Main research areas:- Regional growth and migration- Local public economics- Political economics- Spatial econometricsMain teaching:- Mathematics for economists (advanced)- Microeconomics

The Graduate School in Population Dynamics and Public Policy is part of the Linnaeus Grants Ageing and Living Conditions (ALC) financed by the Swedish Research Council for research on ageing, mobility and demographic change. The school opened in the Autumn semester of 2007.The programme includes approximately twenty postgraduate students from different departments and faculties, whose dissertation topics are tied to the programme’s field of knowledge. The students are recruited nationally, however, international students are also allowed to apply.Postgraduates students who are offered a position in the programme must be enrolled at and receive funding from their home departments. Thus, the Graduate School in Population Dynamics and Public Policy serves as an umbrella organisation for interdisciplinary encounters – through seminars and workshops – and gives students access to both international networks and high-quality databases of relevance for their own research.

Founded in 1954, RSAI is an international community of scholars interested in the regional impacts of national or global processes of economic and social change. The work of RSAI draws on the expertise of many different disciplines and this multi-disciplinary approach helps to facilitate new theoretical insights for tackling regional problems. In turn this provides an increasing opportunity for academics within the Association to engage more fully with planners and policy makers. Building on a strong foundation of quantitative methods, regional science is at the cutting edge of research into new model design for regional analysis and impact assessment. The Association fosters the exchange of ideas and research within regional science through its publications and the international scientific conferences it hosts. RSAI hosts the North American Regional Science Association Meeting (NARSA), the European Regional Science Association Meeting (ERSA), the Pacific Regional Science Conference Organisation (PRSCO) and the World Congress of the Regional Science Association International