Research at Uppsala University
New biomarkers can lead to breakthrough in diabetes research
18 February 2021. With the discovery of two new biomarkers, Olof Eriksson, researcher in translational imaging, may le ...
Producing more sustainable hydrogen
12 February 2021. Hydrogen for energy use can be extracted in an environmentally friendly way from water and sunlight, ...
The professor wanting to contribute to peace on Earth
25 January 2021. Isak Svensson is, as he describes it, a product of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research. Si ...
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Here you will find all research projects at Uppsala University funded by the main Swedish funding bodies. The search feature is based on the SweCRIS database.
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A Colonial Arena: Landscape, People and Globalization in Inland Northern Sweden in the Early Modern Period
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31
Projektet ska studera integreringen av norra Sveriges inland i en globaliserad ekonomi och i globala kulturella processer under tidigmodern tid, ca 1600-1750. Syftet är att undersöka hur detta tog sig ...
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A Forgotten Heritage of Play - tracing aspects of urbanity and masculinity through a re-contextualization of the engraved game boards at the medieval city of Vijayanagara, South India
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2013-12-31
The project aims to study nearly 1000 permanently engraved game boards at the site of Vijayanagara, South India, once the capital of a large Hindu kingdom (c. AD 1350-1565). It builds on an earlier, by ...
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A study in scarlet An art-theoretical study of the practices that surrounded the rock paintings from Stone Age Fennoscandia
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31
The aim of this project is to deepen the knowledge about rock paintings from Stone Age Fennoscandia by discussing this material within an art-theoretical framework. One might object that it is impossible ...
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The Accelerator-based Ion Technology Center
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2024-12-31
The present project will meet the broad Swedish national scientific, industrial and societal demands for high-quality material analysis by sustaining and advancing the role of the Tandem Laboratory at ...
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Adaptation & Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC)
Research project from 2016-12-01 to 2018-12-31
In this 3-year project, we aim understand how societies, landscapes, ecosystems and Protected Areas have responded to climate change and societal use, to better understand how they may respond in the future ...
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Alvastra - archaeogenetics, archaeology and cultural interactions
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The archaeological record show two major cultures, the so called Funnel Beaker (TRB) farmers and Pitted Ware (PWC) hunter-gatherers, which coexisted for a long time in Stone Age Sweden. They exhibit clear ...
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Archaeological Imagery as Works of Art– Changing Perspectives and Paradigms (workshop)
Research project from 2017-09-20 to 2017-09-23
The study of past art and imagery is still theoretically and methodologically underdeveloped in archaeology. Approaches to prehistoric imagery and art have traditionally circled around representation, ...
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Archaeological information in the digital society
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2016-12-31
Digitisation of archaeological information and cultural heritage assets has been one of the cornerstones of the digital society debate. However, at the same time when nations have made considerable investments ...
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Archaeologies of "Us" and "Them" - debating the ethics and politics of ethnicity and indigeneity in archaeology and heritage discourse
Research project from 2013-10-24 to 2013-10-26
In 2013, the international workshop “Archaeologies of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ – debating the ethics and politics of ethnicity and indigeneity in archaeology and heritage discourse” will be arranged at Uppsala ...
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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 ...
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Contesting Marginality: The Boreal Forest of Inland Scandinavia and the Worlds Outside, AD – 1500 AD
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The main objective of this project is to understand the role of Scandinavia’s forested inland in the larger historical developments that took place in northern Europe in the Iron Age and the Middle Ages ...
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The "profanity" of Greek sanctuaries? Defining the temenos as a space for divine-human interaction 600 BC-200 AD
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Greek sanctuaries have attracted considerable interest within Classical scholarship for more than a century but mainly from the viewpoint of divine presence and its expression in the form of temples, statues ...
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Digitalization of ancient coins at Uppsala university
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2015-12-31
Coins appear basically the same way they have appeared and are used similarly as they have been used for thousands of years. They therefore represent a highly cross-disciplinary research material which ...
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Domesticated landscapes of the Peloponnese: Social-environmental dynamics from the Final Neolithic to the Roman era (4000 BCE-300 CE)
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31
Landscapes are multifaceted archives combining natural forming processes with cultural practises and land use strategies of past generations. The aim of the project is to explore the rich archives of the ...
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Economic Integration between Pastoral Nomads and City-States in the Bronze Age Syro-Mesopotamian Landscape: A Network Perspective
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31
Nomadism and sedentism are generally considered dichotomies, which may explain why a significant amount of research has been produced on the hostility between these groups. However, pastoral nomads were ...
