Research at Uppsala University

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

The ways that armed political actors prevent sexual violence remains an unresolved research puzzle. By questioning why some actors are able to discipline their fighters, this study will contribute to our ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

A promising approach to treatment of disseminated cancer is a targeting, i.e. therapy based on specific recognition of cancer-associated molecular alteration in tumour cells. Success of the targeting therapy ...

Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

This project is a systematic study of runestones and monuments with multiple runic inscriptions. These inscriptions can either be apportioned on different sides of one stone or over a series of interrelated ...

Research project from 2016-07-01 to 2019-06-30

The overall aim is to understand platelet biogenesis, development and reactivity. The first two years of training will be in the host institute abroad, i.e., Framingham heart study (FHS), National Institutes ...

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

Reversing a famous functionalist formulation – from “towers in the park” to “parks around the towers” – I study the construction, use, and transformation of outdoor spaces in suburbs from the Swedish Record ...

Research project from 2017-02-20 to 2017-02-24

This proposal searches funding for the conference "Gender Shifts and Resource Politics in the Arctic", to take place in Uppsala on 21-23 February 2017. Communities throughout the North are affected by ...

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

This project aims at investigating the intersection of rurality and disability, more specifically how rural life is experienced from a disability perspective. We will find out where questions of the intersection ...

Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31

The main aim of this project is to further develop general tools which, given some mathematical object, provide a recipe for how to construct an interesting 2-categorical upgrade of this object, how to ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

Cool giant stars are strongly affected by dynamical processes. Large-scale convective flows reach deeply into the stars, bringing newly produced elements such as carbon to the surface. Convection and pulsation ...

Research project from 2015-06-01 to 2017-06-30

Purpose and goal: The project was aimed at developing technologies for the future´s 3D nano-printers, especially positioning tables with nanometer-controlled movements. The goal was to prepare for business ...

Research project from 2015-06-01 to 2017-06-30

District heating faces many challenges, such as lower heat demand in refurbished residential buildings from the million homes programme. How can present district-heating systems develop to fourth generation ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

Resonant inelastic soft X-ray scattering spectroscopy has several important features that makes is attractive for studies ranging from fundamental phenomena in atoms and molecules to the function of complex ...

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

During recent years there have been striking changes in the patterns of rulemaking within the EU internal market. That can be seen, most obviously, in a shift of instruments for rulemaking; from directives ...

Research project from 2017-07-01 to 2020-06-30

In this proposal, we aim to explore the uncharted interactions between the heat released from an exothermic enzymatic reaction, and the enzyme’s structure and function. To achieve this goal, we chose pyruvate ...

Research project from 2015-12-01 to 2018-11-30

Genetic factors account for up to 80% of the risk in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The advent of genomic approaches (such as genome-wide association studies, GWASs) has led to the characterization of 26 genetic ...

Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31

This project is a direct continuation of the project "A framework for parallel programming models", to accommodate and verify a spectrum of high-level modeling languages. We formally established correctness ...

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 ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

In contemporary Sweden, children increasingly grow up in urban environments. Simultaneously, spaces for children in the city – including (pre)school yard spaces – are decreasing which in children spending ...

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

Due to the harmful consequences of female circumcision (FC), this project will seek to decrease the support of its continuation among newly arrived Somalis in Sweden. The hypothesis is that a community-based ...

Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31

In this project we will establish and develop synthetic methods to construct in vivo targeting biomaterials using motives from, or extracellular matrix (ECM) components as macromolecular building blocs ...

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

Antimicrobials are an indispensable part of modern medicine. Improvement of antimicrobial use, in particular prevention of overuse of (broadspectrum) antibiotics, through antimicrobial stewardship (AMS ...

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

A significant proportion of health care resources are used for counseling support for fear of childbirth. Women are mostly satisfied with such counseling but the treatment has not shown any noticeable ...

Research project from 2016-06-01 to 2018-12-31

This project aims at using scientific methods to improve the design of slow moving, permanent magnet generators for marine energy conversion. The goal is to develop generators that have better performance ...

Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31

The project will attempt to shed new light on the history of French. In spite of at least 150 years of research, there are still many unsolved problems in French language history. This is particularly ...

Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

I Sverige har antalet vårdnadstvister ökat med 40 procent sedan år 2006. Av föräldrabalken framgår att domstol ska fatta beslut utifrån barnets bästa. Såväl forskning som erfarenheter från professionella ...

Research project from 2016-09-01 to 2019-08-31

In South Africa cervical cancer is still at an unacceptably high incidence despite the Cervical Cancer Screening Programme Guidelines which recommend three Pap smears in a lifetime. In Sweden the National ...

Research project from 2017-07-01 to 2020-08-31

The storage of solar energy and its large-scale implementation in our transport sector is one of the great energy challenges of our time. The project outlined herein addresses this issue via solar-driven ...

Research project from 2017-12-01 to 2020-12-31

The goal of the project is to improve scientific knowledge of processes important for optimizing the properties of fuel materials for fourth generation (GEN IV) nuclear reactors. We aim to establish the ...

Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2022-12-31

During the 1960's, the first observations were made of ultra high energy (UHE) charged particles arriving from space. These particles, known as cosmic rays, began a pursuit to discover which astronomical ...

Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-02-06

Formulaic sequences (e.g. it can be seen that, put forward, come into play) are pervasive in academic language and offer an important means of differentiating written texts by discipline. This project ...