Research Environments: Humanities and Social Sciences
Research within humanities and social sciences concerns human behaviour, the communication medium and organisation over time and space. Our research provides national and international contributions of relevance to society.
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Biopsychosocial Criminology and Psychology
Biopsychosocial criminology and psychology is a multidisciplinary perspective that attempts to understand criminal behavior by considering the interactions between biological, psychological, and sociological factors.
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CAPS - Center for Criminological and Psychosocial Research
CAPS is a research environment with the overall objective to produce practically useful research on antisocial, norm breaking, criminal behavior, and psychosocial adjustment and development in a broader sense.
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CCC - Centre for Crisis Communication
CCC collaborate to find best approaches to society's crisis preparedness and risk and crisis management from a communication perspective.
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CESSS - Center for Environmental and Sustainability Social Science
CESSS constitutes a platform that brings together and creates synergies between environmental and sustainability researchers within sociology, psychology, and political science.
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CFS - Centre for Feminist Social Studies
The Center for Feminist Social Studies is a multidisciplinary research who work within a research program framework entitled "Gender, Society and Change".
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CHAMP - Center for Health and Medical Psychology
The Center for Health and Medical Psychology (CHAMP) unites researchers with a shared interest in the psychological underpinnings of health, ill-health, and disease.
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CRH - Center for Research in the Humanities
The research environment Center for Research in the Humanities (CRH), explores various themes related to cultural understanding and linguistic practices. The interdisciplinary environment includes researchers from the subject areas of English, History,...
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CVS - The Centre for Violence Studies
The Center for Violence Studies (CVS) is an international multidisciplinary research center, comprised of senior and junior researchers.
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Education and Democracy
The research environment Education and Democracy consists of 25-30 researchers established in research teams concentrated around different research projects and collaborating in common seminars.
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ESERGO - Environmental and Sustainability Education Research Group Örebro
ESERGO works with empirical and theoretical studies on environmental and sustainability education, with specific focus on the ethical and political aspects of this education.
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LEADER - Center for Lifespan Developmental Research
LEADER is a research environment that comprises researchers dedicated to the understanding of various aspects of human functioning and development.
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Music and Human Beings
The Music and Human Beings research environment focuses on peoples relationship to music, both in everyday life and institutional contexts.
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OPaL - The Open Parliament Laboratory
In the last decades, methodological and technological development has led to great progress in Big-data research i.e. systematic analyses of large databases. At the same time, extensive efforts to digitalize physical archives has made new materials...
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ReCEL - Research on Children's Education and Learning
The research environment ReCEL brings together researchers and doctoral students at Örebro University who conduct research within the wider area of children’s education and learning.
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SpecEDL - Special Education, Development and Learning
Research orientations in the environment focus on questions about what knowledge, teaching and learning are, for whom and how this comes about.
