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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Antiziganism - what´s in a name? Uppsala International Conference on new analytical approaches to the persecution, marginalization and discrimination of Roma and Resande/Travelers.
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2013-12-31
This application concerns an international conference aiming to investigate different ways to understand persecution, discrimination and marginalization of Roma and Travelers. In invites researchers from ...
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Circular Nomadism: Youth and Labor in Post-War Liberia and Sierra Leone
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31
This project is picking up where many current studies on African youth have left off: at wars end. Where demographic studies simply use abstract statistics to identify youth bulges and give woeful predictions ...
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Economic and social transformation in developing countries
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2015-12-31
Professor Olli Kangas has an outstanding publication-, teaching- and research administration-record. He has published widely in refereed journals, in international books and in many other contexts including ...
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Shades of Civic Activism: State – Labour Relations in India and Ethiopia
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
How can we understand expansion and contraction of civic space under different political regimes? Research on civil society–state relations has yet to develop a theory that can account for the complexity ...
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The Transformative Potential of Extreme Weather Events: Triggers for Disaster Risk Reduction and Development [TRAMPOLINE]
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
Extreme weather events, floods and droughts—problems that are likely to become more frequent and extreme due to climate change— inflict major losses and disproportionally affect lower income countries, ...
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From humanitarianism in the field to total war: Sweden´s relationship to International Humanitarian Law in its early stages, 1864-1952
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31
This study aims to give a comprehensive view of how Sweden (and Sweden-Norway) related to the creation of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) during the first ninety years of its modern existence - the ...
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Global economic crisis, institutional change and inequality in comparative perspective: Changing Western welfare states and labour markets since the global financial crisis of 2008
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2017-12-31
The current global economic crisis was triggered by a dramatic collapse of key financial institutions. Gradually, the financial crisis transcended into a series of other crises, involving growth, employment ...
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The Art of Composing the Picture: Knowledge Production in Conflict and Peacebuilding Interventions
Research project from 2014-02-26 to 2014-02-28
Living in a world fraught with violent conflicts and international interventions, global policy-makers face an urgent need for timely knowledge about areas in conflict. Currently, policy-relevant knowledge ...
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Power in International Relations
Research project from 2016-10-01 to 2017-07-31
The planned book synthesises and expands on my previous studies on the concept and analysis of power in International Relations. By placing the usage of power in its historical and theoretical contexts ...
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Research Methods for the Study of Elites
Research project from 2016-06-08 to 2016-06-10
In the last decade, studies of elites have had a renaissance in social sciences. Theoretically they draw on perspectives formulated by classical authors, from Marx, Pareto and Weber to C.W. Mills and, ...
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State - Labour Relations under Authoritarian Rule: Co-optation, Cooperation, Coexistence, Contestation
Research project from 2020-09-01 to 2022-08-31
How can we understand expansion and contraction of spaces where organization of labour is tolerated under authoritarian rule? Research on state-labour relations has yet to develop a theory that can account ...
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Right to Citizenship: The Problem, Principle and Politics of a New Law
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31
Today many democratic countries witness people in their midst who lack full citizenship status. A growing number of migrants, refugees and stateless persons live under laws over which they have no democratic ...
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SWE-2010-137Changing Parameters for Hydropolitics in Light of Global Climate Change: The Governance of Transboundary Waters to meet the Water Crisis
Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31
The focus of the proposed research project is the problematique of good governance of transboundary water resources. The justification is the critical development-need for enhancing knowledge on how to ...
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Shattering glass: How elected members of the UN Security Council fight for women, peace and security
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31
Not all states sitting in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) are the same. How these differences influence the promotion of women, peace and security (WPS) matters. Yet, previous research treats ...
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The Everyday Practice of Paying Taxes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Why do citizens pay taxes? This question is surprisingly underexplored. Understanding when citizens pay taxes and why they find it relevant and purposeful is central for answering this question. Tax compliance ...
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Zoonotic Infectious Disease Threats: Prevent, Detect and Respond through One Health
Research project from 2017-06-01 to 2017-06-30
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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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