Doctoral School

A national virtual research school

The national virtual research school is an unusual construct which aims to bring together doctoral students from different fields (computer science, information science, media and communication, cognitive science, educational research and others) in order to increase the collaboration between research specialisations and between universities. The field of learning and IT is rather limited in Sweden as a whole and the various research environments at the colleges, universities and institutes of engineering are small, often comprising no more than a couple of people. By linking these environments together and facilitating collaborative work, a valuable national community of some weight will be created. Today there are some twenty doctoral students working within the research school.

The research school organises a programme of courses at research level in the area Learning and IT which are also open to other students at that level from throughout the country.