Project groups supported by CIRCUS

Project groups that have been awarded support for the development of cross-cutting research projects. The aim of the support is to provide good conditions for the development of new cross-cutting projects at Uppsala University and for competitive grant applications.

This year's call was launched as a joint initiative by all six UUniFI institutes and coordinated by Circus. Support was awarded to a total of twenty-two project groups, distributed across the institutes as follows:

UUniFI AI

  • Future collaborative cross-cutting AI research with African partners
    Main applicant: David Sumpter, Department of Information Technology
  • Deep Flows
    Main applicant: Laurel Larsen, Department of Earth Sciences
  • AI: curated absence
    Main applicant: Lina Eklund, Department of Informatics and Media
  • StarTher (Strategic Technologies and Advanced Research for Therapeutics)
    Main applicant: Christel Bergström, Department of Pharmacy

UUniFI Circus

  • Pathways of Swedish healthcare: interdisciplinary approaches to administrative history
    Main applicant: Andrew Burchell, Department of History of Science and Ideas
  • Pluralising adaptation futures
    Main applicant: Maria Rusca, Department of Human Geography.
  • ELF – Ett livslångt föräldraskap (eng.: Parent for Life)
    Main applicant: Helena Wahlström Henriksson, Centre for Gender Research
  • FEAST: Food Empowerment, Agency, Skills, and Transition in Neurodiverse Young Adults
    Main applicant: Anna S Olafsdottir, Department of Food Studies, Nutrition and Dietetics
  • EXIST-interventions
    Main applicant: Malin Gingnell, Department of Medical Sciences
  • BPP – Bridging Plasticity and Pathology
    Main applicant: Arild Husby, Department of Ecology and Genetics

UUniFI Energy Transition

  • MikroTvillingar
    Main applicant: Rafael Waters, Department of Electrical Engineering
  • Socio‑Tech E-Mobility Group
    Main applicant: Valeria Castellucci, Department of Electrical Engineering
  • Uranium dilemma group
    Main applicant: Cecilia Gustavsson, Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • Solar Fuels and Chemicals
    Main applicant: Peter Lindblad, Department of Chemistry – Ångström

UUniFI Migration

  • Precision‑Guided Integration
    Main applicant: Mounir Karadja, Department of Economics
  • Mechanisms of Human Migration: Causes, Processes and Consequences
    Main applicant: Karl-Johan Lindholm, Department of Archaeology, Ancient History and Conservation

UUniFI Goal Conflicts

  • RECONCILE Interdisciplinary Research Hub
    Main applicant: Malgorzata Blicharska, Department of Earth Sciences
  • Public Attitudes and Acceptance in the Energy Transition (UPA)
    Main applicant: Fouad El Gohary, Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering
  • Incentive Models Addressing SDG-ABR Goal Conflicts
    Main applicant: Olof Lindahl, Department of Business Studies
    Social impact of mining
    Main applicant: Anna Jarstad, Department of Government

UUniFI Precision Health

  • FORCE
    Main applicant: Géraldine Giraud, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology (IGP)
  • PRISM
    Main applicant: Ola Andersson, Department of Economics

In May 2025, the CIRCUS board decided to support the following seven project groups to develop cross-cutting research project.

  • Swedish-Canadian? Integration, Assimilation and Double Ethnic Identities 1850-1950 (SweCan) Main applicant: Christine Ekholst, Department of History
  • Swedish Baby Names for Data-driven Modelling of Cultural Change. Main applicant: Alexandra Petrulevich, Department of Scandinavian Languages
  • Towards socially just green housing transitions. Main applicant: Miguel A. Martinez, Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF)
  • Doctors without borders? The value of an Eastern European medical degree in Sweden. Main applicant: Mette Ginnerskov-Dahlberg, Department of Education
  • Resilient information systems for and by women experiencing homelessness - (RESILIENCE-IS4ALL. Main applicant: Jenny Eriksson Lundström, Department of Informatics and Media
  • Barn och familjeperspektiv på att leva med och behandlas för obesitas. Main applicant: Anne-Sofie Nyström, Department of Education
  • Citizen Scientists and Knowledge Production in Nineteenth-Century Natural History Museums. Main applicant: Hanna Hodacs, Department of History of Science and Ideas
  • Artist-in-residence in academic settings. Main applicant: Erika Sigvardsdotter, Department of History of Science and Ideas

In May 2024, the CIRCUS board decided to support the following seven project groups to develop cross-cutting research project.

  • Ljudböcker som sömnmedel? Main applicant: Karl Berglund, Department of Literature and Rhetoric
  • Juridiskt våld i Sverige. Main applicant: Cecilia Strand, Department of Informatics and Media
  • The Uppsala Mental Health and Peace Initiative. Main applicant: Karen Brounéus, Department of Peace and Conflict Research
  • Trouble in the Land of Values? Exploring the Grammar that Unites and Divides Society. Main applicant: Matilda Hellman, Department of Sociology
  • Kunskapsproduktion på entreprenad. Main applicant: Ylva Bergström, Department of Education
  • Framtidens hälsoekonomier. Main applicant: Daniel Normark, Department of Economic History
  • Matters of Life and Death: A Cross-cutting Approach to the Endings of Things. Main applicant: Sebastian Abrahamsson, Department of Sociology

In May 2023, the CIRCUS board decided to support the following seven project groups to develop cross-cutting research project.

