Uppsala universitet får 33 miljoner till utvecklingsforskning

Vetenskapsrådet har fattat beslut om bidrag i stora utlysningen inom utvecklingsforskning. I årets stora utlysning inom utvecklingsforskning ingick Projektbidrag och bidrag inom Swedish Research Links.

Totalt beviljades nära 190 miljoner kronor inom utvecklingsforskning för hela bidragsperioden 2014–2018. Av dessa får Uppsala universitet nära 33 miljoner.

Av de 356 ansökningar som kom in har 92 beviljats. Uppsala universitet fick sammanlagt 14 bidrag till utvecklingsforskning – sju projektbidrag och sju inom Swedish Research Links:

Utvecklingsforskning, projektbidrag:

• Sofie Bedford, 5 mkr, Building Sustainable Opposition in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes
• Li Bennich-Björkman, 4 mkr, Investigating Mind-Sets in South Caucasus: Security, Risk and Others as Roots and Consequences of Protracted Conflicts.
• Karen Brounéus, 5,4 mkr, Women, War Trauma, and Peace Building: Gendered Attitudes in Sierra Leone and Liberia
• Hugo De Boer, 3 mkr, Identifying and monitoring trade in Tanzanian wild-harvested medicinal plants using innovative genomics-based DNA barcoding
• Eva-Charlotte Ekström, 3 mkr, Is betal quid chewing in pregnancy a risk factor of metabolic syndrome and contributing to adverse pregnancy and infant outcomes. A cohort study in rural Bangladesh.
• Erika Forsberg, 3 mkr, Inequality and insurgency in India: a disaggregated analysis of the link between gender inequality and armed conflict
• Desireé Nilsson, 4 mkr, An Impediment or Inducement to Peace? The Inclusion of Civil Society Actors in the Peace Processes in Sierra Leone and Liberia

Utvecklingsforskning, Swedish Research Links 2014:

• Rajeev Ahuja, 750 000 kr, Tunable catalytic properties of novel materials for renewable energy
• Mats Målqvist, 750 000 kr, Scaling-up interventions for quality of care improvements in the field of maternal and child health care in Nepal
• Ewert Bengtsson, 633 000 kr, Collaborative development of methods for robust and precise image analysis for cost effective and reliable detection of cervical cancer
• Hugo De Boer, 750 000 kr, Identifying and monitoring trade in Tanzanian wild-harvested medicinal plants using innovative genomics-based DNA barcoding
• Peter Lazor, 729 000 kr, Functional phosphate glass-ceramics for hydrogen production and environmental carbon dioxide mitigation
• Martin Lascoux, 738 000 kr, Life at the Edge: Evolutionary Conservation Biology of the Euphrates poplar (Populus euphratica) along North African riparian systems
• Rajeev Ahuja, 750 000 kr, Next Generation Energy Materials for the Hydrogen Economy

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