Division of Culture, Society, Design and Media (KSFM)

The division conducts problem-oriented cultural science research and teaching at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences. It includes Culture and Society (Tema Q), Culture Society & Media Design (KSM), and Craft & design.

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Our activity aims to develop a critical/analytical understanding of the role of culture in society, both in the present and in the past.

Research and doctoral studies

Research on Culture and Society

Researchers in the research environment Tema Q share an interest in a critical/analytical understanding of the social, creative, economic, legal and political dimensions of the circulation of knowledge and cultural heritage

Culture and society (Tema Q)

Tema Q/Culture and Society research environment is an interdisciplinary unit that seeks to foster a critical outlook on the multiple roles played by culture in society, in the present as well as in the past.

Doctoral Programme

Doctoral studies in Culture and Society

The Culture and Society research environment has since the autumn term of 2002 offered research education of duration four years, leading to a doctoral degree (240 credits), or two years, leading to a licentiate degree (120 credits).

News

Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert is the next Moa Martinson Professor

Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert is a visual artist, researcher and a professor at the Cyprus University of Technology. Her research and artistic practice focus on museum studies and visual sociology, particular on photography and emerging technologies.

LiU researchers adding sparkle to concert series

This season’s Crusell series will be in the spirit of Nobel. At each of six concerts, a LiU researcher will lecture on one of the Nobel prizes. Eva Hemmungs Wirtén is to talk about Gatsby’s 100th anniversary, Champagne and the prohibition era.

An important forum for emerging research areas

Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, was founded in 2009 as a born-digital, gold open-access, peer-reviewed journal. Now, it is time to celebrate 15 years with a symposium.

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Head of Division

Staff

Senior Research Coordinator

Senior Research Coordinator

Michael Godhe

Associate Professor, Docent

Ingemar Grandin

Associate Professor, Docent

Organisation

Department of Culture and Society (IKOS)

At the Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), social sciences and the humanities gather in environments where research and education work together.

Division of Culture, Society, Design and Media (KSFM)

Research and doctoral studies

Research on Culture and Society

Culture and society (Tema Q)

Doctoral Programme

Doctoral studies in Culture and Society

News

Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert is the next Moa Martinson Professor

LiU researchers adding sparkle to concert series

An important forum for emerging research areas

The PIE Podcast Broadens the Perspective on LiU’s Education

Virtual worlds and 3D objects – the digital future of museums

Symposium sheds light on intellectual property and global health

“Art can’t save the world – but it can make us think in new ways”

The war in Ukraine – unexpected but possible to explain

“We want to understand why the world is as it is”

How the Denisova human went from fossil to fact

The Fakultet podcast: popular science that inspires

Newly recognized crossover testimonies give important knowledge of the Holocaust

Cultural heritage is both everyday and political

New initiative to study how knowledge circulates through society

SEK 3 million for research into how music can help students

Norrköping to support research into learning, traffic and smart forestry textiles

Their podcast won the contract

The essay became a research project - thanks to forgotten cultural treasure

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Head of Division

Staff

Organisation

Department of Culture and Society (IKOS)

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