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Culture
Art and visual culture
In an international perspective, art history is a core subject in the humanities and its study area have been the subject of scientific interest since the period of Ancient Greece.
Children
Child research is a broad field of research which has evolved from both interdisciplinary questions and those more discipline-oriented.
Culture
For today's researchers culture is not just music, theatre and literature but it also refers to the way people live and view the world. As early as 1967 the British sociologist Raymond Williams defined culture as "a whole way of life".
Ethnicity and migration
Within IMER, international migration and ethnic relations are studied as a social phenomenon. In the foreground we have causes of, conditions for and consequences of international migration, nation building, yesterday and today, as well as relations between majority and minority, both immigrants
and indigenous people
History
While some scientists clearly categorize themselves as historians, others have a multi-disciplinary identity. The research is characterized by both breadth and depth. It is primarily the last centuries of history that is being explored but there are also representatives of older periods.
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.
Literature and language
Literature research at LiU is mainly conducted within the Graduate School in Language and Culture in Europe. As a whole, the research is focused on the study of linguistic processes and products in their cultural context and in a European perspective.
Philosophy
Philosophy research deals with issues that are fundamental for understanding the world and our own existence, questions about norms, values, knowledge, reality, consciousness and thought.
Religion
Religious studies is a collective term for the broad, multi-disciplinary, scientific study of historic and modern religions and philosophies, their background and historical development, historical and contemporary forms of expression throughout the human cultural sphere
Social anthropology
Social anthropology is the academic extension of curiosity in other people and their living conditions.
Research 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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