SWEDISH SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES NETWORK

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NOT UPDATED SINCE 2011!

Departments in Sweden
engaged in research
on South Asia:

Acreo FiberLab, Hudiksvall

Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics,
     Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm

Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona/Ronneby

• School of Computing

Borås University College

• School of Engineering

Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg

• Department of Applied Physics

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IT University
     (in collaboration with Göteborg University)

• Division of Electric Power Engineering, Department of Energy and Environment

• Department of Energy Conversion

• Division of Environmental Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

• Department of Mathematical Sciences (also connected to University of Gothenburg)

• Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, MC2

• Department of Signals and Systems

Dalarna University, Campus Falun

• Comparative Literature, School of Humanities and Media Studies

• History, School of Humanities and Media Studies

• Religious Studies, School of Humanities and Media Studies

Folke Bernadotte Academy, Stockholm/Sandöverken

Gothenburg University

• Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy

‡ Department of Infectious Diseases

‡ Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology

• School of Business, Economics and Law

‡ Department of Business Administration

‡ Department of Economics

‡ Department of Human and Economic Geography

• Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy

‡ Department of Paediatrics

• Department of Conservation

• Earth Sciences Centre

‡ Department of Oceanography

‡ Department of Physical Geography

‡ Department of Marine Geology

• Department of Education

• School of Global Studies

‡ Asian Studies

‡ Gender and Development Network (GADNET)

‡ Human Ecology

‡ Middle Eastern Studies

‡ Peace and Development Research (PADRIGU)

‡ Social Anthropology

• Grundtvig Institute

• Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy

• Department of Historical Studies

‡ Archaeology

• Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion

‡ History of Religion

• Department of Marine Ecology

• Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy

‡ Läkarprogrammet

‡ Department of Emergency and Cardiovascular Medicine

‡ Department of Public Health and Community Medicine/Section of Social Medicine

• Museion

• Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy

‡ Department of Physiology

• Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science

‡ SCCIIL Interdisciplinary Center

‡ Theory of Science

• Department of of Plant and Environmental Sciences

• Department of Political Science

• Department of Social Work

• Department of Work Science

Gotland University

• Department of Business Administration

Gävle University

• Department of Business and Economic Studies

• Social Work, Division of Caring Sciences and Psychology, Academy of Health-promoting Working Life

Halmstad University

• School of Social and Health Sciences

IMEGO (Institute of Micro and Nanotechnology in Gothenburg)

Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), Stockholm
        (including the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program,
          run in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, USA)

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), Stockholm

Campus IT University in Kista
(joint venture between the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, and Stockholm University)

• Department of Applied Information Technology (2IT). Department closed down 2008. South Asia related research moved to
                                                               Division of Medical Engineering, School of Technology and Health (STH).

• Software Development Unit, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences

      ‡ SPIDER, Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions

• Telecommunication Systems Laboratory (TSLab), KTH School of ICT

IT University Göteborg
(Since 2001, joint venture between Chalmers University of Technology, and Göteborg University)

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Jönköping University

• Jönköping International Business School (JIBS)

• School of Engineering (JTH)

‡ Department of Mathematics, Physics and Chemical engineering

• School of Education and Communication (HLK)

• School of Health Sciences (HHS)

Kalmar University – see Linnaeus University

Karlstad University

• Educational Work, Organisation and Society, Faculty of Arts and Education

• Center for Gender Studies (CFG), Faculty of Arts and Education

• Department of History, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences

• Department of Human Geography, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences

• Department of Media and Communication Studies (MKV), Faculty of Economics, Communication and IT

• Department of Nursing Science

• Department of Religious Studies and Theology, Faculty of Arts and Education

Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm

• Department of Biosciences and Nutrition

• Department of Cell and Molecular Biology

‡ Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics

• Institute of Environmental Medicine

‡ Division of Metals & Health

• Department of Laboratory Medicine

‡ Biomedical Laboratory Science Programme

‡ Division of Clinical Immunology

• Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (MBB)

‡ Division of Medical Inflammation Research (MIR)

‡ Division of Molecular Structural Biology

‡ Division of Physiological Chemistry I

• Department of Medicine at the Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge

