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School of Arts and Communication
Arts and Communication
At the School of Arts and Communication (K3), we work with interdisciplinary education and research in media, culture and design. We combine traditional scientific and academic theory with artistic methods and practical elements.
Education at K3
The School brings together technology and culture. Our students work with new media, design, culture and a wide range of arts. A hallmark of K3 is that we collaborate with companies, organisations and other parties. Our students work with real-life cases through projects and assignments. Find our courses in the course catalogue.
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Programme, Grundnivå | 180 hp
Grafisk design
28 augusti, 2023 - 7 juli, 2026 -
Programme, Bachelor’s level | 180 credits
Interaction Design
2 September, 2024 - 6 June, 2027 -
Programme, Grundnivå | 180 hp
Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap: Medieaktivism, strategi och entreprenörskap
28 augusti, 2023 - 7 juli, 2026 -
Programme, Grundnivå | 180 hp
Produktdesign
28 augusti, 2023 - 7 juli, 2026 -
Programme, Grundnivå | 180 hp
Visuell kommunikation
28 augusti, 2023 - 7 juli, 2026
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Programme, Master’s level | 60 credits
Communication for Development
2 September, 2024 - 7 June, 2026 -
Programme, Master’s level | 120 credits
Culture and Change - Critical Studies in the Humanities, Master's Programme (Two-Year)
2 September, 2024 - 7 June, 2026 -
Programme, Master’s level | 60 credits
Interaction Design, Master's Programme (One-Year)
2 September, 2024 - 8 June, 2025 -
Programme, Master’s level | 120 credits
Interaction Design, Master's Programme (Two-Year)
2 September, 2024 - 7 June, 2026 -
Programme, Master’s level | 60 credits
Media and Communication Studies: Culture, Collaborative Media, and Creative Industries, Master's programme (One-Year)
2 September, 2024 - 8 June, 2025 -
Programme, Master’s level | 120 credits
Media and Communication Studies: Culture, Collaborative Media, and Creative Industries, Master's programme (Two-Year)
2 September, 2024 - 7 June, 2026
Examples from education
Rooms for creative activities

In the university building called “Orkanen”, our students have access to labs and studios for sound and radio, photography, motion picture, animation and games as well as studios for editorial work, labs and workshops.
Annual exhibition

Each spring, students from K3 contribute degree projects to FormDesign Center’s spring exhibition. The projects are created as part of the Graphic Design, Product Design and Visual Communication courses.
Research at K3
K3 attracts researchers in several different disciplines, from design and information technology to media research and cultural sciences. Research projects can involve anything from participant design and physical computing to social media, cartoons and questions about culture and class. Much of the research is done together with external parties.
Research projects
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Research project
Countering Oppositional Political Extremism through Attuned Dialogue: Track, Attune, Limit
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Research project
Swedish Riksdag 1867–2022: An Ecosystem of Linked Open Data
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Research project
Imagining Sweden: “Sweden” as lodestar and punching bag for far-right movements in the US
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Research project
Bauhaus of the Seas Sails
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Research project
Swedish Parliamentary Debates
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Research project
Digital Emergency Communication (DIGeMERGE)
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Teaching for more-than-human values in design in higher education (MOVA)
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Research project
Modern Times 1936
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Research project
Working life during the Covid-19 pandemic: social participation, learning experiences, design opportunities and future work life for people...
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Research project
Workers as Agents of a Green and Just Transition. A real-life experiment in Sweden and Spain
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Research project
The Housing-Integration-Nexus: shaping exchange and innovation for migrants’ access to housing and social inclusion - HOUSE-IN
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Research project
The child as cipher for a politics of ‘traditional values’ in the anti-gender movement: A comparative study of Russia and Germany
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Research project
U-YouPa – Understanding Youth Participation and Media literacy in Digital Dialogue Spaces
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Research project
International Ideas at UNESCO: Digital Approaches to Global Conceptual History
fredrik.noren@mau.se -
Research project
Violent threats and internal security. Canadian-Swedish bilateral research collaboration on organized violent threats
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Research project
Resilience in Urban Sudan (RUS): Resilience, social cohesion and climate change in urban areas of Greater Khartoum
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Research project
Refugee Migration and Cities: Social Institutions, Political Governance and Integration in Jordan, Turkey and Sweden (SIPGI)
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Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Decolonizing Diplomacy: Negotiating Development Cooperation between African states and the European Union
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A Day in the Digital Lives of 0-3 year olds. DIGIKIDS Sweden
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Research project
Welfare State Analytics: Text Mining and Modeling Swedish Politics, Media & C ulture, 1945-1989 (WeStAc)
fredrik.noren@mau.se
K3 Research Seminars
Programme
At K3's research seminars, our own researchers and guest researchers present interesting results and invite you to a discussion.
