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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Ersättning för Ann-Christine Syvänens uppdrag som ledamot i rådet för forskningens infrastrukturer 1 oktober - 31 december 2010.
Research project from 2010-10-01 to 2013-12-31
Ersättning för Ann-Christine Syvänens uppdrag som ledamot i rådet för forskningens infrastrukturer 1 oktober - 31 december 2010. ...
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Ersättning för Lars Wallentins uppdrag som ledamot i rådet för forskningens infrastrukturer 2011-2013.
Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31
Ersättning för Lars Wallentins uppdrag som ledamot i rådet för forskningens infrastrukturer 2011-2013. ...
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Development of a proof of concept for a cell-based method for potency determination of Botulinum toxin
Research project from 2019-12-01 to 2022-12-31
We will within this project develop a proof of concept assay to replace Botulinum Toxin type A (BoNT/A) testing in animals. Our assay is a cell based assay, based on human embryonic stem cells. These cells ...
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Disciplining Fighters: Understanding Armed Political Actors’ Control of Sexual Violence
Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31
The ways that armed political actors prevent sexual violence remains an unresolved research puzzle. By questioning why some actors are able to discipline their fighters, this study will contribute to our ...
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Earth´s past environmental crises: Large Igneous Provinces and sedimentary basins
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) are of enduring interest to scientists and the general public because of their link to paleoclimate change, mass extinctions, evolution of life, and economic ore deposits ...
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Engineered scaffold proteins for radionuclide tumour targeting
Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31
A promising approach to treatment of disseminated cancer is a targeting, i.e. therapy based on specific recognition of cancer-associated molecular alteration in tumour cells. Success of the targeting therapy ...
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Frontiers in modern nano-magnetism: Spin structure and spin dynamics
Research project from 2010-01-01 to 2010-12-31
The purpose is to provide state of the art knowledge on spin dynamics and spin structures as well as perspectives on recent developments. The target group is advanced master and PhD students as well as ...
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Konsistens och uthållighet: Verifiering av parallella program på icke-flyktiga minnen
Research project from 2020-12-01 to 2024-11-30
Nonvolatile memories (NVRAMs)} offer the best of two worlds, namely the low latency of DRAM, and the persistency of long term storage.They provide direct access to data in the same way as DRAM, but allow ...
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Regional Carbon Budgets and the rapid transition to a fossil-free energy system
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
The four year project aims to facilitate Sweden’s transition to a 100% renewable energy system by defining required targets and processes. The temperature and equity framing of the Paris Agreement will ...
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SWE-2012-131: The Gendered Political Economies of Coca versus Cocaine in Chapare, Bolivia
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
This project explores local understandings of the radically higher degree of transfer of surplus value from peasant families through illicit versus licit commercialization of coca and the gendered dimension ...
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Swedish Caribbean Colonialism 1784–1878. Integrating, Classifying, Publishing and Investigating Dispersed Swedish Colonial Archives
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Sweden’s possession of the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy (StB) is inadequately investigated. The Swedish Caribbean Colonialism 1784–1878 project (SweCarCol) integrates, orders and opens up important ...
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The civilian dimension of peacekeeping operations and human rights promotion
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations have become one of the most prominent responses to civil wars around the world. The role of civilian personnel and their activities have proliferated during ...
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"...raised all of these stones": Multiple runic inscription monuments in Viking Age Scandinavia
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31
This project is a systematic study of runestones and monuments with multiple runic inscriptions. These inscriptions can either be apportioned on different sides of one stone or over a series of interrelated ...
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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)
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)
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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"Mamabies" among the Afro-Baloch community: Social status and cultural heritage of a low caste community in Iran
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
Proposed project is about songs sung by women for women during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum. I will call these songs "mamabies". Mamabies are recited in the Afro-Baloch community along the coast ...
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"My land is my domain!" A legal geographical inquiry into the the development of property rights in Estonia
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2011-12-31
Private property rights are the norm in Eastern Europe after the demise of the communist regimes. However, property rights are more loosely grounded here than in West Europe, partly because of recurrent ...
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Human resources in disability and poverty- A family perspective
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31
The project is focusing on the phenomenon poverty and aims to investigate the connection between poverty and disability among families having special needs children/adolescents in Moldova and Ukraine. ...
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"Turning the Vicious Circle around. New Frontiers in the Fight against the Mafia"
Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31
This research project explores how cooperation is established in an environment marked by distrust and non-cooperation. The research focuses on the private sector in Palermo and the cooperation that has ...
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"Unseen, unheard and unnoticed": Swedish Wildlife Photography ca 1890 - 1970
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31
The project analyzes the development of wildlife photography in Sweden ca 1890 - 1970. With the purpose of outlining the historical development of the today generally accepted representational code in ...
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The exodus from Africa: linking human history and genomic patterns of variation
Research project from 2010-01-01 to 2012-12-31
One of the greatest challenges of the post-genomic era is to ?develop a detailed understanding of the heritable variation in the human genome? (Collins et al. 2003). The pattern of genetic variation in ...
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"Queer and Transgender Reproduction with ART: Legal, Cultural and Socioeconomic Challenges"
Research project from 2018-05-03 to 2018-05-04
Changes in the legal access to ART (Assisted Reproductive Technologies) for queer and transgender people in different countries have created both challenges and possibilities for reproduction of LGBTQ-people ...
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"The Rose of Rhodesia" Recovered: Colonial Africa on the Silent Screen. / Edited by Stephen Donovan and Vreni Hockenjos.
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2009-12-31
Publication of a streamed version of the silent film "The Rose of Rhodesia" (1919) in tandem with a special issue dedicated to the film in an online academic journal. The film, which has been restored ...
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"Vi behöver ingen lag!" Sprickor i det svenska lutherska 1800-talet? Författare: Cecilia Wejryd
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
Boken bearbetar frågan om hur och varför svensk kristenhet under 1800-talet gick från att ha haft en gemensam grundsyn på den kristna människans behov av Guds lag till att det parallellt existerade flera ...
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#ProtestBaku. Is Azerbaijan next in line for a Democratic Revolution?
Research project from 2013-05-20 to 2013-05-22
I am applying for funds to organise an international round-table debate at the Uppsala Centre for Russian Studies on civic activism in Azerbaijan. After the so-called "colour revolutions" in other post-Soviet ...
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Gender Shifts and Resource Politics in the Arctic
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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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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Interdisciplinary collaboration provides new answers about immunity after Covid-19
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