Research networks

The Department of Language Studies hosts several research networks (both local and international ones). Read more about them here.

CogLing UmU

CogLing UmU is a cluster of researchers who study language as an integrated cognitive phenomenon. Our research areas include lexical semantics,...

Research area: Language studies

FemHum

FemHum is a group of humour researchers who take a feminist approach. Much of our research examines humour from different perspectives of power...

Research area: Education, Language studies, Physical sciences

Health Humanities

Medical (or health) humanities engages with questions about medicine and health from a variety of perspectives including anthropology, literature,...

Litum – Literacy research with an educational sciences orientation at Umeå University

Reading and writing takes place during a large part of people's waking hours in a variety of contexts and languages for different purposes. In rece...

Research area: Educational sciences, Language Teaching and Learning, and Educational Work

NorrSam

NorrSam is a network for early career researchers (PhD students, postdocs, junior researchers, etc.) with interest in Sámi issues and research...

Research area: Sami studies

North View

North View is a network for researchers at the Faculty of Arts addressing issues connected to the north, the northern, and the arctic.

Northern Linguistic Landscapes

Northern Linguistic Landscapes. Visual(izing) languages in the North.

Research area: Digital humanities, Ethnology, Human geography, Language studies, Literature, Sami studies

Speculative Fiction UmU

The research group comprises scholars who are joined by their engagement with speculative fiction and who explore central contemporary issues,...

Research area: General literary studies, Literature, Media and communications

The Syntax Network

The Syntax Network is a research group with researchers from Lund University, Gothenburg University, Linköping University and Umeå University. With...

Research area: Language studies

Latest update: 2023-03-27