During this spring semester, the PhD Council received 10,000 SEK for exciting end-of-semester activities. Anneli Blomqvist, Beatrice Hansen and Harita Raval from the board have been involved in planning the activities and submitting the grant application.
Tasis Kapodistrias and Giacomo Bortolini have been working together since September 2022 in a new paired-PhD project based on representation in Astronomy higher education. By working and learning from each other, they gain invaluable experience for their future careers.
From April until early May, Sophie Perry is visiting us from King’s College London, where she is a PhD student. Her main focus is to investigate how environmental education organisations conceptualise and enact their role in relation to environmental and social issues.
Benita Nel is visiting us at the Department of Teaching and Learning for two weeks as part of her sabbatical semester. The purpose of her visit is to exchange ideas and find future cooperation opportunities.
There are nearly 40 PhD Student Councils for various departments at Stockholm University. The primary purpose is to represent the diversity of voices and views of the PhD colleagues at department board meetings – and to become an active part of the decision-making processes at the university.
Early December this year, a new handbook was released at Springer Nature in the research area "site-related kinesthetic teaching and learning" which deals with arts education and aesthetic learning processes. Nearly 40 researchers are involved from different continents.
Early December this year the Swedish Research Council granted funds of almost SEK 25 million for a new research school in religious studies, with a focus on Islamology. It´s a collaborating between several universities in Sweden. Jenny Berglund and Susanne Olsson from Stockholm University are involved in the work.
We are happy to announce that the Department of Teaching and Learning got three research projects granted at the beginning of November. The purpose of the grants is to support innovative and ground-breaking research ideas in educational science.
Since 2018, researchers from Stockholm University, the University of Chile and the Pontifical Catholic University in Valparaíso in Chile have been conducting a long-term joint research collaboration on diversity and inclusion in mathematics teacher education.
Pronunciation teaching when learning a second language - is that needed and why? How much English do children learn before school age? What do teachers of modern languages think about their subject? These are some of the questions addressed in the book Exploring Language Education – Global and Local Perspectives.