‡ Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM)

• Department of Medicine at the Karolinska University Hospital in Solna

‡ Malaria Research Unit

‡ Molecular Immunology Unit

• Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC)

• Center of Molecular Medicine

‡ Molecular Immunogenetics Unit

‡ Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit

• Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences and Society

‡ Division of Geriatric Epidemiology

‡ Division of Nursing

• Institute of Odontology

‡ Department of Periodontology

• Department of Public Health Sciences

‡ Division of Global Health (IHCAR)

‡ Division of Social Medicine

• Department of Woman and Child Health

‡ Paediatric Endocrinology Unit

‡ Division for Reproductive and Perinatal Health

Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design, Stockholm

• Department of Textiles

Kristianstad University College

• School of Health and Society

• School of Teacher Education

‡ Biomedicine

‡ Religious Studies

Kungl. Konsthögskolan/Royal Institute of Art (KKH), Stockholm

• Department of Art and Architecture

Kungl Musikhögskolan, Stockholm (Royal College of Music)

Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm (Royal Institute of Technology)

• Division of Applied Thermodynamics and Refrigeration, Department of Energy Technology

• School of Architecture and the Built Environment

‡ Department of Land and Water Resources

‡ Department of Philosophy and History of Technology

‡ Department of Urban and Regional Planning

• School of Biotechnology

‡ Department of Applied Microbiology

‡ Department of Theoretical Chemistry

• School of Chemical Science and Engineering (CHE)

‡ Division of Chemical Engineering and Technology

• School of Engineering Sciences

‡ Department of Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering

– Division of Rail Vehicles

– Marcus Wallenberg Laboratory for Sound and Vibration Research (MWL)

• International Office. Coordinates the ”EURINDIA” Erasmus Mundus Activity 2 consortium (one of the four EC funded EMECW lot 13 India programmes), formed by 10 universities in Europe, and 9 universities in India (Anna University, Chennai; Anurag Narayan College, Gaya; Patna University; Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati; Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee; National Law school of India University, Bangalore; Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU); University of Kalyani, West Bengal; University of Pune). Consortium web page.
KTH also participates in another EMECW India programmes, being a member of the ”India4EU” consortium, coordinated by Politecnico di Torino, Italy. This consortium was formed by 9 universities in Europe, and 8 universities in India (Amrita University, Coimbatore; Anna University, Chennai; IIT Delhi; Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata; Jadavpur University, Kolkata; Kakatiya University, Warangal; University of Pune; and Centre of Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad). Consortium web page.

• Department of Materials Science and Engineering

‡ Division of Engineering Material Physics

‡ Division of Applied Material Physics

‡ Division of Materials Process Science

• Division of Medical Engineering, School of Technology and Health (STH)

Linköping University

• Department of Culture and Communication (IKK)

• Culture, Society & Media Production, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture (ISAK), Campus Norrköping

• Department of Gender Studies/Centre of Gender Excellence (GEXcel), Tema Institute
    (in collaboration with Örebro University)

• Faculty of Health Sciences

‡ Faculty of Health Sciences international collaboration

‡ Gender and Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKE)

‡ Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKE)

‡ Medical Microbiology, Division of Laboratory 1, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKE)

• Division of Social Anthropology, Department of Culture and Communication (IKK)

• Department of Water and Environmental Studies, Tema Institute

Linnaeus University, Kalmar/Växjö
(From January 1, 2010, amalgamation of Kalmar University and Växjö University)

• Baltic Business School (BBS), Kalmar

• School of Pure and Applied Natural Sciences, Kalmar

‡ Division of Environmental Engineering

‡ Division of Marine Science, Marine Ecology Group

‡ Division of Natural Resources Management/CORDIO

• School of Humanities (Comparative Literature/English), Växjö

• School of Social Sciences (Psychology/Political Science), Växjö

• School of Technology and Design (Mechanical Engineering), Växjö

Luleå University of Technology

• Department of Economics

• Department of Health Science

• Division of Industrial Design, Department of Human Work Sciences

• Division of Material Mechanics, Department of Applied Physics and Mechanical Engineering

