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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"Queer and Transgender Reproduction with ART: Legal, Cultural and Socioeconomic Challenges"
Research project from 2018-05-03 to 2018-05-04
Changes in the legal access to ART (Assisted Reproductive Technologies) for queer and transgender people in different countries have created both challenges and possibilities for reproduction of LGBTQ-people ...
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An “Attack on the Separation of Powers”? The Legitimacy of Climate Change Litigation in Global Climate Governance. A case study of judges’ arguments in the United States
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31
Pointing to climate change related injury, citizens are increasingly turning to courts in order to take legal action against their governments. Some lawsuits, such as Juliana v. United States and State ...
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Atlas of Values and Ethics: A Historical Approach to Axiology Using Overviews and Thematic Outlines, Surveys and Summaries in the Form of Charts, Diagrams, Maps and Tables
Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2017-12-31
This project has grown out of what I believe to be a good idea concerning visualization. The approach I present with this project can perhaps be regarded almost as constituting a new kind of genre – presenting ...
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Remembering the Past - Living the Future. Lutheran Tradition in Transition.
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2013-12-31
The conference "Remembering the Past - Living the Future" offers a forum for sharing recent research on the role of Reformation theologies, especially Lutheran theology and faith in the world of today. ...
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Democracy and the Judiciary: Moral Deliberation within Courts and the Issue of the Judicialization of Politics
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
The aim of this project is to reframe the issue regarding the justifiability of extending or changing the role of courts in our country, away from the focus on their counter-majoritarian character and ...
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Mind the risk – Ethical, psychological and social implications of provision of risk information from genetic and related technologies. A joint European research program.
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2019-12-31
There is a massive production of genetic risk information by academic- and industry-associated scientists. However, health care systems as well as legislators and society at large seem largely unprepared ...
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Elena Namli: Human Rights as Ethics, Politics and Law.
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
Projektet syftar till att undersöka och granska den potential som finns inom kritiken mot den liberala västerländska diskursen om de mänskliga rättigheterna. En del postkoloniala och muslimska kritiker ...
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Ethics and the Politics of Writing: Membership, Testimony and Representation
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31
Political representation is a precondition for human life in a democratic society. Today, nevertheless, a growing number of refugees, migrants and stateless persons ? and not only them ? live invisible ...
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Extending Liberal Legitimacy: Beyond the State and the Present
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31
According to the Liberal Principle of Legitimacy – a highly influential view among liberal political philosophers - normative political legitimacy requires justifiability to all citizens. In this project ...
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Omvärdering av alla värden: Nietzsches sista filosofiska och litterära projekt av Thomas H. Brobjer
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
Nietzsche planerade de sista fem åren av sitt verksamma liv ett magnum opus i fyra band. Av dessa blev endast det första skrivet, "Antikrist" (I min förra ansökan sökte jag publiceringsanslag för ett fädigt ...
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Rational Self-Government: An Investigation of Personal Autonomy and Its Platonic Origin
Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31
Personal autonomy is reasonably described in terms of the ability to determine one’s own thoughts and actions unaffected by external coercion. One common understanding of this is that autonomy is the unimpeded ...
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Religion and Social and Economic Human Rights in a Time of Migration
Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2018-01-31
Although there is some research on human rights and religion, much of it is limited to theoretical studies focusing on the interpretation of religious texts or religious authorities such as the Cairo Declaration ...
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The Purpose of Nietzsche?s Twilight of the Idols: A Discussion of and Commentary to Nietzsche?s Late ?Summary? of His Philosophy By Thomas H. Brobjer
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
Jag söker alltså anslag till språkgranskning av detta nästan helt färdiga manuskript på ca 180 sidor där jag undersöker förhållandet mellan detta sena verk och hans projekt att omvärdera alla värden. Jag ...
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Tro, moral och uddlös politik. En studie av luthersk etik. Författare: Carl-Henric Grenholm
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
I boken granskas kritiskt den etik som möter hos några lutherska teologer. Ett problem är hur denna är relaterad till motsättningen mellan lag och evangelium i luthersk tradition. Ett annat är om den ger ...
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Utanför paradiset - Arvsyndsläran i nutida luthersk teologi Författare: Eva-Lotta Grantén
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
Boken undersöker frågan om arvsyndslärans aktualitet och relevans idag. Särskilt diskuteras vilka konsekvenser en nutida världsbild präglad av naturvetenskap, tillsammans med insikten att vi lever i en ...
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Wicked problems and educative spaces for urban sustainability Transition
Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31
The aim is to explore theoretically and empirically how political spaces of urban sustainability transitions (UST) may function as educative spaces. Thereby, we strive for both progressing basic research ...
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Workshop Responsibility in Change - The Network of Ethics of Family, Sandhamn 2014
Research project from 2014-06-11 to 2014-06-13
The aim of this workshop is to bring together international experts to work with issues around the theme The ethics of families in health and social care. More specifically, we aim to: 1. Expand the ...
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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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