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It all started with taking risks. Now, ten years have passed since the Institute for analytical sociology (IAS) was founded."It feels like we have achieved a lot," comments Maria Brandén, senior associate professor.

Our research on urban scaling, published in Science Advances, calls into question an influential theory of the self-reinforcing dynamics of city growth. We show that big cities feed on their hinterlands to sustain growth.

People with the same level of income increasingly live in the same kind of areas. This is shown in new research from Linköping University, where changes in income segregation in Sweden have been investigated for almost 30 years.

In recent years, municipalities have sometimes closed schools dominated by students of immigrant background to counter segregation. But according to new computer simulations at Linköping University, this method seldom gives the desired result.

Selcan Mutgan, a postdoc in analytical sociology at Linköping University in Sweden, was invited to Stanford as a Scancor fellow to participate in research and other activities. Read article to find out what she thinks about this adventure.