Teachers, researchers and PhD students
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Staff
David Aleklett Kadish - Lecturer
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Anna Arnman - Senior lecturer
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Charlotte Asbjørn Sörensen - Manager
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Tina Askanius - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Dennis Augustsson - Senior lecturer
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Emilia Bergmark - Lecturer
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HBStaff
Hugo Boothby - Lecturer
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CBStaff
Christel Brost - Head of unit/Senior lecturer
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Sara Callahan - Associate senior lecturer
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Martin Cathcart Fröden - Senior Lecturer within the arts
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BCStaff
Berndt Clavier - Senior lecturer
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Erin Cory - Senior lecturer
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DCStaff
David Joaquin Cuartielles Ruiz - Lecturer
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Magnus Denker - Lecturer
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Tobias Denskus - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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JDStaff
Jakob Friedrich Dittmar - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Fredrik Edin - Senior lecturer
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AEStaff
Anders Emilsson - Senior lecturer
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MFStaff
Martin Farran-Lee - Adjunct professor
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Fernanda Favaro - Doctoral student
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Staff
Elizabeth Ashley Fox-Jensen - Lecturer
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Daniel Gaffner - Lecturer
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Sara Gottschalk - Lecturer
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Staff
Nina Grønlykke Mollerup - Senior lecturer
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Anne-Marie Hansen - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Åsa Harvard Maare - Head of unit/Senior lecturer
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Maria Hellström Reimer - Professor
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Oscar Hemer - Professor emeritus/emerita
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LHStaff
Line Henriksen - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Clint Heyer - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Per-Anders Hillgren - Professor
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Lars Holmberg - Lecturer
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AHStaff
Anders Høg Hansen - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Li Jönsson - Senior lecturer
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Asko Kauppinen - Senior lecturer
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Susan Kozel - Professor
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Gunnar Krantz - Professor, within the arts
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MKStaff
Michael Krona - Senior lecturer
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HLStaff
Henrik Svarrer Larsen - Senior lecturer
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ALStaff
Ann Light - Guest professor
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Per Linde - Head of unit/Senior lecturer
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Staff
Kristina Lindström - Senior lecturer
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ALStaff
Ann-Sofi Ljung Svensson - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Malin Mc Glinn - Education officer
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Margareta Melin - Senior lecturer
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Fredrik Mohammadi Norén - Associate senior lecturer
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Per Möller - Lecturer
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Simon Niedenthal - Associate Professor/Professor
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Staff
Elisabet M. Nilsson - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Staff
Linda Paxling - Project researcher
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JPStaff
Jens Pedersen - Senior lecturer
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Pille Pruulmann Vengerfeldt - Professor
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Petra Ragnerstam - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Bo Reimer - Professor
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LRStaff
Lizette Reitsma - Associate senior lecturer
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Staff
Juliana Restrepo Giraldo - Doctoral student
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Bojana Romic - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Roel Roscam Abbing - Doctoral student
roel.roscam-abbing@mau.se -
SSStaff
Staffan Schmidt - Senior lecturer
staffan.schmidt@mau.se -
Staff
Anna Schröder - Doctoral student
anna.schroder@mau.se -
Staff
Anna Seravalli - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
anna.seravalli@mau.se -
Staff
Ulrika Sjöberg - Professor
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Alicia Smedberg - Senior lecturer
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Soraya Tharani - Senior lecturer
soraya.tharani@mau.se -
Staff
Josepha Wessels - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Maria Wiktorsson - Senior lecturer
maria.wiktorsson@mau.se
Research publications
In DiVA, you will find scholarly output by faculty staff and students. It is also the open archive for publications series published by Malmö University.
