Ongoing research projects
Phoenix: Human Mobility, Global Challenges, Resiliance
Phoenix is a study of how Global Changes - including environmental and climate changes, demographic changes, changing consumption patterns, energy and land-use, developments in the politics of food and mental health, and socio-cultural transformations - impact mobility.
Banal (Non)Religion
Banal (Non)Religion: Secular Imaginaries in Contemporary Pop-Culture. In this project, we will answer the question of how secular imaginaries and worldviews are transmitted in popular culture through analysis of podcasts, comedy, films as well as qualitative interviews.
Older women's volunteer work
Older women's volunteer work: a mixed methods study of resources, values and practices in a religious and a humanitarian organization. The aim of this project is to create knowledge about the resources, values and practices that shape and characterize older women's voluntary work in Sweden. The project focuses on women born 1940–1955.
GAPS - EU project on the return process for migrants in Europe
The EU GAPs project aims to contribute to an efficient and coordinated return process for migrants in Europe. The EU and its Member States face many difficult challenges in returning rejected asylum seekers and "illegal" migrants to their countries of origin or third countries. Around a third of rejected asylum seekers in the EU return to their countries of origin – less than 30% of whom do so voluntarily.
Artificial intelligence, democracy and human dignity
This research project aims to create a clearer idea of the possible effects of the development and spread of artificial intelligence. Particular focus is on rights, ethics, worldviews and social institutions on a global level.
Realizing Rights of Nature
The project examines issues raised in Agenda 2030, the UN's target document for economically, socially and environmentally sustainable development.
Pentecostalism and social media in brazil: faith and the digital production of gendered, racialised and class-based pentecostal bodies
This project aims to examine the intersection of gender, race, and class in online identity constructions among Pentecostal converts in Brazil, as well as the connections that exist between the construction of such identities online and their impact on Pentecostal men and women's experiences of agency and authenticity offline.
The artificial public servant
The researchers are examining the issue of accountability from a philosophical and legal perspective in relation to automated or AI-controlled decision making in public administration.
Rationality in the flesh
This research project wants to investigate the hypothesis that the body has its own form of rationality.
A Thematical Study of the Significance of Imagination for the Alchemical Project
This research project aims to identify, philosophically analyze, and evaluate the significance of imagination for the emergence and development of alchemy during different time periods. The project is related to the discussion of potential interfaces and contradictions between religion and science.
ACDC Hydro
The Swedish National Plan for Modern Environmental Provisions for Hydropower (NAP) aims to ensure that hydropower projects are provided with modern environmental provisions in a way that maximizes benefit to the aquatic environment and an efficient supply of hydropower electricity. The ACDC hydro research project runs from 2023 to 2026 and explores how to effectively manage complexity despite conflicts of interest in the environmental review processes. We do this through an interdisciplinary collaboration combining procedural and environmental law analysis with environmental governance and sociology research.