At this year’s Nobel event at LUSEM, researchers, teachers, staff and friends of our school were able to celebrate both the prize-winning scientists in Stockholm, as well as some of our very own.
Making our research known and accessible to a wider audience can be a tall order. This is especially true when you are deeply plunged into the project itself, meeting deadlines, or the subject is near impossible to understand, unless you are a specialist in that particular field.
Those are a few of the reasons why we recognise and reward some of our colleagues who have done exceptionally well in this respect. The awards, supported by a generous grant from Sparbanken Skånes Ägarstiftelse Finn are called:
The Outstanding Research Award and the Outreach Award
The first outstanding research award for an excellent scientific publication went to Carys Egan-Wyer and Jon Bertilsson for the article “Envisioning post-growth marketing: A dystopian-optimist’s guide”. The article introduces the concept of dystopic optimism and discusses how marketing can help make a more sustainable future desirable.
One more prize was awarded in this category and it went to Petter Lundborg, for his article,” On the Family Origins of Human Capital Formation: Evidence from Donor Children”. In this empirical study Petter used unique data to separate effects of nature and nurture when looking at inequalities over time and generations.
Lastly, the outreach award for excellence in research outreach to industry and the public went to Fredrik NG Andersson who was rewarded for his presence and impact on the public discourse, explaining financial policy, the effects of central banks, national debt, inflation goals and much more. In the motivation his work is described as “close to missionary”, when it comes to making us all understand that economic development is far from inevitable.
Once again congratulations to our prize winners!