Gender studies (TEMAG)

The Posthumanities Hub

Bringing science to the humanities, and more-than-human humanities to the people since 2008.

Sexual harassment within the police

One of tasks of the police is to take reports about sexual assault, investigate and to some extent prevent sexual offences. But what happens when sexual harassment and abuse take place within the police?

Operationalising ethics for AI: translation, implementation and accountability challenges

How can we intervene in continually evolving AI infrastructures to exploit their usefulness while preventing them from exploiting people?

The Eco- and Bioart Lab

The Eco- and Bioart Lab (EBL) connects artists, artistic researchers and other practitioners, as well as doctoral students whose practice and research focus on art and the environment in their broadest understanding.

Ecological Grief, Crisis Imaginaries and Resilience in Nordic Lights

This humanities-based project investigates the meaning and significance of ecological grief (‘eco-grief’) in the Nordic context.

Ecologies of Death: Environment, Body and Ethics in Contemporary Art

In the contemporary context of the ecological crisis, the degradation of natural resources renders certain habitats unliveable and leads to the death of individual organisms, populations and species extinction.

Queer Ecologies of Extinction and the Multispecies Futures of the Baltic Sea

The project addresses multispecies ecologies of the Baltic Sea with questions around the politics of space and time – for instance time scales, life/death ecologies and ecosystem temporalities, as well as intragenerational justice and ethics.

Bodies Hub

We are academics engaged in interdisciplinary research and teaching about bodies, identity, sex, gender and more.

Checking in with Deep Time Clocks

This project aim to deal with how to better re-tie the material and immaterial knots between past, present and future generations, and to suggest ways forward towards innovative ways of checking in with our post-natural and materializing clocks.

Sustainability means inclusivity: Engaging citizens in early stage smart city development

A sustainable urban environment depends as much on creating an inclusive space that is safe, accessible and comfortable for a diverse group of citizens as it does on deploying “smart” technologies for energy efficiency or environmental protection.

Socio-cultural consequences and challenges of creative-AI technology

Applications of AI to the arts are becoming more common. Many artists and AI engineers are rushing headlong into developing and using this technology, and some stakeholders are making considerable profit, due in large part to contemporary hype.

Havshumaniora

Unga framtidsskapare

Feminist pedagogy

This research area focuses on development of critically-creative forms of teaching and learning in on and offline feminist education. It addresses students’ skills, concepts of difference and body, and human-technology interactions (ICTs).

Feminist cultural studies and politics

This is a research field where culture and its diverse expressions and power plays, but also the production conditions involved in cultural production, is put under critical and analytical scrutinizing, examined, described, and negotiated.

Postcolonial Feminisms

Postcolonial feminism critically addresses social and cultural phenomena as agents of epistemic, affective and political decolonization. It focuses on gendered aspects of migrations and diasporas, and the North-South feminist movements and debates.

Gender, Nature and Culture

The research area gender, nature and culture builds upon postdisciplinary bridgings of arts and sciences.

May I have your uterus?

Progress is being made in research into uterus transplantation. But to receive a transplanted uterus, it’s necessary to find a donor yourself, and recent research at LiU shows that this can create challenges.

Professor on the basis of artistic expertise

Congratulations, Katja Aglert, on being appointed professor on the basis of artistic expertise – something that is very uncommon at LiU. Katja is affiliated to the Department of Thematic Studies and is artistic leader and co-director of the Seed Box.

Ericka Johnson elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recently elected three new members. One of these is Ericka Johnson, professor of gender and society at Linköping University. She was elected to the Class for humanities and for outstanding services to science.

With a focus on women´s health

No ovaries, no oestrogen - but higher risk of brain problems. Neuroscientist Gillian Einstein is investigating what happens to women’s brains and health when their production of oestrogen stops.

How do we build people's trust in robots?

In the future, AI may be used to care for people – and it may be robots doing the work. Two researchers at Linköping University are to lead a project investigating trust, empathy and accountability in the relationship between humans and robots.

49 million Swedish crowns for research into sustainable development

Ten researchers at LiU have been awarded grants by the Formas research council. The projects include research into urban cultivation, the possibility of capturing carbon dioxide after emission, and the welfare of laying hens.

Her life inspires her research

One day a Soviet citizen, the next day Russian. That’s what happened to Professor Madina Tlostanova when the Soviet Union collapsed. The experience came to inspire her research.

Der Mann och die Prostata

Ein neues Buch: Die Prostata - die ständige Geise?

Abuse in healthcare – a hidden problem

Abuse in healthcare is a hidden problem we should be able to deal with. But the system is reluctant to discuss the problem openly. This is the view of Barbro Wijma, senior professor at LiU with over 20 years’ research experience of the subject.