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Explorative Imaginaries; Communicating the biocultural heritage of the forests
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Current issues of global environmental change raise several social, cultural and historical concerns. The proposed communication project builds on the notion that knowledge based on the humanities and ...
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Fourth International Landscape Archaeology Conference 2016
Research project from 2016-08-22 to 2016-08-25
The Department of Archaeology and Ancient History has been invited to host the fourth biennial International Landscape Archaeology Conference in 2016. Previous conferences have been held in Amsterdam ( ...
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From snout to tail. Exploring the Greek sacrificial animal from the literary, epigraphical, iconographical, archaeological and zooarchaeological evidence
Research project from 2016-12-08 to 2016-12-10
The international conference ”From snout to tail. Exploring the Greek sacrificial animal from the literary, epigraphical, iconographical, archaeological and zooarchaeological evidence”, will be held 8- ...
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From the Human Body to the Universe: Spatialities of Byzantine Culture
Research project from 2017-05-17 to 2017-05-21
It is more or less impossible to imagine a narrative that has neither spatial nor temporal setting. Whether we are dealing with the legendary Hyksos sea people in Egypt around the 1,600s BC or a Galaxy-far-far-away ...
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Fundaments of power – processes, parallels and diversities in Scandinavia and Northern Europe 500-1100 CE
Research project from 2013-10-01 to 2014-12-31
During the 1990s was the research on Early Medieval central places of Scandinavia primarily based upon the evidence from place names, finds/hoards and metal detector surveys and landscape analyses. Few ...
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Geomapping Landscapes of Writing (GLoW): Large-Scale Spatial Analysis of the Cuneiform Corpus (c. 3400 BCE to 100 CE)
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Cuneiform is one of the oldest scripts in human history. It also ranks among the largest bodies of historical documentation from the ancient world. Rough estimates suggest the total word count of all cuneiform ...
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Gotland in the 3rd millennium BC. Archaeogenetics, archaeology and cultural diversity
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Recent technological advancements have allowed for in-depth genetic investigations of pre-historic humans (archaeogenetics) which have profoundly altered European archaeology. These studies give unique ...
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Houses and social practices in Swedish towns 1600-1850
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2026-12-31
Housing is a fundamental dimension of human life. Yet, we know surprisingly little about dwelling houses in the past. The aim of this project is to reach deep and qualified knowledge about Swedish urban ...
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Human-Environment Dynamics in the Peloponnese and Beyond: Ideas, Methods and Results
Research project from 2016-04-05 to 2016-04-09
The international conference ‘Human-Environment Dynamics in the Peloponnese and Beyond: Ideas, Methods and Results’, will take place in Athens, Greece, 6-8 April, 2017. The conference is a collaborative ...
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Radiocarbon dating in archaeology with the accelerator technique
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2013-12-31
Kol-14-datering av arkeologiska prover har i och med etableringen av den acceleratorbaserade mättekniken (AMS) möjlighet att tillämpas på mycket små provmängder (>0.1 mg) och därmed kan högprecisionsbestämningar ...
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Landscape transformations and socio-ecological management in Limpopo National Park, Mozambique.
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
The project uses archaeology, anthropology and paleoecology to analyse the long-term socio-natural dynamics in Limpopo National Park (PNL), Mozambique. PNL was proclaimed in 2001 as part of the Greater ...
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Logistics in Greek sanctuaries. Exploring the human experience of visiting the gods
Research project from 2018-09-13 to 2018-09-16
The project concerns the international conference “Logistics in Greek sanctuaries” at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 13-16 September 2018. Greek sanctuaries have been studied by scholars for more than ...
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More than Just Gender-The Classical Oikos as a Site for Intersectionality
Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31
The purpose of the project is to focus the classical oikos, the family, within the frame of the Athenian city-state, ca 600-350 BC. It was the basic unit for mens and womens life and has since Homer been ...
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The Biocultural Heritage of Sicilian Olive Trees
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2024-12-31
The old olive cultural landscapes of Sicily are important historical archives. With climate change and increasing abandonment of the Sicilian countryside, the old olive cultural landscapes are threatened ...
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Reinvigorating Scandinavian Research in African Archaeology
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2020-12-31
This proposal is for three interlinked workshops and early career master-classes in African archaeology, to be held in Uppsala (05/19), Stavanger (09/19), and Copenhagen (06/20), with a primary focus on ...
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