Research at Uppsala University
History of human antibiotic use written in the oral bacteria of wild brown bears
25 August 2021. An international team of researchers used historical museum collections to study the effects of huma ...
How research can encourage us to cycle instead
19 August 2021. How do you get to work in the mornings? Transport currently accounts for 25 per cent of GHG emission ...
Philippine ethnic group has most Denisovan DNA
13 August 2021. The Philippine ethnic group Ayta Magbukon has the highest proportion of genes from our extinct relat ...
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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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Visualising difference: objects, space and practice in early modern Europe
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Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2015-04-01
Application is for an international conference to be held at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm in October 2014. Conference abstract: Early modern societies were strictly hierarchical bodies, constantly involved ...
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To create a patriotic history. Adolf Ludvig Stjerneld as heritageproducer, museum creator, collector and historical forger.
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2013-12-31
"haha, där har du nog gått på Stjerneld". Det fick litteraturvetaren Ingemar Carlsson höra när han fick reda på att det uppseendeväckande dokumentet om förspelet till hattarnas ryska krig var en förfalskning ...
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Between formal regulation and informal practice: Exploring occupational strategies for female entrepreneurs within the textile crafts sector 1739–1846
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Research project from 2020-12-01 to 2022-12-31
The aim of this project is to investigate how women´s opportunities to engage professionally in the textile handicraft sector took shape at the intersection of formal regulation and informal work practice ...
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Digital Monuments: Technology, Ephemerality and Memory in Swedish Public Art, 1994–2015
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Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
During the mid 1990’s a new kind of public art emerged characterised by monuments that consistof digital technology, located in public places and intended to be enduring. This projectintroduces the term ...
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Ewa Balicka-Witakowska, Ethiopian Churches: The Gännätä Maryam
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
Boken, som ingår i en fristående serie Etiopiska kyrkor och baserar på min forskning bedriven inom ramar för ett VR-projekt, är en monografi över Gännätä Maryam, en 1200-talets klipp-kyrka som hade anknytning ...
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Intertextuality and Roman visual culture. A new approach to Roman ideal sculpture
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Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31
The aim of this project is to acquire new knowledge regarding the role of ideal sculpture in the Roman world. Since the mid-19th century, such sculptures have been studied primarily as Roman copies of ...
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ROYAL PATRONAGE AND MONASTIC CULTURE IN THE 13th-CENTURY ETHIOPIA: SPIRITUALITY AND POWER VISUALISED IN THE MURALS OF THE CHURCHES ASSOCIATED WITH KING YEKUNO AMLAK
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2014-12-31
This proposed project will comprise extensive studies of three Ethiopian churches and their murals dating to the 13th century. All three are associated with the founder of Solomonic dynasty, King Yekuno ...
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The Multisensory World of Vadstena Abbey in the Late Middle Ages
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Research project from 2016-11-01 to 2020-12-31
This project will produce total-immersion virtual-reality reconstructions of the liturgy in the late 15th C Vadstena Abbey, specifically the multisensory experiences in the church. The aim is scientific ...
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The Cultural Economy of Reuse
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Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2015-12-31
This serial case study aims to explore the practices of reuse (of buildings) as part of a cultural economy in which reuse value is created, staged and traded as a cultural capital. During the last decades ...
Research spotlight: The coronavirus
New method for discovery of antiviral drugs
2 August 2021. The current COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for methods to identify new or repurposed dru ...
Helpline important for older people during the pandemic
8 July 2021. For many older individuals, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the loss of daily anonymous contac ...
The national COVID-19 Data Portal turns one year old
3 June 2021. The national Swedish COVID-19 Data Portal was launched one year ago to support researchers in utilis ...
Lectures
Uppsala University’s researchers share their knowledge in public lectures. Every year, the University is visited by leading researchers and influential people from around the world. At Uppsala University, you can hear Nobel laureates, researchers, authors, politicians and many others give lectures. Here we present some of the most prominent, annually occurring lectures at Uppsala University.