News from the SCAS Community

Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed, Mia Phillipson and their colleagues have been awarded a long-term research centre grant by Forte External link, opens in new window. (co-funded by the Swedish Research Council) for an interdisciplinary research centre named WHOLE - Interdisciplinary Centre for Women’s Health Over the LifecoursE - at the intersection of reproductive transitions, mental health and pain (PI: Alkistis Skalkidou).

Schottenius Cullhed is co-Work Package Leader for WP2 - Adolescence: Emerging Health Conditions, whereas Phillipson is co-Work Package Leader for WP3 - Menstrual Cycles - Reproductive Years.

The grant totals SEK 72 000 000, and covers the centre's first six years, with a possible extension of four more years.

Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed is a Fellow at SCAS in the autumn of 2025. Mia Phillipson was a Natural Sciences Fellow in residence in the spring of 2022.

Racha Kirakosian's book Berauscht der Sinne beraubt: Eine Geschichte der Ekstase External link, opens in new window. (2025), which she started working on while in residence at SCAS, won the award for Best Non-Fiction Book External link, opens in new window. at the Berlin Doxumentale 2025 External link, opens in new window..

The book has also been shortlisted for the Austrian science book award 2025 (Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres External link, opens in new window.) in the category medicine/biology.

Kirakosian was a Fellow at SCAS in the academic year 2019-20.