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School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences

The School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences (LHS) educates the teachers, linguists, cultural theorists and social scientists of the future. The School’s research revolves around teaching, digitalisation and social change.

About LHS

LHS conducts education, research and collaboration in teacher education, humanities and social sciences, both regionally and internationally. The School also offers professional education for those working in primary and secondary schools.

LHS has two departments:

  • The Department of Education is responsible for teacher education for pre-school, primary school and secondary school, as well as bridging programmes in pedagogy.
  • The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences offers education programmes in the Swedish and English languages, Political Science and Cultural Studies. Courses are available within the disciplines of English, History, Literary Studies, Swedish, Political Science and Technology History.

Management, administrators, teaching staff and researchers are based in Q Building. Most teaching also takes place in the Q Building, however some lectures may be held on other campus sites, in addition to web-based distance teaching.

The Dean is Måns Svensson.

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Department of Education

The Department of Education runs teacher education, in Swedish, for preschool, primary and lower secondary school, upper secondary school and bridging programmes in pedagogy.

Some courses are also available, in Swedish mainly, but there are also examples of courses given in English.

The department has approximately 50 employees. Head of Department is Mattias Nilsson, Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy.

Research at the School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

The Department for Humanities and Social Sciences offers education programmes in the Swedish language, English, Political Science and Cultural Studies.

Courses are available within the disciplines of English, History, Art History, Literary Studies, Swedish and Political Science. Courses are primarily given in Swedish, some of them in English.

The department has approximately 40 employees. Head of Department is Helen Fuchs, Senior Lecturer in Art History.

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