Mälardalen University conducts excellent research in the Embedded Systems specialisation and prominent research in Health and Welfare as well as the technological and engineering specialisations in Innovation and Product Realisation, and Environment, Energy and Resource Optimisation.

The primary task of the established research areas of the Educational Sciences, Industrial Economics and Management along with Work Life Studies is to provide a research basis for each subject of study at first-cycle and second-cycle levels.

Mälardalen University has six research specialisations. See below for more information about types of research and ongoing research projects within each specialisation.

• Health and Welfare – a field of knowledge where health research and welfare research meet. The definition of welfare here entails a focus on health-related aspects of welfare, and the definition of health primarily entails a corresponding focus on welfare-related aspects of health.
• Embedded Systems – computer science related to computers running entire systems or parts of systems, often with a demand for real-time operation, in everything from home appliances to aeroplanes.
• Industrial Economics and Management along with Work Life Studies – research focused on the sustainable development of industry and working life.
• Innovation and Product Realisation – research on how to develop sustainable, useful and competitive products.
• Environment, Energy and Resource Optimisation – innovative solutions and tools with a focus on sustainable development in the areas of energy, construction and environmental engineering.
• Educational Sciences – research about (and situated in) school in relation to children’s and young people’s life conditions, subject didactics and the organisation of professional activities and educational systems.