Research at Uppsala University

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Research project from 2015-01-15 to 2015-01-16

Discussions with three invited American scholars of a proposed research program, ...

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 ...