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Vitality with and for Older frail People through person-centred e-support (VOPe)
The purpose of the project is to contribute to knowledge on how frail older people´s capabilities and societal resources can be used in a more efficient way to promote health and r...
Occupied Intimacies: Borderization in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara
This anthropological project is about contemporary military occupations and their effects on the everyday lives of people under their rule. Occupations have often been seen as temp...
Osteoarthritis: from molecule to societal impact
Although osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the leading causes of pain and disability worldwide, the basic mechanisms of its aetiology and pathogenesis remain unclear.Here, we will use...
Mycorrhizal decomposers in the fungal genus Cortinarius
The fungal genus Cortinarius, proposed to combine mycorrhizal symbiosis with a capacity to decompose organic matter, is a key component of boreal forest ecosystems. In a four-year...
Are today’s stormwater systems safe chemical filters for toxic micropollutants? (SAFESTORM)
The overall objective of SAFESTORM is to improve the knowledge on occurrence of toxic micropollutants in urban stormwater and to evaluate whether today’s stormwater systems suffici...
Messengers of sensations – non-neuronal contributions to mechanosensitivity.
Touch and pain systems have evolved sophisticated ways to perceive various external stimuli like temperature or mechanical force. In 2010, Coste et al. identified the ion channel P...
Belowground biodiversity of grasslands – conservation needs and potential to promote sustainable agriculture
Agricultural landscapes are highly dynamic. In Sweden, land-use has changed dramatically and generally led to a loss of biodiversity in agroecosystems over historic time scales. Th...
To stressed to think? Towards improved characterisation of cognitive impairment in stress-related exhaustion disorder
Stress-related exhaustion disorder (ED) is associated with concomitant cognitive impairment with large impact on the everyday and work-related functioning of patients. Prior resear...
How can breast milk components prevent necrotizing enterocolitis and sepsis in extremely preterm infants?
Background: Although the care of premature infants has improved dramatically during the last decades, extremly preterm infants (born before gestational week 28+0) remain a major ch...
Structural battery composites for mass-less energy storage
Satellites rely on energy storage for their functionality. For this reason, batteries are included in satellites prior to launch. The batteries are pre-charged to power the un-fold...
ICARUS - Integrated Circuits for electrically powered spAcecraft pRopulsion Using Silicon carbide
According to Greek mythology, Icarus attempted to escape difficulties using newfound technology; wings made of feather and wax. Overconfidence with the reliability of this technolo...
Drivers of inequalities among families involved with child welfare services
Socioeconomically disadvantaged parents, such as those living in poverty, are much more likely to have their child taken into out-of-home care (OHC). It nevertheless remains unclea...
Spatial integration and segregation: Disadvantaged groups in Sweden in the 2000s
It can be argued that a society is never better than how individuals at its spatial outskirts are treated: a society benefits socially and economically on equality and loses on ine...
Regions in change: Unpacking the economic resilience of Swedish labour market regions with respect to different groups of workers
Regional economies throughout the Western world face shifting industrial and occupational structures, and income polarisation. Sweden is no exception as growth of jobs and incomes...
Are brain structure and functional connectivity later in life influenced by midlife psychosocial work stress?
Psychosocial stress at work has been suggested to play a role in the development of cognitive dysfunction, but evidence on the neural substrate (brain structure and function) of ps...
Educational assortative mating and inequality. Consequences of changing family dynamics in Sweden, 1970-2020
In 1980, income differences were historically small in Sweden, but have increased, nationally and regionally, since then. A similar trend is manifest for health differences. Sweden...
What happened in Sweden over the last 40 years? Studies on crime, gender, ethnicity and social class.
In Sweden and around the world, studies have consistently shown that immigrants commit more crime than non-immigrants, or natives. Findings of immigrant overrepresentation in crime...
Work without jobs: A study of gig economy workers´ existence
The purpose of the proposed project is to contribute to the development of strategies and policies to facilitate socially sustainable working lives for gig economy workers in Swede...
Consequences of criminal sanctions in Sweden
Swedish crime policy has in recent years become increasingly focused on harsher sanctions, a development which has led to an increasing number of offenders in prison. This developm...
The civilianization of the police: Gender, status and professional boundaries in crime investigation
This project examines the process of civilianization of criminal investigative (CI) work in the Swedish police. The police struggles with low crime clearance rates and a shortage o...