Research at Uppsala University
History of human antibiotic use written in the oral bacteria of wild brown bears
25 August 2021. An international team of researchers used historical museum collections to study the effects of huma ...
How research can encourage us to cycle instead
19 August 2021. How do you get to work in the mornings? Transport currently accounts for 25 per cent of GHG emission ...
Philippine ethnic group has most Denisovan DNA
13 August 2021. The Philippine ethnic group Ayta Magbukon has the highest proportion of genes from our extinct relat ...
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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"
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
New method for discovery of antiviral drugs
2 August 2021. The current COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for methods to identify new or repurposed dru ...
Helpline important for older people during the pandemic
8 July 2021. For many older individuals, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the loss of daily anonymous contac ...
The national COVID-19 Data Portal turns one year old
3 June 2021. The national Swedish COVID-19 Data Portal was launched one year ago to support researchers in utilis ...
Lectures
Uppsala University’s researchers share their knowledge in public lectures. Every year, the University is visited by leading researchers and influential people from around the world. At Uppsala University, you can hear Nobel laureates, researchers, authors, politicians and many others give lectures. Here we present some of the most prominent, annually occurring lectures at Uppsala University.