Advanced textile structures

Focus is on the development of new textile structure, yarn structure sustainable fibre and the mechanical recycling of textile

Applied research in healthcare and communication

Applied research in healthcare – to continuously improve and support the health and wellbeing of patients and those who care for them.

Biotechnology

The group's ambition is to use biotechnology as a tool for solving environmental problems and develop sustainable processes in the field of energy and materials.

Care provision in high-technology environments

Our intent is to seek and gain knowledge about what is care-supporting in different healthcare settings when care is increasingly characterised by high-technology.

Civil Engineering

Research within civil engineering focuses on the major challenges facing society in terms of housing and renovation as well as resource management in the construction sector.

Computer Science Lab @ Borås Sweden

A common theme for all research in the group is algorithm development and implementation.

Culture, Library, Politics

Studies of (public) libraries’ current and historical conditions in different respects, cultural policy change processes, and cultural mediation and citizen involvement; these three themes gather the members of this research group.

Digital Consumption

In this interdisciplinary research group, we explore the digitalization of consumption. 

Early Childhood Education (ECE)

Research in Early Childhood Education (ECE) focuses on younger children’s learning and learning environments as well as on teacher education in the pre-school years and school’s earlier years. By conducting research and development projects with results of high relevance to educational programmes for pre-school teachers and schoolteachers as well as to professionals, we link research and education.

Economics and Accounting

Existential Issues in Caring and Learning Contexts

The research group brings together researchers and teachers who have an interest in developing and deepening Caring Science with a focus on existential issues in caring and learning contexts.

Fashion and society

This research group studies fashion with cultural and social science perspectives in relation to society. More specifically, we are interested in how fashion is created, aestheticised, reproduced, and interpreted by various actors, including marketers, creators, and consumers, through different practices and processes.