This doctoral thesis investigates the conceptual, epistemological, andpsychological dimensions of conspiracy theories, aiming to develop a more preciseand philosophically rigorous framework for understanding and evaluating them.The work is structured around five original papers that address key questions:What constitutes a conspiracy theory? Are such theories inherently irrational?How should we co

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being discussed at the international level, with a particular focus on its potential to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Global Digital Compact, adopted at the Summit of the Future, calls for the establishment of international institutions to govern AI technologies. The impact of AI on sustainable development is a multifaceted

Migration journeys are arduous, with migrants tormented by risk, abuse, threats, and xenophobia. Shelters, staffed by humanitarian workers and volunteers, provide safe spaces for those in transit. Shelter on the Journey examines how these sites, often faith-based civil society associations, create solidarity and help politicize migrants, giving them a sense of themselves as an empowered, rights-ho

This article highlights the restructuring of the Swedish welfare state through looking at how a humanitarian logic has entered civil society at a local level around the issue of precarious housing for unaccompanied youth. Drawing on existing literature on ‘humanitarian reason’ (Fassin 2011) and ‘humanitarian citizenship’ (Cabot 2019), the article explores the 2019 ‘crisis’ affecting unaccompanied

The introduction of electric heavy trucks will lead to new charging power requirements on the power grid. This study examines how much charging power is required for the public fast charging of a fully electrified long-haul truck fleet. Probabilistic truck charging profiles are created using agent-based simulations, based on fully representative long-haul goods transport data from the study area.

Decolonizing development has animated conferences, grants, and programs for several years, a response to the ineffectiveness of much aid and ongoing colonial legacies. Yet, little attention has gone to the education of development practitioners and its impacts on their professional practices. We lack practical approaches for decolonizing our classrooms, especially approaches based on experiences o

This paper explores the sociological impact of transitioning justice rituals in physical criminal courtrooms to virtual justice rituals. Traditionally, criminal courtroom rituals – often associated with formal architecture, dress codes, and ceremonial symbols but also including fuzzier aspects such as sensorial experiences and atmospheres – are understood as reinforcing authority, fairness, and le

PURPOSE: The study investigated curative radiation therapy (RT) plus cisplatin versus RT plus cetuximab in patients with locoregionally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).METHODS AND MATERIALS: This was a Swedish multicenter randomized phase 3 study. Included patients were randomized 1:1. Patients with T3-T4 tumors underwent a second randomization 1:1 between a final RT dose of

The increasing global concern for greenhouse gas emissions has led to a fast pace in the transition away from fossil fuels in the transport sector. The share of electric passenger cars is increasing quickly, introducing new loads on the power grid. These loads primarily appear at the distribution grid level, where most of the charging occurs in the form of overnight charging at home. Although the

The Swedish brothers Magnus (Johannes, 1488–1544 and Olaus, 1490–1557) are best known as the authors of two enormous works on Swedish and Scandinavian history. They spent a considerable part of their lives in the shadow of the advent of Lutheranism in Sweden, which was a crisis on a political, religious, and personal level for the brothers, being devout Catholics. Johannes arrived in Sweden in 152

This paper constructs the first long-run estimates of Irish regional GDP over the twentieth century and traces the relative economic performance of Ireland’s regions since independence. Using an array of data sources available at a county level, output in Agriculture, Industry and Services in benchmark census years is estimated. Applying a variety of alternative measures, we find a reduction in re

Eko was a sound installation made to the art exhibition Öppen visning (May 2025 in Lund, Sweden). The exhibition was set in an apartment for sale and combined the works of several artists. The work uses sounds generated and recorded in the apartment, a 1950’s radio program, and a text borrowed from a visual artwork by Lars Embäck which is also part of the exhibition. The sound installation is acco

Here we report the results from exploratory analysis using a Bayesian network approach of data originally derived from a large North European study of type 2 diabetes (T2D) conducted by the IMI DIRECT consortium. 3029 individuals (795 with T2D and 2234 without) within 7 different study centres provided data comprising genotypes, proteins, metabolites, gene expression measurements and many differen

In this paper, I explore similarities and differences between contemporary transphobic and anti-Jewish discourses. While scholars have shown entanglements between homophobic and antisemitic discourses in the European 19th century, as well as similarities between contemporary homonationalist and Western philosemitic discourses, less attention has been paid to how anti-trans and anti-Jewish discours

BACKGROUND: Previous case-control studies have reported aberrations of the gut microbiota in individuals with prediabetes. The primary objective of the present study was to explore the dynamics of the gut microbiota of individuals with prediabetes over 4 years with a secondary aim of relating microbiota dynamics to temporal changes of metabolic phenotypes.METHODS: The study included 486 European p