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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An example for all seasons? The theory of history in contemporary economic thought.
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-30
This study seeks to bridge the theory of history prevalent in the humanities with the arguably most influential sphere of ideas in contemporary society, namely economics. For quite some time research in ...
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Application printing costs
Research project from 2011-11-01 to 2012-11-30
Purpose and goal: The aim is to publish an edited volume regarding the efficiency in Swedish industry from a historical perspektive. Expected results and effects: Approach and implementation: ...
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Creating and maintaining trust after the first Swedish banking crisis: the Bank of the Estates of the Realm c. 1660-1721
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The aim of the project is to study how Riksens ständers bank (the Bank of the Estates of the Realm) acted to create and maintain trust and legitimacy at the Swedish credit market 1668 to 1721. As a bank ...
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City of My Dreams: Social Mobility and Growth in Stockholm since the Industrial Revolution
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Are individuals’ economic, health, and social outcomes determined by where in a city they grow up? Are such (dis)advantages of place transmitted across generations? Can policy makers alter urban environments ...
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The intimate relationship. A cultural economic history of everyday finances
Research project from 2018-07-01 to 2019-06-30
In most Western societies today it is nearly impossible to manage one’s life without a bank account. Formal financial institutions are in many ways involved in our daily life and in the allocation of almost ...
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The Swedish Patent Database, 1746-1975
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The purpose of this research project is to build a fully searchable, publicly accessible database for all Swedish patents covering the period 1746-1974 (ca. 400,000 patents). No such database exists today ...
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Global Capital. Sweden and the International Credit Markets, 1760-1830
Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31
During the period 1766 to 1802, the Swedish state borrowed significant resources on the international capital markets. The borrowing led to the establishment of direct ties between Sweden and an international ...
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Domesticity and health consumption. New commodities, new habits and changed household strategies in Sweden 1880-1930
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
Studien fokuserar det efterfrågeskifte på konsumtionsvaror som enligt historikern de Vries bidrog till övergången från ?the industrious revolution? till ?the breadwinner-homemaker household? under 1800 ...
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Economic and social transformation in developing countries
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2015-12-31
Professor Olli Kangas has an outstanding publication-, teaching- and research administration-record. He has published widely in refereed journals, in international books and in many other contexts including ...
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Economic history of the senses: The economization of smells, sounds, tastes, colors, and tactilities during the industrial breakthrough in Sweden
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31
Inspired by the expanding field of sensory history the project sets out to study the role of sensoric perceptions in industrial product development in Sweden in the era of industrialization. Many of the ...
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The Master and Servants Act, Collective Bargaining, and the Swedish Model, 1833-1926
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
Between 1833 and 1926 labour relations in Sweden in some sectors were governed by the Master and Servants Act. A common assumption in labour history is that contractual relations in capitalistic societies ...
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Resilience of subsistence - the agrarian households between society and nature 1750-1900 (ROS)
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31
The agrarian and industrial revolutions in Western Europe since the late 18th century until around 1900 have been favourite topics for economic and social historians. More rarely has it been asked how ...
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Managers of discontent? Labor leaders´ role in identity formation processes
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31
The labor movement played a crucial role in the development of democracy and the welfare state in the 20th century. However, there were profound differences between the European labor movements in terms ...
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The Business of Identity. Money and Identification in Twentieth Century Sweden
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31
The concept of identity has become omnipresent in the social sciences and humanities. Yet the most obvious aspect of how society handles identities has rarely been explored, namely the actual practice ...
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Institutional change and agrarian growth: East Central Sweden 1810-1880
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
This project studies the relation between institutional change and economic growth, in the late preindustrial period and in an agrarian context, i.e. the question of to what extent institutional change ...
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Institutional change and agricultural growth in Sweden 1810-1880
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
This project concerns the relation between institutional change and economic growth, in the late preindustrial period and in an agrarian context. It shall examine to what extent institutional change contributed ...
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Workshop: Famine stories and survival legends. Legacies to the following generations (Third international COMPOT workshop).
Research project from 2017-09-27 to 2017-09-30
The third workshop of the transnational COMPOT research network will be held in Uppsala 28-30 September 2017. While earlier workshops have discussed definitions and explanations of famines, this workshop ...
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Migranter, intressen och reglerade yrken i svensk sjukvård
Research project from 2016-07-01 to 2017-06-30
Projektet ”Migranter, intressen och reglerade yrken i Svensk sjukvård - En studie av organiserade intressegruppers inflytande på regleringar som påverkar immigrerande läkare och sjuksköterskors möjligheter ...
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Neoliberalism in the Nordics: Developing an absent theme
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2025-12-31
The research program “Neoliberalism in the Nordics: developing an absent theme” intends to develop an understanding of neoliberalism in the Nordic welfare states, and specifically, of the role of the welfare ...
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Places for Making, Places for Taking. Metals in the Global World, 1630-1820.
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
This application is about the transition from early modernity to modernity. Was the onset of modernity preordained or was its emergence a matter of contingency? We are concerned with the dynamics of early ...
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Seeing and enacting the social order: Cultures of difference in early modern Sweden
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
The purpose of this project is to understand hierarchy and difference in early modern Sweden in a new, richer way. We propose to do this by emphasizing enactments, visuality and the everyday practices ...
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The Housing Question in Times of Crisis: searching for socially sustainable solutions.
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
Sweden is confronting one of its worst housing crises in modern times, but the study of housing crises, and their formative role in housing system development, remains notably lacking in housing studies ...
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Strategic considerations regarding trademarks, patents and designs: Appeals in PBR, 1977-2016
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-10-31
Purpose and goal: The aim of the project has been to shed light on strategic considerations with regard to intellectual property rights. The interest in appealing PRV´s decision in the Court of Appeals ...
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Swedish Literature in the World: transnational dissemination, cultural politics, images of Sweden
Research project from 2015-01-15 to 2015-01-16
Discussions with three invited American scholars of a proposed research program, ...
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The movement of White collar unions and the emergence of employment transition agreements in the Swedish Model
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2019-12-31
During the last decades the role and coverage of Employment Transitional Agreements (ETA) between the social partners on the labor market have increased. Such agreements are from an international point ...
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Research spotlight: The coronavirus

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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