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 School in Crisis: Changing crisis discourses and unchanging figures of thought, 1950-2020
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31
During the last decades, it has often been claimed that the Swedish school system is in crisis. These crises have led to a number of school reforms and a vast academic debate about the causes and solutions ...
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A city-wide preschool yard? Challenges and possibilities for supporting inner city preschools´ mobility and space for play in dense urban environments
Research project from 2019-12-01 to 2023-11-30
Public space has become less accessible to children. Research on children’s mobility and play shows a link between compact city policies, heavy traffic, a lack of nearby green and open recreational and ...
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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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Between discipline and self-improvement: Differences in the implementation of Monitorial Education for different social classes in Sweden, approx. 1820–1870
Research project from 2010-01-01 to 2012-12-31
A system of different schools for different social classes was established in Sweden during the 19th century. In this study the pedagogical implications of this development is analysed regarding the ...
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Grades and national tests in year 6: potential influence on Science teaching
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2017-12-31
The middle years of compulsory school faces a number of major changes. A new syllabus and new subject plans have been established and applies from the academic year 2011/2012. The parliament has also decided ...
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Bidrag till huvudsekreterare efter avslutad tjänst
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31
Bidrag till huvudsekreterare efter avslutad tjänst ...
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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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Comparative Didactics and Professional Development for Teachers
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The aim of the network Comparative Didactics and Professional Development is to continue and strengthen an ongoing collaboration between four research groups on comparative didactics and professional development ...
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Contested Teacher Education. Paradigms and Actors in Sweden and Finland 1946-2011.
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31
During the last decades of the 1900s, important differences arose between the Finnish and Swedish educational systems. This became clearly discernible in the international educational comparisons that ...
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Creating inclusive classrooms through a cooperative learning approach - a mixed methods study
Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31
A mixed methods design is used to create knowledge on how the pedagogical approach of cooperative learning may contribute to making classrooms more inclusive. The quantitative part of the project involves ...
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The Nordic Curriculum Theory Conference 2013: "Curriculum and/or didactics" - a discussion revisited. Towards a transnational curriculum theory?
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2013-12-31
För femte gången arrangeras den nordiska läroplansteoretiska konferensen som ägt rum vartannat år vid olika lärosäten. Senast 2011 arrangerades den av Oslo universitet. Denna gång arrangeras konferensen ...
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The First Choice: The Expansion of Preschool, its Marketization and Increased Importance for Families’ Educational Strategies
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31
The purpose of this project is to provide knowledge about the role of preschools for families’ educational strategies as well as the expansion and marketization of Swedish preschools from the 1980s onwards ...
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Ersättning för Ann-Carita Evaldssons uppdrag som ledamot i Kommittén för utbildningsvetenskap 2010-2012 och 2013-2015.
Research project from 2010-01-01 to 2015-12-31
Ersättning för Ann-Carita Evaldssons uppdrag som ledamot i Kommittén för utbildningsvetenskap 2010-2012 och 2013-2015. ...
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Reseach about teaching - Systematic mapping and analysis of research topographies
Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2020-12-31
The overarching purpose of the present project is to increase and refine our knowledge about teaching and teaching research. A subordinated purpose is to develop a unique review format, SMART. Examples ...
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Globalization and Swedish Upper Secondary Education. A Sociological Analysis of the Shaping and Social Recognition of Study Programs with a Transnational Profile
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31
Projektet analyserar globaliseringens effekter på den svenska gymnasieskolan i avseende på expansionen av utbildningar med ett internationellt, nationsöverskridande innehåll. Denna expansion ses i ljuset ...
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On the Outskirts of the School and Residential Market. Choice of Upper Secondary Education among Immigrant Families in Ethnically and Socioeconomically Heterogeneous Residential Areas
Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2020-12-31
The growing residential and school segregation related to socioeconomic and ethnic background calls attention to the school situation of young people with immigrant backgrounds. This project explores how ...
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Homework support as shadow education
Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31
During the last decade we have seen a growing market on an international as well as on a national level of homework support (HWS). This can be understood in relation to the role of education as an increasingly ...
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Within or without? Place as condition for knowledge
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31
The aim of the project is to broaden and deepen our understanding of the indissoluble bound between knowledge and place and to analyze our conception of knowledge as place bound in the context of rural ...
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Scientific Communication and Gatekeeping in Academia in the 21st Century
Research project from 2018-05-24 to 2018-05-25
During the last decades, higher education institutions worldwide have experienced changes in the governance of research and education. With changing circumstances, scientific peer review has been employed ...
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Teacher autonomy in Sweden, Finland, England and Germany
Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31
This project aims to investigate teacher autonomy in four national contexts: Sweden, Finland, England and Germany. Autonomy is understood as the teachers’ scope of self-regulated action that can differ ...
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Research Methods for the Study of Elites
Research project from 2016-06-08 to 2016-06-10
In the last decade, studies of elites have had a renaissance in social sciences. Theoretically they draw on perspectives formulated by classical authors, from Marx, Pareto and Weber to C.W. Mills and, ...
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Mobility, informal learning and citizenship in mobile preschools
Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31
Urban childhoods and mobility are changing and meanwhile spaces for children are decreasing in Swedish cities. Children’s active participation in the spaces of the city is however crucial not only for ...
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Organized freedom: University governance and the higher education and research reforms in Sweden
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31
University autonomy is a keyword in current reforms of university governance systems in Sweden and beyond. Through explicit autonomy reforms, universities are expected to become more capable actors, less ...
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The School inspection and the implementation of the elementary school in Sweden, 1861-1930
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The aim of the project is to investigate the implementation of the elementary school’s expanded curriculum inSweden during the period 1861-1930. Even if an elementary school Act was issued in 1842 it took ...
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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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The Very Idea of a University: A Philosophical Anthropology of Higher Education
Research project from 2019-09-01 to 2020-02-28
Ever greater hopes and resources are placed in universities and colleges to meet technological, environmental, social and economic challenges, yet there is relatively little serious philosophical work ...
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The public role of education in democratic sustainability transitions
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
This interdisciplinary international network for ground-breaking research on the Public role of Education in Democratic Sustainability Transitions (PEDST) brings together researchers from the universities ...
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Who has governed the Swedish school? Municipality, school and state during 60 years of Swedish school reforms in a world of change
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31
SummaryIn Swedish school debate, school governing has been a recurrent issue elaborating the balance between municipal and state governing. The purpose of our project is to analyze, from a historical perspective ...
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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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