Research at Uppsala University

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...