Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FILFAK)

Ageing and Later Life

Human ageing is a constant, on-going process that is a part of everybody's life. At Linköping University, we study what it is to be elderly, as well as aging itself.

Art and Visual Culture

In art history we study objects of art, as well as architecture and design, but also visual culture, advertising and fashion, for example.

Biogas

This is an area that has expanded significantly since the end of the 1990. Interest in the area has spread far beyond the region and Linköping University has been the host for the national Biogas Research Centre, BRC, since 2012.

Business Administration

Fundamental questions concern how organisations that engage in economic activities utilise, develop and create new resources such as financial resources, material, knowledge and skills, in order to co-create value with customers.

Research on Children

LiU is home to extensive research on children, young people and perspectives on childhood. The research is multidisciplinary and is conducted at several different institutions.

Climate and Climate Change

The issue of climate change is one of present-day's major societal challenges. It is global, long-term and complicated. The research at LiU is interdisciplinary and unites the traditions of the sciences, the social sciences and the humanities.

Cognitive Science

Cognitive science studies these processes from several different scientific perspectives. The researchers study people's thoughts, develop machines that carry out cognitive tasks and study cognition in other animal species.

Disability Research

Many people experience some form of obstacle to participating in working life, social contexts or leisure activities. We study such diverse fields as hearing impairments, depression, different development conditions and pain.

Economics

Economics looks into the approaches chosen by individuals, families, organisations and nations, in order to pursue various objectives using their resources, and what the consequences are.

Education

Researchers in education study educational processes and how such processes impact and are impacted by individuals, organisations and society. Their research comprises a number of aspects, from individual level to groups, organisations and society.

Energy in Daily Life

Research at LiU is focused on how we use energy at different levels in society - how energy systems affect us and how we use energy in our own everyday lives.

Energy

More efficient use of energy requires a systems perspective: an action that reduces carbon dioxide emissions in one place may multiply emissions in another. LiU researchers study energy systems in buildings, locally, regionally, and in industry.

Environmental Management

The research focuses on change processes and environmental management and is conducted on the basis of perspective from engineering, economics and the social sciences.

Ethics

Ethics research is about what is right and what is wrong and how we should act. Should we allow surrogacy, for example? Should western countries compensate for injustices in their former colonies?

Ethnicity and Migration

International migration and ethnic relations is a large multidisciplinary field of research at Linköping University.

Gender

Gender research is conducted at LiU, both from a multidisciplinary approach and within different subjects. It is a broad, international and dynamic field.

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LiU Humanities

LiU Humanities is a forum for collaboration between researchers, teachers and doctoral students active in the intersection of humanities and social sciences.

Green Humanities

Conventional humanities are still largely divided into nature and culture. Research at LiU aims to study the natural world, the environment and ethics in an interdisciplinary fashion, as well as how our identity is formed.

Health and society

What is the impact of environmental and social changes when it comes to health development at individual, group or community level? How can we promote health? These are examples of questions that researchers in Health and society seeks to answer.

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Heritage

Research on heritage at the Division of Culture, Society, Design and Media at IKOS has a broad focus, including the study of oral history, digitization, musealisation and education.

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History

At Linköping University it is primarily the last centuries of history that is being explored but there are also representatives of older periods.

Information systems

We collaborate actively with the surrounding society regarding education as well as research.

Law

Research at Linköping University has two areas of specialisation: commercial law and welfare law.

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Language and Communication

Language is the primary means of human communication. At Linköping University, we study both the structure and usage of language.

Literature

At Linköping University we study literature primarily from two perspectives: the history of European literature and the history of media and technology.

Mediated Culture

Research on mediated culture at the Division of Culture, Society, Design and Media at IKOS has a broad focus, including the study of both the media texts themselves as well as their production, dissemination, use and regulation.

Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics

We gather, strengthen, and develop research, teaching, and collaboration with the society around us, within the areas of medical humanities and bioethics.

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Politics

How can power be shaped, exercised and justified between individuals who act within the institutional arrangements that have been created through political decisions? This is what we study at Linköping University.

Psychology

Psychology is an academic discipline that revolves around human behaviour and mental processes.

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Religion

Throughout time and in all corners of the earth, religion has had an important function in people's lives and societies. At Linköping University we conduct research into the history of religion, Christianity and biblical studies.

Social Anthropology

In social anthropology we compare how people live in different social and cultural contexts on earth.

Sociology

Within sociology, researchers attempt to understand society's character, how society changes and how this influences people.

Substance Flows and Pollutants

Since the inception of the interdisciplinary TEMA Department, researchers at LiU have specialised in studying biological, chemical and physical processes and cycles – from the molecular to the global scale.

Sustainable cities

Sustainable urban development is a very broad and topical research area at Linköping University. Research here is multidisciplinary and has many different points of departure - technical, economic and sociological.

Research on Working Life

Globalisation contributes to big changes in working life. An important challenge for research into working life at Linköping University is to develop knowledge that supports the sustainable development of companies in a globalised world.

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Research areas

Ageing and Later Life

Art and Visual Culture

Biogas

Business Administration

Research on Children

Climate and Climate Change

Cognitive Science

Disability Research

Economics

Education

Energy in Daily Life

Energy

Environmental Management

Ethics

Ethnicity and Migration

Gender

LiU Humanities

Green Humanities

Health and society

Heritage

History

Information systems

Law

Language and Communication

Literature

Mediated Culture

Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics

Politics

Psychology

Religion

Social Anthropology

Sociology

Substance Flows and Pollutants

Sustainable cities

Research on Working Life

Education

Exchange studies

Doctoral studies at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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