New professors
Örebro University’s new professors were inaugurated at the Academic Celebration in February 2024, with research spanning the fields of humanities and social sciences, medicine and health, and science and technology
Professors inaugurated in 2024 at Örebro university.
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Linda Soneryd
Linda Soneryd is professor of sociology. Her research focuses on the conditions for transparency and citizen engagement in the environmental area. Twenty years after the public defence of her doctoral thesis at Örebro University, she is now back in...
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Jonatan Leer
Jonatan Leer is professor of culinary arts and meal science. His latest research focuses mainly on food, sustainability, and men. “We’re exploring why men are slow to embrace the green transition and adopt a sustainable consumption behaviour,” he says.
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Susanna Heldt Cassel
Susanna Heldt Cassel is professor of human geography. Her research focuses on the socially sustainable development of places and regions. “To understand the conditions for development in a place, we need to examine how culture, identity, and material...
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Alexandru Panican
Alexandru Panican is professor of social work. His research specialises in welfare issues and has demonstrated how various welfare systems reinforce problems. “The education system and the activation of the young unemployed often lead to unemployment....
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Annika Andersson
Annika Andersson is professor of informatics, and her research focuses on how power and politics influence the design and use of information systems. “An increasing number of decisions in the public sector are made with the help of AI. My goal is for...
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Susanne Strand
Susanne Strand is professor of criminology. Her research focuses on risk assessment and management of intimate partner violence. Much of her work involves collaboration with the police and social services. “My aim is to ease the work for those dealing...
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Mats Eriksson
Mats Eriksson is professor of media and communication studies focused on strategic communication. In a world increasingly defined by crises and heightened threat perceptions, he researches risk, environmental, and crisis communication from organisational...
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Andreas Bergh
Andreas Bergh is professor of education. One of his research projects deals with how school activities have increasingly become the subject of new and strengthened legal regulations. “A new legal framework for schools does not mean that the complexity of...
