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The Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society, CIRCUS, is a platform for interdisciplinary culture and society research.
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Support for cross-cutting research projects
The main purpose with this support is to facilitate the development of new cross-cutting research projects and ditto grant applications.

Support for research networks
The purpose of the support is to facilitate the development of cross-cutting research networks. The support is awarded after an open call.

Support for collaborations among doctoral students
This call is aimed at doctoral students to facilitate gatherings that promote inter- and multi-disciplinary research collaborations.

Circus's support gave grant from Handelsbanken
The project Rescuing Businesses: Towards a New Perspective on Company Viability is awarded grant from Jan Wallander's and Tom Hedelius' foundation and Tore Browaldh's foundation.

Positive response to support for cross-cutting research projects
The support main purpose is to facilitate the development of new research projects and grant applications. Read two researchers views on the support.

Stöd gav projektbidrag från Energimyndigheten
Vårt stöd för utveckling av nya tvärgående forskningsprojekt och därtill konkurrenskraftiga forskningsansökningar gav resultat. Läs mer i artikeln.

Pod: How to Heritage
Listen to researchers, part of the Heritage Transformations Network, explore issues pertaining to heritage transformations.

Tillgång till vatten – en framtidsfråga även i Sverige
Intervju med bland annat Susann Baez Ullberg, projektledare för Circus-nätverket ”Akvifärer i Antropocen”.

Tvärvetenskapliga möjligheter, praxis och utmaningar
Circus' seminar series on Interdisciplinary opportunities, practice, and challenges is open to anyone with an interest in doing research across disciplinary boundaries.
New book: Arctic Justice: Environment, Society and Governance
The interdisciplinary network Justice, Sustainability and Arctic Futures had support from CIRCUS during 2020 and 2021. Their research has now resulted in a new book featuring international scholars from various disciplines who engage in questions about justice in the European, Russian and North American Arctic.
Editors are Corine Wood-Donnelly (IRES) and Johanna Ohlsson (IRES).

Ny bok: Allas rätt till bostad. Marknadens begränsningar och samhällets ansvar.

Det tvärvetenskapliga forskarnätverket Bostaden som rättighet hade stöd från Circus under 2019-2020. Nu har deras forskning resulterat i en bok. I antologin "Allas rätt till bostad" analyserar 28 bostads- och urbanforskare från olika akademiska discipliner svensk bostadspolitik, dess förutsättningar, historiska utveckling och konkreta resultat.
Bokens redaktörer är Bo Bengtsson (Statsvetenskapliga institutionen och IBF), Markus Holdo (Statsvetenskapliga institutionen och IBF) och Emma Holmqvist (Kulturgeografiska institutionen och IBF).