Author: Ankit Gupta

“Immigrants, we get the job done!” says Alexander Hamilton in the Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize, and Grammy Award winner musical Hamilton. In this last blog post we will try to establish some parallels from other immigration studies and maybe extrapolate some of the conclusions to foreign PhD students.. Immigration, Aliens Act 2021 and Sweden Impact…

In the previous blogs, we highlighted what makes Sweden an attractive place for foreign PhD students to pursue their PhD study and showed some statistics on research done by foreign students at the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University. In this third blog, we will try to highlight the socio-economic scenario in which recent PhD…

Having established Sweden as an attractive destination for foreign students to pursue a PhD, an interesting follow up is to see their contribution to Swedish research. This blog post focuses on a case study at the Department of Information Technology here at Uppsala University to have an overview of their work, highlighting the importance of…

The government in Sweden recently changed the law, making it more difficult for foreign nationals completing their PhD in Sweden to stay and work. This is the first in a series of articles where we are going to look at how the number of international doctoral students has increased in Sweden; how they contribute to…