The book, called The New Normal, draws on fieldwork at three workplaces in Sweden, from a department store to an office and a workplace with highly educated employees.Lyssna: 1112 ENG New book challenges Sweden's narrati…
The research led to new discoveries around the development of Old Norse in Scandinavia.Lyssna: New clues to the origins of the Vikings and their language uncoveredInternational researchers have examined ancient DNA to le…
The Local's reader survey on what life is like for foreign-born researchers in Sweden revealed as many big pluses as major minuses..
Foreign researchers make up half of all new hires in Swedish higher education, but we want to know what you love and hate the most about working in academia in Sweden..
The number of foreign researchers in Sweden has doubled since 2012, and now make up around half of all new hires in university research, a new report from Statistics Sweden revealed..
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The previous Swedish government's law raising income requirements for foreigners with families in Sweden came into force on October 1st, 2026. The Local spoke to SULF, which represents higher education workers, about ho…
Vissa vill satsa på skatter, andra på investeringar.Vissa vill verka för höga klimatambitioner internationellt, andra på hemmaplan.Som om man kunde välja det ena eller det andra.
Swedish researchers warn against winter tyres during summer after fatal crash study – and 'fika' fails to heal spat between right-wing Swedish leaders. Here's the latest news..
Under lördagen samlades tusentals i centrala Stockholm i en klimatdemonstration för att lyfta frågan inför valet. Bakom manifestationen, vars mottot lyder ”Enade för klimatet”, står bland andra Naturskyddsföreningen, Reb…
Från ”researchers på en tankesmedja” – till James Bond-agenter. Nu ska Tysklands ifrågasatta underrättelsetjänst få vidsträckta, nya befogenheter. ”Det är en ny tideräkning”, säger inrikesminister Alexander Dobrindt..
In March 2026, Google researchers revealed that the computing power needed to crack Bitcoin’s encryption is 20 times lower than the industry previously estimated. Not because someone built a better machine but because re…
21Shares have published a new report examining what the quantum threat actually looks like for digital assets, including the timeline, the potential exposure, the prep required, and what this all might mean for asset all…
Sweden's parliament will this week pass a bill which aims to simplify residency rules for foreign researchers and PhD students but also limits how much paid work they can do. Here are the main points..
Alma Dautovic, Aimee Miles, Igor Ryazanov, and Fubu Ngubu, from the SULF union, question whether the government's proposals to making it easier for international researchers like them to settle in Sweden will make a subs…
Sweden's government is pushing ahead with its plan to abolish permanent residency for all future applicants, including those on the basis of Long Term Residence (LTR), ignoring complaints that this would affect Swiss cit…
INSÄNDARE. Inget parti har ännu presenterat en tillräcklig linje för att minska den globala uppvärmningen. Tidöregeringens avfärdande av Klimatpolitiska rådet är magstarkt, skriver Alasdair Skelton, Maria Wolrath Söderbe…
As part of the landmark trade agreement announced on January 27th, the EU and India adopted a ‘mobility framework’ that aims to make it easier for Indian students, researchers and young professionals to move to the EU..
Sweden's government is pushing ahead with long-delayed reforms which will among other things allow PhD researchers to get permanent residency in Sweden after just three years..
Sweden's government has published its list of bills scheduled for spring. Tighter citizenship rules, ending issuance of permanent residency, and better rules for researchers are all in there. Revoking existing permanent…
Sweden's government has said it intends to push forward with a long-delayed plan to bring in better residency permit rules for foreign researchers and PhD students, with a bill scheduled to be published in March..
A Swedish government inquiry has proposed revoking the permanent residency permits of some 120,000 people living in Sweden. It's not only people with asylum who are affected, but also some researchers and many Swiss peop…
Sweden's Migration Agency from the start of this month is aiming to process all complete residence permit applications from researchers and PhD students within 30 days. We spoke to Maral Pichgah Larsson, unit chief at th…
A government-led inquiry recently proposed introducing a self-sufficiency requirement for family members of researchers moving to Sweden. What do we know about the proposal so far?.
A Swedish inquiry has proposed introducing a new two-year waiting period for family reunification in certain cases, as well as a self-sufficiency requirement for family members of researchers and holders of long-term EU…
The threat of espionage at Swedish universities is growing, according to Sweden’s security police, with Russia, China and Iran the most active players. What happens to researchers from these countries caught in the middl…
Human-caused climate change made a recent Nordic heatwave about 2 degrees Celsius hotter, putting a strain on healthcare, ecosystems and indigenous Sami reindeer herders in a region ill-equipped for such events, research…
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Wave after wave of transformative technologies have marked the past 100 years — each moving from invention to mass adoption, reshaping society and generating significant economic value along the way. Now, in the 21st cen…
This week: Stockholm and US Embassy clash over DEI, and why non-EU researchers won't recommend Sweden. For Membership+ subscribers: Grindr leak gives PM another national security headache, and why just six naturalisation…
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