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Published: 10 July 2025Parasport pioneer receives honorary doctorate
Peter Nilsson, operations manager of the parasport association FIFH Malmö, has been awarded an honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Culture and Society. The motivation highlights his tireless work for a more inclusive and socially sustainable society for...
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Published: 5 February 2025How Georgian villagers halted construction of power plants
Even if both the government and big business are behind a major infrastructure project, it is important to have the people on board. In a new thesis, PhD student Nick Baigent has studied how small villages in rural Georgia managed to stop the construction...
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Published: 29 February 2024Slang at work helps adult migrants develop language skills
When immigrant students develop language skills in the workplace, they appreciate hearing everyday language and the use of slang. However, in Sweden, researchers are looking for answers on how language courses can integrate cooperation with the labour...
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Published: 24 January 2024The remembering and forgetting of the victims and the survivors of the Holocaust
It was primarily the survivors of the Holocaust who kept the memory of the dead alive in Sweden. However, interest in the graves and memorial sites has increased, and remembering has become a national concern, according to new research.
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Published: 13 December 2023Sex education in Swedish schools is potentially problematic
Sex education in Swedish schools is characterised by a cheerful and positive view of sex and relationships. However, this can also be perceived as one-sided and not entirely unproblematic when challenged, according to new research.
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Published: 31 October 2023Halloween – not as death obsessed as you might think
Halloween is celebrated in many places, but the holiday has not always been about death. Manon Hedenborg White, associate professor of history of religions, explains how it came to be the trick-or-treating, pumpkin-carving holiday that it is today.
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Anders Roos - Doctoral student
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Manon Hedenborg White - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Torkel Richert - Professor
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Magnus Denker - Lecturer
magnus.denker@mau.se+46 70 271 55 74Humanities, Languages and Cultural Production