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2024-02-28

New honorary doctors at the University of Borås

It has now been announced who will be honoured with the title of Honorary Doctor: Former Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, entrepreneur and investor Staffan Hillberg, and Professor Xianyi Zeng of ENSAIT,...

2023-12-19

Major research project: What gets us to make smart choices for the climate?

“It is clear that society has failed in our environmental communication in some way. Today's advanced technology provides us with extensive information about the critical...

2023-10-23

Doctoral thesis sheds new light on Oscar II

Is it possible to tell something about a person from what is on their bookshelf? This is the question asked by Arvid Jakobsson, Court Librarian at the Bernadotte Library at the Royal Palace of Sweden, who has...

2023-10-16

UB researchers among the world's most influential

Several of the university's researchers have once again been included in a prestigious international ranking of the most cited researchers in the world. This list was drawn up by researchers at Stanford...

2023-05-17

The university's expert ensures open research

Gustaf Nelhans, Senior Lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, has been selected as an expert in the National Library of Sweden’s reference group for work with the government's...

2023-03-28

Highly respectable first runner-up award for Elisa Tattersall Wallin

Elisa Tattersall Wallin, Senior Lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, was first runner-up for the iSchools prestigious “Doctoral Dissertation Award” in her...

2022-12-16

Historical investment in doctoral education in Library and Information Science

The Swedish Research Council has now granted funds for a doctoral programme in Library and Information Science to be coordinated by the University of Borås. This will mean a...

2022-09-26

Inclusion based on people's needs and the opportunities afforded by technology to be highlighted in new research centre

The university is launching a new research centre, INCLUDE, for research on inclusion and accessibility. This idea came about in...

2022-08-31

How misinformation about wind power spreads

There is a climate crisis, it is an election year, and many people are keen to set the agenda in media debates when it comes to sustainable energy. What is the role of Google’s search engine and other digital...

2022-04-06

The professor who looks wide-eyed at the world

It started with a job in a bookstore and an introductory course in literary studies. Today, Ola Pilerot is Professor of Library and Information Science, with a strong commitment to making sure research is o...

Pieta Eklund in the university's library.

2022-03-15

The librarian – a support in the research process

University libraries and librarians can play an increasingly important role in the research process. But supporting researchers is a partly invisible job, which means certain difficulties. This is one of...

2022-03-07

New book on information literacy and the crisis of information

Is better information literacy the solution to conspiracy theories and misinformation? These problems are more complex than that. So says Jutta Haider, at the Swedish School of Library and...

2021-12-10

Silvanus: The new European green deal project launched for wildfire management, forest resilience and climate change

Funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Green Deal programme and coordinated by Università Telematica Pegaso, the SILVANUS project, in which the...

2021-11-26

New research highlights competence development in the library world

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.

2021-11-09

Sustainable development research receives funding

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

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