Research at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities carries out research within a large number of fields. Here you'll find those of our research groups that have web sites in English.
Current research news
- Innovative research project on cultural entrepreneurship receives SEK 25 million from The Kamprad Family Foundation News
- Cutting-edge research centre on big data and AI granted continued funding News
- Prehistory meets the future when nuclear waste is to be buried for 100 000 years News
- The university's new professors lecture about their research News
Research Groups
Linnaeus University Centres
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Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) was founded by Lars Elleström. IMS is an…
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Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies The Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies is a leading centre for Colonial…
Other research groups
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Center for Studies in Popular Culture (PoCuS) Center for Popular Culture Studies (PoCuS) is a center for research, education, and collaboration with popular culture at its center. We regard popular…
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Nordic Network of the Fantastic and Cultural History The Nordic Network of the Fantastic and Cultural History conducts interdisciplinary research on mankind’s universal need for fantasy to explain and…
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Centre for Climate Emergency Studies We live in a state of planetary climate emergency. This is becoming increasingly clear in all aspects of life. But what is meant by the terms "climate" and…
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Archaeothanatology Working Group Archaeothanatology is a multi-disciplinary approach in archeology, that studies funerary rituals in the past. Based on knowledge of natural decay processes, the method…
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Aesthetics of Empire Research Cluster In the age of climate emergency, global inequality, and – most recently – the uneven effects of pandemic illness, it is increasingly clear that the way people and…
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Medeltidsforum Linné Medeltidsforum Linné (Medieval Forum Linnaeus) is a network of researchers and students with a special interest in the Middle Ages in its broadest sense. MFL provides an…
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Linnaeus University Language Processing Lab (LiLa Lab) Linnaeus University Language Processing Lab (LiLa Lab) was opened in 2019. The ambition of the lab is partly to create opportunities for…
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Educational Linguistics The Educational Linguistics research group brings together researchers in Linguistics and in Language Education, focusing on the theme ‘language (in) education’ (see Hult,…
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Centre for Childhood Research in Literature, Language and Learning The Centre for Childhood Research in Literature, Language and Learning (CHILLL) is a research network consisting of scholars in the…
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Cluster for Nordic Colonialism The Research Cluster for Nordic Colonialism within the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies investigated how the European…
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Cluster for Colonial Connections and Comparisons The Research Cluster for Colonial Connections and Comparisons aims to uncover the complex links that operated within and across the borders of empires…
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UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures Building global capacity for futures thinking among heritage professionals
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Information Institute (iInstitute) The information field, or the iField, resorts to interdisciplinary approaches to enrich and facilitate generation, transfer and curation of data, information, and…
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Data Intensive Digital Humanities The research area Data Intensive Digital Humanities within Linnaeus University Centre for Data Intensive Sciences and Applications (DISA) is a network that brings…
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The Linnaeus University English-German-Swedish Corpus (LEGS) In the LEGS research group, we compare linguistic structures across English, German and Swedish. For this purpose we are compiling a…
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Center for cultural sociology The center for cultural sociology (CCS) strives to make living conditions of children and youth visible and understandable by relating individual and shared emotions to…
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Småland Living Lab What is the potential of our regional collaborations for futures of sustainability?
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The Centre for Gender and Language The Centre for Gender and Language is an international research environment at Linnaeus University. It is interdisciplinary and multi-faculty, offering an innovative…