Social Science Research

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.

Business Administration

Central issues within business administration research relate to organizations' strategies and decisions, financing, management and accounting, as well as various forms of organization.

Children

Child research is a broad field of research which has evolved from both interdisciplinary questions and those more discipline-oriented.

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.

Economics

Economics is often described as the doctrine of "economy with limited resources." It deals, in other words, with how individuals, families, organizations and nations make decisions regarding their consumption in order to achieve various objectives with the resources they have, and the resulting consequences.

Environmental research

With an interdisciplinary and problem-based approach, environment and sustainability researchers at LiU deal with questions from the highest level, international climate negotiations, to how the residents of a local neighbourhood can be encouraged to save energy

Ethics

What is right? What is not right? How should we act? These are questions that in different ways are being studied in ethics.

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

Health and Society

This field of research is interdisciplinary and involves knowledge, methods, and researchers from various disciplines. The research involves how environmental and social changes affect the development of health at the level of the individual, the group, and society, as well as strategies that are applied by the various
actors in a welfare society to promote health and/or help people
to experience a sense of physical, mental, and social well-being.

Legal research

Research in jurisprudence at Linköping University has two areas of specialization: commercial law and welfare law. This means that we research into legal issues that are clearly linked to commercial operations or to legal functions for constructing and maintaining a welfare society that respects fundamental values
such as law and order, non-discrimination and individual privacy.

Politics

Politics is about how societies are organized and governed, how power can be formed, exercised and justified.

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.

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.