The Collegium for the Humanities serves as a forum for gathering humanities expertise and creating structures for collaboration across faculty and subject boundaries within the university's interdisciplinary faculties. The Board also acts as a point of contact that helps to highlight the importance of the humanities for research, education and social development.

Activities

The Collegium for the Humanities organises workshops, seminars, lectures, and research days, and promotes collaboration and research exchanges in the humanities, both within the university and with external academic institutions.

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Research groups with researchers in the humanities

Publications

Humanities research at Malmö University spans language, literature, history, religion, media, culture and art, with studies ranging from corpus linguistics and comic book theory to Holocaust memory cultures and contemporary spirituality. With strong international roots and social relevance, the research contributes critical perspectives on democracy, identity, storytelling and cultural change in a global era.

Citation impact in the humanities

Swedish humanities are strong internationally. New figures show that 6.6 per cent of publications in 2020–2023 achieved more than five citations – almost twice the global average of 3.4 per cent.

Malmö University is one of the universities that stand out. Much of the research is published in history, a subject that traditionally has lower citation levels, but nevertheless ranks very high in national comparisons.

Research centre for humanities research

Imagining and Co-Creating Futures

In a world that seems caught in a crisis-ridden present, there is a need to reawaken our capacity to collectively imagine, make...

Institute for Urban Research

The Institute for Urban Research is a university-wide interdisciplinary research centre that brings together all urban research...

Literacy and Inclusive Teaching

The Research Centre for Literacy and Inclusive Teaching (LIT) conducts interdisciplinary research on literacy and inclusive...

Research by subject area

History

History and history didactics are areas of research within the humanities and are of great relevance to the study of societies,...

Religious Studies

Within the research field of religious studies, various aspects of religion and belief in history and the present are studied....

Language and Literature

Language and literature at Malmö University is focused on comparative literature, English literature and linguistics, creative...

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