Knowledge and education for a sustainable world

Four researchers at Stockholm University are awarded prestigious ERC Advanced Grants. Their areas of research are within theatre studies, neurochemistry and physics.

Using the citizen science project BatMapper, researchers ask the public to assist in collecting data that will help in understanding the impact a northward shift in distribution will have on the northern bat, a species now classified as near-threatened.

A national survey will study the prevalence of sexual harassment and gender-based violence in academia. At the end of April, a questionnaire will be sent to randomly selected students, doctoral students and staff.

A new coalition is urging governments to prevent long-term – and essentially permanent – dire global consequences from the Earth’s cryosphere (snow and ice) regions due to overshoot of the Paris climate goals, just as the U.S.-hosted Climate Summit begins.