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Malin Granath

Associate Professor

Research

Malin Granath studerar smarta städer

Digitisation in the smart city

Digitisation in the smart city is an area of ​​research at Linköping University. Digitisation of our cities is often held up as an important prerequisite for dealing with social challenges of increasing urbanization, climate change and globalization.

Research program

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Resistance and power – on smart grids for the many people

The research program will actively contribute to societal and behavior oriented perspectives in research and development of smart grids.

Publications

Doctoral thesis

Cover of publication 'The Smart City – how smart can ’IT’ be?: Discourses on digitalisation in policy and planning of urban development'
Malin Granath (2016)
The Smart City - how smart can 'IT' be?: Discourses on digitalisation in policy and planning of urban development

The latest publications

2023

Malin Granath, Johanna Sefyrin, Björn Johansson (2023) The smart meter as a boundary object-insights from an empirical case European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2023
Shashini Rajaguru, Björn Johansson, Malin Granath (2023) Exploring Smart Meters: What We Know and What We Need to Know Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, p. 105-120 Continue to DOI

2021

Malin Granath, Karin Axelsson, Ulf Melin (2021) Reflection note: Smart City Research in a Societal Context. A Scandinavian perspective and beyond? Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 33, p. 5-16

2018

Karin Axelsson, Malin Granath (2018) Stakeholders' stake and relation to smartness in smart city development: Insights from a Swedish city planning project Government Information Quarterly, Vol. 35, p. 693-702 Continue to DOI

2016

Karin Axelsson, Ulf Melin, Malin Granath (2016) In search of ICT in smart cities: Policy documents as idea carriers in urban development Electronic government: 15th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2016, Guimarães, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings, p. 215-227 Continue to DOI

News

Vallastaden from the north side

Vallastaden - potential for a smart city

Aspects such as efficient use of resources and social interaction have been included in the planning of Vallastaden. Malin Granath, researcher in information systems, believes that it may eventually be possible to achieve economic sustainability.
Cykel i den smarta staden

Smart cities – more talk than action

The concept of “smart cities” is being used increasingly often within urban development. But this concept lacks a clear definition, and the way it is used depends on who is using it. These results are presented in a thesis by Malin Granath.

Organisation

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Information Systems and Digitalization (INDIG)

The division of Information Systems and Digitalization conducts research and offers courses at undergraduate and graduate level within the information systems area. The division is part of the Department of Management and Engineering.
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Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) strengthens and develops tomorrow’s industry, business world and society by ground-breaking research, education and innovation.
Studenthuset on Campus Valla in Linköping

About LiU

Linköping University, LiU, offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.

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