Research at Uppsala University

Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

This project aims at investigating the intersection of rurality and disability, more specifically how rural life is experienced from a disability perspective. We will find out where questions of the intersection ...

Research project from 2019-12-01 to 2023-11-30

Public space has become less accessible to children. Research on children’s mobility and play shows a link between compact city policies, heavy traffic, a lack of nearby green and open recreational and ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

In contemporary Sweden, children increasingly grow up in urban environments. Simultaneously, spaces for children in the city – including (pre)school yard spaces – are decreasing which in children spending ...

Research project from 2016-12-01 to 2018-12-31

In this 3-year project, we aim understand how societies, landscapes, ecosystems and Protected Areas have responded to climate change and societal use, to better understand how they may respond in the future ...

Research project from 2020-05-01 to 2020-10-31

The research community suggests that the provisions of adequate housing have an impact on several outcomes such as well-being, health, and participation in other spheres of society. This project aims to ...

Research project from 2020-12-01 to 2021-11-30

The purpose of this project is to study care provision for elderly immigrants in Sweden by their relatives. The project will investigate the experiences of elderly immigrants and their relatives with home-based ...

Research project from 2020-11-01 to 2021-10-31

The aim of this project is to synthesise scientific and empirical-based knowledge on the working conditions of eldercare workers around the world and to identify future research needs. The high number ...

Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2015-04-01

Application is for an international conference to be held at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm in October 2014. Conference abstract: Early modern societies were strictly hierarchical bodies, constantly involved ...

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 ...

Research project from 2015-01-10 to 2016-11-01

Syftet med projektet är att undersöka elevers preferenser (stated preferenses, SP) för akademiska, geografiska och sociala faktorer som är centrala vid val av gymnasieskola. För det första avser projektet ...

Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2019-12-31

The aim of the project is to examine the implementation of a new urban planning ideal in Sweden, which in the past decades has replaced modernism. The ideal is the "traditional", nineteenth century city ...

Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31

Bebyggelsehistorisk tidskrift startade 1981 som ett forum för bebyggelsehistorisk forskning inom ett flertal ämnesområden, som arkeologi, historia, kulturgeografi, arkitekturhistoria, konstvetenskap, etnologi ...

Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31

This project investigates an apparent paradox. In a country that is known for its folkhem, a philosophy and social project based in values of collective action and solidarity, the primary mode of transportation ...

Research project from 2018-07-01 to 2021-06-30

From a gender intersectional perspective, this project will address displacement and renoviction in Sweden caused by currently unregulated housing renewal. An important theoretical perspective is the feminist ...

Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

Animals are often used as indicators of environmental quality. For example the presence, absence and abundance of different fish in a river are used as indicators of the environmental quality and ecological ...

Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2016-12-31

In almost all societies, increasing residential segregation is considered to be a substantial threat to the welfare state. Strategies to decrease segregation and its negative societal effects are utilized ...

Research project from 2012-02-21 to 2012-12-31

The application aims to support the participation in and the organization of an own workshop at the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers to be held in New York, 24-28 February 2012 ...

Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

There is a growing interest in issues related to residential segregation. The focus of basically all recent segregation research is however directed to only two of the three basic dimensions of segregation ...

Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31

Swedish investors are not only key stakeholders shaping urban social sustainability in Sweden, but they also shape urban social sustainability abroad. Indeed, Swedish investors not only operate in the ...

Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2020-12-31

The purpose of this project is to critically review urban gardening as part of contemporary urbanism in Sweden. As private developers gain more influence in the planning process the pressure to exploit ...

Research project from 2020-09-01 to 2022-08-31

The place of housing in a nation’s welfare was traditionally prominent and received substantial public expenditure to undo shortages and secure adequate housing for all its residents. More recently, scholars ...

Research project from 2014-05-01 to 2014-12-31

This conference project aims to initiate research on the impact of the mediasphere on post-Soviet geopolitics. The conference participants will discuss potential threats and promises of the mediatization ...

Research project from 2011-07-01 to 2014-12-31

Den föreslagna forskarskolan i geografi genomförs av Kulturgeografiska institutionen (värdinstitution) i samarbete med Högskolan Dalarna och Högskolan i Gävle samt med Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik ...

Research project from 2017-05-17 to 2017-05-21

It is more or less impossible to imagine a narrative that has neither spatial nor temporal setting. Whether we are dealing with the legendary Hyksos sea people in Egypt around the 1,600s BC or a Galaxy-far-far-away ...

Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31

Energy systems are at the heart of initiatives to tackle climate change in research, policy and practice. To date, energy transitions research and practice has focused on the new social and technical systems ...

Research project from 2020-05-01 to 2020-10-31

Access to affordable and attractive renewable energy technology (RET) is crucial to the future society. We will study the distribution of RET among various citizens (spatially and socially) as there is ...

Research project from 2019-07-01 to 2022-06-30

The social integration of refugeesis an important agenda item in Europe, includingSweden. The recent refugee “crisis” has renewed attention to the need for effective integration initiatives that help create ...

Research project from 2020-05-01 to 2020-10-31

Sweden is experiencing an unfolding housing crisis, creating a growing need for innovative and transformative tools that offer feasible solutions. In terms of housing and spatial planning, those measures ...

Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31

This project concerns the relation between institutional change and economic growth, in the late preindustrial period and in an agrarian context. It shall examine to what extent institutional change contributed ...

Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

By linking producers and consumers, intermediaries such as brokers and gatekeeper have always been important market actors. Yet, the processes and spatial dynamics of intermediation are evolving in the ...