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Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies

Workshop: Geopolitics, climate change and the search for justice:

The workshop’s aim was to facilitate the sharing of ideas about sustainability and justice related to energy use in a new geopolitical context. Its purpose was to contribute to further academic, economic and political engagement between Latin America and the Nordic countries. Oslo, May 9, 2022.

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Lisa Andersson

New thesis: Addressing youth unemployment: what role for social work?

New thesis in social work: Addressing youth unemployment: what role for social work? Policy responses to youth unemployment in Sweden and Europe

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Swedish Institute for Social Research

Being top of the class can affect your education and income later in life

In addition to the positive effects of having high grades in itself, being top of the class increases the probability that a student finishes a longer education or gets a higher income later in life. For students at the lower end of the grade distribution, being a bit more highly ranked compared to other students in the school increases the probability of finishing upper secondary school. These are the results of a new dissertation in economics from the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University.

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Swedish Institute for Social Research

Men face a greater risk of ethnic discrimination in the labour market

Men with foreign-sounding names applying for a job receive significantly fewer responses to their applications than female applicants with a foreign-sounding name. Both male and female recruiters appear to discriminate against them, although in different occupational groups.

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Aron Schoug,
Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik

Kaos blev till framgång – ny avhandling om att leda storskaliga kreativa samarbeten

En studie av ett konst- och teaterprojekt med 1000 deltagare ger oss ny kunskap om storskaliga kreativa samarbeten.

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Yashar Mahmud
Stockholm Business School

2021 Best Critical Dissertation Award to Yashar Mahmud and his thesis Organizing Refugees

The award is presented by the Critical Management Studies Department of the Academy of Management. Yashar Mahmud defended his thesis at Stockholm Business School in 2020 and today he is an assistant professor at the Management Section.

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Johannes Haushofer

Can no-strings one-off payments fight poverty?

An unconventional approach to fighting poverty is being tried out in Kenya. Poor families are given a cash sum to use entirely as they see fit. Wallenberg Academy Fellow Johannes Haushofer is studying how the money impacts their lives and wellbeing, as well as the socioeconomic effects of the payments.

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Research projects

AI to detect unclear insurance claims

Can AI help us come to terms with fraud? In this project, we use machine learning models to identify indicators for unclear insurance claims in order to deter suspicious damage payments and insurance fraud.

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Advanced Adaptive Intelligent Systems

Working with humans is incredibly difficult for robots. This project aims to develop new ways for robots and intelligent agents to understand, interact with, and adapt to the complex and collaborative ways we humans work together to get through our everyday lives.

Photo from the research: Supporting cooking new things with Furhat robot. Photo: Iolanda Leite, KTH
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Research groups

Consumer Culture Theory Research Group

What unites the researchers in this research group is that we share a vision of consumer culture as the interconnected system of commercially produced objects, images, and texts that various market actors use to construct and produce practices, identities and meanings.

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The Care Research Group

The group brings together scholars that study issues of disability, aging and long-term care related to social policy and organizational conditions and how these interact with citizens’ different positions in the practice of social work.

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