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Transforming heaven and earth: local communities and the end of life in the conversion to Christianity in east-central Sweden (950-1250 CE)
This project aims to understand how local communities at the end of the Viking Age responded and contributed to the radical socio-religious transformations brought about by the con...
Aging Atoms: Nuclear Maintenance Techniques in Sweden and the UK (1980-2026)
Nuclear power has made a remarkable comeback, as the industry and many national governments try to market new reactor designs as a solution to climate change. Yet, this contrasts w...
Reading pain: Cultural conceptions of animal suffering
The conceptualizations of animal pain govern the ways in which animals are treated medically, legally and in everyday relations. Animal pain cannot be directly accessed and, theref...
Needs-based school funding - a path to improving student achievement and reducing educational inequalities?
Research problem and specific questions: In many countries, including Sweden, a substantial share of students lack essential skills for later economic success, and skill gaps by so...
Impact of Swedish peatland rewetting on mercury (Hg) bioaccumulation in downstream ecosystems: process quantification using Hg stable isotopes
Extensive peatland areas in Sweden’s forest landscape have been drained. Rewetting of these peatlands is currently considered for the enhancement of carbon storage, biodiversity, g...
High intake of ultra-processed food: effects on appetite, cardiometabolic health and biomarkers of dietary intake
Research problem and specific questionsUltra-processed foods (UPFs) have undergone extensive industrial processing and are proposed to delay satiety signaling, leading to overconsu...
Plagiarism hunting in early modern Europe (c. 1665–1730): Knowledge circulation and its limits
This project elucidates why and how European scholars began to pay a new kind of attention to plagiarism in the seventeenth century. By examining treatises, journals, correspondenc...
Social policy, life courses and health in European welfare states during a century.
This project has three overarching purposes:1. To construct so-called life course social policy indicators showing how welfare states for different birth cohorts have responded to...
GABAergic orchestration of brain network states and cognitive ability in the young and old
How do we manage to accurately adapt behavior in a complex and dynamic environment? Accurate behavior requires the brain to consistently adapt distinct brain states given specific...
The complete network of Sweden: Characteristics, dynamics and consequences of social exposure across multiple social domains
The interconnectedness of individuals has long been recognized as a pivotal factor in shaping social processes. We know a lot about how social contacts within various social contex...
Syntax and the body: the structuring of language in multimodal sense-making
Among the different organizational layers of language, syntax has been treated as the most rule-governed structure, even reducible to transformational algorithms. In this collabora...
Development of enhanced parent training over the Internet to reduce severe behavioral problems in young children
Research idea and purposeSevere behavioral problems in young children pose a high risk of impairment during childhood as well as later in life. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PC...
Anticipatory technologies: water monitoring apps and ubiquitous environmental communication in the climate crisis
The purpose of this project is to advance knowledge about environmental communication as an everyday situated practice and about the role of information technologies in environment...
Development and evaluation of a digital preventive intervention targeting young people whose caregivers have alcohol problems
Research problem and specific questionsThe aim is to develop and evaluate a digital preventive intervention for young people (15-25 years) with caregivers who have problematic drin...
Labor market integration of immigrants over multiple generations
This project aims to analyze the socio-economic integration of immigrants and their descendants across multiple generations. We approach the topic from several different perspectiv...
Beyond Demographics: Utilizing Ancient Biomolecules to Reconstruct Individual Health and Societal Dynamics in Prehistoric Northern Europe
How prehistoric people lived, interacted and died have been investigated and debated since the dawn of archaeology. Recently, an unpreceded number of new repositories for bioinform...
Momentum flux conservation across the air-sea-ice interface within marginal ice zone in Earth System Models
Sea ice floes within the marginal ice zone (MIZ), the transitional area between open ocean and pack ice, exert a significant influence on the momentum flux across the air-sea-ice i...
Intimate partner violence towards older persons: exposure and help-seeking
Research problem and specific questionsPartner violence is a widespread societal and public health problem, in Sweden and internationally, with major consequences for individuals a...
Heroic consumption. Polar exploration and the rise of masculine fashion 1890–1930
The purpose of this project is to examine how the heroic masculinity associated with polar exploration integrated men’s fashion into modern consumption society at the turn of the t...
Cross-border Reindeer Husbandry During World War II: Continuities, Limitations, and Long-term Consequences
How did World War II affect reindeer husbandry in the border regions of Norwegian and Swedish Sápmi, and (how) do such past experiences speak to present-day concerns about military...