2025-05-02
Lignin, a by-product of the forest industry, can be used to produce sustainable materials that can replace traditional plastics. This has been revealed in a new doctoral thesis at the University of Borås.
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New tour guide uniforms for the United Nations
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We are the first higher education institution ever to design and develop a new collection of guide clothing for the headquarters of the United Nations (UN).
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The Swedish School of Textiles
New tour guide uniforms for the United Nations launched on 22 April
The collection has been created collaboratively by around twenty BFA and MFA students in Textile and Fashion Design at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås.
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Library and Information Science
The Swedish School of Library and Information Science is Sweden’s most extensive research environment in the subject and conducts research and education with a strong professional connection and international character. Our researchers take on the digital challenges of our time, mostly from the perspectives of the humanities and social sciences.
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Business and IT
With a strong regional anchoring and based on national and international needs, the university conducts research with a focus on Business and IT in the subjects of business administration, informatics, and computer science. Our research is characterised by close collaboration with the business sector and a high proportion of externally funded projects.
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The Human Perspective in Care
At the University of Borås, we conduct research that leads to solutions that change society for the better. Our research within the area the Human Perspective in Care focuses on the patient and the caregiver. We focus also on patients’ loved ones, students of Caring Science and their learning, and the leadership and organisation of healthcare.
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Educational Work
One of the prerequisites for developing a social and sustainable society is high quality education, from pre-school and primary school to vocational training and higher education.
Educational Work deals with issues of relevance to society in general and education in particular. This area covers pedagogical, general didactic, and subject-based teaching and learning issues. The purpose is to contribute knowledge that better allows us to understand the obstacles that may hinder us from taking advantage of the full potential of education, as well as knowledge in how such obstacles may be overcome and how to develop alternative possibilities.
Resource Recovery
Our planet faces major climate threats; many of them because we do not take care of the earth’s resources. The Swedish Centre for Resource Recovery (SCRR) is a multidisciplinary research environment that conducts world-leading research, education, and innovation. We improve and develop new methods and processes for material recycling and for refining waste and residual products into energy, materials, feed, and food.
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Textiles and Fashion
The area focuses on the subjects of design, textile technology and engineering, and textile management. We conduct research on customised clothing production, circular fashion, the relationship between the body, materials, and movement, as well as dyeing textiles without water, as examples. The researchers at the Swedish School of Textiles address many exciting societal challenges.
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News
The by-product lignin can play a key role in new sustainable materials
2025-05-02
Information Research journal celebrates 30 years – a pioneer for open access
2025-04-30
How bacteria and textile fibres can heal bones
2025-04-25
The UN's new tour guide collection has been launched in New York City – Swedish students behind the design
2025-04-24
Design research contributes critical questions – Jonas Sjöström sees the important role of academia in the advance of digitalisation
2025-04-24
2025-04-30
Information Research was founded in 1995, when the internet was still new to the general public. The journal has published its content with open access over the years and is one of the journals that has been around the longest in information science.
2025-04-25
Have you ever wondered if there is a way to heal bones without having to take bone from another part of the body? A new doctoral thesis from the University of Borås presents exciting advancements in this area. It involves using bacteria to produce fibres that can help heal bones.
2025-04-24
With a spectacular fashion show, where the UN guides themselves showed the garments, the new collection of tour guide clothes for the UN headquarters in New York City has now been launched – designed by students at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås.
2025-04-24
AI is changing the whole of society – it is becoming crucial to understand how technology can be designed and implemented so that it creates added value for those affected. This challenge is the focus of Jonas Sjöström, new professor of informatics at the University of Borås. "I think about the meaning of technology from the perspective of several different stakeholders," he said.
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