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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Gender Shifts and Resource Politics in the Arctic
Research project from 2017-02-20 to 2017-02-24
This proposal searches funding for the conference "Gender Shifts and Resource Politics in the Arctic", to take place in Uppsala on 21-23 February 2017. Communities throughout the North are affected by ...
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Application of funding for the 4th European Conference on Politics and Gender 2015
Research project from 2015-06-11 to 2015-06-13
Between June 11 – 13 2015 the Department of Government, Uppsala University will host the 4th European Conference on Politics and Gender (http://www.ecpg.eu/ ). The conference takes place every second year ...
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Becoming "human": gender theory and animals in a more-than-human world
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2016-12-31
We have long considered that we shape our humanity through our interactions with other people but increasingly work has recognised that we shape our humanity through interactions with the more-than-human ...
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Staging the successful student in higher education: A comparative study of men, masculinities, and self-worth protecting strategies in competitive contexts
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31
This qualitative study contributes to knowledge about men´s identity negotiations and self-worth protection strategies in higher education (HE) in Sweden and England, focussing on highly competitive contexts ...
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Give me my perspective - Traces of the race biologists into the Sámi people´s home
Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31
This is an artistic research project focusing on the Institute of Racial Biology in Sweden, a state funded institute 1922-1958 - and its effects on the Indigenous Sámi people. The overall objective is ...
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Gendering Housing ? Intersectional perspectives on housing provision and urban planning with emphasis on gender relations in Sweden
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Although Sweden is considered being on the top internationally regarding both gender equality politics and the production of information, specially statistics, the research field of gender and the built ...
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Close Relations: a multi- and interdisciplinary conference on critical family and kinship studies
Research project from 2018-10-24 to 2018-10-26
Close Relations is a international multi- and interdisciplinary conference that explores urgent questions for critical family and kinship studies, a field of research that has developed in the past decades ...
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Co-Constituting Indigenous/Academic/Artistic Knowledges and Understandings of Land-, Water-, Body-, and Lab-scapes
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
Co-Constituting Indigenous/Academic/Artistic Knowledges and Understandings of Land-, Water-, Body- and Lab-scapes?, Uppsala Oct. 10-12, 2012, 50-60 participants. The workshop is related to the VR financed ...
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DAMMED:Security, risk and resilience around the Dams of Sub-Arctica: Travel grant for conference paper presentation at NAISA, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, 3-6 juni 2012, USA
Research project from 2012-05-01 to 2012-12-31
Hydropower is often promoted as an environmentally friendly and renewable energy resource in the current debates on climate change. Yet, it is since long established that this energy source indeed has ...
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Gendered Islamophobia in Sweden - A study on Muslim women´s experiences of antimuslim racism and their use of art and activism
Research project from 2019-12-01 to 2021-12-31
Muslim women is a category often spoken and written about and referred to in Media and political debate, people tend to have strong opinion about them yet it is a group whose experiences and perspectives ...
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Single Parents in Swedish Media: Representations of "lone" parenthood 2010-20
Research project from 2020-01-31 to 2022-12-31
This project explores how the concept “lone parent” gains meaning in Sweden in the twenty-first century. With mediated representations of lone parents (parenthood, parenting) in news media, life writing ...
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The Fetus: Animated, historical short film
Research project from 2018-02-01 to 2018-10-31
"The Fetus" is an animated short film about historical and contemporary understandings of the fetus, abortion and the origin of life. It addresses a broad audience, and especially youth and young adults ...
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Gender equality the BESTA way: Working for equal statistics and pay in the governmental sector
Research project from 2013-10-01 to 2015-12-31
Purpose and goal: The goal of the project was to a) develop gender sensitive methods for the application of BESTA codes and b) make an analysis of the BESTA code system in a gender perspective. The project ...
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Global horse cultures in change: new gender relations emerging from Western riding?
