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 ...
Search for research projects
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.
Selected filters:
Search results
Your choice produced 41 hits
-
Spaces for variation? Towards a practice-based and spatial understanding of disability
...
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 ...
-
A city-wide preschool yard? Challenges and possibilities for supporting inner city preschools´ mobility and space for play in dense urban environments
...
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 ...
-
A citywide classroom: Time-space aspects of mobile preschool pedagogy
...
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 ...
-
Adaptation & Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC)
...
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 ...
-
Admitted but not accommodated – the planning phase to build an organizational structure and process data to explore the challenges and solutions to adequate housing for newly arrived refugees
...
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 ...
-
Aging in a foreign country
...
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 ...
-
Working conditions of eldercare workers: A knowledge base and future research agenda
...
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 ...
-
Visualising difference: objects, space and practice in early modern Europe
...
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
Att välja utbildning. En experimentell studie av elevers val till gymnasiet
...
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 ...
-
Behind the Rhetoric: On the Implementation of a New Orthodoxy in Swedish Urban Planning
...
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 ...
-
Nordic Journal of Settlement History and Built Heritage
...
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 ...
-
The car and the folkhem: The role of mass motoring in the creation of modern Sweden
...
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 ...
-
Displacement and renoviction in housing renewal processes in Sweden – an intersectional feminist perspective
...
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 ...
-
Changing Animal Bodies: Breeding Responses to Environmental Economic, and Social pressures
...
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 ...
-
Contrasts in urban residential segregation: An international comparative study of patterns, driving forces and effects
...
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 ...
-
Participation and organisation of an own workshop at the international conference AAG in New York and associated fielwork in New York
...
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 ...
-
Determinants and dynamics of demographic segregation
...
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 ...
-
The Political Economy of Swedish Investments in the Spanish Housing Market and its impacts on Urban Social Sustainability
...
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 ...
-
The contradictions of urban gardening. Planning, politics and culture.
...
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 ...
-
Denied welfare to unconventional housing: a study on Dutch “extinction” policies targeted at mobile home dwellers
...
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 ...
-
Digital Eurasia: Post-Soviet Geopolitics in the Age of the New Media
...
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 School in Geography
...
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 ...
-
From the Human Body to the Universe: Spatialities of Byzantine Culture
...
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 ...
-
Imagining the future to dismantle the present: Governing a ‘just transition’ in high-carbon economies
...
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 ...
-
Hållbart eller segregerat - vilka har möjlighet att välja förnybar energiteknik?
...
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 ...
-
Social integration of highly skilled refugees in the workplace
...
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 ...
-
Innovative, affordable and sustainable housing alternatives: an interdisciplinary evaluation of ETC Bygg
...
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 ...
-
Institutional change and agricultural growth in Sweden 1810-1880
...
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 ...
-
Intermediation, place and value creation: Exploring the processes and spaces of ‘curation’
...
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 ...
Showing 30 Of 41 hits
Show more hitsResearch 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 ...
Lectures
Uppsala University’s researchers share their knowledge in public lectures. Every year, the University is visited by leading researchers and influential people from around the world. At Uppsala University, you can hear Nobel laureates, researchers, authors, politicians and many others give lectures. Here we present some of the most prominent, annually occurring lectures at Uppsala University.