Faculty of humanities research infrastructure
The Faculty of Humanities' research infrastructure consists of many different research environments and resources. These include research laboratories, databases, technology, tools and publications available to students and researchers. In the following you will find links to websites and contact persons.
Laboratories
Stockholm University Brain Imaging Centre (SUBIC)
The Stockholm University Brain Imaging Centre (SUBIC) provides infrastructure for brain imaging research focusing on human and animal brain function. The research conducted at the centre encompasses linguistics and behavioural sciences in the humanities and social sciences, law, as well as zoology, mathematics and other scientific disciplines.
Phonetics Laboratory
The Phonetics Laboratory offers advanced research conditions for experimental studies of speech perception and production. The Phonetics Laboratory resources include extensive testing facilities, state-of-the-art equipment, and elaborated data analysis software.
Stockholm Babylab
Part of the research space in the Phonetics Laboratory is specially adapted for research in Infant Language Development. The Stockholm Babylab research facilities include systems for EEG registration, eye-tracking measurements, High-Amplitude Sucking (HAS), and Head-Turn Procedure.
Archaeological Research Laboratory (AFL)
At the Archaeological Research Laboratory, archaeologists study archaeological research questions using scientific methods. The methods used have been adapted to the often weathered and fragmented source material, which places special demands on the analyses.
Archaeological Research Laboratory (AFL)
Osteoarchaeological Research Laboratory
The Osteoarchaeological Research Laboratory houses several different collections and artefacts, osteological material in the form of animal skeletons and skulls, archaeological bone material and a specialist library with collections of books and special publications.
The Osteoarchaeological Research Laboratory has acquired its collections thanks to donations from the police, schools, citizens and the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
Osteoarchaeological Research Laboratory
Multilingualism Laboratory
The Multilingualism Laboratory at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism has available space and equipment for experimental data collection, such as EEG/ERP, Eye Tracking and behavioural experiments, as well as equipment for fieldwork and for recording of group discussions. The Multilingualism Laboratory is available for researchers, graduate students, as well as undergraduate students, and for large as well as for small projects.
The Multilingualism Laboratory website
Studios
Språkstudion – Language Learning Resource Centre
Språkstudion is the Stockholm University language learning resource centre. The resource centre is commissioned by the Faculty of Humanities and provides tools and infrastructure for language study, teaching and research. Språkstudion collaborates with all language departments to have the right materials, media tools and environments for language practise and linguistic analysis. In addition, Språkstudion has a well-equipped recording studio with professional recording equipment for audio and video.
The Interpreting Studio
The Interpreting Studio at the Institute of Interpretation and Translation (TÖI) is the first and only professional interpreting studio for training interpreters in Sweden. The studio has six soundproof interpreting booths with associated equipment, a large common room and all the necessary technology for professional interpreter training.
About The interpreting studio (in Swedish)
Corpora, dictionaries and resources
Corpora in the National Language Bank
Stockholm University is working together with the National Language Bank at the University of Gothenburg to develop a national e-infrastructure for research based on linguistic data.
Linguistic corpora and resources
The Department of Linguistics provides various linguistic data resources that are useful for empirical language research, primarily in the form of “corpora”, or language databases, that represent different types of texts. Corpora may include modern or older texts, or spoken language that has been recorded and transcribed into text form, such as children’s or adults’ language learning and/or use.
Learn more about the corpora and resources
A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law (LMNL)
A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law (LMNL) is a multilingual reference work designed to make terminology from several medieval legal texts more accessible to English-speaking audiences. It contains over 7,000 Nordic headwords, more than 10,000 English equivalents and approximately 13,200 cross-references. It is intended to function as a general lexicon of medieval Nordic legal terminology. Where possible the editors have combined related terms in multiple languages under the same headword in order to highlight similarities throughout the Nordic region during the Middle Ages.
The Ormulum Project
The Ormulum is a 12th-century Middle English manuscript of great complexity. It represents the only surviving part of a much larger book of sermons, written in the local dialect of Southern Lincolnshire with a unique alphabet. It represents the only significant textual source of language from that time and place, shortly after the Norman conquest, when English was undergoing a significant, irreversible change from Old English to Middle English.
Swedish Sign Language Dictionary
The long-term goal of the “Swedish Sign Language Dictionary” is to publish a complete sign language dictionary. This lexical database is updated continuously with new signs. Most of the signs are accompanied by sign demonstrations, sign variations, usage examples, and photo illustrations.
