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Behaviour Research at LiU
Ageing and later life
The study of ageing and later life is in scientific terms called gerontology and is about the social, psychological and biological aspects of ageing.
Children
Child research is a broad field of research which has evolved from both interdisciplinary questions and those more discipline-oriented.
Cognition
Linköping University constitutes, together with national research institutes and companies in the region, one of the most active areas for cognitive science research and education in Sweden.
Daily life
The daily life research is interdisciplinary and is based on daily life.
Disability
Disability research includes physical as well as behavioural and social aspects of disability.
Ethics
What is right? What is not right? How should we act? These are questions that in different ways are being studied in ethics.
Language and communication
The linguistic research at Linköping University is conducted in close collaboration between five research environments. The main research fields are Language and interaction and Language and communication history.
Pedagogy
Pedagogy is the science that studies impact and impact processes, such as education, development and communication.
Psychology
Psychology can be described as the scientific study of human behaviour and mental processes. In a systematic way, psychology tries to describe man's inner mental and emotional life, his motives and driving forces.
Social anthropology
Social anthropology is the academic extension of curiosity in other people and their living conditions.
Social work
Research in social work includes the study of social problems and their causes, the interventions that aim to handle and solve them, and people's need for support and aid in vulnerable situations.
Sociologi
Sociologin ger en grundläggande förståelse för samhällets karaktär och förändringssätt och dess betydelse för människan som samhällsvarelse. Det finns sociologisk forskning inom två områden vid LiU: Arbetsliv och Socialt arbete.
Working life
Work Life Research is the collective term for research aimed at studying and analyzing terms and conditions of working life, on an individual, group, organizational and societal level.
News
Intuitive thinking does not increase willingness to cooperate
A study that was presented in Nature last year attracted a great deal of attention when it asserted that intuition promotes cooperation. But a group of researchers in behavioural and neuroeconomics at Linköping University say that this is not true, in a new study now being published in Nature.
Electric current gets signal substances moving
After more than 30 years of electric brain stimulation against Parkinson’s disease, it is still unclear why the method works. Clinical research at Linköping University now shows that electrical shocks actually increase the release of dopamine, a necessary signal substance.
Don’t tar all clothing companies with the same brush
The collapse of a factory in Bangladesh a month ago killed more than 1,100 textile workers, mostly young women, and fuelled an already strong hostility towards the appalling working conditions. But the debate is more nuanced, and good initiatives should be recognised, says Nandita Farhad, herself from Bangladesh.
Industrial symbiosis may be the solution
Michael Martin of the Division for Environmental Technology and Management shows in his PhD thesis that industrial symbiosis may be one way to reach EU targets for biofuels. He also introduces a method for calculating the contribution from individual companies.
LiU project in Vietnam against antibiotic crisis
The increasingly widespread resistance to antibiotics is a global threat. One of the most vulnerable countries is Vietnam, with 90 million inhabitants. In an attempt to change this development, the VINARES project was started in the autumn of 2012 led by researchers from, among other places, Linköping University.
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