The previous report from the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH covered the years from 2012 to 2014. It followed a sequence of annual reports since the early 1990s. This shift in the reporting period was unintended. The changes at the Division were profound enough to divert our attention from making an annual report, and we also changed our style of reporting to give more flavor to what is actually going on in our environment for research and PhD training, societal collaboration and undergraduate teaching. In this report we have managed to reduce the period to two years: 2015 and 2016. These have been years of intellectual excitement, consolidation of established fields and continued expansion into new areas. New to this report is that the parts on funding and publishing rely on work that we have done internally to compile and analyze databases on funding streams and publications. The report is organized into three sections: first, a set of spine texts presenting general patterns of change in the Division; second, a section on the central dimensions of performance including a presentation of our staff; and, third, a set of lists including events, visitors, projects, awards, commissions, publications, etectera (divided by colour for overview). Distributed across the volume are a number of miscellaneous comments, letters, images and “bits & pieces” that highlight some of our activities. We have called the report Transformative Humanities. This is to indicate that the humanities are undergoing major changes not just in Sweden but also in many countries in the world. The Division is very much part of these changes, and we have tried to influence them and give direction to them. These changes are also affecting us, we believe largely for the better. It is also to state that the humanities are in themselves transformative – they are part of changing the world we live in, hopefully also for the better. We are part of this transformative work and we embrace that, which is a seminal point of departure for our strategy and thinking as a Division. For us in the humanities, these are challenging times but also exciting times, when societal recognition and to some extent also support for the kind of humanities that we do seem to be on the rise. It has been a privilege to put this report together. We would like to thank all contributors – literally everyone in the Division – for sharing their materials with us and for sending new texts, data and illustrations. We hope that the reader will find the result useful. 

Stockholm in May 2017

Sofia Jonsson, Senior administrator

Sverker Sörlin, Co-Head of Division