BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX The Scandinavian countries are often seen as paragons when it comes to gender equality and support for parenthood. But does the myth live up to the reality? Next Wave Europe investigates the practices behind the policies. In Sweden, there is full legal equality between the sexes, and the social security system supports parents regardless of sex (see box below, Swedish Pa...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX If Swedish clinical research were a patient, its condition might be described as critical. The predicament is twofold: too little money and time available for clinicians who want to do research, and a younger generation of doctors that is reluctant to embark on research at all. No one doubts the value of clinicians doing research. Clinicians play a vital role bridging th...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX "Interdisciplinarity" might be today's fashionable buzzword, but for one institution in Sweden, it is the reason for its very existence. Back in the 1960s, Linköping was a college, teaching undergraduate students in traditional faculties of medicine, technology, and arts and sciences. However, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences had no official research endowment, and hence...
