#5 Building excellent research environments. Interview with Prof. Peter Hedström, Linköping Univ.

Building excellent research environments. Interview with Professor Peter Hedström, Founder and previous director of the Institute of Analytical Sociology, Linköping University.

In this interview, I talk with Professor Peter Hedström, who is the Founder and previous director of the Institute of Analytical Sociology, Linköping University. Peter is a Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College in Oxford. He is a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He is one of the driving forces behind the development of analytical sociology and has written several articles and books on the topics. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors for your, for example, the James S. Coleman Book Award from the American Sociological Association for Dissecting the Social.

Given his extensive experience, we discuss his perspective on academic excellence, leadership, and how to build research environments.

I hope you enjoy it!

Adel

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About me, the interviewer. At the time of producing this interview, I was an Associate Professor at the Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, and an
Affiliated Associate Professor in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for the Social Sciences, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Previously he held positions at Harvard University, University of Cambridge, Max Planck Institute for the Studies of Societies, and the Alan Turing Institute.

My research has both a social scientific and methodological orientation. For the social sciences, I research the effects of economic, political, and natural shocks on living standards and health, globally and locally. I implement and develop novel methodologies in machine learning and causal inference to analyze the causes and consequences of poverty and health. I have published in journals such as PNAS, Science Advances, World Development, International J of Epidemiology, American J of Epidemiology, and Ecological Economics, and in machine-learning conferences as Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). More information at www.adeldaoud.se.

I am leading The AI and Global Development Lab. The vision of the Lab is to “combine AI, earth observation, and social theory to analyze sustainable development globally and locally.” More information is provided at www.global-lab.ai )


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00:00 - Introduction
03:38 - Balancing different personas
11:51 - Drivers of leadership
27:17 - Moving from Oxford
45:55 - Building strong research enviroments
53:53 - Publishing
1:00:57 - Giving and taking
1:11:08 - Moving accross discipline
1:17:54 - Becoming a methodologist or not
1:21:22 - Micro strategies
1:29:34 - Ending questions on the future