2025-10-15
Four doctoral students are now working hard towards a common goal: to create and design textiles based on local bio-based raw materials. Their project is financed by Sparbanken Sjuhärad through its owner foundation.
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We strive for excellence in our research and our educational programmes. As a university with renowned research infrastructure and laboratories, the University of Borås is the place for you to deepen your knowledge of sustainability, resource recovery, textiles, informatics, and more.
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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.
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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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Innovation meets sustainability when young researchers shape the textiles of the future
2025-10-15
Textile nerves – a new thread in the future of wearable electronics
2025-10-13
Research: A tiny house on wheels inviting to think differently about householding with resources
2025-10-10
Swedish School of Library and Information Science receives top marks – highlighted as leading research environment in the Nordic region
2025-10-02
PhD Work Showcased at Venice Design Biennial
2025-09-30
2025-10-13
What if your clothes could sense, respond, and even help you move? That’s the vision behind the doctoral project on “textile nerves” – conductive fibres designed for electronic and ionotronic textiles. Claude Huniade, who is behind an innovative project, has woven together chemistry, mechanics, and sustainability to rethink how textiles and electronics can merge.
2025-10-10
What if your home wasn’t just a place to live, but a space to experiment with? That was one of the guiding ideas behind the artistic research project Holding Surplus House, carried out in collaboration between the Swedish School of Textiles, the Linnaeus University and Växjö Art Gallery and that now has been concluded.
2025-10-02
The research area Library and Information Science has undergone an external evaluation and received very positive feedback. The research environment is described as holding leading position both nationally and internationally and it is characterised by strong collegiality with collaboration and respect for each other’s work.
2025-09-30
Helga Halldórsdóttir, doctoral student at the Swedish School of Textiles, is currently exhibiting at the Venice Design Biennial. Her piece, a furry table, was created in collaboration with Icelandic designer Marta Heiðarsdóttir.
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27 October
Monday 14:00 – 15:30
The SSLIS Seminar | Barns livsmod får näring av sagan
3 November
Monday 14:00 – 16:00
The SSLIS Seminar | Final seminar Fereshta Westin
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With the future in mind
At the University of Borås, we cultivate learning, knowledge, and innovation of high quality in an international setting and with significant social relevance. We work together here to impact the future.