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Collaboration at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities acknowledges the importance of collaboration and third stream activities as a means of truly setting knowledge in motion for sustainable societal development. On these pages you will find more information about how we work with collaboration and third stream activities; different kinds of collaboration; inspiration from colleagues; and how you get support with your collaborative project.
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities primarily collaborates with the public sector and authorities, but also with organisations such as non-profit organisations and aid agencies. The faculty, comprising a wide range of subjects, entertains a number of different collaboration projects involving school, education and learning. For more information about collaborative work, please contact the faculty administrator Kristina Johansson.
Collaboration for increased integration and participation
Programmet för integrations- och mångfaldsstudier
In the programme “Integration in a multicultural society”, students practise working with matters of integration, diversity, participation and inclusion in different contexts. The programme provides students with the knowledge needed in order to navigate a shifting and globalised world; to understand and explain it – and to see new opportunities.
The programme is developed in consultation with people currently working in different ways with integration and diversity issues. We also work hands on with collaborative activities in the form of study visits, guest lectures, evaluations, and field work. The programme ends with a ten-week practice placement. We happily welcome suggestions for new forms of collaboration and exchange.
Contact person: Åsa Trulsson, senior lecturer, cultural sociology.
Alvesta and Allbohus in collaboration with Design
Design students collaborate on an annual basis with Alvesta Municipality and Allbohus AB to create more attractive housing.
Newly Arrived Immigrant Students’ Learning – Reception, Inclusion and Progress in School.
In this course, which is primarily directed at school teachers, participants work in teams with local development projects to promote newly arrived immigrant students’ learning. In their work with the projects, the participants use their own workplaces as staring points, and plan and try out their ideas in consultation with the teachers on the course.
Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
The Linnaeus University centre of excellence Concurrences is a top-ranking Swedish research environment for postcolonial studies and global history.
Researchers in the field analyse the human consequences of colonialism, imperialism and other forms of dominance through the history of the world. Colonial and postcolonial studies are characterised by a critical approach, not only to colonialism as such, but also to how colonial history and meetings between different cultures have been described in different parts of the world. An important aim is to shed light upon aspects of colonialism that have previously been ignored or suppressed, as well as to point up how different forms of colonial exploitation, oppression and violence continue to affect people today.
Collaboration for communication and democracy development
Humtank
Humtank is a think tank for the humanities. The purpose of the think tank is to point up the need for subjects within the humanities to promote societal development.
Young Voices in Exile
Young writers, playwrights, musicians, exiled bloggers and refugee guests in Sweden meet and talk with young writers with some connection to Växjö.
Collaboration to improve school
Lärarlyftet and Läslyftet in collaboration with the Swedish National Agency for Education
Lärarlyftet is directed at teachers who want to broaden and enhance their qualifications. The aim of Läslyftet is to improve and promote pupils’ reading comprehension and writing skills by strengthening and developing the quality of teaching.
Make Music Matter
Make Music Matter is a project for all schools in Sweden, providing digital tools for making music, as well as arranging an annual music convention. The use of digital tools opens up for new possibilities in working with music as a form of expression and a means of communication, and it also promotes entrepreneurship.
Book Dog and Astrid Lindgren
Book Dog and Astrid Lindgren is a project to train teachers and librarians who want to use dogs as a pedagogical resource in school.
Regional Development Centre
Regional Development Centre is a collaboration between accountable authorities and professionals in school, and a number of Swedish universities and university colleges, working for school development and further training of teachers and school leaders.
Reading kids
Reading kids is a project promoting reading, in collaboration with Ljungby Municipality.
Third stream research in the arts and humanities
GRASCA – graduate school in contract archaeology
During the period of 2015 to 2023, nine doctoral students are doing research on how Swedish contract archaeology may find new markets and develop their work with current societal issues.
GRASCA is a unique project, financed by the Knowledge Foundation and Linnaeus University in collaboration with a number of other organisations and institutions.
The Bridge
The Bridge is a unique, long-term and strategic investment in research and education, focusing on forestry, innovation and sustainability. It is made possible through a partnership between Linnaeus University, Södra and IKEA. Together we want to create a common platform for knowledge development for sustainable competitiveness.
Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
The Linnaeus University centre of excellence Concurrences is a top-ranking Swedish research environment for postcolonial studies and global history.
Researchers in the field analyse the human consequences of colonialism, imperialism and other forms of dominance through the history of the world. Colonial and postcolonial studies are characterised by a critical approach, not only to colonialism as such, but also to how colonial history and meetings between different cultures have been described in different parts of the world. An important aim is to shed light upon aspects of colonialism that have previously been ignored or suppressed, as well as to point up how different forms of colonial exploitation, oppression and violence continue to affect people today.
Medical Humanities
In collaboration with Region Kronoberg, Linnaeus University is conducting a project on health, humanities and medicine. The main purpose of this collaboration is to promote the humanistic aspects of medicine and health – especially aspects such as medical ethics, view of knowledge and narration and interpretation – in order to develop health care practice and narrative theory and hermeneutics in the humanities respectively.
Smart Housing
Smart Housing Småland is an innovation environment where businesses, academia and the public sector collaborate in order to meet several of the challenges that the future has in store: the need for new housing, and the need for construction that makes the most of a limited area, and that is flexible, modern, energy efficient, and sustainable. Putting the user first, our aim is to create smart living and sustainable housing through the combination of wood and glass.
Links
Central staff pages on collaboration
Here you find more information about possibilities and opportunities in terms of collaboration and third stream activities, as well as information about whom to contact for support with your collaborative work.
External web pages on collaboration on lnu.se
Here you find the page that many companies, organisations and others see when they first contact Linnaeus University to look into collaboration possibilities.