Vad gör gränser med oss? Utifrån pågående forskning och aktuella arbetssätt hos professionella ”gränsarbetare” som poliser, tull och politiker, hur kan arbetet med att upprätthålla och skydda nationel...

A common explanation for why waste management sometimes fails is that carelessness breeds more carelessness. Now, research from the University of Gothenburg shows that dirty waste disposal rooms can e...

Researchers are looking into how precarious and informal jobs are shaping people’s lives. Is the Nordic welfare state truly equal for everyone who works within it?

By Åsa Össbo, Umeå University Few could have missed the relocation of Kiruna Church in August, and the announcement that followed just a week later: even more of Kiruna’s urban area will need to be…

In today's Nordic region, borders are both passageways and filters, where work at national crossings has become a tool for patching up ‘the cracks in the external Schengen borders’.

Unga i nordisk glesbygd delar liknande oro inför framtiden. En ny studie visar att många tidigt inser att de måste flytta eller pendla för att studera och arbeta, men att banden till hemorten och dröm...

WE WANT TO KNOW WHY. This century, we will face a range of societal challenges both in the Nordic countries and globally. We believe that social and human sciences can give us the answers we are looki...

WE WANT TO KNOW WHY. This century, we will face a range of societal challenges both in the Nordic countries and globally. We believe that social and human sciences can give us the answers we are looki...