On September 25 it is time for Stockholm University’s annual inauguration and conferment ceremony in the Stockholm City Hall – the most traditional of our academic ceremonies. The ceremony celebrates new doctoral graduates and newly appointed professors as well as honorary doctors.
From fire-prone highlands to lush rainforest and coastal forests, PhD student Friederike Wölke spent part of the summer searching for plants across Madagascar. The specimens she brought back will now help researchers explore how some of the island’s distinctive vegetation evolved, but finding them required flexibility, local expertise and plenty of time in the field.
Around 280 scholars, art historians and researchers from across the globe gathered at Aula Magna.
Since the beginning of the fall, the Stockholm Center on Global Governance (SCGG) and the Department of Political Science have been hosting Andrea Knapp, University of Potsdam (Germany), and Eunsil Choi, University of British Columbia (Canada). SCGG has also been hosting Paul Vernus, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI) in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Sweden and South Korea have taken different paths in building their welfare states. In a new open-access edited volume, researchers from the two countries explore how constitutions, societies and political developments have shaped social rights and welfare policy.
From 17 September, new rules for lithium-ion batteries apply at Stockholm University.
Over two half-days in September, researchers and experts gathered at Campus Albano to discuss current research on the changing world of work.
In autumn 2026, eight new PhD students joined the Department of Teaching and Learning, working in the areas of mathematics education, social studies education, and teaching and learning in humanities. We are delighted to welcome them and look forward to following their research journeys.
For three days, researchers, business and government agencies in cyber security gathered at Stockholm University for CyberSweden 2026, one of Sweden’s largest conferences in cyber security.
Would you like to conduct research on women’s health and ageing, or on the actions and influence of commercial actors in public health, particularly in relation to addictive substances and behaviours, such as alcohol, nicotine and gambling? The Department of Public Health Sciences at Stockholm University is now recruiting two PhD students for research projects in two current and growing fields of research.
Language development begins at a very early age, long before infants are able to speak. At the Babylab at Stockholm University, researchers are working to understand how this process unfolds and what factors are crucial to its development.
Everyone interested in astronomy, young or old, is welcome to the Astronomy night and day (ADON) event on Saturday 19th of September. For more than ten years ADON has been celebrated in Sweden and scientists from the Department of Astronomy at Stockholm University have participated every time. As usual we collaborate with the House of Science (Vetenskapens hus) to make this happen. The event is free of charge.
It is a mild early autumn evening when Stockholm University welcomes new Swedish Institute scholarship holders at master's level. The event is held at the historic Spökslottet (Scheffler Palace) in central Stockholm.
The Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2026 has evaluated over 2,000 world universities across 57 subjects. Economics at Stockholm University tops the list of Swedish universities.
The first year was a success. Now TRACEE 2026 takes off with a new group of dedicated master's students from across the globe.
Since 1990, the prize is awarded to the best article of the year published in the Review of Income and Wealth. Markus Pettersson, researcher in economics at Stockholm University, is one of the 2025 winners.
This year's measurement of Kebnekaise's southern peak shows that the peak has decreased by 0.1 meters compared to last year. This is the eighth year in a row that the southern peak is lower than the northern peak.
"Just a few weeks ago, we still had the center-left in the clear lead. Now we have results showing that indeed, there is a slight majority for the center-left opposition, but it's still too close to call," Jonas Tallberg, co-director of the Stockholm Center on Global Governance, told CNN on Monday morning, the day after Sweden's parliamentary election.
We had our first sunset last night. Well, I think it set although it was hard to tell. According to online sun angle calculators the sun was entirely below the horizon, yet we continued to see what appeared to be a sliver of sun hovering above the horizon for what seemed like hours.
Parents with children that are placed in out-of-home care are often already in a vulnerable position on the labour market. Many of them remain excluded from work and education for years. Parents who are not reunited with their children are particularly vulnerable and disadvantaged – and face persistent exclusion from the labour market. This is shown in a new study in Public Health Sciences from Stockholm University.
- I am Medeea, a 21-year-old student from Romania. I focused on mathematics and informatics in high school. Now I study Physics on a bachelor level and I'm in a traineeship with the ATLAS Group CERN in Romania. I live in Sweden as an exchange student at Stockholm University and I'm looking forward to making Physics and Fysikum more visible by using modern, dynamic digital tools.
Research is used to justify aid decisions rather than to guide them, argues Andreas Madestam, Professor of Economics at Stockholm University. In a new book about development aid, he examines how organizational structures and incentives limit the influence of research on aid decisions and proposes three reforms.
Stockholm University is the leading university in Sweden in five academic subjects in the Shanghairanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) 2026. The university is also placed among the world’s top 50 institutions in five subjects and among the top 100 in a further five.
Peatlands are key areas for the Earth's climate, storing enormous amounts of carbon. What controls productivity in these types of wetlands is an important question for future climate. Newly appointed professor Malin Kylander has spent two decades trying to understand these processes, digging deep into bogs.
NILAS recently welcomed Ricardo Cisneros, Ambassador of El Salvador to Sweden, and Mauricio Alberto Alvarado España, Minister-Counsellor, for a visit and meeting at the institute.
We just had an amazing blizzard, at least for Arctic standards. The snow was coming down, like one of those powder days back home in the Colorado mountains when you can’t wait to get up to the slopes to ski some light and fluffy turns.
As Sweden introduces tougher sanctions for young offenders, a new study from the Department of Criminology at Stockholm University shows that a less interventionist response to minor youth offending did not lead to higher rates of reoffending. Young people who were more often given a prosecution deferral instead of a fine were no more likely to reoffend.
For the second year in a row, students and faculty from the University of Cincinnati visited the Bolin Centre for Climate Research at Stockholm University, continuing an exchange focused on climate, environment and human health.
Gambling operators licensed to operate in the Swedish online gambling market largely place the responsibility for gambling-related harm on individual gamblers rather than on the gambling products themselves. A new study from the Department of Public Health Sciences at Stockholm University shows that gambling operators interpret their statutory duty of care in vastly different ways, and that measures to prevent harm are often introduced only after harm has been identified.
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