Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FILFAK)

At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, we embrace innovative and interdisciplinary thinking. Here, education and research are offered across a wide array of diverse and exciting fields - from environment and society, through cognition and communication, to economics and behavioural sciences.

With a broad academic spectrum, the faculty brings together over 14,000 students. You may choose from as many as 36 different degree programmes and 400 single-subject courses. We offer programmes and courses in both established and pioneering, forward-thinking areas. Here, you can, for example, study to become a psychologist, business economist, social worker, urban planner, information systems analyst, or HR specialist. Alternatively, you may specialise in history, environment and climate, cognitive science, philosophy, global studies, migration, and communication. Those wishing to further develop within their profession and build upon their education will also find suitable opportunities here.

We take pride in the research conducted within the faculty’s disciplines. For many, Linköping University is synonymous with interdisciplinarity, where researchers from various fields are given the opportunity to meet and together create creative, boundary-crossing research. At the five departments affiliated with the faculty, research is conducted in areas such as working life, leadership, disabilities, mental health, child development, thematic research on environment, gender, children, technology and social change, historical studies, statistics and data analysis, behavioural economics, digitalisation, and much more.

A man wearing glasses and a blue shirt. Dean Ulf Melin. Photo: Magnus Johansson

The activities we pursue and develop are an important part of the vision we have adopted for 2030: to be a boundary-crossing, curious, and relevant faculty. We remain committed to transcending both knowledge and national boundaries in our education and research, and we see it as our task to further stimulate curiosity throughout our operations and to be a relevant actor in society.

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From waste to education – honorary doctors want to change the world

Waste can reveal inequalities in society. Education can change a child’s future. The new honorary doctors work in completely different fields but are united by a desire to turn knowledge and commitment into concrete change.

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Academic Celebrations and “Dining with honorary doctors”

What do six honorary doctors talk about over dinner? A new event lets the audience listen in on their conversations. As of this year, the conferment of honorary doctors has been moved from the spring to the autumn academic ceremony.

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New professor of economics researches people’s life chance

Two identical job applications. One with an Arabic-sounding name. This experiment marked the start of Magnus Carlsson’s research on discrimination and people’s life chances. He is now a new professor of economics at Linköping University.

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