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2021-12-07

Nordic cultural policy in focus at the 10th anniversary NCCPR conference in Borås

The 10th Nordic Conference for Cultural Policy Research was held in Borås on 10-12 November. Seventy researchers from Nordic and other European countries gathered together...

2021-11-26

New research highlights competence development in the library world

What affects and motivates librarians to develop within their profession? This is a question that is raised in a new doctoral dissertation on academic librarians in Pakistan.

2021-11-09

Sustainable development research receives funding

Ecological, social, and economic sustainability is the common denominator for the research projects that are being awarded research grants this year by Sparbanksstiftelsen Sjuhärad.

2021-10-28

Historical investment in a national infrastructure in the humanities

It will now be easier to conduct modern, digitised, and interdisciplinary research in the humanities. The Swedish School of Library and Information Science is one of twelve partners in...

2021-09-21

Exchange students from Makerere University welcomed to the University of Borås

Last week, new exchange students from the East African School of Library and Information Science (EASLIS) at Makerere University in Uganda were welcomed to the University of...

2021-09-02

New research on privacy management in private Facebook groups

What happens if a future employer reads your old posts on Facebook? A new study sheds light on how members of a private Facebook group relate to the risks involved in posting under their own...

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28 January

Friday 10:00 10:30

Notification of Doctoral Thesis Defence: Pieta Eklund

The doctoral student Pieta Eklund will give notification of the date of her upcoming doctoral thesis defence in a “spikning” event, or the posting of a doctoral thesis, which is a traditional event ...

31 January

Monday 14:30 16:00

BHS-seminariet - Björn Hammarfelt: Peer review in practice

This seminar will initiate a discussion on peer review based on two recently conducted studies on reviewing and editorial practices. The first study co-authored with Isak Hammar and Helena...

18 February

Friday 13:00 15:00 Doctoral thesis defence

Disputation: Pieta Eklund

Doctoral student Pieta Eklund will publicly defend her doctoral thesis within library and information science with the thesis: Academic librarianship in flux: the dynamics of negotiating professional jurisidiction Opponent are...

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