ISAK

Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture (ISAK)

ISAK is an institution of broad cultural and social science research and education. 

We combine historians, local researchers and cultural and media researchers as well as researchers within regional developement and politics. We are engaged in research and teaching at both Campus Valla and Campus Norrköping.

Department management

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Hans Nilsson

Head of Department, Professor

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Bodil Axelsson

Associate Professor

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Lisa Larsson

Coordinator

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Ola J Hedin

Financial Officer

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Current research

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Twincities Research Group - Social environment and health

The twin cities of Linköping and Norrköping are two equal sized cities in southeast Sweden. They are part of the same county council and have the same structure of health care. How could public health in two so similar cities be so different?
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Centre for local history

The aim of the Centre is to support and develop research on local history and education by bringing about co-operation between professional researchers, instructors, school, teachers and the general public.
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Patents as Scientific Information 1895-2010 (PASSIM)

A European Research Council Advanced Grant project 2017-2022.

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Commons and Commodities: Knowledge, Natural Resources and the Construction of Property

The project explores how different kinds of common resources, such as information, culture, genes and land, are enclosed and commodified as private property, and how this affects people who use and manage those commons.
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In Orbit: Distributed Curatorial Agency when Museum Objects and Knowledge go Online

This project studies processes of selection and interpretation when museum collections go online. We explore the museums authority and the public’s agency when curatorial operations are distributed between people and technology.
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Commons and Commodities: Knowledge, Natural Resources and the Construction of Property

The project explores how different kinds of common resources, such as information, culture, genes and land, are enclosed and commodified as private property, and how this affects people who use and manage those commons.

Our divisions

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Centre for Municipality Studies

We focus on questions and challenges of major importance for local municipalities. The activities are the result of several years of co-operation between the university and the municipal sector. 
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Culture, Society and Media production

Culture, society and media production (KSM) combines academic perspectives with media production, blending theory and practice, and succeeds in connecting the university to the surrounding world.
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Division of History and Media Studies (HMV)

We teach and research within history and media.

Tema Q

Tema Q/ Culture and Society 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.
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Administrative Support

Administrative Support and Management provides support to the ISAK's core business, management and employees.

All staff

Stellan Andersson

Assistant Lecturer

Ella Andrén
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Bodil Axelsson

Associate Professor

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Anna Berglind

Senior Lecturer

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Lars Bergwall

Assistant Lecturer

Ken Bjerregaard

News

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Cultural analysis with a local connection

Tema Q arranged for the first time a course entitled The Use (and Abuse) of Culture as part of the International Summer Academy. The course was fully subscribed, and the course coordinators are hoping to repeat the course next summer.
Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson, professor vid Islands universitet, gästforskar på Centrum för kommunstrategiska studier (CKS).

International guest researchers at CKS

Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson, professor at the University of Iceland, is one of two international guest researchers during the spring.  During his stay in Norrköping, he collaborates with CKS-researcher Gissur Ó Erlingsson.
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Prestigious European grant to LiU professor

Professor Eva Hemmungs Wirtén has been awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant, one of the most prestigious grants awarded by this body. She receives EUR 2.3 million spread over five years.

Addresses

Visiting address Linköping

Campus Valla

B Building, Entrance 25, 3rd floor

Visiting address Norrköping

Campus Norrköping

Kopparhammaren 7 Building (Kungsgatan 56), House C, 3rd floor

Postal address Linköping

Linköpings University

ISAK
581 83 Linköping
Sweden

Postal address Norrköping

Linköping University

ISAK
Kungsgatan 56
601 74 Norrköping
Sweden