Goals of the research programme
Digitalisation offers many opportunities for development and increased efficiency, but also raises issues about aspects such as ethics, security, democracy and integrity. The purpose of the research programme is to strengthen research in the societal consequences of digitalisation from a variety of perspectives, such as competition, consumer protection and competence, participation, security and gender equality.
The research programme shall be run based on a strategic and coordinated research agenda that will be followed up, evaluated, and updated continuously. The research agenda is expected to be completed in February 2023.
Participating actors
The programme committee includes representatives from Formas, Forte, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and Vinnova. They give advice on how the programme and the research agenda shall be designed, take part in joint calls where their interests coincide, and provide updates about ongoing and planned initiatives in the area.
The programme also has a knowledge committee with representatives from government agencies and organisations. The committee acts as a link between the research community and stakeholders, and helps to disseminate research research results and to collect knowledge needs.
A reference group with researchers in humanities, social sciences, information science and law also contribute to the work on the research programme.
Research projects approved
Information about each project can be found in Swecris – search on the project title.
Project titles 2025
- AI chatbots as academic support: Exploring their role on adolescents' executive functioning, motivation, and academic achievement
- "DigiShift" – Digital mental health care: how it shapes understandings of care, wellbeing and mental illness
- Beyond the Clinic. Expertise and Experience in Content Creators’ and Audiences’ Interactions around Women’s Reproductive Health on Social Media
- Behind the Digital Mask: Understanding the Social, Psychological, and Regulatory Dimensions of Real-Time AI Filters
- Social consequences of digitalisation of agriculture: Carbon farming actor networks and impacts on smallholder farmers in the Global South
- Platformization of Mental Healthcare in the Digital Age (PlatCare): Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Socio-technical Reconfiguration of Mental Healthcare, Displacement Effect, and Future Direction
- 'Meme-orialising' civil war: audiences’ readings of internet memes about ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland
- Knowledge making in the era of Artificial Intelligence: social regulation of writing for publication processes and products
- Against the Algos. How Comic Artists Manage Careers and Work in the Age of AI
Silicon Valley Sweden - The Vanishing Paper: How Digitalization Transforms Everyday Life and Society
- Cooperate or compete? Potentials and perils of deploying AI for International Water Dispute Management (AI-Water)
- Struggling with screen time: Long-term trends and influences on young people's everyday lives
- The transformation and consequences of news on TikTok
Information about each project can be found in Swecris – search on the project title.
Project titles 2023
- Housing as a digitalized service
- Digital Work Futures: Adopting and adapting to AI-infused platforms in the digital and creative industries
- Automating Authority: Accuracy, Assessment, Acceptance and Legitimacy of AI decision-making in the Public SectorAutomating Authority: Accuracy,
- Assessment, Acceptance and Legitimacy of AI decision-making in the Public Sector
- Inclusive Digital Learning
- Listening pleasures: Sexual health and audio fiction in a time of digital intimacy
- Resilient institutional design of welfare in the digital era (RIDE)
Information about each project can be found in Swecris – search on the project title.
Project titles 2022
- The digital right to repair: a study of legal ideals, public controversies and messy practices
- Digital infrastructure sovereignty: Towards a public value-based media policy for the datafied Swedish welfare state
- The Politics of Automated Systems of Governing: implications for public administration and gender equality
- INTIMATE AI: Young women’s self-perception and embodied knowledge in the age of automation
- Postdigital Propaganda? Understanding Digitally Enabled Disinformation
- Implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI): Exploring how AI changes information and knowledge practices in healthcare
- Receptivity to misinformation in the digital age
- Digital by default? Older adult citizens and digital welfare interfaces
- A divided digitalized democracy?
One of six national research programmes
This is one of six national research programmes for which the Swedish Research Council is responsible. The programmes are broad, ten-year initiatives aimed at coordinating research within a particular area.
Calls and events within the programme
Projects awarded funding will be part of the national research programme, and will be coordinated by a scientific coordinator.
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