Collaborations

Swerik welcomes collaborations with research projects and individual scholars. Our working ideology is that researchers who work with the parliamentary infrastructure will also make it better.

Collaboration with research projects investing resources in Swerik

What does it take to make leadership gender equal? Studies of political leadership in a gender balanced context. PI: Josefina Eriksson (Uppsala University). Funder: The Swedish Research Council (2023–2026). Swerik collaboration: annotate interpellation debates.

What will we eat? Food as a security policy issue in Sweden 1900–2025. PI: Johanna Pettersson Fürst (Uppsala University). Funder: The Swedish Research Council (2023–2027). Swerik collaboration: run topic models on parliamentary data.

Extending SWERIK. PI: Måns Magnusson (Uppsala University). Funder: Centre for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at Uppsala University (spring of 2024). Swerik collaboration: improve the segmentation of Swedish parliamentary speeches 1867–2023.

Collaborations with other research projects

Political Representation: Tensions between Parliament and the People from the Age of Revolutions to the 21st Century. PI: Pasi Ihalainen (Jyväskylä University). Funder: Research Council of Finland (2021–2026). Swerik collaboration: use Swerik data for an interface to explore different national parliamentary speeches.

Swedish Parliamentary Debates (SweDeb). PI: Fredrik Mohammadi Norén (Malmö University). Funder: Umeå University (2023–2024). Swerik collaboration: use Swerik data for an interface to explore different national parliamentary speeches.

Welfare State Analytics. Text Mining and Modeling Swedish Politics, Media & Culture, 1945–1989 (WeStAc). PI: Pelle Snickars (Lund University). Funder: The Swedish Research Council (2019–2024). Swerik collaboration: the Swerik project originated from the WeStAc project, which also use its parliamentary speech data for research.

Terrorism in Swedish politics: a multimodal study of the configuration of terrorism in parliamentary debates, legislation, and policy networks in Sweden 1968–2018 (SweTerror). PI: Jens Edlund (KTH). Funder: The Swedish Research Council (2021–2024). Swerik collaboration: use its parliamentary speech data for research, and help out to improve the speech data and the MP database.

A complete dataset of roll-call votes in the Swedish parliament, 1925–2022. PI: Jan Teorell (Stockholm University). Funder: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (2023). Swerik collaboration: add MP chair metadata and help out to improve party information to the MP database.