The University's research
Research at the University is pursued in the humanities, the social, behavioural and nursing sciences, educational science, engineering and technology and the natural sciences which are in close proximity to technology. The University's research environments are divided up in accordance with the following three areas of excellence.
Organisation (including organisation, regions and society)
Products (including processes and services)
Life quality (also including welfare and culture)
Organisation (organisation, region and society)
Centre for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Learning Research (Swedish abbreviation CIEL)
CIEL pursues research concerning recently established, small and medium-sized companies in addition to regional development. The focus lies on innovation and product development work, with questions relating to strategy, management, marketing, financing and internationalization processes involving companies, entrepreneurship and business enterprise and the corporate direction of companies, regions and innovation systems.
Centre for Studies into Politics, Communication and Media - CPKM
In this research environment, research is pursued into areas such as political communication, women in politics, journalism and documenting representations in TV, as well as young people, media and globalization.
Societal change, learning and social relations - SLSR
SLSR carries out research into the importance of gender relations for increased understanding of change and learning processes in society, into globalisation, new working and life-style patterns, increased use of computers and the rapid development of communication technology. (SLSR also has links to the Life Quality, Welfare and Culture area of excellence).
Products (including processes and services)
Halmstad Embedded and Intelligent Systems Research - EIS
EIS is a research environment which encompasses several research groups within the School of Information Science, Computer and Electronic Engineering
Mechanical Engineering product development - MTEK
-MTEK is a research environment which specialises in the study of the functional surfaces of products and in design and digital product models in early product development phases.
Bio and Environmental System research - BLESS
This environment carries out research into eco systems as well as biomedicine and biomechanics.
Life quality (including welfare and culture)
Center of research on Welfare Health and Sport - CVHI
CVHI was set up on 1st January 2009 through a merger involving two previously established research environments at the University, the Centre for Sport and Health Research (CIHF) and Welfare and Wellbeing (V&V). The purpose of the merger to form a larger research environment was, in following the general guidelines for profiling work systematically pursued at Halmstad University, to strengthen research resources, scholarly expertise and the research environment of the Life Quality, Welfare and Culture area of excellence.
Societal change, learning and social relations - SLSR
See above.
Research into Education and Learning in Teacher Education - FULL
This environment has entered into a cooperative agreement with SLSR (see above) and research takes up aspects of subject didactics, research in close proximity to practice and relations between education / schools and the outside world, society and community development.
Context and cultural boundaries - KK
This research environment pursues research into so-called culturally-embedded identity markers where identity can be understood both in terms of individual and institutional identity and where markers can be categorised in terms of ethnicity, gender or class.
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