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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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 ...
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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
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."
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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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Open schooling for sustainable cities and communities
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
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
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
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
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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