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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"Mamabies" among the Afro-Baloch community: Social status and cultural heritage of a low caste community in Iran
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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).
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.
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.
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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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