Research at Uppsala University
"Pain not just a symptom"
10 June 2022. Pain is often seen as a symptom, but it can be a disease in itself which requires treatment. One exa ...
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Major successes for Uppsala University researchers’ battery material
8 June 2022. Uppsala-based battery company Altris AB was recently given the green light for funding to the tune o ...
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Cultural heritage – a target in war
17 May 2022. In the world heritage city of Visby, Mattias Legnér conducts research into cultural heritage in conf ...
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Here you will find all research projects at Uppsala University funded by the main Swedish funding bodies. The search feature is based on the SweCRIS database.
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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VITALIS - Long-term follow-up of an intervention project for return to work and improved health among people on long-term sick leave
Research project from 2019-07-01 to 2021-06-30
Background: Sickness absence can contribute to both ill-health and work incapacity, and a long period of sick-leave reduces the likelihood of a person to return to work (RTW). In Sweden, extensive resources ...
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Research spotlight: The war in Ukraine
Cultural heritage – a target in war
In the world heritage city of Visby, Mattias Legnér conducts research into cultural heritage in conf ...
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Putin’s vision of a conservative orthodox superpower
Following traditional, conservative and Christian Orthodox ideals, in contrast to the “morally adrif ...
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12 million Ukrainians expected to flee to the EU
Some 12 million Ukrainian refugees are expected to come to the EU. It's anticipated that more than o ...
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Research challenge: Antibiotic resistance
Every day, antibiotics save many lives all over the world. They have become indispensable in all kinds of situations, from basic healthcare to advanced medicine. But what will happen if antibiotics stop working?
Collaboration in research and development
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Lectures
Uppsala University’s researchers share their knowledge in public lectures. Every year, the University is visited by leading researchers and influential people from around the world. At Uppsala University, you can hear Nobel laureates, researchers, authors, politicians and many others give lectures. Here we present some of the most prominent, annually occurring lectures at Uppsala University.
University research areas
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