Stockholm Research Reports in Demography

Language barriers or lack of institutional awareness do not explain why immigrants in Sweden have a higher mortality from COVID-19. These are the conclusions of a new population-based study from Stockholm University that analyzed intermarried couples--immigrants partnered with Swedes.

SUDA congratulates Sven Drefahl for his appointment as Senior Lecturer in Demography at Stockholm University.

SUDA congratulates Matt Wallace for his appointment as Docent in Demography at Stockholm University.

We are happy and proud to congratulate our Ben Wilson who was recently appointed docent in sociology at Stockholm University

We are happy and proud to congratulate our researcher Rosa Weber who receives 2.4 Million Swedish Crowns from FORTE for the project Social Ties and Immigrant Integration: Bridging and Bonding Ties in France and Sweden.

Our researcher Ben Wilson will hold a masterclass at the European Association for Population Studies, EAPS, PhD Event 20 May 2021, titled "Understanding the causes of intergenerational adaptation: Explaining inequalities for the children of refugees and other immigrants".

What would Sweden’s population development have been like if it wasn’t for the uprising against Assad and the following war in Syria? A new study in demography published in the academic journal PLOS ONE has the answer. In the study, the authors have created and calculated hypothetical […]

Hélio Manhica graduated from our Master's Programme in Demography in 2009, and is now a postdoctoral fellow in social epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet.

Our alumnus Marcus Immonen Hagley is now a second year PhD researcher at the European University Institute. 

Our alumna Jeylan Erman is now in her final year of her PhD in Sociology and Demography at the University of Pennsylvania.

We congratulate Amber Beckley who is to be appointed new Stockholm University lecturer at the Department of Criminology.

Two new projects at SUDA, Department of Sociology, get funding from Vetenskapsrådet, the Swedish Research Council.

60 per cent higher. This is how much higher the risk of dying from COVID-19 is for individuals aged 70 and older in Stockholm County who live in the same household as a person of working age compared with the elderly who live with other old individuals. Crowded living conditions are not a risk […]

We are very happy and proud to announce that the 2020 EAPS Award for Population Studies has been awarded to Elizabeth Thomson, and the EAPS 2020 Trailblazer award for demographic analysis has been awarded to Martin Kolk.

Two new projects at SUDA, Department of Sociology, get funding from Forte, the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare.

Being a man, having a lower income, having a lower level of education, not being married, and being born abroad in low- or middle-income countries – these are factors that, independent of one another, are related to an elevated risk of dying from COVID-19 in Sweden. These are the findings of […]

His goal was to take the first chance to move abroad and then move further and further south through research jobs in different countries. And then finally retire in a warmer climate, such as Spain or Italy. But for Gunnar Andersson, Professor of Demography at Stockholm University, things turned […]

Even though a vast majority of the firstborn children in Iceland are born outside of marriage, most parents there tend to marry in the end. In a new PhD thesis in Sociological Demography, Ari Klængur Jónsson shows that in terms of fertility and family behavior in Iceland, things […]

On March 4, the Swedish Research Council held a conference in Stockholm to present the final evaluation of all their past Linnaeus Centers and the concept of supporting Swedish Centers of Excellence. 

Our alumna My Järnefelt studied our two-year Multidisciplinary Master’s Programme in Demography, and is now working as an analyst and forecaster at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.