Research groups
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Citizen participation, democracy and civic engagement
Contact: Cecilia Arensmeier The focus of this research is primarily citizens in democratic contexts, and on how civic and political knowledge, values...
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Civic Education
Civic education is a multidisciplinary research group with its base in the academic disciplines: economics, human geography, political science and sociolog...
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Civic engagement and political participation
This theme has a focus on how citizen engagement and political participation develop, are organized and communicated. The theoretical basis is in political...
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Discourse, Communication and Media (DCM)
The research group Discourse, Communication and Media’s (DCM) main interest is how discursive and journalistic practices construct different conditions for...
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Environmental Sociology Section
Research within the environmental sociology section at Örebro University focuses environment-society relations. Environmental problems are something that is...
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Feminist theory and knowledge production
This theme includes research about development of feminist theory, feminist science studies, and knowledge production in organisations and political movement...
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Feminist violence studies
The research team engages with violence and violations from a feminist and intersectional perspective. We situate violence and violations in social, politica...
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Gender and Regional Studies
The Gender and Regional Studies network is a research network whose purpose is to bring together researchers and research perspectives on the topic of gender...
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Governance, public policy and political institutions
Within this research stream the focus is on understanding changes of and within political and administrative institutions. By integrating studies of public...
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Machine Perception and Interaction Lab (MPI)
The goal of the lab is to develop methods and techniques to extract meaningful information from sensor data where such data emerges from complex physical...