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Research in focus: Perspectives on Malmö
Malmö is a city with many faces: unemployment, social deprivation and crime are one picture. But Malmö is also a popular and young city, renowned for its vitality and creativity and its rich cultural life. At Malmö University there is a lot of research related to the city.
Research projects on Malmö
Malmö University conducts research that relates to Malmö in a variety of ways, with themes including health and equality, social environment, urban challenges, spatial justice, and crime and safety.
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Research project
Malmö's first textile entrepreneurs – the history of the origin and development of the cotton textile industry in Malmö
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HEALTHCOM- Healthy communities in ageing societies – participatory research with elderly immigrants and refugees living in a Nordic...
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JÄMBO – Discretion for equal access to housing and living environments
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City for Everybody - Building Responsible Action for Inclusive Local Communities (CIFER)
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“Lively” and “pleasant” waiting spaces: quality criteria for attractive bus stations and bus stops
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KIDS in action promoting health equity in socially deprived areas (K.A.H.E.Q Study)
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Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Stability and change – a comparative study of neighborhood level fear of crime
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On-going research on living conditions and social initiatives in Malmö's marginalised housing areas
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Equal health - Health promotion in collaboration
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Evaluation of Sluta Skjut
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Assessing the crime preventive effects of a property owner collaboration in urban residential neighborhoods
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Research project
The Malmö Individual and Neighbourhood Development Study (MINDS)
marie.torstensson.levander@mau.se
Europa and Eurovision in Malmö
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Erin Cory - Senior lecturer
Media and Communication Studies at the intersection of migration, art and local media.
erin.cory@mau.se
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Inge Eriksson - Lecturer
European political cultures and Europe as an idea and collective memory.
inge.eriksson@mau.se
+46 40 665 72 87
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Anders Høg Hansen - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
Music, popular memory and citizen engagement.
anders.hog-hansen@mau.se
+46 40 665 72 10
Housing and urban development
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Martin Grander - Associate senior lecturer/Associate Professor
Urban development and how the city and society are - or are not - connected.
martin.grander@mau.se
+46 40 665 81 34
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Karin Grundström - Professor
Architecture and planning of housing and urban spaces. The daily use of the built environment and people's spatial rights in the city.
k.grundstrom@mau.se
+46 40 665 72 85
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Carina Listerborn - Professor
Urban social geography, critical urban theory and feminist urban studies.
carina.listerborn@mau.se
+46 40 665 73 15
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Erica Righard - Assistant head of dep./Professor
International migration and social work/social policy in a broad sense and at varying societal levels.
erica.righard@mau.se
+46 40 665 72 86
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Hoai Anh Tran - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
Links research on mobility and public spaces, emphasising the overlooked waiting experience for public transport in Malmö.
hoai.anh.tran@mau.se
+46 40 665 73 81
History of Malmö
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Pål Brunnström - Senior lecturer
Malmö's history, migration history, the history of the labour movement and urban history, and queer Malmö.
pal.brunnstrom@mau.se
+46 70 717 13 91
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Mats Greiff - Professor
mats.greiff@mau.se
+46 40 665 80 26
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Johan Lundin - Professor
Malmö's industrial history and the history of the Limhamn neighbourhood.
johan.lundin@mau.se
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Robert Nilsson Mohammadi - Associate senior lecturer
How Malmö residents write the history of their own city through grassroots archives, monuments and memorials.
robert.mohammadi@mau.se
+46 40 665 70 03
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Stefan Nyzell - Head of department/Associate Professor
The Möllevången riots, political violence, cultural heritage and historical re-enactment.
stefan.nyzell@mau.se
+46 40 665 81 01
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Per-Markku Ristilammi - Professor
Place and identity. Modernity, social exclusion in urban environments.
per-markku.ristilammi@mau.se
+46 40 665 73 56
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Cecilia Trenter - Professor
Storytelling and cultural heritage.
cecilia.trenter@mau.se
+46 40 665 78 89
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Malin Thor Tureby - Professor
Jewish history in Malmö. Holocaust studies, cultural heritage studies and oral history.
malin.thor@mau.se
+46 40 665 78 67
The divided city
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Margareta Rämgård - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
Children's health in socially deprived areas. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) and health promotion.
