical and empirical knowledge about the potential of children's theater to stage an inclusive Sweden, and to investigate whether and how social boundaries between ”us” and ”them” may be reproduced as an unintended consequence.

The Stockholm University SIMSAM Node for Demographic Research (SUNDEM) builds on the potential for top-class demographic research as provided by the individual, longitudinal, and spatial data available in Sweden’s population registers and the system of administrative registers that builds on the population registers.

In this project we study how student support and tuition fee systems in different countries are associated with student welfare, and whether this has consequences for higher education participation.

The project analyzes how information about names contributes to our understanding of social mobility over three centuries (1750–2020). Our main purpose is to study whether the surnames capture aspects of social background beyond traditional class indicators such as occupation.

A comparative perspective on Swedish social policy to develop inclusive programmes for an extended working life

The purpose of this network is to encourage exchange and collaboration between senior and junior scholars, as well as PhD students. We achieve this by organizing at least one yearly seminar where network members can meet and discuss research and results.

Technological inequality – understanding the relation between recent technological innovations and social inequalities

The consortium project “Tackling Inequalities in Time of Austerity” (TITA) provides a novel and comprehensive analysis of long-term trends in financial inequalities, inequalities in health and well-being and inequalities of opportunities over the life course, and their links to the moral and political climate in society.

Since the 1990s fundamental transformations of international organizations (IOs) such as the World Trade Organization and the African Union have taken place, witnessing a shift from interstate cooperation to the involvement of transnational actors (TNAs), such as non-governmental organizations and social movements.

The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on society raises inherently normative questions, which call for political answers. In democratic societies, the goals and means of AI governance should be identified and decided upon collectively by those who are affected by AI technology, yet what this entails is currently undertheorized.

The Role of Civil Society Actors for the Democratization of Global Governance Institutions: A Function-Sensitive Approach.

The Sámi Parliaments as Representative Bodies: A Comparative Study of the Elections in Sweden and Norway 2013.

Immigrants are severely underrepresented in city halls and national parliaments around the world. In most European countries and even in traditional immigration destinations, the share of immigrants who hold elected office is much lower than their share in the population.

The ambiguous socioeconomic gradient in immigrants’ health in the context of the ‘healthy migrant paradox’

How social policy design can maintain or mitigate income inequality. This project investigates to what degree social policy fails to mitigate income inequality and how income inequality is either mitigated or perpetuated by benefit design.

During the covid pandemic, the Swedish school student movement emerged as a major critic of distance education, but what has it looked like historically? How did the school student movements come about and how have they developed?

The research project is led by Andreas Widholm, Associate Professor of Journalism, and also includes Mattias Ekman, Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies, in the research group based at the Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University.

Does “naming and shaming” by international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) lead to environmental protection?

In the last few years, it has become an established finding that immigrant-background youth tend to make more ambitious educational choices: At given achievement levels and with comparable socioeconomic status, children of immigrants are more likely to choose more demanding tracks.

"The public responsibility for children in foster care: preconditions, strategies and meanings of social services monitoring" is the name of a research project led by David Pålsson.

The aim of this project is to shed new light on the history of democracy in schools by exploring the emergence and transformations of the school based student movement.

Living conditions and life chances tend to run in families. Individuals’ health, attainment of education, and labor market careers largely depend on their parents. This project traces inequality back not only to parents, but grandparents, great grandparents and beyond by linking historical censuses from 1880 to 1950 to modern registers 1960s to 2020.

During three years, the researchers in this project will examine how cause of death data is achieved, partly to generate new understanding about public health, but also to provide a better understanding of how physicians examine causes of death in Sweden and how they relate to and apply standards and guidelines.

The purpose of this project is to assess the unintended health consequences of Sweden’s parental leave policy, while addressing the interplay between parental leave use and health, both before and after childbearing.

To bear the responsibility - A local school perspective on schools as crime preventive institutions. The overall aim is to study how crime prevention initiatives aimed at schools are received, interpreted and practiced at the local school level.

Is it feasible to put global warming to a halt? To reach the climate goals, scholars agree that supply-side mitigation policies must be complemented with demand-side strategies, targeting the consumer end of GHG emissions.

Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine has forced millions of people to flee their homes and seek safety in neighboring countries, not least in the Nordic Region. This postdoctoral project investigates the lived experiences of language among those Ukrainians who have fled to Sweden since the outbreak of the full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022.

The project "Understanding health inequalities experienced by self-identified sexual minorities, same-sex partners, and their children", aims to broaden the knowledge about health inequalities experienced among those who identify themselves as belonging to a sexual minority and their children, as well as among those living in a same-sex relationship.

Mapping out socio-economic status inequalities between and within Swedish households.

This project brings more nuance to the history of suffrage in Sweden. As history is usually written, 1921 marks the end of the struggle for suffrage. But rather than regarding the reform of 1921 as a definitive democratic breakthrough, the research project examines the events of the following century as a continuing but non-linear process of democratisation.

A comparative study of Stockholm and London.

Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) is an unique approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy. They provide a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of rule that goes beyond the simple presence of elections.

Välfärdsstatens institutioner och individuella resurser i ett föränderligt Europa.

Recent developments in AI affect us in many ways, also in higher education. The research project "WASP-ED work area 4: Pedagogical development and learning analytics" is a part of the national WASP-ED program which aims to increase AI capability and capacity in Sweden.

Education is an important basis for children's development and is usually described as a way out of vulnerability. The project deals with the educational careers of a particularly vulnerable group, namely children with experience of community care in the form of placements in foster homes or institutions.

A central idea in modern democracies is that the coercive powers of the state are legitimate only if they derive from the people. The significance of this idea can be found in the numerous constitutional documents where popular sovereignty is highlighted as key principle, or where “we the people” is declared the ultimate source of the constitutional order.

The project "Who decides on a child's health care? An interdisciplinary study on the child's right to participation in decisions concerning care and treatment" explores how the interaction between children, custodians and health care staff affects children's right to participation, determination and integrity in their own health care.

The project "Why Do Working Class Voters Support the Populist Radical Right? A Mixed-Methods Study of a Changing Political Landscape in Sweden" explores the relationship between class politics and support for the populist radical right.

Understanding the mechanisms leading to young people drinking less than the generations before holds implications for approaches to reducing alcohol consumption at the population level in an ongoing way. The project is focuses attention on individual, developmental and social factors of all adolescents, including light drinkers and those who do not drink.

Parents' division of labor across contemporary families. The transition to parenthood is critical in producing and amplifying gender inequalities in work and family life. After parenthood, mothers take on the vast majority of childcare responsibilities. This project reveals sources of gender inequality in work and care after parenthood.

It is currently estimated that there are up to 300 000 Kenyan citizens working in the Gulf states on temporary contracts. Conditions for women domestic workers are particularly harsh. Reports of physical, psychological and sexual violence are frequent.

The aim of this project is to examine young adults’ educational and life careers in areas that are perceived as culturally and economically disadvantaged and how their educational and life careers can be enhanced.