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2023 | Article in journal
Migrant-focused inequity, distrust and an erosion of care within Sweden’s healthcare and media discourses during COVID-19
Michael Strange, Tina Askanius
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2023 | Article in journal
Spaces of Flaws of Flows: COBOL and the back-back-ends of development
Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter
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2023 | Article, book review
Are John Knudsen & Kjersti G. Berg (eds). Continental encampment: genealogies of humanitarian containment in the Middle East and Europe. 296 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2023.
Ronald Stade
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2023 | Article in journal
The Gangster and the Bride: The Media Representation of Masculinity and Femininity in News Coverage of Jihadi Terrorists
Michael Krona, Olivia Caskey
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2023 | Article in journal
Stories from third space: A case and considerations of design research education from a Swedish vantage point
Maria Hellström Reimer, Ramia Mazé
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2023 | Article in journal
Responding to the Indeterminacy of Doctoral Research in Design
Meredith Davis, Luke Feast, Jodi Forlizzi, Ken Friedman, Ali Ilhan, Wendy Ju, Gerd Kortuem, Maria Hellström Reimer, Carlos Teixeira
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2023 | Chapter in book
Letters and Diaries of Resilience: Ahmed Kathrada and Fatima Meer's prison writings during Apartheid
Anders Høg Hansen
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2023 | Book
Mix Tape Memories. Movement and Difference in Life Writing
Anders Høg Hansen
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2023 | Article in journal
Sixto and Buffy: Two Indigenous North American Musical Journeys
Anders Høg Hansen
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2023 | Article in journal
D.I.Y.M.I.A. Mathangi Maya Arulpragasam’s Fusion of Old and New DIY Culture
Anders Høg Hansen
Research subjects
Paper of the year
Marika Hedemyr nominated for Dissertation of the year
Marika Hedemyr nominated for Dissertation of the yearThe dissertation Mixed Reality in Public Space: Expanding Composition Practices in Choreography and Interaction Design is nominated for dissertation of the year at Malmö University. The assessment criteria declare that the dissertation must have made a significant contribution to the research field in question, and have a high degree of originality and independence.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/476384538
More about our research
Research Labs
Desis Lab

The Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Lab focuses on how design can be used to explore and raise discussions about societal challenges. It does so both through research projects and teaching activities.
Studio residencies

Iaspis is an international programme for visual and applied artists. Its mission is to work with internationalisation with the aim of increasing and developing contacts between Swedish artists and international institutions and fellow artists.
Doctoral studies at K3
The School of Arts and Communication (K3) provides third-cycle education and awards degrees in interaction design and media and communication studies. In order to be admitted to third-cycle education, you need to apply for a vacant position as a doctoral student.
Collaborate with K3
For K3, it is natural to collaborate with different parties. Many teachers and researchers run their own activities, companies or projects alongside their work. It is natural to involve people outside the university in our study programmes, degree projects, research projects or other types of projects. One exciting example is the IASPIS studio for collaboration with international artists.
Please contact us if you have ideas for collaboration with our students or researchers.
Current student at K3
The Student Web
If you are already studying at School of Arts and Communication, you can find practical information about studying at Malmö University on the Student Web. Information relating to your programme or course is available through Canvas, the University's virtual learning environment, which you can also access via the Student Web.
Contact us
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Annika Olsson - Dean/Associate Professor
School of Arts and Communication
annika.olsson@mau.se
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Christel Brost - Head of unit/Senior lecturer
Humanities, Languages and Cultural Production
christel.brost@mau.se
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Per Linde - Head of unit/Senior lecturer
Design
per.linde@mau.se
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Charlotte Asbjørn Sörensen - Manager
charlotte.sorensen@mau.se
Contact a study administrator
Do you want to get in contact with a study administrator at K3?
Send an e-mail to: k3student@mau.se