Research Foreign powers' intelligence activities directed towards Swedish higher education institutions have grown in number in recent years. Russia, China and Iran are the biggest threats according to Säpo, the Swedish Security Service.
“My life and that of all Ukrainians changed”
Academic freedom The first task was to find out if our students were alive
Signed petition for peace – got fired
Profiles Turkish university lecturer and researcher Onur Can Taştan signed a peace petition against fighting in south-eastern Turkey. Then he lost his job. With the help of SULF, he has come to Uppsala University and is studying trade unions in Sweden and Turkey.
Academia should push back against unscientific claims
Opinion Reply to Swedish Radio and Universitetsläraren
Are researchers really spreading hate and threats?
Opinion Unfounded claims about researchers are a threat to academic freedom
Member of Parliament emailed Vice Chancellor: Is this course “meant to be taken seriously”?
Academic freedom
Kristina Axén Olin, second vice chair of the Standing Committee on Education, asks in an email to the Vice Chancellor of Malmö University whether a course is “meant to be taken seriously” and about the university’s “thinking”.
Unacceptable, meddlesome and a reminder that academic freedom must be strengthened are among the reactions from the higher education sector.