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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Application for a travelgrant to the international conference: Transboundary learning beyond disciplines. Sustainable Development opening up research dialogues 9-11 October, Umeå, Sweden
Research project from 2012-08-27 to 2012-12-31
This is an application for a travel grant to the international conference: Transboundary learning beyond disciplines. Sustainable Development opening up research dialogues in Umeå, Sweden, 9-11 October ...
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Application for a travelgrant to the conference "The European Conference on Educational Research 2012, in Cádiz, Spain from 18 to 21 September."
Research project from 2012-06-01 to 2012-12-31
This is an application for a travel grant to the conference: "The European Conference on Educational Research 2012" in Cádiz, Spain. The purpose of my participation at the conference is to present my own ...
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Grades and national tests in year 6: potential influence on Science teaching
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2017-12-31
The middle years of compulsory school faces a number of major changes. A new syllabus and new subject plans have been established and applies from the academic year 2011/2012. The parliament has also decided ...
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Collaboration with teachers for development of literacy program for pupils with an intellectual disability
Research project from 2017-01-02 to 2018-12-28
Purpose and goal: The aim of the project is to create possibilities for cooperation between teachers and researchers in order to make literacy teaching support to children with intellectual disabilities ...
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Collaboration with teachers for development of literacy program for pupils with an intellectual disability
Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2018-06-30
Purpose and goal: The aim of the project was to create opportunities for collaboration between teachers in special school and researchers around questions on students’ reading- and writing development ...
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Comparative Didactics and Professional Development for Teachers
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The aim of the network Comparative Didactics and Professional Development is to continue and strengthen an ongoing collaboration between four research groups on comparative didactics and professional development ...
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The unlikely scientists: Exploring what has enabled students from under-represented groups to continue to higher education science studies
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The proposed project takes a novel approach to understanding processes of inclusion and exclusion within science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by focusing on students from under-represented ...
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The Emergence of the Democrat: Popular education and the Process of Democratic Subjection in Sweden 1830-1940
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31
In the early 19th century Sweden was a society of estates and ranks, and the majority of the population had probably never heard of the concept of democratic elections or of the practice of sitting at ...
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The Nordic Curriculum Theory Conference 2013: "Curriculum and/or didactics" - a discussion revisited. Towards a transnational curriculum theory?
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2013-12-31
För femte gången arrangeras den nordiska läroplansteoretiska konferensen som ägt rum vartannat år vid olika lärosäten. Senast 2011 arrangerades den av Oslo universitet. Denna gång arrangeras konferensen ...
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Development of a Competencies Frame Set for the Evaluation of Universities in the Field of IT Profession
Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2011-12-31
Individers utveckling är möjligtvis den mest central uppgiften för ett utbildningssystem, och det gäller inte minst utveckling av vad som kan kallas professionell kompetens. Det är viktigt att vi förstår ...
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Didactical modeling for education for sustainable development in preschool
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Abstract (eng):To address complexity and uncertainty in sustainability issues in the era of Antropocene, new forms of education for sustainable development (ESD) are required. To be able to achieve “new ...
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Mathematics teaching material in a digital environment: Aspects of importance in relation to students´ interaction with multimodal text
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31
The overall purpose of this project is to contribute to research concerning how multimodal resources in mathematics teaching material in digital environments can provide opportunities for learning, but ...
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Figuring Politics – Spatial Diagrams of the Political System in Global Upper Secondary School Civics Textbooks (1900–)
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2024-12-31
The project will investigate how the political and social order has been represented spatially in upper secondary school civic textbooks from the 20th and 21st. Common examples include the political left-right ...
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Research School in Geography
Research project from 2011-07-01 to 2014-12-31
Den föreslagna forskarskolan i geografi genomförs av Kulturgeografiska institutionen (värdinstitution) i samarbete med Högskolan Dalarna och Högskolan i Gävle samt med Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik ...
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Reseach about teaching - Systematic mapping and analysis of research topographies
Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2020-12-31
The overarching purpose of the present project is to increase and refine our knowledge about teaching and teaching research. A subordinated purpose is to develop a unique review format, SMART. Examples ...
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Function, content and form in interaction. Students´ text-making in early school years.
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31
Function, content and form in interaction. Students? text-making in early school years. The main purpose of this project is to further develop ways to study and understand students? text-making in early ...
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Global Citizens? Peace, human rights and sustainability in ideals and education
Research project from 2018-03-15 to 2018-03-16
Global citizenship education (GCED) is today emphasized as a pivotal part of education including ideals of human rights education (HRE), peace education (PE) and education for sustainable development ( ...
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Implementation research as an emerging field of mathematics education
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2024-12-31
Mathematics education (ME) is an established field of research. Yet, the process of implementing findings from ME in schools has only recently emerged as a distinct research area. This is in contrast to ...
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In the borderland between academic disciplines and school science - Science faculty as teacher educators
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31
Over the past couple of decades, science education research has been characterised by a broadened interpretation of science, by inclusion of e.g. socio-scientific issues, partly in response to a declining ...
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Integrating programming in school mathematics - exploring the intersection of algebraic and computational thinking
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
The overall purpose of this project is to contribute to the international research field concerning the ongoing integration of programming in schools, specifically in relation to the learning of algebra ...
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Power, knowledge and identity in science and technology classrooms: Teachers´ enactments of disciplinary discourses as establishing inclusion and exclusion
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
A central area in science education research is students´ constitutions of conceptual and procedural knowledge. The proposed project provides novel perspectives on this area, by exploring what knowledge ...
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Leva med mikrober: Hälsolitteracitet i utbildning om antimikrobiell resistens
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as a sustainability issue, argued to be comparable in complexity and severity to climate change. The current COVID-19 pandemic illustrates the global ramifications ...
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Testing approaches to reading - construction of reading comprehension in disciplinary reading practices
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The main purpose of this project is to provide tools to illuminate how different approaches to working with texts in various school subjects create different conditions for students’ disciplinary reading ...
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Manners of teaching about controversial sustainability issues and students learning
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The first purpose of the project is to analyse the institutional dimension of teaching, i.e. to identify different manners of teaching dealing with controversial sustainability issues. The second purpose ...
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Towards research-based teaching of algebra - diachronic and synchronic analyses of steering documents, curriculum materials and teachers´ interactions with them
Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Profound knowledge in algebra is important for the understanding of several mathematical areas, for example functions and statistics. Hence, it is a critical gatekeeper for further studies in mathematics ...
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The National Reserach School in Home Economics
Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2014-12-31
The aim is to establish a National Research School in Home Economics on curriculum studies with focus on food and health. Few theses have been published within the area of Home Economics either in Sweden ...
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Open schooling for sustainable cities and communities
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The pursuit of sustainable development (SD) is the subject of growing global attention. To realise this a lot of hopes are pinned on learning and education. Yet, despite omnipresent references to the importance ...
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Semiotic resources and disciplinary literacy
Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2014-12-31
This project uses a disciplinary literacy approach to analyse learning in undergraduate science. Science is taught using a wide range of semiotic resource systems: e.g. oral and written language, mathematics ...
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Semiotic resources and disciplinary literacy
Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2014-12-31
Relationen mellan semiotiska redskap och ämneskompetens i naturvetenskap ...
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Teaching Religion in Late Modern Sweden: Professionalism on the borders between public and private
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31
Teaching religion in a multicultural, pluralistic society is both challenging and demanding. Recent studies shows that Religious Education (RE) teachers often avoid sensitive issues concerning values and ...
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Limited transmission of COVID-19 from open schools but teachers were affected
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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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