Research at Uppsala University

• Disciplining Fighters: Understanding Armed Political Actors’ Control of Sexual Violence

  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 ...

• Engineered scaffold proteins for radionuclide tumour targeting

  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 ...

• "...raised all of these stones": Multiple runic inscription monuments in Viking Age Scandinavia

  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 ...

• Genetics of platelet biogenesis and aggregation in humans and zebrafish, and relationship to cardiovascular disease

  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 ...

• "Parks around the Towers": Landscape as Resource in the Urban Periphery from the Record Years to the Future

  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 ...

• Gender Shifts and Resource Politics in the Arctic

  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 ...

• Spaces for variation? Towards a practice-based and spatial understanding of disability

  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 ...

• 2-categories, 2-representations and applications

  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 ...

• 3D Dynamical Models of Cool Giant Stars and their Dust-driven Winds

  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 ...

• 3D Nanoplatform

  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 ...

• 4GDH-solutions for Swedish million-homes-programme residential areas

  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 ...

• A 1D Imaging SXES/RIXS Spectrometer at the XFEL SQS Station

  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 ...

• A Centralisation of Rulemaking in Europe? The Legal and Political Governance of the Financial Market

  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 ...

• A DNA origami single molecule trap to study self-inflicted heat shocks in enzymes

  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 ...

• A European DNA bank for deciphering the missing heritability of Alzheimer’s disease

  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 ...

• A Framework for Parallel Programming Specifications

  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 ...

• 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 citywide classroom: Time-space aspects of mobile preschool pedagogy

  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 ...

• A community-based participatory intervention to change attitudes towards female circumcision among Somali immigrants in Sweden: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

  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 ...

• A development platform for matrix based drug delivery

  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 ...

• A digital antimicrobial stewardship smartphone application to combat AMR: the AB-assistant

  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 ...

• A known midwife-the best treatment for childbirth fear? A randomised controlled trial

  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 ...

• A new generation of permanent magnet generators for marine energy conversion

  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 ...

• A new perspective on French Historical Phonology - What loan words in Breton can tell us.

  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 ...

• A study of the construction of the child's best interests and good parenting in custody reports and district court rulings

  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 ...

• A study of the feasibility of the introduction of a Swedish HPV test for the management and prevention of cervical disease in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

  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 ...

• A “Clean” Solution: Selectively Producing Methanol Fuel from Sunlight and CO2 by a Noble-Metal Free Catalytic System

  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 ...

• ADVANCED MATERIALS FOR GENERATION IV NUCLEAR REACTOR FUEL

  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 ...

• ARIANNA

  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 ...

• Academic Writing in English as a Foreign Language: the Use of Formulaic Langauge and Disciplinary Variation

  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 ...

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