Politics SULF tells the government that stricter requirements for permanent residence permits in the proposed new Migration Act may make it more difficult for Sweden to retain foreign researchers.
Europe needs to cooperate to transform higher education
Opinion Public consultation will be important for the EU’s new Higher Education Transformation Agenda.
Lengthy pandemic
hits postdocs hard
Conditions Many postdocs have been impacted by the corona pandemic. Short contracts mean that delays at work hit particularly hard. Others are managing relatively well and have found ways to deal with the problems, but more and more postdocs may end up in a critical situation the longer the pandemic goes on.
Corona is accelerating the development of future teaching
Education The uniquely rapid transition to distance mode has been a powerful driver of the digitalisation of higher education. But how much of that change will endure after the pandemic? Universitetsläraren has asked a number of key people.
She portrays Vietnamese
history through art
Profiles Inspired by family photos that survived war and refugeeism, the artist and doctoral candidate Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn explores Vietnam's freedom movements through the country's own photographic history.
Every fifth postdoc is excluded from the statistics
Conditions Neither the universities nor the Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ) keep track of the most vulnerable postdocs: those on scholarships. Universitetsläraren has investigated where they are working, and is also able to show that there has been a significant rise in the proportion of international postdocs among those employed.
Postdocs come together to make their voices heard
Careers Sonchita Bagchi didn’t want to just sit and cry over dreadful postdoc stories. That’s why she established Uppsala University Postdoc Association in 2017. Postdocs have begun to organise, and in 2018 a national postdoctoral researcher association was created.
“Should we have professors on scholarships too then?”
Conditions SULF is open to reviewing the postdoc contract regulated by the collective bargaining agreement. But the biggest issue for the union is the terms and conditions for postdocs on scholarships.