Research at Uppsala University

• "Queer and Transgender Reproduction with ART: Legal, Cultural and Socioeconomic Challenges"

  Research project from 2018-05-03 to 2018-05-04

  Changes in the legal access to ART (Assisted Reproductive Technologies) for queer and transgender people in different countries have created both challenges and possibilities for reproduction of LGBTQ-people ...

• 2nd Swedish Workshop on Multicore Computing, MCC-09

  Research project from 2009-11-01 to 2009-11-30

  Multicore computers are the main computing platform for the future, and computer system providers have switched to this new technology. In order to benefit form the performance potential of multicore systems ...

• A Programming Platform for Future Wireless Sensor Networks

  Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2015-06-30

  Our goal is to provide a programming environment for Wirless Sensor Network (WSN) where sensors can be programmed as an ensemble rather than individually, focusing on the services provided by the whole ...

• A Psychological perspective on early moral judgements

  Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2012-01-01

  Moral judgements of actions take into account not only the actions’ outcomes but also the intentions behind them. An action with an unintended harmful outcome is not necessarily judged as morally ...

• A Swedish Model of Administration? State level Agency Autonomy from a Multi-Dimensional Perspective

  Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  Governments today face complex problems such as migration and environmental threats, problems which cut across territorial and sectoral borders and are truly hard to handle. Politicans and scholars alike ...

• A genomic map to sex-specific variation in lifespan

  Research project from 2009-09-10 to 2013-12-31

  Virtually all human diseases have a sex specific component, in terms of rate of occurrence, age of onset and/or severity. Understanding the causes to these differences may hold important clues to how many ...

• Additive manufacturing-Development of Process and Materials

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2020-12-31

  Additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D-printing has the potential to revolutionize manufacturing as we know it. However, a more fundamental knowledge of the material science in AM is required to fully utilize ...

• Ancient love letters – towards a research network

  Research project from 2018-03-23 to 2018-03-24

  Ancient love letters form a large and surprisingly neglected body of text, both by modern translators and by scholars. Most of the work has been undertaken on the Latin side, while both the idea of an ...

• To do research with nose and tongue: Smell and taste in the history of science

  Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2011-12-31

  Since the 17th century visual observation of nature, directly or by experiment, has been a fundament for science. Knowledge based on smell and taste has often been considered vague and subjective, since ...

• The Library of Leufstabruk

  Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31

  “The Library of Leufstabruk” is a collaborative project between Uppsala University Library and the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands, in The Hague. The project concerns one of ...

• Biomarker profiles in CVD - The ABC risk score project

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  In an aging population, myocardial infarction and stroke are the main causes of death, sudden deterioration of health and need for health care. The aims of the program are to show that information on ...

• The neurochemistry of shyness: Serotonin-dopamine interactions in social anxiety

  Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31

  Severe shyness, or social anxiety disorder (SAD), is a serious public health concern. Socially anxious behavior has been tied to exaggerated activity in the brain’s fear network and serotonin dysfunction ...

• Bridget of Sweden digitally. Making St Birgitta’s revelations in Old Swedish accessible

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

  St Birgitta’s revelations and other writings form the basis for much research on medieval Sweden. Her texts were translated into Latin for international use and the originals were lost almost entirely. ...

• Calibrating Gaia with the Gaia-ESO Survey

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2020-12-31

• Calibration and validation of Gaia astrophysical parameter determination

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2019-12-31

• Changing intensifiers in Late Modern English, 1700-1900: a historical socio-pragmatic analysis

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

  The project will investigate the (changing) use of two groups of intensifiers, namely amplifiers scaling upwards (e.g. ‘terribly’, ‘most’) and downtoners (e.g. ‘slightly’, ‘a bit’) in British courtroom ...

• Close Relations: a multi- and interdisciplinary conference on critical family and kinship studies

  Research project from 2018-10-24 to 2018-10-26

  Close Relations is a international multi- and interdisciplinary conference that explores urgent questions for critical family and kinship studies, a field of research that has developed in the past decades ...

• CoDeR-MP: Real-Time Applications on Multicore Platforms

  Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2014-12-31

  Embedded computer systems that must perform demanding computations under tight timing and resource constraints are ubiquitous in critical products of Swedish industry in many important sectors. This industry ...

• Collecting and Collectors in the Pacific Area - Pre-Colonial, Colonial and Post-Colonial Impacts.

  Research project from 2018-06-13 to 2018-12-30

  Our aim is to arrange the 4th Pacific Archaeology Seminar to create an arena for networking with Pacific scholars as well as MA and PhD students in a global perspective but with a focus on researchers ...

• Con-Science and The Whole: Sara Lidman s Literary Philosophy

  Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31

  The purpose of this project is to investigate the complex relation between philosophy and literature through a study of the Swedish modernist author Sara Lidman (1923-2004). At the center of the investigation ...

• Conference ""Know Your Place: Alcibiades I Revisited"?, Cambridge 20.-23.9.2018.

  Research project from 2018-06-01 to 2018-12-31

  We apply funding for a conference "Know your place: Alcibiades I revisited"? to be organized in Cambridge, UK, 20.-22.-9.2018. The conference will be part of a new co-operation between RJ project Rational ...

• Current Practices in Pop Music Studies: International Interdisciplinary Conference at Uppsala University, 19–20 June 2018

  Research project from 2018-06-19 to 2018-06-20

  From its beginnings, popular music studies have transgressed disciplinary boundaries in exploring the complex relations of pop music’s cultural, socio-economic, and political contexts. In recent years, ...

• The Gender and Work database [GaW]: an infrastructure for historical research into work, gender and everyday life

  Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31

  At the centre of this project stands the GaW database [Gender and work]. The database was developed at the history department, Uppsala University, in collaboration with CEDAR (the Demographic Database) ...

• Debate, silence, oblivion, and denial. Slavery and colonialism in newspapers, literature, and theatre 1750-1847 and how Swedish colonial experiences vanished from history

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

  Slavery and colonialism were debated in Sweden in heated political terms from around 1750. Slavery was criticized, Swedish colonies were promoted, and news about e.g. the Haitian Revolution was in 1802 ...

• Mind the risk – Ethical, psychological and social implications of provision of risk information from genetic and related technologies. A joint European research program.

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  There is a massive production of genetic risk information by academic- and industry-associated scientists. However, health care systems as well as legislators and society at large seem largely unprepared ...

• The intimate relationship. A cultural economic history of everyday finances

  Research project from 2018-07-01 to 2019-06-30

  In most Western societies today it is nearly impossible to manage one’s life without a bank account. Formal financial institutions are in many ways involved in our daily life and in the allocation of almost ...

• The Origins of Political Philosophy in Greek Antiquity

  Research project from 2017-10-01 to 2018-09-30

  This project explores the origin of political philosophy in ancient Greece. When did systematic thinking about the foundations of society originate, and about ‘right’ and ‘wrong’? I claim that this was ...

• The socioeconomic gradient in child health through childhood and across time

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-30

  There is strong persistence in social status across generations. Parental socioeconomic status may affect child health through channels such as parent’s income, education level, health and relative social ...

• The Swedish Patent Database, 1746-1975

  Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31

  The purpose of this research project is to build a fully searchable, publicly accessible database for all Swedish patents covering the period 1746-1974 (ca. 400,000 patents). No such database exists today ...

• The Early Holocaust Memory in Sweden: Archives, Testimonies and Reflections

  Research project from 2018-05-14 to 2018-05-15

  This conference will gather researchers from multiple disciplines in order to discuss early initiatives to documents and spread information about the Holocaust. The collections of testimonies and the efforts ...

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