Congratulations to all research teams, and best of luck with their exciting projects! 🤩🎉

7) The team examines how social and geographical distance shape partnering patterns in Sweden. Using Swedish register data, the team will disentangle opportunity structures from social preferences and trace how ethnic boundaries have shifted over the past three decades.

7) VR Grant (Segregation Call) — (5 M SEK)
PI: Siddartha Aradhya, with Jesper Lindmarker, Sarah Valdez, Benjamin Jarvis & Carl Nordlund
Funder: Swedish Research Council
Project: “Understanding Social Boundaries through Partner Choice: The Role of Residential Segregation”

6) The project will focus on understanding how unequal exposure to affluence and poverty in neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces reinforces segregation over the life course and across generations, and how some groups manage to break these patterns.

6) VR Grant (Segregation Call) — (6.8M SEK)
PI: @selcanmutgan.bsky.social, with Maël Lecoursonnais, Maria Brandén & Martin Hällsten
Funder: Swedish Research Council
Project: “Paths of Inequality: Life-Course Segregation Across Multiple Domains”

5) The project maps how common it is for local politicians to have ties to PR firms, consultancies, or publicly funded private companies, and examines what these potential conflicts of interest mean for local politics and governance.

5) VR Grant —(4.7M SEK)
PI: Gissur Erlingsson (LiU, CKS), with Emanuel Wittberg (IAS), Richard Öhrvall, Andreas Bergh & Anna Tyllström
Funder: Swedish Research Council
Project: “Ties that Bind? Politics, Lobbying, and Corruption in Local Government”

4) The project will investigate how differences in preschool access and quality across Sweden shape early educational inequalities, especially for children from different socioeconomic and migration backgrounds.

4) VR Grant —(4.8M SEK)
PI: @erikrosenqvist.bsky.social, with Selcan Mutgan & Erik Liss
Funder: Swedish Research Council
Project: “From Cradle to Classroom: Preschool Attendance, Context, and Educational Inequality”

3) The project will investigate how leading political roles at the local level affect health and well-being, and identify ways to make these demanding but important positions more sustainable and attractive over time.

3) Forte Grant —(4.8M SEK)
PI: Gissur Erlingsson (LiU, CKS), with Emanuel Wittberg (IAS), Elin Frögéli & Brjann Ljotsson (KI)
Funder: Forte
Project: “Local politicians' working conditions and health”

2)The project team, in collaboration with Elis Carlberg Larsson, will examine how names spread through social networks, gain social status, and shape life outcomes from education to career and family.

2) RJ Project Grant —(4.8M SEK)
PI: @martinarvidsson.bsky.social, with Peter Hedström & Maria Brandén
Funder: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Project: “The Social Life of Names: Their Network Origins and Life-course Consequences”

1) The project explores a new dimension of political polarization, focusing on how different groups attach distinct meanings to shared political concepts and how these interpretative divergence shapes social division over time.

1) RJ Project Grant —(2.7M SEK)
PI: @mhbodell.bsky.social (IAS), with Amir Goldberg (Stanford University)
Funder: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Project: “Interpretative wars: Division beyond attitudes”