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Research at the University
The research is concentrated within two profile areas — Urban Environment and Health-promoting Working Life. Our research focuses on the human being — the Urban Environment area deals with the human being´s habitat and living environment and Health-promoting Working Life is about a productive working life that also promotes people´s health and well-being.
Graduate studies take place in collaboration with other learning centres. All our undergraduate studies are linked to research. There are 40 professors active at the University.
Profile areas
Built Environment
Built Environment comprises multi-scientific research and educational programmes involving Indoor Environments, Energy Systems, Computer Science with a focus on Visualisation and GIS/Geomatics, Materials Engineering, Environmental Psychology and Environmental Assessment.
The research environment is built on a number of graduate groups that together develop new theories and methods, technical systems and total solutions based on innovation, commercialisation ability and sustainable solutions.
The University´s investment in research within Built Environment also aims to gain long-term external joint funding and to ensure the continued expansion of this multi-disciplinary research environment.
Health-promoting Working Life
Health-promoting Working Life comprises research and education with a focus on different health aspects in working life. Within this profile area there is:
research surrounding musculoskeletal injuries
health care
physical education
social work
the specific problems experienced by the disabled
The Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, CBF, is the largest research environment in Sweden that conducts research surrounding the cause of work-related ill health and how it can be prevented and treated. There is a strong network of disciplines at the University focusing on the areas of health and the work environment. Health care and teacher training courses, working life and enterprise development, physical education teacher training and the Swedish Development Centre for Disability Sport, SUH, with its headquarters in Bollnäs all belong to this network.
Broad research
The University has over 100 million Swedish kronor a year at its disposal for research and graduate studies that are conducted in collaboration with other learning centres that have the right to award degrees. The research is focused within the profile areas of Urban Environment and Health-promoting Working Life, which are strong research environments when it comes to publications and the ability to seek out and gain external funding.
Major research is also carried out within two Centres of Excellence, the GIS Institute and CBF, the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, as well as within the RadioMeasurementCenter research institute, which was established in collaboration with Ericsson and Gävle municipality and which conducts research within antenna development.
Research is conducted within Humanities, Social Science and Business Administration with a focus on Media and Communication Studies, Literary Studies and Entrepreneurialism. Research that is linked to the University´s comprehensive teacher training programme is conducted together with the region´s schools and is often praxis-oriented.
The University´s institutions and Centres of Excellence
Institutions within the Education and Research Committee for Humanities, Health Care and Social Science
Economy — departments for Economics, Business Administration, Law
Humanities and Social Science
Pedagogy, Didactics, Psychology
Health Care Science, Sociology
Institutions within the Education and Research Committee for Natural Science and Technology
Mathematics, Natural and Computer Science
Technology, Urban Environment
Teacher Training Committee
Centres of Excellence
CBF, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research
GiS, Geographic Information Systems
Radio Measurement Center
Graduate studies
The University has approximately 80 people in graduate studies, of which a small proportion are employed as postgraduate students. The postgraduate students are enrolled at other learning centres or national graduate schools, but are funded by and carry out part of their graduate studies at the University of Gävle.
Contact us
Research Secretary
Ph.D. Håkan Attius
026 - 64 85 75
hakan.attius@hig.se
Secretary
Gullan Björnström
026 - 64 89 41
gbm@hig.se
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