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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Preconception health and care
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Research project from 2015-07-01 to 2015-07-31
Preconception Health and Care International Conference, Uppsala 2016-02-17, 18 and 19Preconception care is defined as a set of interventions that aim to identify and modify biomedical behavioural and ...
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"European Studies in Symbolic Interaction: Traditions, Contemporary Perspectives, and Challenges" (The IVth Annual Conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction)
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Research project from 2013-04-01 to 2013-12-31
The proposed conference (28-30 August 2013) will be hosted by the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University. It is intended to be an interdisciplinary venture of social and humanitarian sciences that ...
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"European Studies in Symbolic Interaction: Traditions, Contemporary Perspectives, and Challenges" (The IVth Annual Conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction)
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2013-12-31
The proposed conference (28-30 August 2013) will be hosted by the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University. It is intended to be an interdisciplinary venture of social and humanitarian sciences that ...
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Gender Shifts and Resource Politics in the Arctic
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Research project from 2017-02-20 to 2017-02-24
This proposal searches funding for the conference "Gender Shifts and Resource Politics in the Arctic", to take place in Uppsala on 21-23 February 2017. Communities throughout the North are affected by ...
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2019 workshop on New institutionalism in organization theory
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Research project from 2019-03-14 to 2019-03-16
This workshop brings together scholars from different disciplines, countries, and academic systems who share an interest in pushing forward theoretical and/or empirical frontiers of organizational institutionalism ...
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The Labour Movement Gone Digital: Preservation of organizational activities in the On-line Era
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31
The Internet has become an increasingly important forum for political activism and social movements (SM). Actions themselves have moved on-line. The situation is challenging for those interested in citizens ...
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Becoming "human": gender theory and animals in a more-than-human world
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2016-12-31
We have long considered that we shape our humanity through our interactions with other people but increasingly work has recognised that we shape our humanity through interactions with the more-than-human ...
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Communicating with States: Underpriviliged Migrations within the European Union
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Research project from 2015-10-05 to 2016-10-08
The workshop is to create an international interdisciplinary research network. We aim at developing a theoretical framework and field-research tools, articulating hypotheses and identifying sources of ...
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Controlling the Uncontrollable: The Impact of Reproductive Health Apps on Experiences of Pregnancy, Healthcare Professionals’ Work, and Data Privacy.
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Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2024-12-31
Digital smartphone applications for reproductive health (RHAs) are big business. Millions use them to track intimate data such as menstruation, fertile days or fetal developments. This has been called ...
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The construction of objectivity - emotions in judicial decision-making
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Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Abidance by the law requires trust in the judicial system to uphold rational and objective justice. But the legal positivist notion of objectivity as abstract is problematic, relying on a modernistic separation ...
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Gendering Housing ? Intersectional perspectives on housing provision and urban planning with emphasis on gender relations in Sweden
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Although Sweden is considered being on the top internationally regarding both gender equality politics and the production of information, specially statistics, the research field of gender and the built ...
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Displacement and renoviction in housing renewal processes in Sweden – an intersectional feminist perspective
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Research project from 2018-07-01 to 2021-06-30
From a gender intersectional perspective, this project will address displacement and renoviction in Sweden caused by currently unregulated housing renewal. An important theoretical perspective is the feminist ...
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Career Outcome and Gender Wage Gap in IT-ITES Industries in India
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Research project from 2014-08-24 to 2014-09-15
Purpose and goal: Designing a project proposal for a project about gender wage gap in India together with the Swedish Designing a project proposal for a project about gender wage gap in India together ...
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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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Contrasts in urban residential segregation: An international comparative study of patterns, driving forces and effects
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2016-12-31
In almost all societies, increasing residential segregation is considered to be a substantial threat to the welfare state. Strategies to decrease segregation and its negative societal effects are utilized ...
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The Living Dead: Yugoslav prisoners of war and forced labourers in Norway, 1942-45
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31
Close to 4,300 Yugoslavs were deported to Norway during the Second World War, where they were put to work under such extreme conditions that 60-70% of them died as a result. Which are the institutional ...
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Participation and organisation of an own workshop at the international conference AAG in New York and associated fielwork in New York
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Research project from 2012-02-21 to 2012-12-31
The application aims to support the participation in and the organization of an own workshop at the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers to be held in New York, 24-28 February 2012 ...
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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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The First Choice: The Expansion of Preschool, its Marketization and Increased Importance for Families’ Educational Strategies
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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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Economic and social transformation in developing countries
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2015-12-31
Professor Olli Kangas has an outstanding publication-, teaching- and research administration-record. He has published widely in refereed journals, in international books and in many other contexts including ...
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Programs for newly arrived job-seeking immigrants. The making of a new niche in the Swedish educational system
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Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The purpose of the project is threefold: to understand the emergence of a new niche of the Swedish educational system, namely programs for newly arrived immigrants, and the growth of a related new educational ...
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Exclusion from civic engagement of a diverse older population: Features, experiences, and policy implications
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Research project from 2021-04-15 to 2023-12-31
In Europe’s ageing societies, being able to age healthily and actively remains a major challenge not only for older people themselves but also for wider society. Moreover, older adults continue to be at ...
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Families i the new educational landscape. Paths, assets and strategies 1985 to 2016
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Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31
Den reformvåg som inleddes med skolans kommunalisering på 1980-talet och förstärktes av det tidiga 1990-talets avregleringar har omvandlat det svenska utbildningslandskapet. Från att ha varit jämförelsevis ...
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Imagination in action – the development of imagined opportunities in corporate venture units
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Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
This project investigates how new business ventures are imagined and shaped within corporate venture units (CVUs). Whereas there is general agreement that these CVUs are exploratory spaces designed to ...
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Fields of valuation. How conflicting valuations of land shape the British and German countryside
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Research project from 2018-07-01 to 2021-06-30
When thinking about the countryside most people associate different values with the land and soil to which it is intimately tied. We can think of land as ´nature´ that has to be conserved and protected ...
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Foreign Policy and internationalization of Swedish higher education. The Swedish Institute and the academic exchange 1945-2010
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31
The Swedish Institute (SI) was founded in 1945 with the aim to inform about Sweden and to raise sympathies for the country abroad. SI is a typical example for an institution for a cultural diplomacy institution ...
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Fostering Originality: Social Reproduction, Market Adjustment and Institutional Autonomy in the Swedish Waldorf School
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Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
This project aims at investigating the Swedish Waldorf schools as a case of an alternative school form that is being increasingly recognized by affluent social groups. Our hypothesis is that this occurs ...
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Imagining the future to dismantle the present: Governing a ‘just transition’ in high-carbon economies
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Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31
Energy systems are at the heart of initiatives to tackle climate change in research, policy and practice. To date, energy transitions research and practice has focused on the new social and technical systems ...
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Global economic crisis, institutional change and inequality in comparative perspective: Changing Western welfare states and labour markets since the global financial crisis of 2008
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2017-12-31
The current global economic crisis was triggered by a dramatic collapse of key financial institutions. Gradually, the financial crisis transcended into a series of other crises, involving growth, employment ...
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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
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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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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
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.