Research project from 2018-07-01 to 2021-06-30
Gendered associations of Western riding diverge from those of classic ‘English’ horse riding and with the dramatic growth of Western riding in Sweden recently – not the least among men - there is a potential ...
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In relation to what? Critical Gender Studies on Masculinities and Relationality
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
In recent years, masculinities have been fruitfully explored by gender studies scholars. Relationality has been used as a critical concept for understanding masculinity as a social construction (Connell ...
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In the borderland between academic disciplines and school science - Science faculty as teacher educators
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31
Over the past couple of decades, science education research has been characterised by a broadened interpretation of science, by inclusion of e.g. socio-scientific issues, partly in response to a declining ...
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Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenous Expertise meets Western Technological Design and Innovation
Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2020-12-31
Overall aim of this supra- and crossdisciplinary project is to analyze sociotechnical aspects of human security and sustainability in regard to climate change as well as to make an contribution to the ...
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Indigenous and Feminist Approaches to Technoscience: Embodying, Voicing, and Decolonizing Body- Land- and Waterscapes
Research project from 2012-10-01 to 2012-12-31
DAMMED: Hydropower is often promoted as an environmentally friendly and renewable energy resource in the current debates on climate change. Yet, it is since long established that this energy source indeed ...
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Interracial Love in Literature from Southern Africa, 1900-1950
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31
This project aims to investigate the representation of interracial love in novels and short stories from South Africa and Zimbabwe, 1900-1950, when ideas of race held a crucial role in society. It will ...
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Káfastallat
Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2017-12-31
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Latvia at a Crossroads: The Centenary of the Latvian State
Research project from 2018-10-11 to 2018-10-12
‘Latvia at a Crossroads: The Centenary of the Latvian State’ will be an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the multiple contexts of Latvia during the centenary year of the nation’s independence from ...
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Masculinity, Nationalism and Military Service in a Conflict Zone: Surveys in Southern Thailand
Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31
This project investigates the relationships between masculine honor ideology and nationalism on the one hand, and military service in a context of active armed conflict on the other. The study examines ...
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Nordic Journal of Gender Studies
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31
Tidskrift för genusvetenskap, TGV (tidigare Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift, KVT) startades 1980 i Lund. Tidskriften ägs av den ideella organisationen Föreningen Tidskrift för genusvetenskap.TGV är en av ...
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Nordic Journal of Gender Studies
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31
Tidskrift för genusvetenskap, TGV, är det nuvarande namnet på tidigare Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift, KVT, som startades 1980 i Lund. Tidskriften drivs av den ideella organisationen Föreningen tidskrift ...
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Norra Sorgenfri planned, populated and problematised: the role of social sustainability in urban renewal
Research project from 2018-07-01 to 2021-06-30
In this project we bring together researchers from four disciplines at three universities to study how social sustainability takes shape through the redevelopment of Norra Sorgenfri. In this industrial ...
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Reason in the limelight - femininity and rationality in Classical Greek Drama
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The aim of this project is to develop a new understanding of how femininity and rationality were pragmatically linked but ideologically separated in Classical Athens. The objectives are: (a) to offer a ...
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Rivers, resistance and resilience: Sustainable futures in Sápmi and in other indigenous peoples? territories
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2015-12-31
Overall aim of this supradisciplinary research project is to analyze the sociotechnical aspects of human security, sustainability for, resistance and resilience of indigenous peoples in (post)colonial ...
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Routes to Reconstruction: The Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Emerging Health Care Needs in a Globalized Europe
Research project from 2017-05-10 to 2017-05-12
There is a growing need to understand the health care requirements of specific migrant populations arriving in European countries such as Sweden with particular health care needs that may be socio-culturally ...
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SWE-2012-109: Public Policy, Health Education and Female Empowerment in Uganda and Tanzania
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
Public Policy, Health Education and Female Empowerment in Uganda and Tanzania. The objective of this project is to investigate causal effects of public and non-governmental health interventions on family ...
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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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