Åre Risk Event – On Tour 2026, the conference that we at the Risk and Crisis Research Centre at Mid Sweden University This year’s format is new and means that we are taking the conference outside of Åre to create new meeting spaces and give participants a unique opportunity to visit our lab.

New study with Olov Hemmingsson in @lgstudies.bsky.social This study sheds new light on the local politics of welfare decentralisation. Using a new dataset on Sweden’s municipal labour market initiatives, it investigates why some municipalities run extensive local labour market programmes.

New paper with Sofie Blombäck in @scandpolstud.bsky.social focusing on elite deliberation in a Swedish municipality. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Mid Sweden University is looking for a doctoral student to one of two orientations. One research orientation focuses on the interaction between voters, parties, elections, and public opinion. The second research orientation focuses on localpolicymaking and the implementation of political decisions.

BOSTADSMÖTET 2025 | 6-7 MAJ | UPPSALA Tema: Den segregerade staden – nya perspektiv på en hållbar bostadsplanering

A new blog post by @gustavliden.bsky.social, Emma Holmqvist, Joel Jakobsson, Kristoffer Jutvik, and Jon Nyhlén - t.ly/pFanc ! The article “Gatekeepers of the Undesired? A systematic literature review on local housing policy and the settlement of vulnerable groups” is available here: t.ly/gZvxE

A new article by @gustavliden.bsky.social, Emma Holmqvist, Joel Jacobsson, Kristoffer Jutvik and Jon Nylén is now available on our FirstView page. It is entitled "Gatekeepers of the Undesired? A systematic review on local housing policy and the settlement of vulnerable groups": tinyurl.com/yxuak4am

Happy to see our study of local housing policy published in the @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social. We examine the neglected dimension of housing policy on how municipalities use it as a gatekeeping mechanism to exclude vulnerable groups and thereby control their territory. shorturl.at/mHoaE

Have finished the first part of the doctoral student course on mixed methods at Mid Sweden University. Really good discussions on the literature of Creswell, Plano Clarke, Seawright and others!

Happy Friday everyone!

Dags för det årliga RCR-internatet. Denna gång i Sundsvall med fokus på den forskning som centrat presenterar. www.miun.se/rcr

Kommenterar svårigheten med utvärderingar av regionala projekt. www.ltz.se/2024-11-16/s...