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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„Comics and satire – Cultural History Records & Cultural Heritage?“ - grant for a conference in Visby
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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