2025-03-13
In her doctoral thesis, Lamprini Xiarchi has investigated nurses' experiences of caring for older people in Sweden and Greece. One of the more surprising findings is how gender norms affect care.
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We strive for excellence in our research and our educational programmes. As a university with renowned research infrastructure and laboratories, the University of Borås is the place for you to deepen your knowledge of sustainability, resource recovery, textiles, informatics, and more.
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Library and Information Science
The Swedish School of Library and Information Science is Sweden’s most extensive research environment in the subject and conducts research and education with a strong professional connection and international character. Our researchers take on the digital challenges of our time, mostly from the perspectives of the humanities and social sciences.
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Business and IT
With a strong regional anchoring and based on national and international needs, the university conducts research with a focus on Business and IT in the subjects of business administration, informatics, and computer science. Our research is characterised by close collaboration with the business sector and a high proportion of externally funded projects.
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The Human Perspective in Care
At the University of Borås, we conduct research that leads to solutions that change society for the better. Our research within the area the Human Perspective in Care focuses on the patient and the caregiver. We focus also on patients’ loved ones, students of Caring Science and their learning, and the leadership and organisation of healthcare.
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Educational Work
One of the prerequisites for developing a social and sustainable society is high quality education, from pre-school and primary school to vocational training and higher education.
Educational Work deals with issues of relevance to society in general and education in particular. This area covers pedagogical, general didactic, and subject-based teaching and learning issues. The purpose is to contribute knowledge that better allows us to understand the obstacles that may hinder us from taking advantage of the full potential of education, as well as knowledge in how such obstacles may be overcome and how to develop alternative possibilities.
Resource Recovery
Our planet faces major climate threats; many of them because we do not take care of the earth’s resources. The Swedish Centre for Resource Recovery (SCRR) is a multidisciplinary research environment that conducts world-leading research, education, and innovation. We improve and develop new methods and processes for material recycling and for refining waste and residual products into energy, materials, feed, and food.
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Textiles and Fashion
The area focuses on the subjects of design, textile technology and engineering, and textile management. We conduct research on customised clothing production, circular fashion, the relationship between the body, materials, and movement, as well as dyeing textiles without water, as examples. The researchers at the Swedish School of Textiles address many exciting societal challenges.
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News
Gender roles affect the care of older people
2025-03-13
New Dean of Faculty – a team player who listens
2025-03-07
University’s quality assurance systems approved with reservations
2025-03-05
Leather substitutes made of fungal biomass can become your new handbag or steering wheel cover
2025-02-11
Experts from Sweden, Latvia and Ukraine agree on a project financed by the Swedish Institute to strengthen Ukrainian libraries
2025-02-07
2025-03-07
Fun and well-functioning teamwork was crucial when Åsa Söderlind chose to apply for the position of Dean of Faculty for the Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT. After a year as acting Dean of Faculty, she has gotten to know her Faculty and is ready to look ahead.
2025-03-05
The Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ) has reviewed the quality assurance systems at the University of Borås and the university has received the rating “approved with reservations”. This means that our systems have been approved, but that there are some points that the university should work on further within a two-year period.
2025-02-11
Imagine a handbag or a steering wheel upholstered in leather – but made of artificial leather made from fungi grown from food waste. In a new research project at the University of Borås, the goal is to develop just that in collaboration with industry.
2025-02-07
From January 22 to 24, the National Library of Latvia hosted the kick-off meeting of the project "Empowering Libraries for Rebuilding Ukraine" in the framework of the Swedish Institute Ukraine Cooperation Programme.
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Friday 10:00—12:00
Public defence of thesis Supriyanto
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March
Friday 12:00—12:45
Research seminar: Polymer technology
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March
Monday 14:00—15:30
The SSLIS seminar | Navigating the academic publishing landscape
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At the University of Borås, we cultivate learning, knowledge, and innovation of high quality in an international setting and with significant social relevance. We work together here to impact the future.