About the faculty
The Faculty of Social Sciences is one of the four faculties at Stockholm University and consists of sixteen departments and around ten institutes/centres.
Södra Husen, Frescati. Photo: Sören Andersson/Stockholms universitet.
Departments, institutes and centres
Faculty management
The faculty management consists of the Dean, the Deputy Dean, the Vice-Dean with special responsibility for teacher education, the Vice-Dean with special responsibility for undergraduate education, and the Head of Office.
Dean
Yvonne Svanström. Photo: Sören Andersson.
Professor Yvonne Svanström
Department of Economic History and International Relations
Deputy Dean
Jonas Häckner. Photo: Sören Andersson.
Vice-Dean with special responsibility for teacher education
Lena Hübner. Photo: Sören Andersson.
Vice-Dean with special responsibility for undergraduate education
Magnus Nermo. Photo: Sören Andersson.
Head of Office
Karin Flyborg. Photo: Stockholms universitet
Faculty Board
The Faculty Board is the decision-making body of the Faculty of Social Sciences. According to the Higher Education Ordinance, the Board is ultimately responsible for education at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level, as well as for the research conducted within the faculty. The Faculty Board includes representatives of teachers, researchers and students. The chair of the Faculty Board is Dean Yvonne Svanström.
The decisions that the board may make are set out in the Faculty of Social Sciences' decision-making and delegation regulations. The Faculty Board is also responsible for certain types of decisions in accordance with the provisions of the Higher Education Act and the Higher Education Ordinance, which can be found on the website of the Swedish Council for Higher Education and in Stockholm University's delegation regulations.
The Faculty Board has also appointed various bodies to prepare specific issues.
Quick facts
Here you can find facts about the Faculty, a quick overview of Sweden's largest faculty – number of students and staff.
2025
Students
16 674 FTEs (Including contract education and activities subject to tuition fees)
Doctoral students approximately 500
Staff (FTEs) (women in brackets)
Professors 197(59)
Senior Lecturers 353 (196)
Associate Senior Lecturers 22 (7)
Researchers 135 (82)
Lecturers44 (27)
Postdoctoral researchers 25 (14)
Administrative staff 339 (213)
Finances (amounts in KSEK)
First and second cycle programmes 1 307 011
External contract funds/fees 155 032
External grant funds 38 112
Revenue 1 495 708
Research and postgraduate education 533 657
External contract funds/fees 60 650
External grant funds 499 867
Revenue 1 094 175
Total revenue: 2 589 883
History of the Faculty
In 1964, four years after Stockholm University became a university, the Faculty of Social Sciences was established. However, social science research and education have been an important part of the university for longer than that, but then within the Faculty of Humanities. With a national higher education reform in 1964, parts of the humanities faculties were broken out and formed social science faculties. This happened simultaneously at most universities in Sweden.
Contact
To contact the deans or the head of the Faculty Office, see "Faculty management" above.
Press and media
If you want to get in touch with a researcher within some of our areas of expertise, please contact the Communications Officer at the relevant department, or the central press office.
The central press office at Stockholm University is open Monday to Friday from 7 am to 8 pm and weekends as well as holidays from 8 am to 8 pm.
For press enquiries about the Faculty, please contact Communications Officer at The Faculty of Social Sciences, Elin Sahlin:
Last updated: 2026-03-10
Source: Office of Human Science