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Society, Culture and Identity
Society, Culture and Identity
The Department of Society, Culture and Identity is a multidisciplinary department operating at the intersection between the humanities and social sciences. Our focus is on issues related to the relationship between people and society.
Education at Society, Culture and Identity
The Department of Society, Culture and Identity conducts teacher training, study and career counsellor training and history studies. We offer three programmes for subject teachers: Social Science and Learning, History and Learning and Religious Studies and Learning. The department is also responsible for first-cycle studies in socially oriented subjects for preschool and years 1-6. This includes the course in Montessori pedagogy. The department has overall responsibility for history programmes and courses at Malmo University at first, second and third cycle.
Socially oriented subjects for preschool and years 1-6
The department is responsible for teacher training courses in socially oriented subjects at first-cycle level. These courses integrate subject and subject-specific didactics in geography, history, religion and social science. Both a classroom and critical social perspective are applied to the courses.
Heads of subject:
Degree of Master of Arts/Science in Secondary Education
History and Learning
Specialist teacher training in history integrates three aspects of the subject: subject knowledge, methodology and didactics. This will prepare you for professional practice as a history teacher. The programme is permeated by the understanding that the actions of people in the past continue to have effects into the future. Today, we live with the problems and opportunities created for us by those who came before us. In the same way, we are creating the conditions for the people who will come after us. We are both creations and creators of history.
Heads of subject:
Religious Studies and Learning
Issues of religion and ethics, and religion’s role in society, are constantly being raised today, both in Sweden and around the world. A modern, global, inclusive and diverse society places many demands on people.
Heads of subject:
Social Science and Learning
Social Science and Learning studies and problematises social issues based on people, society and politics.
Head of subject:
History and Learning
In History and Learning, we study social changes over time from sociohistorical and cultural analytical points of departure. Starting with a bottom-up approach, specific people and their living conditions are the focus of attention from perspectives such as class, gender, generation and ethnicity. The subject focuses on how living conditions and cultures have and continue to change in interaction with social structures and ecological conditions. The interplay between humans as culture-creating protagonists and their social, political and ecological surroundings are therefore studied through the lens of change. The critical cultural analysis provides a theoretical perspective that permeates the subject. The production, consumption, communication and reception of history and cultural heritage is studied from a social perspective.
Head of subject:
Study and careers counsellors
The study programme for study and careers counsellors is a combination of behavioural science, social science, counselling methodologies and work placement (VFU). The programme deals with theoretical aspects of sociology, psychology, pedagogy and working life and the labour market.
Head of subject:
Peter Gladoic Håkansson
Third-cycle studies: History and Didactics
History and Didactics study how societies and their citizens’ living conditions and experiences change over time. This research is characterised by a striving to write history ‘from the bottom up’, thus rendering visible the perspectives of previously marginalised groups.
The didactics of history are closely linked to this question: how is history produced, conveyed and received, both in an educational context and in society at large?
Research at Society, Culture and Identity
Our research is based on interdisciplinary methods. Researchers from different fields within humanities and social sciences collaborate. History studies, with its PhD studies, is an especially strong research environment at the department.
Researchers, publications and research projects
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EAStaff
Erik Alvstad - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Fredrik Alvén - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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NAStaff
Nils Andersson - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Malin Axelsson - Lecturer
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CAStaff
Cecilia Axelsson Yngvéus - Senior lecturer
cecilia.axelsson.yngveus@mau.se -
Staff
Peter Bauer - Doctoral student
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Staff
Mato Bosnjak - Doctoral student
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LBStaff
Laid Bouakaz - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Therese Brockendorf - Doctoral student
therese.brockendorf@mau.se -
Staff
Mikael Bruér - Doctoral student/Lecturer
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Staff
Jonsson Malm Carolina - Research liaison officer
carolina.jonsson-malm@mau.se -
IDStaff
Ingmarie Danielsson Malmros - Senior lecturer
ingmarie.danielsson.malmros@mau.se -
Staff
Rikard Einegard - Doctoral student
rikard.einegard@mau.se -
Staff
Elin Ennerberg - Associate senior lecturer
elin.ennerberg@mau.se -
Staff
Peter Gladoic Håkansson - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
peter.hakansson@mau.se -
JGStaff
Joakim Glaser - Senior lecturer
joakim.glaser@mau.se -
Staff
Mats Greiff - Associate Professor/Professor
mats.greiff@mau.se -
Staff
Ylva Grufstedt - Senior lecturer
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PGStaff
Per Gunnemyr - Lecturer
per.gunnemyr@mau.se -
Staff
Niklas Gustafson - Senior lecturer
niklas.gustafson@mau.se -
