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Our research is focused on social policy, welfare, inequality, and the labour market. More on SOFIs research here.

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Stephanie Plenty awarded Emerging Scholar Best Article Award, 2018 2018-12-19 Stephanie Plenty was awarded Emerging Scholar Best Article Award, 2018 by Journal of Youth and Adolescence for the article Social Exclusion among Peers: The Role of Immigrant Status and Classroom Immigrant Density, written together with Jan O. Jonsson.
The Swedish Research Council decide to grant SOFI-project fundings 2018-11-05 Karin Edmark and Dan-Olof Rooth receives funding from The Swedish Research Council (VR).
Project grants from Riksbankens jubileumsfond to SOFI-project 2018-11-05 Kenneth Nelson receives funding from Riksbankens jubileumsfond
Two Post-Doctoral Researcher/Assistant Professor to SOFI 2018-10-19 The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University seeks to fill 2 Post-Doctoral Researcher/Assistant Professor positions in labor economics. Appointments will be effective August 2019.
Two senior lecturership/associate professor positions at SOFI 2018-10-15 SOFI has two positions in sociology open (closing date 25 October 2018)

In Memoriam Åsa Rosén

Professor Åsa Rosén, who worked at the Institute for Social Research (SOFI) from 1999 to 2016, has passed away at the age of 57.

In Memoriam Åsa Rosén

Latest publications

Alm, S. & Roxell, L. 2019. "Your Own Personal Jesus? Doctrinal Beliefs Versus Personal Spirituality Among Inmates Involved in the Monastery Route in Swedish Prisons", Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

la Roi, C., Meyer, I. H., & Frost, D. M. 2019. "Differences in sexual identity dimensions between bisexual and other sexual minority individuals: Implications for minority stress and mental health", American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 89(1), 40-51.

Plenty, S. M., Evans-Whipp, T. J., Chan, G. C., Kelly, A. B., Toumbourou, J. W., Patton, G. C., Hemphill, S. A., Smith, R. 201). "Predicting alcohol misuse at age 19 from adolescent drinking trajectories", Substance Use & Misuse.

Engeman, C. 2018. “’Job-Killer’ Bills in Tough Economic Times: Social Movements and Leave Policy Agendas before and after the Great Recession.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly 23(3): 329-347.

Events and seminars

24 Jan AME Job talk José Montalbán Castilla (Paris School of Economics)
05 Feb Juta Kawalerowicz (Linköping University)
19 Feb Philipp Lersch (Humboldt University)
05 Mar Jayeon Lindellee (Lund University)
07 Mar Astrid Kunze (NHH Bergen)

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