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Ecological, social, and economic sustainability is the common denominator for the research projects that are being awarded research grants this year by Sparbanksstiftelsen Sjuhärad.

At the end of October, Hannes Göbel's doctoral thesis, “Designing Digital Resourcing,” was named the winner of this year's Börje Langefors Prize for the best doctoral thesis in informatic...

It will now be easier to conduct modern, digitised, and interdisciplinary research in the humanities. The Swedish School of Library and Information Science is one of twelve partners in...

What does it mean to be an academic? What are the moral and ethical aspects of the role? Professor Bruce Macfarlane raises these questions for discussion in his research.

Delayed and more costly Christmas presents for Swedish consumers is one of the consequences of the world’s container crisis. Daniel Ekwall, Professor of Textile Management, explains the situation.

The University of Borås is the node in a new EU project within Resource Recovery. The purpose of the project is to create and promote collaboration and the exchange of knowledge among Eur...

In September, the final round of the prestigious Dorothy Waxman Textile Design Prize competition took place. Three of the finalists came from the Swedish Sc...

The textile and fashion industry faces a large number of significant challenges. Opportunities for global collaborations in which innovations, different ways of ...

Long-term pain is perhaps the single most important factor that reduces quality of life for older people. New technology based on therapeutic smart textiles can make it easier to manage pain. ...

Last week, new exchange students from the East African School of Library and Information Science (EASLIS) at Makerere University in Uganda were welcomed to the University of ...

In her doctoral research, Rebecca Gmoser has investigated how fungi can be used to refine residual and waste products. The result is natural pigments and sustainable animal feed and food products.

What happens if a future employer reads your old posts on Facebook? A new study sheds light on how members of a private Facebook group relate to the risks involved in posting under their own names.

Region Västra Götaland has announced that students who received their first dose of a vaccine against COVID-19 in another region will be able to book an appointment for their second dos...

A garment that perceives the environment, translates it to a special language, and communicates the information to the user with vibrations: that is the fantastic result of the resea...

The lack of clean drinking water and the release of toxic wastewater into the environment are some of our biggest global problems. At the same time, the purification process is often complicated, expensiv...