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 Collection of French Music at the Swedish Royal Court from 1690-1726: A cataloging and digitization project
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2015-12-31
The purpose of this project is to catalogue and digitize a collection of French baroque music from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, today preserved in Uppsala University Library. The ...
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Canon and Concert Life: Formation Processes within the Musical Life of Stockholm 1848-1914
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The aim of this project is to provide new understanding for the formation processes within concert life and musical repertoires in Stockholm 1848 – 1914. The project presupposes the hypothesis that conceptions ...
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Cultural and Social Reverberations of Lutheran Church Music in Early Modern Sweden
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31
Det föreslagna forskningsprojektet syftar till en bredare och fördjupad förståelse av de speciella aspekter av svensk musik, litteratur och lärdom som relaterar till en uppsättning fastställda liturgiska ...
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Current Practices in Pop Music Studies: International Interdisciplinary Conference at Uppsala University, 19–20 June 2018
Research project from 2018-06-19 to 2018-06-20
From its beginnings, popular music studies have transgressed disciplinary boundaries in exploring the complex relations of pop music’s cultural, socio-economic, and political contexts. In recent years, ...
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The Improvised Fugue in Germany and Italy between 1680 and 1750
Research project from 2016-07-01 to 2017-09-01
Although it is undisputed that renowned composers such as G.F. Händel and J.S. Bach improvised fugues off the cuff at contests and in concerts, these skills are hardly heard in performance today. This ...
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Indo-Persian Music Theoretical Writings and the Development of Indian Art Music
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31
The first purpose of the project is to produce critical editions and English translations of four selected Indo-Persian music theoretical writings written between ca. 1550 and 1850, and present them in ...
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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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The Loop Generation: Practices, Aesthetics, and Philosophies of Repetition in Contemporary Composition
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31
Repetition is one of music’s most fundamental and cross-cultural features. In most musical discourse, repetition is considered as an event void of information; a mere reiteration of a previously explored ...
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Lutheran Music Culture (Interdisciplinary international conference)
Research project from 2017-09-14 to 2017-09-16
This is an international interdisciplinary conference concerning musical culture in the contexts of Martin Luther and its historical impact. Around 70 leading scholars in musicology, church history, theology ...
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The Multisensory World of Vadstena Abbey in the Late Middle Ages
Research project from 2016-11-01 to 2020-12-31
This project will produce total-immersion virtual-reality reconstructions of the liturgy in the late 15th C Vadstena Abbey, specifically the multisensory experiences in the church. The aim is scientific ...
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Music at Court and University During Sweden’s Age of Liberty (1718-1772): a digitization and database project
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2021-12-31
This project aims to digitize manuscript music from Sweden’s Age of Liberty (1718–72) and create a research database containing detailed information needed for future research on the material. The manuscripts ...
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Music, Performing Arts and Artists in the North: The French and Italian Diasporas (1600-1900)
Research project from 2019-01-30 to 2019-01-31
During the last decades, the importance of migration, travel and cultural contacts in Europe historically has ben more and more acknowledged, and thus also the importance to study such phenomena from a ...
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Musica Mapped and Unmapped: Medieval Music in and of its Environment
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
The aim of this project is to examine the ways in which music absorbs, constructs, and dissolves the boundaries of its conceptual and acoustic environments in the High Middle Ages. This includes how music ...
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Musica Mapped and Unmapped: Medieval Music in and of its Environment
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
This project examines the ways in which music absorbs, constructs, and dissolves the boundaries of its conceptual and acoustic environments in the High Middle Ages. This includes how music maps and is ...
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The Culture of Music Collecting in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century England
Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31
Early modern England had a strong culture of collecting and inquiry, especially with its virtuosos (dilettante gentlemen taking a polite interest in art and science) and the establishment of the Royal ...
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Shams al-asvat (The sun of sounds) av Ras Baras
Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2011-12-31
This project is an attempt to provide a critical edition and an English translation of an Indo-Persian treatise entitled Shams al-asvât (the sun of sounds). The author of treatise, written in 1698, is ...
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Swedish Journal of Music Research
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31
STM-SJM är en tidskrift med peer review-bedömning inom musikforskning med artiklar och recensioner som publiceras både online (fri tillgänglighet) och i tryck (för prenumeranter). Musikforskning skall ...
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SweLiMuS (Swedish Liturgical Music Sources): An online portal for liturgical music manuscripts in Sweden c.1520-c.1820
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2020-12-31
SweLiMuS (Swedish Liturgical Music Sources) aims at identification, scholarly cataloguing and description, digitization, and online publication of liturgical music manuscripts in Sweden from c.1520-c.1820 ...
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Three Latin Dissertations in Music Theory from 17th Century Sweden. Edited, with Introduction, Translation and Commentary.
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
En summa om 25 000 kr (500 kr/h x 50 h) + moms = 31 250 kr sökes för språkgranskning av ca 300 sidor engelsk text av professionell granskare (se bifogad offert). Tryckningbidrag för publikationen har redan ...
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Translatio musicae: French and Italian Music in Northern Europe, c. 1650–1730
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
French and Italian music had strong impact on the Lutheran regions of Northern Europe in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. In a remarkable way, the elites in the Lutheran countries favoured ...
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Translatio musicae: French and Italian music in northern Europe, c. 1650–1730
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
French and Italian music had a strong impact on the Lutheran regions in Europe, especially in the late 17th and early 18th century. The project studies how French secular and Italian sacred music was circulated ...
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Research spotlight: The coronavirus

Limited transmission of COVID-19 from open schools but teachers were affected
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New clues to how SARS-CoV-2 infects cells
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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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