News on Humanities and Social Sciences
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Two ERC Advanced Grants to Uppsala University
30 mars 2023
In the latest round of ERC Advanced Grants from the European Research Council (ERC), two researchers at Uppsala University have been successful: As...
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“The public is generally poorly informed”
29 mars 2023
Hello May-Britt Öhman, researcher at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism and expert contributor to the Government's Committee on Rei...
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Future aid workers trained at multiple universities
29 mars 2023
From Malta to Sweden to India. On the NOHA Master’s programme (Network on Humanitarian Action), future aid workers are trained in a unique collabor...
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From living heritage to zombie churches
22 mars 2023
Churches are preserved by an antiquarian system that risks killing them instead of keeping them alive. The Swedish State and the Church of Sweden t...
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Democracy researchers to participate in literature festival
22 mars 2023
War, crime and literature as a path to reconciliation is the theme of the Uppsala International Literature Festival on March 23–25. One of the orga...
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AI may also replace skilled professions
20 mars 2023
When work tasks are replaced by new technology, changes in the labour market follow. Research shows that this has historically led to more jobs ove...
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EU-study of migrant returns and readmission policies in Europe
09 mars 2023
EU and its member states face political, normative, and operational challenges regarding returning rejected asylum seekers and ‘irregular’ migrants...
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Bringing new research about forensic evidence to the courtroom
02 mars 2023
Are there better methods of assessing a person’s age, whether a person is lying, or whose DNA is at a crime scene? These are questions in some of t...
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Gender equality in the Riksdag can be improved
02 mars 2023
In many ways, the Riksdag is an equal workplace, but research by Uppsala University shows that women face multiple obstacles in their work. A worry...
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“You throw up, then you cough, then you feel better or die”
02 mars 2023
Detailed images of illness, death and cancelled activities; these were some of the common themes of children’s drawings during the COVID-19 pandemi...
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Data-driven journalism for the future
23 februari 2023
Data-driven journalism is here to stay – and AI tools are only getting better and better. Måns Magnusson, researcher in machine learning and statis...
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New honorary doctors are media savvy
03 februari 2023
Uppsala University recently welcomed 24 new honorary doctors. Three of them work in research communication in various ways: Ulrika Björkstén, a sci...
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ERC grant for research into Swedish slavery
03 februari 2023
Fredrik Thomasson, researcher at the Department of History at Uppsala University, has received the ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Researc...
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Start-ups from Uppsala University on inspirational trip to the US
01 februari 2023
Hello there, Frida Henningsson Johnson, business advisor at UU Innovation, who’ll be taking three spin-off companies from Uppsala University to the...
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“There wasn't one Soviet Union – there were a lot of Soviet Unions”
27 januari 2023
Hello there, Li Bennich-Björkman, professor at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Skyttean Professor of Eloquence and Political Sci...
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Long road into work for highly educated refugees
17 januari 2023
Highly educated refugees who come to Sweden have to wait a long time before they are able enter the labour market, as shown by research at Uppsala ...
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The names given to the clouds, an important part of the university's history
04 januari 2023
The book “Molnspanare– en meteorologisk historia” (Cloud spotters – a meteorological history) tells of the emergence of meteorology as a scientific...
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Over 47,000 admissions to spring semester programmes
29 december 2022
The second selection round for admissions to spring semester 2023 is now complete. The total number of admissions is around the same level as last ...
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Stig Strömholm awarded Swedish Academy’s Grand Prize
28 december 2022
Uppsala University’s former Vice-Chancellor Stig Strömholm has been awarded the Swedish Academy’s Grand Prize. The medal is the Academy’s most dist...
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The man who has confidence in AI – but also reservations
12 december 2022
What happens if you are discriminated against by artificial intelligence (AI)? In the future, algorithms will take more and more decisions – for be...