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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„Comics and satire – Cultural History Records & Cultural Heritage?“ - grant for a conference in Visby
Research project from 2015-10-08 to 2015-10-09
This conference puts the comics as influential mass media and part of the cultural heritage in focus; possibilities to archive and study comics and cartoons will be discussed. The conference relates to ...
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Critique, Democracy and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society: Towards Critical Theories of Social Media
Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2011-12-31
The planned conference ´Critique, Democracy and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society: Towards Critical Theories of Social Media´ should take place on May 2-4, 2012, at Uppsala University. The ...
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Into the Digital Age: older non-users? understandings and experiences of digital technologies and how they relate to understandings of aging and old age.
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31
This project is about older people?s (dis)engagement with digital technologies and the potential implications it might have on their understandings of aging and old age. The main purpose is to explore ...
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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 ...
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Från Pompeji till Fukushima: Temporalitet, intermedialitet och transregionala föreställningar i medieringen av katastrofer
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
This project aims to develop new knowledge on the cultural processes by which representations of disasters travel across media, geographical borders and different times. It consists primarily of three ...
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Immigration and the Normalization of Racism: Discursive Shifts in Swedish Politics and Media 2010-22
Research project from 2019-12-01 to 2021-12-31
The project examines the process of ‘normalization of racism’ in the Swedish public sphere by looking at trajectories of Swedish political and media discourse. We cover the period 2010-22 of a significant ...
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Sound, Image, Body: Intersensory relations in late medieval song
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31
This project delves into the relationships between sound, image, and body in late medieval song in order to assess various forms of intermediality and intersensoriality and examine their ways of challenging ...
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Readers´ circles. A Sociological Study of Social Reading and Reading Communities in Contemporary Sweden
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31
In recent years, many new reading groups have started among Swedish readers. Despite this, there is still little research on reading groups, based on Swedish conditions. This sociologically oriented project ...
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Online disinformation: an integrated view
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2020-12-31
The problem of online disinformation has emerged as one of the most urgent political and democratic issues of recent times. For example, in 2016 this phenomenon gained significant media attention because ...
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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