margareta.ramgard@mau.se
+46 40 665 74 36
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Mikael Stigendal - Professor
The Malmö Commission and its issues of inequality, segregation, humanity, work, democracy, social investment, knowledge, and success.
mikael.stigendal@mau.se
+46 70 865 53 84
Violence and crime in Malmö
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Manne Gerell - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
The geography of crime, gang violence and vulnerable neighbourhoods.
manne.gerell@mau.se
+46 72 243 04 33
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Anna-Karin Ivert - Head of department/Associate Professor
How the social environment affects crime, insecurity and mental health and how we can prevent crime and insecurity.
anna-karin.ivert@mau.se
+46 40 665 76 47
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Caroline Mellgren - Associate Professor
Insecurity in different neighbourhoods and the 'Sluta skjut' project — a project to prevent serious violence.
caroline.mellgren@mau.se
+46 72 239 43 65
Research publications
The list below shows a selection of publications based on having 'Malmö' as a keyword in our publication database. The most recently published and registered publications are shown at the top.
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2024 | Article in journal
Om pilträd i stadslandskapet
Mathilda Rosengren
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2024 | Chapter in book
Är det verkligen trygghet vi vill ha?: Om trygghetsskapande insatser i stadsomvandling
Carina Listerborn
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2024 | Article in journal
Whose visions for what land?: Planning, power and property in a 'new inner city', Malmö 2004-2023
Erik Jönsson, Guy Baeten
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2024 | Article in journal
The violence must stop: Authorities’ experiences of communicating anti-violence messages to violent groups in Malmö, Sweden
Anna Hedlund, Anna-Karin Ivert, Caroline Mellgren
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2024 | Article in journal
Allas bibliotek: vår berättelse
Lotti Dorthé, Eva Tornbjer
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2024 | Article in journal
Malmö in transition: What a city was, what it is and what it wants to become
Martin Grander
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2024 | Article in journal
Decoding the Collective Image of Malmö
Elnaz Sarkheyli
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2024 | Article in journal
Periodontitis is associated with airflow obstruction in the Malmö Offspring Dental Study
Anders Røsland, Randi J. Bertelsen, Dagmar F. Bunæs, Christine Drengenes, Gunnar Engström, Björn Klinge, Stein-Atle Lie, Peter M. Nilsson, Daniel Jönsson, Andrei Malinovschi
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2024 | Article in journal
Renovations as an investment strategy: circumscribing the right to housing in Sweden
Jennie Gustafsson
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2023 | Report
Slutrapport från rektorsuppdraget Öppen vetenskap vid Malmö universitet: en lägesbeskrivning utifrån Unescos rekommendation
Madeleine Dutoit, Karin Sedvall, Helena Stjernberg
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2023 | Article in journal
Visioning and social sustainability versus property: The case of Norra Sorgenfri, Malmö
Guy Baeten
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2023 | Doctoral thesis, monograph
När slutar invandrarna vandra?: Integrationsfrågan i statlig, kommunal och skolpolitisk diskurs 1967–2000
Peter Bauer
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2023 | Chapter in book
Trade Unions, the Social Democratic Party and Labor Market Conflicts in Malmö, 1890–1910
Lars Berggren, Mats Greiff
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2022 | Article in journal
When Infrastructures and Ecological Actors Meet: Resituating "Green" Infrastructures through the History of the Willow Tree
Mathilda Rosengren
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2022 | Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
The state of tenancy: rental housing and municipal statecraft in Malmö, Sweden
Jennie Gustafsson
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2022 | Chapter in book
Lägenhetsrenoveringar och rätten till bostad
Jennie Gustafsson
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2022 | Article in journal
En hyresmarknad i förändring
Jennie Gustafsson
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2022 | Conference paper
Research on Climate Change in Sudan at Malmö University
Josepha Wessels
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2022 | Article in journal
Migrants and Swedish Activists in Solidarity: Pro-Asylum Activism as a Pathway of Political Socialisation in Malmö
Christina Hansen
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2022 | Article in journal
Antirasistiska Möllan är viktigare än någonsin
Christina Hansen
Misc
The Institute for Studies in Malmö's History (IMH)
The Institute for Studies in Malmö's History (IMH)
We research the role of cities in history, changes in city life, and how their identities are produced and spread. An important part of our activities is to create historical dialogues in different places in Malmö.