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Research at the Faculty

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities brings together a broad range of research across its departments and units, including Vaartoe – Centre for Sámi Research, Culture and Media Studies, Creative Studies in Education, Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Humlab, and Language Studies. These environments cover key areas such as language, culture, history, philosophy, religion, digital and artistic practices to address societal, cultural, and educational challenges.

Research Groups

Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR)
Umeå Centre for Gender Studies
Umeå Group for Premodern Studies
Digital Humanities
Vaartoe – Centre for Sami Research
Language teaching and learning
History and education
Umeå Research Centre for Social Studies Didactics (UmSOD)

Research at Departments and Units

Vaartoe – Centre for Sámi Research – indigenous people and health, language education, cultural history, land and water
Culture and Media Studies – ethnology, media, literature and museum studies
Creative Studies – assignment research, artistic and educational research
Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies – archeology and environmental archeology, philosophy, history, history and education, history of ideas, religious studies and theology
Humlab – digital humanities, including digital methods and practices, pedagogical development, and artistic expression.
Language Studies – linguistics, modern languages, language didactics, language and cognition

Research Infrastructures

ArchLab
Humlab
Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database (SEAD)
The Environmental Archaeology Lab
Huminfra
Swe-Clarin
InfraVis
Swedish National Infrastructure for Digital Archaeology
Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure
Várdduo

 

Latest update: 2026-07-03