Swedish Sign Language Dictionary
Swedish Sign Language Corpus
The Swedish Sign Language Corpus is a database for the Swedish sign language. The corpus is produced by sign language speakers to facilitate teaching and research on sign language. The purpose of our extensive project Swedish Sign Language Corpus is to publish a collection of texts, a corpus, in sign language. It should provide an idea of what sign language sentences look like, but also contribute to new signs and variants to the Swedish Sign Language Dictionary and be used to develop teaching materials. The corpus material is freely available with the web-based corpus tool STS-corpus, this for use in teaching, research and sign language lexicography.
Swedish Language Learner Corpus, SweLL
The project has set up a portal and an infrastructure for text collection, pseudonymization, normalization, and correction annotation of written learner production. A linguistically and correction annotated learner corpus of 500 adult learner texts are now available for Swedish as a second language at all learner levels. Another 200 are pseudonymized and searchable. The learner corpus can be found at Språkbanken at the University of Gothenburg.
IVIP speech corpora
Interaction and Variation in Pluricentric Languages – Communicative Patterns in Sweden Swedish and Finland Swedish is a research programme by partners Stockholm University, University of Helsinki, University of Turku and the Institute for Language and Folklore in Gothenburg.
Tisus text corpus
This is tagged as a second-language corpus with digitised second-language texts from TISUS – Test in Swedish for University Studies. The corpus includes the writers’ background information, such as age, gender, first language, educational background, etc. Developed in collaboration with the Swedish Language Bank in Gothenburg.
The Strindberg Project
The Strindberg Project oversees the National Edition of Strindberg’s Collected Works. Through this humanities mega-project, all of August Strindberg's texts are now available in their original form.
Read more about the publication (in Swedish)
The Strindberg corpus
Stockholm University Strindberg Corpus (SUSC) is a collaboration between the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Romance Studies and Classics.
Read more about the resources (in Swedish)
Databases, technology and tools
Open database of 18th century European stage costumes
The database European Theatrical Costumes of the 18th Century resembles historical sources from various European archives (Archives nationales de France, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Nationalmuseum, Kungliga Operan, Statens historiska museer/Livrustkammaren etc.) and of various kind: costume sketches, handwritten inventories, programmes of costumes and invoices, and physical garments preserved from the period.
More about the theatrical costumes database
Computational linguistics – tools
Natural language processing tools developed by the Computational linguistics staff och the Department of Linguistics.
The tools include a word aligner eflomal and a PoS-tagger and named entity recognizer efselab.
Computational linguistics – tools
Libraries and collections
Stockholm University Library
Stockholm University Library comprises both the physical library and electronic resources for research, teaching and academic communication. The library is also a driving force in publishing policy and open science.
Stockholm University Library Special collections
Stockholm University Library has an extensive collection of old and rare prints, manuscripts and maps, as well as digitized collections. The library is also a European Documentation Centre - EDC. The Special collections include The Humanities Library's Rare Collections, maps, special collections and digitised collections.
Stockholm University Library Special collections
Collections at Stockholm University
Works of art from different eras, books from the 15th century, coins from Roman times, rare animal skeletons, plant and seed collections and a unique costume collection.
Collections at Stockholm University (in Swedish)
Fashion Studies collections
The Fashion Studies Section holds two fine collections. One is the Ripsa costume collection, created by Ebba von Eckermann. The other consists of a large number of watercolours depicting folk- and landscape costumes painted by Fritz Boltenstern, a relative of Fritz and Nils von Dardel.
Ripsa Costume Collection and Watercolour Collection of Folk and Landscape Costumes (in Swedish)
The art education collection
The collection consists of books on art education, visual education, creativity, aesthetic creations, music, dance and drama, and is primarily aimed at teachers and researchers at the Department of Teaching and Learning.
The art education collection (in Swedish)
The Latin America Institute Library
The Latin America Institute Library is a special library for social science research and Latin American studies. The library’s collection includes more than 50,000 titles in history, politics, economy, anthropology and other social sciences. The library is open to the public.
The Latin America Institute Library
The JMK Library
The Department of Media Studies' library is open to the public and is specialized in Fashion Studies, Journalism, and Media and Communication Studies.
Research library at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics
The research library at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics has collecitons from the subjects of art history, history of ideas, literature and theatre and performance studies and is primarily a resource for researchers at the department.
Research library at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Research library at the Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
There are three libraries at the department, which collect literature in Swedish and Nordic languages, Bilingualism and Translation Studies (interpretation and translation). The libraries are intended for researchers at the department.
Research library at the Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism (in Swedish)
Last updated: November 19, 2024
Source: The Office of Human Science