Public policy

Kalle Kustaa Topias Könkkölä was an environmental activist, politician and key figure of the Finnish disability rights movement. Having been…

Maintaining high quality welfare organizations is tough even in the Nordic countries with a myriad of unforeseen challenges to contend with, including…

Danish nurses still receive 10-20% less in pay than male-dominated professions requiring a similar level of education. There are many contributing…

Listen to a podcast on the educational systems of the Nordic countries.

During the last century, the situation of people with disabilities in the Nordic welfare states has changed dramatically. For a long time disability…

The Nordic Model’ is a concept that appears frequently in scholarship, media reports, and public debates to refer to the socio-political organization…

Listen to a potted history of the Danish immigration policy, 1970-1992 in either English or Danish! This podcast is part of a series where existing…

Widespread economic transformations, such as increasing automation, tend to negatively affect some groups more than others in the Nordic countries, as…