Research and knowledge
Uppsala University’s research contributes to Sweden’s total defence in many different areas and in many different ways. Through research, we produce new knowledge that strengthens society’s preparedness, security and resilience when faced with a crisis or war.
Research that contributes to Sweden’s total defence
Democratic resilience
Democratic Resilience in an Age of Information Warfare. Building resilience against disinformation at the societal level is an urgent task for safeguarding democracy. This project critically examines prevalent assumptions about the meaning of democratic resilience and is developing a new interpretation of the concept.
A resilient society
Effective Crisis Management and Total Defence (EFFECT). The Swedish Research Council has proposed that this project should receive funding in the Swedish Government’s upcoming investment in strategic research areas.
Pandemic Laboratory Preparedness (SciLifeLab) is to optimise SciLifeLab's activities through research and the development of skills and technology to support and complement other essential services in building laboratory capacity to prepare for future pandemics.
Pandemic Laboratory Preparedness
Resistance - Resilient electricity supply in Sweden: Towards a national crisis energy system. Forskning för att stödja uppbyggnaden av ett mer motståndskraftigt elsystem i Sverige, med bättre beredskap inför framtida energikriser.
Resistance - Resilient electricity supply in Sweden
The Smart Exploration Research Center pursues interdisciplinary research on strategic and critical metals and minerals, focusing on questions related to the green energy transition and climate action. Its primary goal is to ensure a responsible, socially acceptable, resilient and sustainable supply of critical raw materials.
Smart Exploration Research Center
StandUP for Energy has a shared vision for the future of a society with access to renewable, reliable and cost-effective energy for housing, commerce, transport and industry. If we are to increase the large-scale use of electricity from renewable energy sources, new and current technologies must be developed. StandUP for Energy is a collaboration between Uppsala University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and Luleå University of Technology.
International law
International law governs relations between states, international organisations and other actors, regulating their rights and obligations towards each other.
Cultural heritage in crisis and war
Preparedness for the cultural heritage sector in the event of a heightened state of alert or war. The project aims to reach a deeper understanding of the conditions for protecting cultural heritage in the event of war, and to suggest improvements in contingency planning.
Disarmament and nuclear competence
The Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament. Offers multidisciplinary research, education and policy support on matters related to nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control.
Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament
Academic-industrial Nuclear technology Initiative to Achieve a sustainable energy future (ANItA). Competence centre that aims to bring together academic and industry expertise in nuclear technology. The centre has a mission to generate knowledge-based decision support for the efficient and safe implementation of small modular reactors (SMRs) to contribute to Sweden's ambition to become a completely fossil-free nation.
Academic-industrial Nuclear technology Initiative to Achieve a sustainable energy future
Psychological preparedness
National Centre for Disaster Psychiatry. Gathers, develops and disseminates knowledge about traumatic stress and its consequences through research, investigations and risk analyses. The Centre also contributes to the development of national guidelines for training at different levels in crisis support and the treatment of traumatic stress, as well as training healthcare professionals.
Knowledge about crises and conflicts
Uppsala University has broad and deep knowledge about crises, conflicts and wars. Our researchers and experts contribute to our understanding of why they arise, how they develop, and the consequences they have for people and societies.
Peace and Conflict Studies
Peace and Conflict Studies is the study of the causes, dynamics and resolution of armed conflicts. Despite the hopes of many for a new, peaceful world order after the end of the Cold War, armed conflicts have continued to plague humanity. Questions about the causes and dynamics of conflicts, conflict management and lasting peace remain important.
Department of Peace and Conflict Research. Researches the causes, and attempts to understand the dynamics, of armed conflicts and analyses peace processes and the bases for a sustainable peace. Provides courses in peace and conflict studies.
Department of Peace and Conflict Research
Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). Database containing information about conflicts, and considered to be the world’s leading source of data on organised violence. Its definitions of armed conflicts have become the global standard for how conflicts are systematically categorised and analysed.
The fight against antibiotic resistance
Uppsala Antibiotic Center (UAC) is a centre for research, education, innovation and awareness-raising aimed at tackling and finding solutions to the global challenge of antibiotic resistance. UAC conducts world-leading interdisciplinary research and provides courses on antibiotic resistance, involving from all three disciplinary domains at Uppsala University and in collaboration the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Lessons from the past
Uppsala Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (UHGS) teaches about the history of the Holocaust, studies genocide and similar systematic human rights violations, and the effects of violence on individuals and communities.
The forces of nature
Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS) is a national platform in the field of research on natural hazards and disaster science with researchers affiliated with Uppsala University, the Swedish Defence University and Karlstad University.
Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science
The Swedish National Seismic Network (SNSN) collects data from movements in the bedrock in Sweden and monitors earthquake activity in Sweden and abroad. SNSN’s mission also includes informing the public, government agencies, businesses and the media about earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Developments in our neighbourhood and beyond
Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES). Multidisciplinary research and teaching based on the study of developments in Russia and post-Soviet polities.
Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies
The Swedish Institute of North American Studies (SINAS) conducts research, teaches courses and promotes the study of North America. This is an interdisciplinary research field with a focus on U.S. history, culture, society and politics. The field also includes studies of North American indigenous peoples, American hemispheric studies perspectives, and transatlantic relations.
Domestic violence
The National Centre for Knowledge on Men’s Violence Against Women (NCK) is a national knowledge centre on men’s violence against women and domestic violence, honour-based violence and oppression, sexual violence, and prostitution and human trafficking. NCK is also tasked by the Swedish Government to provide support to victims of violence.
National Centre for Knowledge on Men’s Violence Against Women
Contact
- Charlotte Platzer Björkman
- Professor, Vice-rector at the Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology
- Margaretha Andersson
- Coordinator, Defence and Emergency Preparedness