• Division of Mineral Processing, Department of Chemical Engineering and Geosciences

• Division of Operation and Maintenance Engineering, Department of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering

Luleå University of Technology, Campus Skellefteå

• Division of Manufacturing and Design of Wood and Bionanocomposites

Lund University:

• Department of Biology

‡ Cell and Organism Biology (COB)

• Department of Biotechnology

• Department of Building and Environmental Technology

‡ Division of Water Resources Engineering

• Department of Chemistry

‡ Division of Chemical Physics

‡ Division of Organic Chemistry

‡ Physical Chemistry 1

‡ Division of Pure and Applied Biochemistry

• Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy, CIRCLE

• Department of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

‡ Historical Archaeology

• Department of Clinical Sciences (in Malmö)

‡ Social Medicine and Global Health

• Department of Construction Sciences

‡ Division of Solid Mechanics

• Department of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences

‡ Division of Geology

‡ Division of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Analysis, ENES

‡ Lund University GIS Centre

• Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies

• Department of Ecology

‡ Section of Microbial Ecology

• School of Economics and Management

‡ Department of Business Administration

‡ Department of Business Law

‡ Department of Economic History

‡ Department of Economics

• Department of Education – (closed down in 2009)

• Department of Electrical and Information Technology

• Department of Energy Sciences

‡ Division of Heat Transfer

‡ Division of Thermal Power Engineering

• Department of Experimental Medical Science

‡ Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology

• Department of Food Technology, Engineering and Nutrition

‡ Division of Applied Nutrition and Food Chemistry

• Centre for Gender Studies

• Department of History

• Division of Housing Development and Management, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering

• International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, IIIEE

• Division of International Relations. Coordinates the ”Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window Lot 13” consortium (one of the four EC funded EMECW lot 13 India programmes), formed by 12 universities in Europe – including Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and 8 universities in India (University of Delhi; Jadavpur University, Kolkata; University of Pune; University of Kerala; Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur; Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai; Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, Loni, Maharashtra; Anand Agricultural University, Gujarat). Consortium web page.

• Department of Laboratory Medicine

‡ Section of Medical Microbiology

• Centre for Languages and Literature (SOL)

‡ Comparative Literature

• MAX-lab

• Center for Molecular Protein Science (CMPS)

‡ Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology

• Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science

• Department of Physics

‡ Division of Mathematical Physics

• Department of Political Science

• Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

• Lund University Centre for Risk Assessment and Management (LUCRAM)

• Department of Social and Economic Geography

‡ Development Studies

‡ Human Ecology Division

• School of Social Work

• Department of Sociology

• Department of Sociology of Law

• Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS)

• Department of Technology and Society

‡ Traffic and Roads

• Centre for Theology and Religious Studies

‡ History of Religions (including Judaism and Indic Religions)

– Indic Religions

– Psychology of Religion

‡ Islamology/ Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)

‡ Missiology with Ecumenical Theology

‡ New Testament Exegesis

Malmö University

• Faculty of Culture and Society

‡ School of Arts and Communication (Konst, kultur och kommunikation, K3)

• Faculty of Education

‡ Department of Science, Environment, Society

• Faculty of Odontology

‡ WHO Collaborating Centre for Education, Training & Research in Oral Health, Centre for Oral Health Sciences

• School of Technology

Mid Sweden University (Mitthögskolan), Campus Östersund

• Human Geography, Department of Social Sciences

Mälardalen University, Campus Västerås

• School of Education, Culture and Communication

• School of Innovation, Design and Engineering

• School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology

Energy Technology Centre in Piteå (ETC)

Nordic School of Public Health, NHV, Göteborg

Röda Korsets högskola, Stockholm

Skövde University

• School of Life Sciences

• Development Assistance Engineering; School of Technology and Society

Stockholm School of Economics

National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm
    (Was closed down on 1 July 2007, as decided by the Swedish Parliament)

Stockholm Environment Institute, SEI

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Stockholm

Stockholm University

• Department of Applied Environmental Science (ITM)

• Department of Botany

• School of Business

• Division of Comparative Religion; Department of Ethnology, Comparative Religion and Gender Studies

