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 ...
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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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A citywide classroom: Time-space aspects of mobile preschool pedagogy
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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 ...
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Application for a travelgrant to the international conference: Transboundary learning beyond disciplines. Sustainable Development opening up research dialogues 9-11 October, Umeå, Sweden
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Research project from 2012-08-27 to 2012-12-31
This is an application for a travel grant to the international conference: Transboundary learning beyond disciplines. Sustainable Development opening up research dialogues in Umeå, Sweden, 9-11 October ...
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Application for a travelgrant to the conference "The European Conference on Educational Research 2012, in Cádiz, Spain from 18 to 21 September."
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Research project from 2012-06-01 to 2012-12-31
This is an application for a travel grant to the conference: "The European Conference on Educational Research 2012" in Cádiz, Spain. The purpose of my participation at the conference is to present my own ...
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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
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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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Collaboration with teachers for development of literacy program for pupils with an intellectual disability
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Research project from 2017-01-02 to 2018-12-28
Purpose and goal: The aim of the project is to create possibilities for cooperation between teachers and researchers in order to make literacy teaching support to children with intellectual disabilities ...
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Mapping the history of emotions in higher education
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31
This project treats of the history of emotions in higher education at the turn of the eighteenth century. Its background is a contemporary debate. In the wake of the Bologna process, there has been an ...
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Development of a Competencies Frame Set for the Evaluation of Universities in the Field of IT Profession
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Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2011-12-31
Individers utveckling är möjligtvis den mest central uppgiften för ett utbildningssystem, och det gäller inte minst utveckling av vad som kan kallas professionell kompetens. Det är viktigt att vi förstår ...
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Foreign Policy and internationalization of Swedish higher education. The Swedish Institute and the academic exchange 1945-2010
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31
The Swedish Institute (SI) was founded in 1945 with the aim to inform about Sweden and to raise sympathies for the country abroad. SI is a typical example for an institution for a cultural diplomacy institution ...
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Research School in Geography
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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 ...
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Hands-on in computer programming education: understanding educational effects and brain processes
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Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31
The importance of students’ own active exploration for successful learning is seldom questioned. By now, a body of research supports the claim that hands-on activities facilitate learning, both of practical ...
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Power, knowledge and identity in science and technology classrooms: Teachers´ enactments of disciplinary discourses as establishing inclusion and exclusion
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
A central area in science education research is students´ constitutions of conceptual and procedural knowledge. The proposed project provides novel perspectives on this area, by exploring what knowledge ...
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The dilemma posed by knowledge measurements. The effect of international knowledge measurements on education policy reforms in Sweden and Germany, 2000-2011.
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2013-12-31
The objective of this research plan is to analyze what the international comparative studies such as PISA have given to rise to with regard to education policy reforms in Germany and Sweden. With regard ...
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Long term effects of school closures on student achievement and university attendance in Sweden
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Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2018-12-31
Given the prevalence of school closures in Sweden and abroad, understanding their effects on student achievement and future career chances is crucial for policymakers. However, so far only the effects ...
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Teachers’ enhanced ability to include non-speaking students in multi-party classroom interaction with focus on knowledge generation
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Research project from 2022-01-01 to 2023-12-31
Teachers have an overall responsibility for providing an environment that can enhance inclusion and knowledge exchange. Accordingly, they are responsible for including the approximately 10 percent of students ...
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Open schooling for sustainable cities and communities
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Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The pursuit of sustainable development (SD) is the subject of growing global attention. To realise this a lot of hopes are pinned on learning and education. Yet, despite omnipresent references to the importance ...
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The Sweden ESD Conference
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Research project from 2016-06-01 to 2016-06-30
The Sweden ESD ConferenceThis conference, with international and national participants from research and education at universities, authorities, UN organizations, Swedish Ministry of Education and ESD ...
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Theory and practice in lab work - a complex interplay
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31
We propose an empirically based research project with the aim to investigate the complex interplay between learning of theory and learning of practice in computer programming through laboratory work. Computer ...
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Wicked problems and educative spaces for urban sustainability Transition
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Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31
The aim is to explore theoretically and empirically how political spaces of urban sustainability transitions (UST) may function as educative spaces. Thereby, we strive for both progressing basic research ...
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Research 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.