Sweden’s leading private financier of economic research, Handelsbankens forskningsstiftelser, has decided to fund a new centre at the Department of History in Lund: Centrum för kunskapsspridning och samtidshistoria (CEKOS) [Centre for the Circulation of Knowledge and Contemporary History]. The centre will focus on fostering the circulation of knowledge in Swedish society and on conducting historical research on how the predicament for knowledge circulation has changed since the 1980s. Focus will be on economic knowledge, the digital transformation, and the changing media landscape.

The new centre will be led by David Larsson Heidenblad with support from Johan Östling. They will be joined by guest professor Orsi Husz, science communication experts Emma Frans and Julia Ravanis, innovation developer Sophie Hydén Picasso, and tech analyst Björn Jeffery who will take up a position as practitioner in residence. In 2027, CEKOS is planning to recruit doctoral students and a postdoc.

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