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  • Hanna Kulahina-Stadnichenko – new visiting researcher through Scholars at Risk

    Hanna Kulahina-Stadnichenko has been a SAR scholar at IÄD since March 1. During her time here, she will continue to develop her research on religiosity and processes of change in religion. She aims to develop new perspectives, build networks, and integrate Ukrainian research into a global context.

    Department of Teaching and Learning
  • SUBIC

    SUBIC Contributes to SVT Series The Dementia Choir

    The SVT Play series The Dementia Choir highlights how choir singing can promote social interaction, stimulate memory, and support quality of life for people living with dementia. Research conducted at the Stockholm University Brain Imaging Centre (SUBIC) contributes scientific insight into how music influences brain activity and cognitive ageing.

    SUBIC − Stockholm University Brain Imaging Centre
  • Close up of young father holding his newborn baby son in his arms.

    New Research Project Puts Sweden´s Parental Leave Under the Microscope: Impacts on Mental Health Across Life

    A new research project at Stockholm University is set to examine how one of Sweden’s most influential social reforms – the introduction of parental leave – has shaped mental health across generations. Led by Helena Honkaniemi-Hoppe, researcher at the Department of Public Health Sciences, the project has been awarded SEK 3.31 million in funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond over three years.

    Department of Public Health Sciences

  • Experimental Discovery of a New Critical Point in Water

    Using x-ray lasers, researchers at Stockholm University have been able to determine the existence of a critical point in supercooled water at around -63 °C and 1000 atmosphere. Ordinary water at higher temperatures and lower pressures is strongly affected by the presence of this critical point, causing the origin of its strange properties. The findings are being published in the journal Science.

    Department of Physics
  • Glass chambers used to measure methane and carbon dioxide placed on a field of dry grass.

    New global system needed to track methane’s hidden climate risks

    A new Policy Forum paper in Science calls for a step change in how the world monitors methane – a greenhouse gas that plays a critical role in near-term climate warming. Led by researchers at Woodwell Climate Center and co-authored by Gustaf Hugelius, co-director of the Bolin Centre, the paper highlights a key blind spot in current climate efforts: natural methane emissions are both substantial and poorly tracked.

    Bolin Centre for Climate Research

  • AI in Focus as Human Science Researchers Meet at Stockholm University

    In March, researchers from several departments within the Human Science Area at Stockholm University gathered for an open seminar and community-building event on AI in research. The event combined short lightning talks with suggested themes for group discussions that aimed to open a dialogue on how AI is affecting research practice, methods, and academic culture.

  • Photo of the Alfa Centauri group 

    Space concert at Tekniska museet with Alfa Centauri

    As light emitted in the dawn of the Universe meets the sound of a piano, something remarkable happens. On the 15th of April Tekniska museet hosts a concert where music, research and magnificent space images merges to create an experience that moves between the heartfelt and the infinite.

    Department of Astronomy
  • Pehr Granqvist, portrait.

    New Book: Attachment, Religion, and Spirituality

    Together with Ward Davis at Wheaton College in Illinois, professor Pehr Granqvist at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, have just published Attachment, Religion, and Spirituality in Cambridge University Press's Elements series. The book is available online as of March 11, 2026, with print publication in April.

    Department of Psychology

  • New dissertation in History of Ideas

    Linnea Ripenberg has written the thesis Racial Play: Representations of Blackness in Court Festivals of the Early Modern Holy Roman Empire and Scandinavia.

    Department of Culture and Aesthetics

  • New book honors Public International Law Professor Wrange

    How are power and influence structured in today’s international legal order? A new open access anthology, published in honor of Professor Pål Wrange at Stockholm University, gathers leading scholars and practitioners from around the world to tackle some of the most urgent issues in public international law.

    Department of Law

  • Genetic mapping of Baltic Sea herring important for sustainable fishing

    Herring from different parts of the Baltic Sea belong to distinct populations genetically adapted to local differences in salinity and temperature. However, these populations can also mix with each other, according to a new study by researchers from Uppsala University, Stockholm University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. These results have important implications for the management of the Baltic herring. The study is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

    Department of Zoology

  • Pernilla Leviner appointed honorary doctor at UiT

    Professor Pernilla Leviner, Dean of the Faculty of Law at Stockholm University, has been appointed honorary doctor at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø.

    Department of Law
  • Two young schoolgirls standing with their arms around each other inside a school library during the day 

    Childhood Friendships Could Have an Impact on Income, Mobility and Health

    The people you were sitting next to in school may matter more than you think. For children from a low-income background, having a friend from a more privileged background may be enough to succeed later in life and thus also have better health. This is shown in a new thesis by PhD student Klara Gurzo from the Department of Public Health Sciences at Stockholm University.

    Department of Public Health Sciences
  • Portrait of Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari 

    From code to emotions: “AI is changing storytelling in games”

    Today’s game characters can express joy and sorrow and act on their own desires and needs, much like people. Game researcher Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari develops intelligent agents, AI systems designed to behave like humans, complete with emotions and moods.

  • Gabriel Zucman and Daniel Waldenström.

    Gabriel Zucman and Daniel Waldenström visit Stockholm University

    How has economic inequality evolved in the world’s wealthy countries – and what does it mean for Sweden? On 31 March, Gabriel Zucman and Daniel Waldenström will meet in Aula Magna at Stockholm University for an open conversation on trends, causes, and possible ways forward.

    Department of Economics

  • Sweden–Taiwan Collaboration

    Professor Su Huey-Jen Visits the Department of Geological Sciences to Strengthen Sweden–Taiwan Collaboration

    Department of Geological Sciences

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