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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"Mamabies" among the Afro-Baloch community: Social status and cultural heritage of a low caste community in Iran
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Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
Proposed project is about songs sung by women for women during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum. I will call these songs "mamabies". Mamabies are recited in the Afro-Baloch community along the coast ...
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Narrating Local History
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2013-12-31
The purpose of this investigation is to study the relationships between memory and history. Elements of local history are reflected in individual life histories and common perceptions of the history of ...
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Cycles of Cycling: Practices and Socio-Technical Transitions in Urban Transport
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Research project from 2013-07-01 to 2016-06-30
Contemporary discussions about technology and sustainability often focus on innovation as the exclusive realm of new technology. The proposed project will instead examine the rise, decline, and partial ...
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Embedded in history: A study of Kyrgyz historicity and historical consciousness
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Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31
In the modern world people are encouraged to view history as processes of significant change in the world and to view the personal and local as less important. Personal history is subordinated to large-scale ...
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Resilience of subsistence - the agrarian households between society and nature 1750-1900 (ROS)
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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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Incarcerated. Voices from patients, prisoners and other inmates 1850-2000
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2015-12-30
In this project we wish to elaborate a new perspective within Nordic research on social history and history of medicine in practice, namely a perspective evolving from the viewpoint of the incarcareted ...
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Within or without? Place as condition for knowledge
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Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31
The aim of the project is to broaden and deepen our understanding of the indissoluble bound between knowledge and place and to analyze our conception of knowledge as place bound in the context of rural ...
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Workshop: Famine stories and survival legends. Legacies to the following generations (Third international COMPOT workshop).
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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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Super-extra-mega-ultra-races: Participation in extreme sports races as a cultural phenomenon.
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Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Extreme sports races, such as ultra marathons, obstacle races, swimruns, and very long races on skis or bicycle, in darkness and coldness, have become more and more popular in the Swedish middle class ...
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What matters – Accounting for culture in a post factual world. 34th Nordic Congress of ethnologists and folklorists, Uppsala June 12-15th, 2018.
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Research project from 2018-06-12 to 2018-06-15
Ethnologists and folklorists at Uppsala University apply for funding of the 34th Nordic congress of ethnologists and folklorists in Uppsala 2018. The congress is arranged every third year, this time in ...
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Women s races as a cultural phenomenon: conditions for women s exercising
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Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31
Sports races for women are popular in Sweden today. Hundreds of thousands of women participate every year. However, there is a lack of qualified ethnographic and historical research on the relevance of ...
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Tour Guides and Sustainability: Filling the Gaps
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Research project from 2017-12-06 to 2017-12-08
The increase in tourism poses important questions of sustainability for destinations worldwide. On Gotland in particular, a well-known tourist destination, issues related to environmental, cultural, social ...
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Why folkloristics. International conference in Visby June 10-12, 2015
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Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2014-12-31
Varför folkloristik 10-12 juni, Campus Gotland, Visby. Folkloristik i Norden står idag inför många och stora utmaningar. Medan ämnet har växt vid universitet i Island och Estland, så har det på senare ...
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Why folkloristics?
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Research project from 2015-06-10 to 2015-06-12
Folkloristics is the study of cultural forms and expressions – stories and storytelling, memory and remembering, cognitive worlds, expressive forms, creativity and narrative competence. The study of such ...
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Worklessness in British and American Literature: Between Vulnerability and Resistance
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Research project from 2015-04-01 to 2015-10-17
This one-day symposium, to be held at Uppsala University 16 October 2015, will rethink a legacy and restart an inquiry into the meaning of work and non-work in Anglophone culture and society. The collapse ...
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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 ...
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