Research environments at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

• Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (Concurrences) The Linnaeus University centre of excellence for concurrences in colonial and postcolonial studies is a cutting-edge Swedish research environment for colonial and postcolonial studies and global history.

• Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) is a interdisciplinary environment that explores relations and interactions between media. The research primarily spans literary studies, media and communication studies, linguistics, musicology, film studies and art.

• Data Intensive Digital Humanities is a research network within the Linnaeus University Centre for Data Intensive Sciences and Applications (DISA), which brings together all those interested in combining computing and humanistic disciplines.

• A questioned democracy is a Linnaeus Knowledge Environment whose vision is to contribute with ideas, meeting places and new knowledge, in order to meet the societal challenge of keeping democracy alive.

• Education in change work to strengthen the university’s ability to improve knowledge results in the Swedish school and education system.

• Green Sustainable Development focuses on circular and green economy – that is, how we can make use of our natural resources in a long-term, sustainable way.

• Digital transformations is a knowledge environment the purpose of which is to serve as a knowledge resource, offering organisations the opportunity to build the right competence for their transformation projects.

• The Center for cultural sociology (CCS) combines humanistic and social science methods to explore questions about human living conditions, symbolic structures, and power relations.

• The Centre for Applied Heritage explores the potential of cultural heritage to change society, and aims to promote academic research and to collaborate with external parties on the use and development of cultural heritage in today’s society.

• The Educational Linguistics research group (EdLing) brings together researchers in linguistics and language didactics. The environment has a close connection to teacher training and supplementary training for professional teachers. 

• Centrum för ämnesdidaktisk forskning (CÄHL) coordinates interdisciplinary research and development work in the field of subject didactics.

• The Centre for Childhood Research in Literature, Language and Learning (CHILL) brings together researchers in the humanities who study children’s, young adults’ and crossover literature and film, as well as children’s and young adults’ language development and learning.

• The Centre for Popular Culture Studies (PoCuS) responds to a societal need for knowledge about how people produce and consume culture, and about the cultural functions of media and media’s creation of knowledge in a democratic society.

• Centre for Climate Emergency Studies (Centre CES) is a transdisciplinary platform for research, education and action related to the climate emergency.

• The Centre for Gender Studies constitutes a platform for gender related research, education and collaboration at Linnaeus University. 

• Centre of Language for Specific Purposes conducts both quantitative and qualitative language research in collaboration with the trade and industry, authorities, and organisations.
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• Centre for Digital Humanities by consolidating domestic and global networks, such as Huminfra, DARIAH-EU and DHNB, the Centre aims to position Linnaeus University as a leader in advancing interdisciplinary digital research and addressing contemporary challenges in the humanities.
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• Linnaeus Media Observatory (LiMO) – Centre for media research, praxis and development unites research, praxis and development about media in society.  

• The UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures at Linnaeus University is one of eight UNESCO chairs in Sweden, held by Cornelius Holtorf, professor of Archaeology. Questions for the team of researchers supporting the chair include: When will the future that we work for happen? How do we decide what is good for future generations? How can we support professionals in the cultural heritage sector in searching for answers to these questions, and in thinking about the future (futures literacy). 

• The research group Litteracitet och undervisning studies children’s spoken and written language competence and production, as well as how teaching that stimulates language development may be conducted so that learning is promoted in preschool and the early school years.

• Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary initiative focusing on societal challenges and innovation.

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