Research at Uppsala University

• A healthier population in Sweden through better conditions for research on biobanks and health data

  Research project from 2018-11-26 to 2019-08-31

  Purpose and goal: The project aims to produce an efficient and secure method of combining biobank data with health register data for the benefit of academic and industrial research. A platform for ...

• Aging migrants, labor market transitions and the welfare state

  Research project from 2018-12-01 to 2024-12-31

  While substantial and persistent immigrant-native disparities in labor market performance and socioeconomic status is a primary concern in the scientific as well as in the policy debate, little attention ...

• Nature via Nurture: Using novel methods to shed new light on how gene-environment interactions shape social, economic and political attitudes and behavior

  Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31

  Why are some people more likely to be highly educated, end up in high status jobs, be healthier and live longer, be more politically engaged, and, in general, happier than others? Understanding the origins ...

• Biobank Sweden

  Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  The scientific goal of Biobank Sweden (BIS) is to provide efficient, coordinated and sustainable use of biobank samples and associated healthcare and molecular analysis data as the basis for internationally ...

• Friends and Foes: Skills, social interactions and bullying in primary school

  Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31

  Disruptive behaviors in school are widespread and are thought to have negative impacts on child development. However, these behaviors have been understudied, particularly with systematic explicit models ...

• Can automatic recommendations improve the job finding rate and the labor-market outcomes of Swedish job seekers?

  Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31

  Understanding the search process of job seekers and employers is at the heart of labor economic research and policy. Still our understanding of the nature and consequences of job search is inadequate, ...

• Chemical ecology: A key to mitigate biodiversity threats arising from vector-born pathogens

  Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31

  Vector borne diseases are a major threat to human, domesticated and wildlife populations. Many vectors are bloodsucking insects that rely on olfactory cues for finding their meal. These olfactory cues ...

• Displaced workers: causes, characteristics, and policy options

  Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31

  This project revolves around displaced workers. It has three parts. In the first part we characterize the selection into displacement: Who gets laid off and why? We revisit the classic questions of wage ...

• EGEN Europe

  Research project from 2019-07-07 to 2019-07-09

  In 2016, the academic network EGEN (Empirical study of GENder) was started by a group of American researchers. The purpose was to support quantitative research in gender and politics. This application ...

• Financial Crises and Firms’ Employment Behaviour: Lessons from the Swedish Banking Crisis

  Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-21

  The banking crisis which hit the Swedish economy in the early 1990s provides an insightful case study both with high relevance to improve our understanding of the long-run consequences of the recent global ...

• Evaluation of Virus Retentive Filter Paper for Water Treatment and Clinical Applications in Real-Life Studies in Bangladesh

  Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  The so-called “thousand leaves” (or mille-feuille) paper is the world’s first non-woven filter, composed of 100% native cellulose, which is capable of removal of all types of microogranisms, including ...

• Refugees, asylum policies, and health outcomes

  Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31

  More than 3 million have applied for asylum in Europe since 2015, and governments have faced the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War. There is vast evidence that refugees, in particular women ...

• Frontiers of Political Representation

  Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2024-12-31

  The identity of politicians affects which policies get selected, how well they are implemented, and who benefits from them. While this is intuitive for autocracies, in which rulers face few constraints ...

• How has Sweden´s recent education reforms affected the labor market for teachers and the youth labor market entry?

  Research project from 2017-12-01 to 2020-11-30

  The labor market in Sweden works well for the vast majority, but young people with weak study results, in particular those who lack a high school diploma, face major difficulties in establishing themselves ...

• Hur information om ekonomiska incitament påverkar föräldraledighet och arbetsutbud

  Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  Jobbskatteavdraget stärker kraftigt incitamenten att dela lika på uttaget av föräldraledigheten, men de flesta människor saknar kunskaper om hur denna skattereduktion fungerar. Sannolikt innebär detta ...

• Identifying targets and compounds for the therapeutic intervention of coronary heart disease using a zebrafish model system

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  The aim of my research programme is to identify novel drug targets and compounds for the therapeutic intervention of coronary heart disease (CHD). To this end, I have identified 93 positional candidate ...

• Immigrants´ returns to host country labor market experience

  Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31

  This project studies how actual labor market experience from the host country relates to wages, earnings and employment probabilities among immigrants to Sweden. Experience is a key component in economic ...

• Internet-based treatment of psychological distress in patients with myocardial infarction with nonobstructive coronary arteries

  Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31

  Myocardial infarction (MI) with non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA) is common (6-8% of all MIs) and affects mainly working women. A majority of the patients have Takotsubo syndrome (also known as ...

• Within- and trans-generational health consequences of shift work in humans

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  My research is mainly focused on understanding how sleep disruptions and night work, i.e. working during a time where the internal clock is set to be off, affect metabolic and psychological health parameters ...

• Patterns and determinants of immigrant labor market exit

  Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31

  The debate about immigrant-native labor market differentials typically focuses on the labor market entry of the recently arrived and the subsequent integration process. Much less attention has been paid ...

• Journal Grant: The periodical Current Disability Research, 2019-2021

  Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31

  Forskning om funktionshinder pågår (“Ongoing Disability Research”) has been issued quarterly since 1992. In presenting current Swedish disability research to decision-makers, researchers, government agencies ...

• Local Government: Composition and Consequences

  Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  The identity of political leaders affects which policies get selected, how well they are implemented, and who benefits from them. While this is intuitive for autocracies, in which rulers face few constraints ...

• Pacess - patient-centred assessment of patients´ online access to electronic health records

  Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  In Sweden, we are now in a unique position to explore how current eHealth trends can impact on, and even transform healthcare. In this research, we specifically want to explore the impact of  patient accessible ...

• Radionuclide molecular imaging of prostate cancer: staging and in vivo phenotyping of tumours for personalised medicine

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  There is an unmet clinical need to improve both diagnostics (especially detection of soft-tissue metastases) and therapy of prostate cancer (PCa). One possible approach is radionuclide targeting of receptors ...

• The rehabilitation co-ordinators impact on sick leave and return to/commencement of work or studies in the psychiatric specialist care

  Research project from 2018-07-01 to 2021-06-30

  An increasing number of individuals are on sick leave because of mental illness. Mental illness generally have longer periods of sick leave. The knowledge about what actions that are effective to support ...

• sensory science and development of healthy eating habits in children

  Research project from 2018-12-01 to 2019-11-30

  I´m a postdoc at the Department of Food Studies, Nutrition and Dietetics, Uppsala University, and also affiliated with the Division of Paediatrics, CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet. After my dissertation ...

• Technological Change and the Labor Market

  Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2024-12-31

  The international research community and society as a whole is currently preoccupied with trying to understand the consequences of technological change in the form of, e.g., industrial robots, digitalization ...

• The Causes and Consequences of Occupational Decline

  Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31

  The purpose of this project is to investigate occupational change in Sweden since the 1960s. Technological change (such as the introduction of information and communication technology) may not have reduced ...

• Uppsala Health Summit (UHS) 2019, ”Healthy Urban Childhoods”

  Research project from 2018-12-01 to 2019-11-30

  Around the world, the fast growing urbanization puts children´s physical and mental health at risk. Uppsala Health Summit (UHS) 2019, Healthy Urban Childhoods, will focus on how to strengthen the child ...

• Uppsala Health Summit 2019 Healthy Urban Childhoods

  Research project from 2018-10-01 to 2019-09-30

  By 2050, 70% of the world’s children will live in cities. While urbanizations brings many opportunities, it also puts children´s health at risk. In Sweden, the negative consequences on children´s physical ...

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