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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Visualising difference: objects, space and practice in early modern Europe
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Limited transmission of COVID-19 from open schools but teachers were affected
12 February 2021. Most countries introduced school closures during the spring of 2020 despite uncertainty regarding th ...
New clues to how SARS-CoV-2 infects cells
8 February 2021. The molecular details of how SARS-CoV-2 enters cells and infects them are still not clear. Researche ...
Interdisciplinary collaboration provides new answers about immunity after Covid-19
8 January 2021. Only weeks after the coronavirus reached Sweden, blood samples were taken from more than 2,000 emplo ...
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