Staff
Magnus Gustafson - Doctoral student
magnus.gustafson@mau.se -
EHStaff
Emma Hall - Doctoral student
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Staff
Manon Hedenborg White - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
manon.hedenborg-white@mau.se -
MHStaff
Mona Hemmaty - Associate senior lecturer
mona.hemmaty@mau.se -
JHStaff
Julia Håkansson - Doctoral student
julia.hakansson@mau.se -
MJStaff
Malin Jonsson - Doctoral student
malin.jonsson@mau.se -
Staff
Anders Karlsson - Lecturer
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Staff
Bodil Liljefors-Persson - Associate Professor/Professor
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Staff
Anders Lindh - Senior lecturer
anders.lindh@mau.se -
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Martin Lund - Senior lecturer
martin.p.lund@mau.se -
Staff
Janna Lundberg - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Emma Lundin - Senior lecturer
emma.lundin@mau.se -
Staff
Johan Lundin - Associate Professor/Professor
johan.lundin@mau.se -
Staff
Erica Lundqvist - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Ivar Morgan - Doctoral student
ivar.morgan@mau.se -
AMStaff
Ann-Sophie Mårtensson - Doctoral student
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Staff
Robert Nilsson Mohammadi - Associate senior lecturer
robert.mohammadi@mau.se -
Staff
Stefan Nyzell - Associate Professor/Head of department/Associate Professor
stefan.nyzell@mau.se -
Staff
Nina Palmgren - Lecturer
nina.palmgren@mau.se -
BPStaff
Bo Persson - Senior lecturer
bo.persson@mau.se -
LPStaff
Lars Pålsson Syll - Associate Professor/Professor
lars.palsson-syll@mau.se -
Staff
Lisa Ringblom - Postdoc
lisa.ringblom@mau.se -
Staff
David Rosenlund - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
david.rosenlund@mau.se -
Staff
Petronella Rosenquist - Doctoral student
petronella.rosenquist@mau.se -
JRStaff
Joel Rudnert - Senior lecturer
joel.rudnert@mau.se -
MSStaff
Marianne Sjöland - Project researcher
marianne.sjoland@mau.se -
Staff
Thomas Småberg - Associate Professor/Associate Professor
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Staff
Christopher Thompson - Postdoc
christopher-lee.thompson@mau.se -
Staff
Malin Thor Tureby - Associate Professor/Professor
malin.thor@mau.se -
Staff
Cecilia Trenter - Professor
cecilia.trenter@mau.se -
KWStaff
Kristin Wagrell - Postdoc
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Staff
Frida Wikstrand - Senior lecturer
frida.wikstrand@mau.se
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2023 | Conference paper
Krisdokumentation och Oral History - Samtida och Historiska Perspektiv
Malin Thor Tureby
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2023 | Collection (editor)
Identity and History in Non-Anglophone Comics
Martin Lund, Harriet E. H. Earle
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2023 | Article in journal
Dansk historieundervisning i relation till svensk: Kommentarer till Eskelund Knudsen & Haue ”Historieundervisning i Danmark –epokale tendenser, kontinuitet og forandring i lærebøger og læremidler”
Fredrik Alvén, Niklas Ammert
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2023 | Conference paper
Beyond survivor-witnessing: Redefining a field
Malin Thor Tureby, Kristin Wagrell, Victoria Martinez
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2023 | Conference paper
“Hearing” Holocaust survivors: On collections and research with Holocaust survivors in Sweden, 1945–2020
Malin Thor Tureby
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2022 | Chapter in book
Ett vitt skepp kommer lastat. De överlevande, den mosaiska församlingen och Beredskapssjukhuset i Kalmar.
Malin Thor Tureby
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2022 | Article in journal
När kulturarvet fick rädda balansräkningen: Striden om hockeymuseet i Örnsköldsvik
John Berg
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2022 | Other
Vikten av historiska och humanistiska perspektiv: exemplet migration och rörelse
Christina Johansson, Malin Thor Tureby
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2022 | Article, book review
Recension av Without Getting Killed or Caught, dokumentärfilm om Guy Clark
Mats Greiff
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2022 | Article, book review
Koncertrecension av The Country Side of Harmonica Sam I Malmö 12 februari
Mats Greiff
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Research project
Remembering on one's own terms: Possibilities for a democratization of the archives through community archiving
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Research project
Nordic voices: The use of oral history and personal memories in public history settings
malin.thor@mau.se -
Research project
The Ethical Dilemmas of Digitalization: Vulnerability and Holocaust collections.
malin.thor@mau.se -
Research project
HistoryLab for European Civic Engagement: open e-Toolkit to train History Teachers on Digital Teaching and Learning
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Research project
Histories of Refugeedom in the Nordic Countries
malin.thor@mau.se -
Research project
DigiCONFLICT: Digital Heritage in Cultural Conflicts
malin.thor@mau.se -
Research project
Grendel's treasure: Temporality, authority and the desire for the past
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Research project
Jewish and woman. Intersectional and historical perspectives on Jewish women's lives in Sweden during the twentieth and twenty-first...
malin.thor@mau.se
Research subjects
Collaboration at Society, Culture and Identity
Our education and research is conducted in close collaboration with surrounding communities. Please feel free to contact us with proposals for collaborations with our researchers or students.
National test in history
The Swedish National Agency for Education has been tasked by the Swedish Government with developing and implementing national tests in collaboration with higher education institutions. The task of developing the national test in history for year 9 students has been entrusted to Malmö University.