Research at Uppsala University

• A study of the construction of the child's best interests and good parenting in custody reports and district court rulings

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  I Sverige har antalet vårdnadstvister ökat med 40 procent sedan år 2006. Av föräldrabalken framgår att domstol ska fatta beslut utifrån barnets bästa. Såväl forskning som erfarenheter från professionella ...

• Ageing: What explains quality within Swedish eldercare today?

  Research project from 2014-12-01 to 2017-11-30

  The growing numbers of frail elderly (80+) create an increased demand for care services of high medical and social quality. At the same time, the marketization and commercialization of elder care services ...

• The significance of housing for childbearing, education and work

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  SammanfattningSyftet med detta projekt är att undersöka bostadens betydelse för barnafödande, utbildning och arbete. Tidigare forskning har funnit att svårigheter att etablera sig på bostadsmarknaden kan ...

• Care: Culturally Competent Reproductive Care for Muslim Patients-Exploring Risks and Myths to Promote a Person-centred Approach in a Multicultural Society

  Research project from 2014-12-01 to 2017-11-30

  The project aims at investigating the role of culture, religion and tradition for the clinical encounter, with sexual and reproductive healthcare providers and Muslim patients. Results from our previous ...

• Care: U-CARE: Heart - A randomized controlled study of the effects of internet-based cognitive behavior therapy on depression and anxiety in patients with a recent myocardial infarction

  Research project from 2014-12-01 to 2017-11-30

  Depression and/or anxiety occurs in about 30% of all patients after a myocardial infarction (MI) and about half of these have symptoms up to a year later. There is a clear association between depression ...

• Care: U-CARE: Internet based screening and stepped care for cancer patients with anxiety or depression symptoms – a randomized controlled multicenter study

  Research project from 2014-12-01 to 2017-11-30

  This is the first study including a consecutive sample of clinical cancer patients and targeting an internet based intervention to those who are defined to have anxiety or depression symptoms according ...

• Transgendering the city. A critical study of safety, vulnerability and resistance in transgender people’s narratives on city life

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31

  Svenska statistiskt sett större städer, så som Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö, erbjuder frigörande och relativt trygga miljöer där transpersoner kan verka inom ett etablerat HBTQ Community. I anslutning till ...

• Effectiveness of bone-specific drugs, calcium and vitamin D for the prevention of frailty fractures

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  I Sverige inträffar årligen totalt 70000 fragilitetsfrakturer varje år. Med en livstidstidsrisk om 50% för kvinnor och 25% hos män har Sverige en av de högsta incidenserna av dessa frakturer i världen. ...

• FOIP: Effect of facilitated participatory groups on neonatal mortality and stillbirths - A stepped wedge, cluster-randomized trial in six provinces in Vietnam.

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  The past 20 years have witnessed major improvements in child survival, but the annual burden of 2.9 million newborn deaths and 2.7 million stillbirths remains a challenge. Although community-based participatory ...

• Forte-centre Working Life: Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS)

  Research project from 2010-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  UPPSALA CENTER FOR LABOR STUDIESUppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS) comprises researchers from economics, sociology and labor law. UCLS focuses on three broad research themes, namely (i) labor market ...

• Fracture Prevention by Bone Anti-Resorptive Zoledronic Acid Medication and Exercise Intervention (FAZE)

  Research project from 2016-02-01 to 2016-03-31

  Osteoporosis, a disease characterized by weak bone, represents a major non-communicable disease that, with the growing proportion of elderly women and men, is set to increase in the future. The present ...

• Health and economic impact of a population based health promotion programme for children and parents

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  Health promotion during childhood has become a challenging public health concern. The overall aim of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness, costs and cost-effectiveness of the Salut Programme; ...

• How does New Public Management affect the professions of the welfare state?

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  De sociala tjänsterna - sjukvården, skolan och den sociala omsorgen - utgör en central, men av forskningen ofta förbisedd, del av välfärdsstaten. Den sociala tjänstesektorn har genomgått en marknadsanpassning ...

• Junior researcher: Care in the community or coercion in the community? Risk, rights & organisation. An analysis implementing ACT policy for community mental care in Sweden, Britain & the Netherlands

  Research project from 2012-12-01 to 2016-12-31

  Juniorforskare: Samhällsvård eller Samhällstvång? Risk, rättigheter & organisation. En analys av implementeringen av ACT-policy för psykiatriskvård i samhället i Sverige, Storbritannien & HollandVarför ...

• Junior researcher: Labour Market Consequences of Holding a Criminal Record

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  Crime is both frequent and widespread. Every year, about 5 percent of all Swedish men under the age of 30 are convicted in criminal trials. Among persons who receive prison sentences, close to 40 percent ...

• Juniorforskare:Understanding The Pippi Longstocking Paradox and Statist Individualism - A Comparative Study of Swedish Individualism using a Mixed-Methods Approach

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  Svenskar antas ofta uppvisa en "kollektiv" eller "solidarisk" "statsindividualism". Liksom Pippi Långstrump tycks man extremt mån om sin egen självständighet, men vill samtidigt även upprätthålla en stark ...

• Lessons to be learned from Mother2Mother project i South Africa

  Research project from 2016-09-01 to 2017-08-31

  Innovative approaches to improving women’s health are needed the world over. NGOs are frequently at the forefront infinding new ways, as in the Mother 2 Mother project.Employing a mentoring method to HIV-mothers ...

• Teachers without borders. Professional ethical challenges when teachers use social network sites like Facebook for pupil contacts

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31

  Lärare är en av de få svenska yrkesgrupper där medlemmar använder sociala nätverkssajter som Facebook som arbetsverktyg. Projektets syften är att 1) undersöka de gränsdragningsproblematiker ifråga om arbetstid ...

• Matching in micro data: vacancies, new hires and separations in Swedish firms

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2016-12-31

  En väl fungerande matchning mellan arbetssökande och vakanser bidrar till låg arbetslöshet. I den nationalekonomiska forskningslitteraturen har man främst studerat matchningsprocesserna på arbetsmarknaden ...

• Network for research and development in the field of occupational health service

  Research project from 2014-07-01 to 2016-12-31

  Ansökan avser stöd för fortsatt utveckling av nätverk inom forskningsområdet företagshälsovård. Arbetet har hittills fokuserat på kontakter mellan landets arbets- och miljömedicinska kliniker och företagshälsovårdens ...

• Network: The research network for Swedish critical race and whiteness studies

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31

  Detta forskarnätverk syftar till att med inspiration från den engelsktalande akademiska världen försöka etablera fältet kritiska ras- och vithetsstudier i ett svenskt sammanhang. Kritiska ras- och vithetsstudier ...

• Postdoc grant: Representations of parents when children are evicted: categorizations, explanations and scope for interventions

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2016-12-31

  Disputationsämne: SociologiAvhandling:En erfarenhet rikare? En kvalitativ studie av barns strategier och barnfattigdomens villkor i välfärdsstaten. Avhandlingsarbetet berör barns ekonomiska utsatthet och ...

• Social Relationships in the Network Society

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31

  This project aims to study how contemporary social life is related to the use of digital technologies. The purpose is to increase our understanding of social interaction on- and off-line in the network ...

• What characterizes growing versus shrinking jobs on the Swedish labour market?

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  Projekt studerar vad som kännetecknar jobb med växande respektive krympande sysselsättning på svensk arbetsmarknad mellan år 1960 och 2013. Analysen delas in i två delar. I den första studeras jobbens ...

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