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There are many benefits when academia, private, public and non-profit sectors meet and collaborate. By collaborating with our researchers, you can benefit from the University's know-how in the development of your organisation.

Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week Sweden is organised by the Dawit Isaak Library in Malmö and Swedish PEN. It is a way of keeping the debate on freedom of expression alive and a powerful defence of everyone’s right to read. In collaboration with the Dawit Isaak Library,...

Censorship & Education

Inaugural lecture: Torkel Richert –Understanding drug problems

‘We focus too much on who commits crimes and too little on why’

STAFF PORTRAIT. He grew up in Brynäs, then one of Gävle’s most socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods, and went on to become one of the world’s most internationally recognised criminologists. After 45 years of research, Professor Per-Olof Wikström continue...

Moving beyond the nation state. Cross-cultural migrations and social change

The University in a troubled world

At a time of war and conflict in the world, anxiety is increasing across society, which of course includes those studying and working at the University. There are several different perspectives that the University needs to relate to and address.

Conscription as Political Socialization in Divided Societies? Evidence from post-Soviet Estonia and post-independence Finland

50 years of amnesties – exceptions as part of Swedish migration policy

Since the 1970s, around 100,000 people have been allowed to stay in Sweden through amnesties – due to a combination of practical and humanitarian reasons. This is according to researcher Henrik Emilsson, who sees parallels with today's debate on the...

Exporting labour: new doctoral thesis on Yugoslavia’s labour migration policy

During the 1960s and 1970s, more than one million people left the former Yugoslavia, many of them to work in Western Europe. A new doctoral thesis demonstrates how the socialist state developed extensive systems to regulate, shape, and capitalise on labou...