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The 10th Nordic Conference for Cultural Policy Research was held in Borås on 10-12 November. Seventy researchers from Nordic and other European countries gathered together...

New research in Resource Recovery will explore how fungi made from juice industry waste, among other food waste, can become filters and membranes. These can be used in brea...

Involve the staff and the older people themselves in developing the care of older people, and support first-line managers. These are some of the results of a four-year research proj...

What affects and motivates librarians to develop within their profession? This is a question that is raised in a new doctoral dissertation on academic librarians in Pakistan.

In a world where information and data abound, fashion and textile companies face a new kind of challenge. Is AI technology a solution? If so, how can the industry use it?

A growing number of manufacturers are adopting innovative approaches towards circularity and sustainability in personal protective equipment (PPE) manufacturing. This ha...

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. ...