Our research
At the Swedish Defence University, several types of research are conducted. Our expertise and analyses of societal security are often sought after by national and international organizations, government agencies and the media.
The academic research tradition at the Swedish Defence University (SEDU) is relatively young in relation to the university's 200-year history. In just the past ten years, the academisation process has seriously accelerated. The aim has been to more closely link SEDU’s research to the officers’ program and to international academic quality assurance standards.
The Swedish Defence University is now a civilian as much as a military university. Today there are about 20 professors, equally many university lecturers, and over 30 doctoral students and academic doctors at the SEDU.

Publications
At the Swedish Defence University, basic research and applied research are conducted with great relevance to the societal security. The research covers both military and civilian aspects of...

Doctoral studies at the Swedish Defence University
The research environment at the Swedish Defence University is both inspiring and challenging. In addition to individual consultation with your supervisor as a PhD student, you will have the...

Meet some of our researchers
Are you curious about how research affects your day-to-day life? Or perhaps you want to learn more about how research works and what we do at the Swedish Defence University? Here you will fi...
RESEARCH NEWS
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Increased self-efficacy after parachute training26 Mar 2021Completing and passing military parachute training gives future officers greater confidence in their ability to lead in stressful conditions. This is shown by David Bergman's dissertation, i...
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Why do megaprojects fail?25 Mar 2021Projects in the multi-billion class that involve a large number of actors at different levels are becoming increasingly common. In his dissertation Lars Löfgren shows that concepts such as c...
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Narcissism theory contributes to the understanding of great powers25 Mar 2021Can great power politics be understood with the help of ideas taken from research on narcissism and narrative psychology? Linus Hagström is of this opinion, and in a recent article defines f...

Our researchers
Here are the researchers and doctoral students at the Swedish Defence University sorted by subject of reserach.