Research

Working with migrants can challenge the usual expectations and routines of the workforce in welfare institutions. Bureaucrats respond differently…

Listen to a podcast on hot topics in current academic research on the Nordic region today include welfare, colonialism and heterogeneity.

The three Scandinavian states of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden all played an important role in shaping international environmental policy from 1970 to…

Prominent Nordic archaeologists have included C J Thomsen, who proposed the first the chronological classification of artefacts, and Lennart von Post,…

It is Sweden’s goal to become one of the world’s first fossil fuel free welfare states, and many Swedish companies are voluntarily working to reduce…

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

The Nordic countries have some of the highest trade union rates of membership in the world. This has by some been attributed to unemployment insurance…

In this short video, Johan Strang, Associate Professor at the Centre for Nordic Studies at the University of Helsinki compares the social democratic…

In 1962 Sweden was said to be the country with the most extensive correspondence education enrolment per capita in the world. This was explained with…

In Argentina, Danish television drama series such as Borgen, The Killing and The Bridge attract a small and dedicated niche audience that is actively…