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Unlocking the Dynamics of Dopamine in Aging: Balancing Pre- and Post-Synaptic Mechanisms for Optimal Brain Function across the Adult Lifespan
Many older adults experience impairment of cognitive functions, such as memory. While changes in the aging brain are often assumed to underlie cognitive decline, it is surprisingly...
Digital Interference with Vision and Eye Development (the DIVE cohort): a multiethnic cohort of Swedish children to characterize eye and vision development
Research problem and specific questionsThe rapid integration of digital devices into everyday life, particularly among children, raises concerns about potential impacts on eye heal...
Sleepy and lonely: Illuminating the relationship between sleep and social connection
Sleep and social connection are both crucial for health and wellbeing. A combination of poor sleep and social disconnect is likely especially detrimental, but how they relate to ea...
Towards Recovery Oriented Systems of Care for Older Persons with Alcohol Problem (ROSC-OPAP): Studies of Interventions Across the Care Continuum
Research Problem and Specific QuestionsMost older people with alcohol problem (OPAP) have physical and mental health comorbidities. They also face social problems such as unstable...
From Noise to Signal: Unpacking the Drivers of Worker Mobility and Resilient Skill Structures in Swedish Local Labor Markets
The project aims to elucidate the role of skills in labor market mobility and the resilience of regions to economic shocks. It questions why certain labor market groups secure jobs...
What role does diet and lifestyle play in the progression of MS? A study of modifiable lifestyle factors and their significance for the course of MS
Research problem and specific questionsMultiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that affects young adults, especially women. MS often quickly results in disabilities and li...
Origins and Opportunities in Sweden: The Implications of Rising Income Inequality for Educational Mobility
Research problemEducational mobility, or the extent to which children’s educational choices are affected by their family origins, is imperative for equality of opportunity and life...
Moral Valuations of Nature and the Making of Sustainable Cities in Sweden
How do moral values about nature shape urban sustainability at the intersection of civil society and urban governance? This question speaks to an understudied phenomenon: the convi...
QUICKMAP - Interrogating Quick Clays: Direct Characterization with Fiber-Optic Sensing Solutions
Landslides occurring at quick-clay sites represent one of the most significant geohazards across the Nordic countries, including Sweden. They have caused fatalities and severe dama...
Uncivil Students: The Militarization of Student Civil Society as a Threat to Democracy
In recent years, research on civil society has evolved from its initial craze to a soberer approach that seeks to understand why civil society sometimes goes ‘bad’. This paradigmat...
Networked resistance in the new conjuncture. Civil society and the future of human rights in the 21st century
As we witness a democratic decline on a global scale, this project aims to understand the role of civil society in the turbulent dynamics of present times. We will examine the inte...
Saving Antarctica? Civil society on a continent without citizens
This project aims to investigate the historical and contemporary influence of civil society, specifically environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs), on Antarctic environ...
The Future of Human Rights in a Digitised Age (FRIDA)
With the normalisation of digital technologies in all aspects of the civic space, new vulnerabilities and harms emerge. Developments in the human rights field, about a right to dig...
Health care and social services for older adults in the context of age-friendly cities and communities: Can system-thinking and cooperation on a broad front pay off?
The complex challenges in care for older adults generate an urgent need for system-thinking to identify effective and sustainable solutions. The development of age-friendly communi...
Risks and potentials with flexible employment pathways in late working life in Sweden
Research problem and specific questionsFlexible employment pathways, including self-employment, part-time work and temporary contracts, are becoming increasingly discussed in both...
Personalised diet for healthier longevity: the role of dietary changes, sensitive windows of exposure, and psychosocial background
Research problem and specific questions: dietary recommendations considering older adults’ needs can contribute to healthier, longer lives, but evidence from context-specific, larg...
Conspiracy thinking and digital media: Disentangling a complex relationship.
Despite conspiracy theories being seemingly omnipresent, not least on digital media, the relationship between digital media and conspiracy thinking is more complex than is often as...
Conflict management in climate transitions
Climate research has emphasized the importance of creating synergies and managing trade-offs in climate actions to enable transformative change. According to the latest IPCC report...
Attachment, reflective functioning, and trauma among mothers with intellectual disability or ADHD: Links with the children´s socioemotional functioning
Research problem and specific questions The project will examine attachment representations (AR), reflective functioning (RF), and PTSD symptoms among mothers with intellectual dis...
Love and skills: comparing the valuation of care work in different arenas
This project explores the valuation of care work in six occupations; registered nurse, assistant nurse, social worker, care aide, preschool teacher and childcare worker. These occu...