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Research in focus: Peace, democracy and human rights

How can we build sustainable societies where peace, democracy and human rights are not just ideals, but a lived reality? At Malmö University, research examines power structures, amplifies marginalised voices, and explores new ways to foster participation...

Meet our new professors

In October 2026, Malmö University will install eight new professors across five faculties. During the university’s celebratory week from 12 to 16 October, they will give open breakfast lectures, which will be filmed. The lectures will be published here...

HR Excellence in Research

By improving working conditions, career paths, research support and recruitment processes, Malmö University is strengthening the foundations for high-quality research. In 2023, the university was awarded the EU’s ‘HR Excellence in Research’ quality label.

Apartments for researchers

As a doctoral student, researcher or guest researcher, you can rent housing through Malmö University.

Deepfake Democracy Project

The Deepfake Democracy Project is an interdisciplinary research initiative at Malmö University investigating how AI-generated video deepfakes threaten democratic resilience in European and Nordic contexts. Using a Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) model...

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, organise, and educate towards more hopeful futures. The centre offers a transdisciplinary space for collaborative research and...

Department of Social Work

Social work is a discipline within the social sciences that encompasses education and training at all educational levels, as well as research, often in collaboration with organisations outside academia. It is concerned with how social problems emerge, and...

Migration seminar: Social Resilience and Lived Integration

Faculty of Culture and Society

At the Faculty of Culture and Society, research and education concerns many of the major issues of our time – for example those dealing with global politics, new media and sustainable urban development – from humanistic, social science, and design science...