SEK 61 million for Uppsala research in the humanities and social sciences

Mats G. Hansson at the Centre for Research and Bioethics is receiving SEK 36 million from the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (RJ) for an ethics programme.

A total of 61 projects have been granted funding from the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences. Nineteen of these project grants are being awarded to Uppsala University.

The programme “Ethics of Genetic-risk Information for Individuals and Society” is receiving SEK 36 million. This is one of the three major programme grants and is directed by Mats G. Hansson, Centre for Research and Bioethics at the Department of Public Health and Caring Science, Uppsala University. The programme aims to analyse the ethical and psychosocial consequences of the fact that more and more genetic data is being gathered in databases and to find ways for decision-makers and others to deal with these ethical dilemmas.

“We see how humanistic and social scientific research more and more frequently touches on natural sciences; the boundaries are shifting more and more, which requires commitments to interdisciplinary research”, says Göran Blomqvist, CEO of RJ.

Six projects at Uppsala University in business studies, language studies, psychology, ethnology, philosophy and literary science have received a total of close to SEK 20 million. Moreover, Uppsala University has been granted more than SEK 2 million for ten research initiation projects.

The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences is also funding grants for eleven infrastructure projects. Uppsala University has received two of these grants, for a cataloguing and digitising project for French music from 1690 to 1726 and for a project to digitise ancient coins at Uppsala University.

Read more on the RJ website