• Department of Economic History

• Department of Education

• Department of Educational Science with an emphasis on Humanities and Social Science (UHS). Born out of the Department of Teaching processes, Communication and Learning at the Stockholm Institute of Education
            (that merged with Stockholm University in January 2008)

• Department of Geology and Geochemistry, Earth Sciences Centre

• Department of Human Geography

• Department of Immunology, Wenner-Gren Institute (WGI)

• Institute of International Economic Studies (IIES)

• Institute of International Education (IIE)

• Department of Law

• Department of Linguistics

• Department of Meteorology

• Department of Musicology and Performance Studies

• Department of Oriental Languages

‡ Center for Pacific Asia Studies (CPAS) (closed down December 2009)

‡ Division of South and Central Asian Studies (incl. Indology, and Central Asian Studies)

• Unit of Palegeophysics and Geodynamics (closed down April 2005)

• Department of Physical, Inorganic and Structural Chemistry

• Department of Political Science

• Department of Social Anthropology

• Department of Social Work

• Department of Systems Ecology/Stockholm Resilience Centre

• Department of Zoology

Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala

Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Stockholm

Swedish Environmental Research Institute (IVL), Stockholm/Gothenburg

Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Stockholm

• Department of Bacteriology

Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Kiruna

• Atmospheric Physics Research Program

• Solar System Physics and Space Technology (SSPT) Research Program

Swedish Institute of Computer Science AB (SICS), Kista

Swedish National Defence College (SNDC, Försvarshögskolan), Stockholm

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå

• Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology/Umeå Plant Science Centre (in collaboration with Umeå University)

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala

• Department of Animal Nutrition and Management

• Department of Ecology

• Department of Forest Mycology and Pathology

• Department of Plant Biology & Forest Genetics

• Department of Urban and Rural Development

Södertörn University College, Huddinge

• Philosophy, School of Culture and Communication

• Study of Religions; School of Gender, Culture and History

• Department of Tourism Studies; School of Communication, Technology and Design

Umeå University

• Epidemiology and Public Health Sciences, Umeå International School of Public Health

• Department of Interactive Media and Learning (IML), Umeå School of Education

• Faculty of Medicine

• Department of Social Work

• Department of Plant Physiology/Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC)
                             (in collaboration with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU)

Uppsala University:

• Air & Water Science/Hydrology; Department of Earth Sciences

• Department of ALM (Archive Science, Library and Information Science, and Museology)

• African and Comparative Archaeology; Department for Archaeology and Ancient History

• Department of Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry

• Department of Cell & Molecular Biology, Biomedical Center (BMC)

‡ Microbiology

‡ Molecular Biology

• Unit of Comparative Medicine, Department of Neuroscience

• Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology

• Department of Economics

• Division for Electricity and Lightning Research

• Department of Evolutionary Functional Genomics, Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC)

• Department of Government

• Department of History

• Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology (IGP)

• International Science Programme (ISP)

• Department of Linguistics and Philology

‡ Division of Asian and African Languages and Cultures

– South Asian Languages and Culture
(with Indology – including Sanskrit; Hindi; and Comparative Indo-European Philology)

– Iranian Languages

‡ Division of Linguistics and Computer Lingustics

• Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology

• Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy

• Department of Peace and Conflict Research

• Division of Pharmacognosy; Department of Medicinal Chemistry

• Division of Materials Theory, Department of Physics and Astronomy

• Division of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences

• Department of Social and Cultural Geography

‡ Programme for Applied Environmental Impact Assessment

• Faculty of Theology

‡ History of Religions

‡ Psychology of Religion

‡ World Christianity and Interreligious Studies (Missionsvetenskap)

• Department of Women's and Children's Health

‡ International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH)

Växjö University – see Linnaeus University

Örebro University

• School of Law, Psychology and Social work (previously called Department of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences)

‡ Legal Science (Rättsvetenskap)

‡ Socionomprogrammet/Socialt Arbete (Social Science)

• Swedish Business School at Örebro University

• School of Health and Medical Sciences

• School of Music, Theatre and Art

• School of Science and Technology

• School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro Universit (previously called Department of Social and Political Sciences)