Research projects

Bridge-building in a divided society? Mapping the establishment of interreligious councils in Sweden.

The discussion regarding the role of religion in the society is intensifying both as a political issue and as a research area. Religion is often portrayed as...

Challenges and opportunities of the sharing economy

Climate-neutral Örebro 2030 is a collaborative project with Örebro municipality as the leading party, with participation from academia, business, and civil...

Challenging segregation through education - a comparative study of local initiatives to challenging school segregation.

This research project analyses and compares local initiatives to counteract school segregation. While previous research has mapped and analysed the causes an...

Chess, sociology and social interaction

This projects contributes to the sociology of chess and to the theoretical understaning of social interaction as such. It develops the concept of "tertius"...

Communication of "good" foods and healthy lifestyles

This project gathers studies with a critical approach to ‘good’ foods –that is foods emerging as healthy, ethical, sustainable and/or as part of successful...

Complex Interdependence in Historical and Comparative Perspectives

States have become more interdependent of each other. The development in one state affects conditions and developments in other states. The aim of this proje...

Conceptual development of environmental sociology

Conceptual development and reflexivity is important for all disciplines, not the least so for environmental sociology. Traditionally, sociology reduced itsel...

Creating Future Welfare: How digitalisation and automation shape knowledges and values that govern hybrid welfare practices

Research problem and specific questions This project explores digitalization and automation by focusing on the hybrid character of welfare services and how...

Crime prevention and security-building work

Decoding the marketization of education in Sweden through computational analyses

The radical transformation of the Swedish educational system in a neo-liberal direction in the last decades is often viewed as both paradoxical and puzzling...