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Anders Jonsson was one of the first officers in Sweden to take paternity leave. Today, he is Professor of Prehospital Emergency Care. But perhaps that never would have happened if he hadn't taken parental ...

What would you do if your manager values the rigidity of the instruction manual over innovation? Maybe you’d just grin and bear it, or maybe you'd move 4500 miles away and become a professor? For Rudrajeet Pal, the ...

University libraries and librarians can play an increasingly important role in the research process. But supporting researchers is a partly invisible job, which means certain difficulties. This is one of...

At the Faculty of Police Work, a new research group has been in place for a year with a focus on applied police research. The research group consists of criminologists, lawyers, a historian Int...

The success story of Smart Textiles continues. An approved ECEI SILVER Label “Dedicated to Cluster Excellence” audit under the European Clusters Labelling Excellence Structure is the...

What makes us want to work past retirement age and how do we achieve a more equal work life? These are questions that Marita Flisbäck, Professor of Sociology at the University of B...

What happened at the University of Borås in 2021? We had a large number of applicants in relation to the number of spots available; the students were satisfied; and the volume of education ...

Is better information literacy the solution to conspiracy theories and misinformation? These problems are more complex than that. So says Jutta Haider, at the Swedish School of Library and I...

For the first time, Borås has made Studentum's list of the ten best cities for students in Sweden. Some of the reasons: good public transport, safe accommodations, and good internship opportunities.

Who makes the best systems for decision-making — AI or humans? The answer is that both together lead to better decision-making than they do on their own. This is the result that ap...

Kathleen Galvin, Professor of Nursing Practice at the University of Brighton, UK, will be honoured for her efforts to strengthen and develop research and education in the field of Car...

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has decided to fund a national support programme for researchers from Afghanistan. The initiative comes from Scholars at Risk...

Lindex is investing in Spacerpad, the sustainable menstrual sanitary pad developed by researchers at the Swedish School of Textiles at the University of Borås. This innovation is now leaving the world of academia and moving i...

The University of Borås won significant amounts of funding from the EU framework programme known as Horizon 2020.

The Resource Recovery doctoral education programme is, to say the least, a success – and a new milestone has now been reached. As of the conclusion of 2021, the programme has over 30 doctora...