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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Assessing Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices
Research project from 2014-05-12 to 2014-05-15
Education policy is a salient example of the implementation of New Public Management. Most of the debate and research concerning NPM has focused on the prospects or dangers posed by managerialism in schools ...
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A Swedish Model of Administration? State level Agency Autonomy from a Multi-Dimensional Perspective
Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Governments today face complex problems such as migration and environmental threats, problems which cut across territorial and sectoral borders and are truly hard to handle. Politicans and scholars alike ...
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Admitted but not accommodated – the planning phase to build an organizational structure and process data to explore the challenges and solutions to adequate housing for newly arrived refugees
Research project from 2020-05-01 to 2020-10-31
The research community suggests that the provisions of adequate housing have an impact on several outcomes such as well-being, health, and participation in other spheres of society. This project aims to ...
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Aging migrants, labor market transitions and the welfare state
Research project from 2018-12-01 to 2024-12-31
While substantial and persistent immigrant-native disparities in labor market performance and socioeconomic status is a primary concern in the scientific as well as in the policy debate, little attention ...
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The Impact of Work Risk Factors and Discriminatory Attitudes on Discriminatory Behaviour among Preschool Principals
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Why do public officials discriminate? Biased treatment of ethnic minorities still occurs, even in established democracies. Existing research, mostly undertaken within public administration research is, ...
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Are Immigrants Being Discriminated when Choosing Schools for their Children? A Field Experiment of Communication between Public Officials and Ordinary Citizens
Research project from 2016-09-01 to 2017-10-31
The aim with this project is to investigate the occurrence of discrimination among public officials working at Swedish municipalities. More precisely, focus is on parents choosing primary schools for their ...
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Children´s participation and the outcome of care in Swedish child and family welfare: Building a model for regional development work
Research project from 2018-12-01 to 2021-11-30
The main purpose of this research collaboration between Uppsala University and Örebro county is to, in close cooperation with the social services and based on the results of the study, build a model for ...
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Making decisions in healthcare: policy and preferences in Sweden and the UK
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-06-30
The main purpose of the proposed project is to investigate citizens´ and patients´ opportunities for taking part in decision-making in healthcare, as well as and citizens´ and patients´ preferences in ...
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Between freedom of movement and hard borders: The implementation of internal border controls as a challenge or continuation of European integration
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
The European Union is currently being challenged in a number of ways. The refugee crisis in 2015 resulted in the introduction of temporary border controls at the national borders within Schengen that are ...
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Civil Society and Deliberative Democracy: ?suburban riots? in Sweden and Civic Associations? Representation of Marginalization in Public Discourse
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31
The project investigates the deliberative roles of civic youth associations in three suburbs of Stockholm during ?the surburban riots? of 2013 and their aftermath. It focuses on youth associations that ...
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Collaborative Governance and Local Community Resilience to Environmental Shocks in Sweden
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31
Collaboration between organizations at the local level is often cited as a key prerequisite to mitigate climate change effects on society. Collaboration is particularly crucial in response to large-scale ...
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Stadsdelssamverkan, etniska föreningar och politisk integration
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
This project concerns political integration, ethnic associations, and network governance and planning. A persistent idea in both policy practice and academia suggests that ethnic associations contribute ...
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Coordinating care for the frail elderly in Sweden: why so difficult?
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
Sweden is less effective at coordinating care than many other countries. This is most likely to affect vulnerable elderly patients with multiple comorbidities. Inadequate care coordination for this growing ...
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The Importance of Constitutions
Research project from 2013-10-23 to 2013-10-25
The purpose of this application is to fund a conference at the Swedish Institute in Instanbul, 23-25 October 2013. The topic of the conference "The Importance of constitutions" intends to include two ...
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The Transformative Potential of Extreme Weather Events: Triggers for Disaster Risk Reduction and Development [TRAMPOLINE]
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
Extreme weather events, floods and droughts—problems that are likely to become more frequent and extreme due to climate change— inflict major losses and disproportionally affect lower income countries, ...
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How can public authorities monitor private social service providers?
Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2014-12-31
The starting point of the project is the partial privatization of Swedish public services, also in the welfare sector. The entrance of private actors into the welfare sector represents a significant development ...
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How does national inspections affect welfare professions?
Research project from 2017-12-01 to 2020-11-30
During the last decades, Sweden has re-organized its provision of welfare services. Inspired by ideas best known under the headline of New Public Management (NPM), policy makers have aimed to reduce costs ...
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Indigenous and Feminist Approaches to Technoscience: Embodying, Voicing, and Decolonizing Body- Land- and Waterscapes
Research project from 2012-10-01 to 2012-12-31
DAMMED: Hydropower is often promoted as an environmentally friendly and renewable energy resource in the current debates on climate change. Yet, it is since long established that this energy source indeed ...
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The Politics of Public Administration Policy: Explaining and Evaluating Public Performance Management in Sweden.
Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2014-12-31
The purpose of the project is to describe and explain the introduction and the consequences of the current management model of the public sector (management by results) from a democratic theory perspective ...
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The Difference Policy Makes: A Policy Feedback Study of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31
As recently illustrated by the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the EU, current trends of political polarization is partly driven by divides over the EU and EU-associated liberal values - openness, diversity ...
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Workshop on the conditions for academic freedom in Sweden
Research project from 2013-12-18 to 2013-12-18
The aim of the conference is to bring researchers from different Swedish higher education institutions (HEIs)together to exchange experiences and data on variations in HEI management, and how that affects ...
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The Role of National Parliaments in the EU-legislative Procedure: A Comparative Analysis of the Principle of Subsidiarity and the Early Warning Mechanism
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2014-12-31
The conference The Role of National Parliaments in the EU-legislative Procedure: A Comparative Analysis of the Principle of Subsidiarity and the Early Warning Mechanism will be held at Uppsala University ...
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The Role of National Parliaments in the EU-legislative Procedure: A Comparative Study of the Principle of Subsidiarity and the Early Warning Mechanism
Research project from 2014-09-01 to 2015-05-30
Introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon, the Early Warning Mechanism (EWM) was in one stroke supposed to both enhance the democratic legitimacy of the EU by engaging national legislatures (“democratization ...
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Regulating financial markets: Designing a multi-disciplinary analytic approach to the new economic and financial government in the European Union
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2015-12-31
Professor Héritier will bridge and promote long-term collaboration between researchers and research groups within the multi-disciplinary Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace and Justice, and her home institution ...
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School choice reforms implementation and long term consequences for individuals´ social mobility.
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31
Studiens syfte är att analysera innebörden av skolvalsreformerna, skolvalen och dess långsiktiga konsekvenser för individers sociala mobilitet generellt i Sverige och särskilt i Örebro, Norrköping och ...
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The Everyday Practice of Paying Taxes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Why do citizens pay taxes? This question is surprisingly underexplored. Understanding when citizens pay taxes and why they find it relevant and purposeful is central for answering this question. Tax compliance ...
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Swedish Transparency under the Microscope
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
Transparency is a key term in current debates on governance. The prevalent view is that transparency is crucial for enhancing accountability, curbing corruption and limiting power abuses in the public ...
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World Class Universities: A Contested Concept
Research project from 2019-05-15 to 2019-05-16
The aim of the conference is to gather and concentrate state-of-the-art research on the globalization, standardization and harmonization of higher education ideals and practices as both cause and effect ...
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Uppsala Health Summit - an international arena for future healthcare. Dilemmas and Solutions.
Research project from 2013-12-09 to 2015-12-31
Purpose and goal: UHS is an international forum for personally invited decision makers, opinion leaders and experts aiming a multi-disciplinary and cross-functional dialogue on opportunities to improve ...
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Why do public officials discriminate? Exploring the role of unconscious discriminatory attitudes
Research project from 2019-12-01 to 2022-12-31
Why do public officials discriminate? Unequal and biased treatment of ethnic minorities still occurs, even in established democracies. Existing research, mostly undertaken within public administration ...
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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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