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.
