Graham Macklin is a researcher at C-REX and wants to understand how the terrorist attacks on 22 July affected a new generation of right-wing extremists. Despite the bleak nature of the research area, he finds that people recognise there are solutions and optimism.
Fulvio Castelacci is in the early stages of a FRIPRO project, which will examine the economic and societal implications of AI and how public policy can help regulate this development.
Marianne Riddervold enjoys solving puzzles and asking questions related to unexpected things. This is one of the reasons why she finds researching European integration at ARENA exciting.
Elina Hartikainen from the Department of Social Anthropology has done ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, adressing the country's religion and politics. According to her, one of the most important questions of our time is understanding how the turn to religious arguments in conservative politics threaten and reconfigure liberal politics.
Professor Laavanya Kathiravelu at ISS researches whether citizenship has an impact on integration and belonging in Singapore and Qatar. Her own upbringing in multicultural Singapore contributed to her interest in this area of research.
– What makes it interesting to be a researcher is the combination of the freedom to choose my own line of research and the ability to spend time getting deeply immersed in a topic to really understand it and capture its complexity, says Jens Jungblut, professor at The Department of Political Science.