  • POMMAC (Pär och Mathias med Anna-Carin). Main applicant: Pär Ågerfalk, Department of Informatics and Media
  • SUSTAIN (Survive and Thrive Action Interventions). Main applicant: Hannah Bradby, Department of Sociology
  • eHealth Data Analysis group (eHDA). Main applicant: Fan Wallentin, Department of Statistics
  • Larpocracy. Main applicant: Jon Back, Department of Informatics and Media
  • Nature for whom? Main applicant: Tom Mels, Department of Human Geography
  • Gamla Uppsala? archaeological treasures beneath a Cathedral. Main applicant: Eva Lindqvist Sandgren, Department of Art History
  • "Arting, Curating, Wording, Worlding: Artistic practices as methods in academia". Main applicant: Anna Orrghen, Department of Art History

In May 2022, the CIRCUS board decided to support the following nine project groups to develop cross-cutting research projects:

  • Corporate Restructuring: Towards an Enhanced Viability Test. Main applicant: Jonatan Schytzer, Department of Law
  • Following the Money: Etablerandet av humanvetenskapernas forskningsfinansiella infrastruktur. Main applicant: Per Wisselgren, Department of History of Science and Ideas
  • Rasism och diskriminering i den svenska förskolan och skolan. Main applicant: Annika Nilsson, Department of Law
  • REASONS – Researching administrative decisions: an ethico-legal approach to reason-giving. Main applicant: Johanna Romare, Department of Theology
  • Consumer behaviour and antibiotic resistance: a sustainability issue. Main applicant: Anna-Carin Nordvall, Department of Business Studies
  • Frigör universiteten! Uppkomsten av den liberala idén om autonoma lärosäten. Main applicant: Johanna Ringarp, Department of Education
  • Tvångsvårdens former. Main applicant: Stefan Sjöström, Department of social work
  • Sanning, fiktion och juridiskt ansvar. Den auktoritära impulsen som hermeneutiskt problem i skönlitteratur och svensk rättstext. Main applicant: Joel Samuelsson, Department of Law
  • Skolan som kyrka: Kyrkliga praktiker i svenska folkskolemiljöer 1850–1950. Main applicant: David Sjögren, Department of Education

In May 2022, the CIRCUS board decided to support the following eight project groups to develop cross-cutting research projects:

  • Self-Referential Social Perception at the Macro Level. Main applicant: Mikael Bask, Department of Economics
  • Landsbygder: representationer av ruralt och lokalt i svensk litteratur 2000-2020. Main applicant: AnnaCarin Billing, Department of Literature and Rhetoric
  • The art of migrating. Main applicant: Tina Mathisen, Department of Social and Economic Geography
  • Ludum Platform: Video games and learning in children. Main applicant: Joshua Juvrud, Department of Game Design
  • Att stärka inre kraft hos personer utsatta för våld i nära relationer. Main applicant: Freddie Lymeus, Institute for Housing and Urban Research
  • Revealing the roots of Minoan language and culture through combined approaches. Main applicant: Anna Foka, Department of ALM
  • Pandemic Racism - Life and Death in the Times of the Corona Virus. Main applicant: Irene Molina, Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism
  • The fight against global antibiotic resistance. Main applicant: Simone Callegari, Department of Informatics and Media

In May 2020, the CIRCUS board decided to support the following nine project groups to develop cross-cutting research projects:

  • Artificiell intelligens, moraliskt aktörskap och ansvarsutkrävande. Main applicant: Johan Eddebo, Department of Theology
  • Mainstreaming Fascism. Culture, Nostalgia and the Global Rise of Radical Nationalism. Main applicant: Mattias Gardell, Department of Theology
  • Sanatoriet som sociokulturell arena cirka 1891-1945. Main applicant: Britt-Inger Johansson, Department of Art History
  • The Image as the Living Counterpart. Main applicant: Jan von Bonsdorff, Department of Art History
  • Innovating funerals and funeral rites in Sweden. Main applicant: Johan Jansson, Department of Social and Economic Geography
  • Retorik och avtalsrätt: kritiska perspektiv på klimatkompensation. Main applicant: Erik Bengtson, Department of Literature
  • PLATYPUS: Participatory Play in Public Heritage Spaces. Main applicant: Lina Eklund, Department of Informatics and Media
  • Moving and mobilizing meaning. Competitive influence through international communication in a multipolar digitalized global environment. Main applicant: Göran Svensson, Department of Informatics and Media
  • Digital Management of Reproductive Health. Main applicant: Helga Sadowski, Department of Informatics and Media

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