Lars-Folke Landgrén is a committed member of the University community; he has worked long days for the good of the academy and the humanities. He has worked as a university lecturer and assistant, for a dozen or so years as a department head, as both researcher and head of academic research projects, as editor-in-chief of scientific periodicals, contributor to and editor of writing projects as well as serving in academically-oriented associations and societies as both chairperson and board member.

In his research work, Landgrén has not fought shy of the more challenging topics. He has immersed himself in the history of the press and book printing, respectively, including censorship in various forms, military and administrative history as well as genealogy. His list of publications runs to some 250 publications. Last year he wrote on the Nordic press’s relation with Hitler’s Germany of the 1930s and led a project sponsored by the Academy of Finland on the Holocaust in Finland.

Research projects Lars-Folke Landgrén has been involved in

• Leader of Academy of Finland-funded research project Hiljaisuuden kulttuurit. Vergangenheitsbewältigung ja sen suomalaisen version kehittyminen (’Cultures of silence. Vergangenheitsbewältigung and teh development of its Finnish version’) 2011-4
• Leader of Society for Swedish Literature in Finland-funded multidisciplinary project Stadens ansikten – urbanitet och svenskhet i Finland 1880–2000  2002–5
• Leader of Academy of Finland-, Society for Swedish Literature in Finland- and Riksbankens anniversary fund’s bilateral multidisciplinary research project Staden och idéerna – det urbana i 1700-talet och 1700-talet i nutiden 2000–3
• Researcher for Finnish Ministry of Finance-funded project Valtionhallinnon rationalisoinnin historia (‘A history of rationalisation in state administration’) 1996–8

Other research projects:

• Biografisk Handbok för Finland series, article writer, 2008–10
• Editor and author of vol.2 for Schildts’ five-volume Kampen om Östersjö  (‘Battles on the Baltic’), 2005–8
• Co-author with Hannu Kujanen, Schildts’ four-volume ”Idän vartija – På vakt i öster” (’On guard in the East’), 2002–4
• Article writer for National Biography of Finland project, 1998–2001
• Article writer for Tammi publishing ”Suomen Kulttuurihistoria” (Finland’s cultural history’), 2001–2
• Participant in Professor Esko Salminen’s textbook project, Hyvä journalisti – Toimitustyön uudet mallit ja vaatimukset (‘The good journalist. New models and requirements for journalistic work’), 1998
• Article writer for Society for Swedish Literature in Finland- and University of Helsinki-funded ”Svensk litteratur i Finland” (’Swedish literature in Finland’) 1996–8
• Assistant and journalist for the 350-anniversary history of the 'Nylands nation' student organisation, 1992–3