Over five weeks, international master's students from ten universities across Stockholm came together to learn more about the Swedish job market, career development and life in Sweden.
A serious security vulnerability in the PHP programming language caused disruptions to websites and IT systems worldwide. As a precautionary measure, several services used by the university through Sunet were temporarily taken offline. Following the implementation of security updates, most services are now back in operation.
How do we understand religion in a changing world shaped by diversity and new technologies? At the EASR conference Religions 360° in Bucharest, researchers from 57 countries explored these and other questions. Staff from the Department of Teaching and Learning presented their research and perspectives.
During this open lecture, two experts will shed light on audio description as a practice and as a field of research: Joel Snyder will host a workshop and Peter Lilliecrona will talk about the organisation Syntolkning Nu.
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Participants expected greater improvement from a human therapist. In practice, however, social anxiety decreased almost as much when feedback was provided by AI. This is shown in a new study from Stockholm University published in the scientific journal Internet Interventions.
The Department of Physics at Stockholm University is one of the larger departments within the Faculty of Science with broad basic research activities, both experimental and theoretical. The department has about 250 employees, including 95 PhD students, and it has an international character. This news is continuously updated with more vacancies!
From late September through mid-October 2026, six individuals were promoted to the rank of professor. One person was appointed as a visiting professor, and one person was named an affiliated professor. David Marsh was promoted to professor of theoretical physics at Fysikum. Stockholm University welcomed all the new professors at a ceremony at Stockholm City Hall.
At Extrality lab, researchers and students experiment with extended reality. Here, researchers are developing technology to help blind people navigate indoors, or create new types of art experiences where the boundaries between physical reality and the virtual world are blurred.
Since Sweden introduced gender-neutral parental leave in 1974, the system has undergone numerous reforms, making it both generous and complex. A new research dataset from the Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS) and the Department of Public Health Sciences at Stockholm University brings together information on the system’s current rules and historical development. The Swedish Parental Leave (SweParLe) Dataset provides researchers with a tool to investigate, for example, how family policy may affect health and health inequalities.
A treasure chest of stories by Swedish authors from the 1880s to the 1950s, many appearing for the first time in English.
On Wednesday 7 October, the Section for German had a visit from the internationally acclaimed German-French author and translator Anne Weber. She participated in a conversation about her literary works with the department’s students and staff, moderated by Hanna Henryson.
On 1 October, the Department of Baltic Studies at Stockholm University took part in the European Day of Languages in collaboration with the Embassy of Latvia in Sweden. The language-orientation café was organised at Finland House in Stockholm by the Nätverket Språkdagen, with support from the European Commission Representation in Sweden.
