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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Assessing Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Open care as an intervention for children at risk in the social services: Working methods, children´s participation and the outcome of care
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Research project from 2021-07-01 to 2024-06-30
An overwhelming majority of children at risk who receive an intervention receive an intervention in the open care, but hardly any study of open care exists. A broad purpose of this study is to increase ...
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Civil Society and Deliberative Democracy: ?suburban riots? in Sweden and Civic Associations? Representation of Marginalization in Public Discourse
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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]
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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?
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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?
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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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Lectures
Uppsala University’s researchers share their knowledge in public lectures. Every year, the University is visited by leading researchers and influential people from around the world. At Uppsala University, you can hear Nobel laureates, researchers, authors, politicians and many others give lectures. Here we present some of the most prominent, annually occurring lectures at Uppsala University.