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En kvinna sitter vid ett skrivbord och läser en bok.

20 January 2026

American poets society

Literary scholar Elin Käck is probably the only person who has done her work experience programme with a poet. She enjoys spending her summers in various archives and has recently presented her research on American poets’ travels in Europe.

Maskininlärning för felsökning och felsökning av industriella system.

19 January 2026

Arman Mohammadi's public defence of doctoral thesis

Arman Mohammadi successfully defended his doctoral thesis, with the title "Machine Learning for Fault Diagnosis of Industrial Systems" on December 18th.

En kvinna sitter i snön med en handväska.

15 January 2026

Political polarisation blocks more sustainable transport

Trains and planes have become part of our polarised social climate one is often set against the the other. This political gridlock hinders progress towards a more sustainable transport system. This is the conclusion of a doctoral thesis at LiU.

En man står framför en byggnad.

12 January 2026

Digital services can increase exclusion

When public agencies introduce digital services, one goal is to improve accessibility for citizens. But for residents in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, this may create new barriers to integration. This is shown in a doctoral thesis from LiU.

Manlig forskare i labbmiljö.

08 January 2026

Electric motors are transforming hydraulics

Electrifying hydraulics on, for example, an excavator can significantly improve efficiency. However, it requires major technical changes. Electric machines have different characteristics compared to combustion engines.

En person pratar inför en grupp människor som sitter på stolar i ett rum.

22 December 2025

Digitalisation in focus at the scientific salon

Digitalisation is rapidly transforming how we live, work and understand the world. It also affects our health, our relationships, and the ways we seek information and express ourselves.

A man is standing outdoors on a bridge, speaking to several people.

22 December 2025

Tomorrow’s urban planners solve real challenges

Students on master’s programme in Strategic Urban and Regional Planning do more than study how cities develop. They step straight into reality. By working on real cases in Norrköping, their ideas could help shape the city’s future.

En kvinna som går längs en grusväg i skogen.

19 December 2025

Letterstedt Author’s Prize awarded to Boel Berner for book on medical mystery

In her interdisciplinary book, Boel Berner traces how researchers spent more than a century trying to understand the deadly disease pellagra. She has now been awarded the Letterstedt Author’s Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

En kvinna står framför en blå dörr.

19 December 2025

Researchers urge greater role in child policy debate

Researchers in Sweden’s field of children and youth studies want to play a more active role in public discourse and contribute research based knowledge on topical issues such as lowering the age of criminal responsibility.

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20 January 2026

Alumni portraits

What happens after graduation? Meet our alumni, our former students, and learn about their careers, what they work with today and how they got there! Follow their career choices in the alumni portraits here.

Pierfrancesco Pagella, postdoctoral fellow, works in the lab with Pritha Guha Mojumder (center) and Valeria Ghezzi (left).

20 January 2026

Postdoctoral fellowship

A postdoctoral fellowship may be given to foreign citizens with a doctoral degree or equivalent, acquired in countries other than Sweden, and may be paid for a maximum of two years from LiU.

20 January 2026

Clinicum steering group

Clinicum is led by a steering group where the Faculty of Medicine and Health's deputy dean for education is the chairman.

The library stacks in Bokladan with Compactus shelves.

19 January 2026

Library stacks

Parts of the Library’s collections are held in compact storage in library stacks, for example in the open stacks on the first floor in Studenthuset and in The University Library’s closed stacks – Bokladan.

A student sitting on a chair by a small table in front of a drapery. In the foreground, there is a plant.

19 January 2026

Library self-service opening hours

Self-service hours at the Library mean that students and employees with a LiU card have access to library premises outside of regular opening hours. Find out how it works at Campus Norrköping Library, Medical Library and Valla Library.

A man is standing by a pool of water. His legs are reflected in the water.

19 January 2026

PhD course: Critical Problems in Social and Cultural Theory

REMESO Graduate School PhD Course is open for application, givs fall-spring 2025-2026. The course offers an advanced and historically informed overview of critical problems in Western social and cultural theory.

19 January 2026

PhD Studies in Philosophy

The Division of Philosophy and Applied Ethics (FTE) is an internationally, interdisciplinary center for cutting-edge research, with strengths in philosophy of science, phenomenology, normative and applied ethics, metaethics, and political philosophy.

Gavel

19 January 2026

The institutional board at IKOS

The institutional board is the highest decision-making body at IKOS. The board has overall responsibility for the department's undergraduate and graduate education and research.

19 January 2026

Docent lectures at the Faculty of Science and Engineering

Here we are announcing docent lectures at the Faculty of Science and Engineering.