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The Rise and Fall of Nuclear Energy in Sweden
In the postwar decades Sweden invested heavily in nuclear research. In the 1970s and 1980s the country rose to become one of the world’s most "nuclearized" nations. Betwe...
The Democratic Potential of Monuments in the 21st Century – Creating Sites for Participation, Social Justice and Critical Discourse
Monument protests dominate media and academic attention.Thereby, an important development within monument making remains understudied: increasingly, artists and commissioners trust...
Fishing for Solutions: Expertise and Legitimacy in the Governance of Fisheries and Marine Environments
How to produce and utilise knowledge in the best way for sustainable environmental governance is a pressing question of our time.It involves the assembling of credible expertise fr...
“Transnational Bachelorhood: An Ethnography of Singledom among migrant men in the European Union” and “Masculinity and suicide”
The aim with the proposed sabbatical is to write up two book projects. The projects, “Transnational Bachelorhood: An Ethnography of Singledom among migrant men in the European Unio...
The Phantasmatic Crypt: Figuring the Metaphorical in Early China and Ancient Greece.
The manuscript is partly a historical exploration of early Chinese and Greek theories of metaphor, partly an epistemological reflection on comparative philosophy and literature and...
Utbildning på engelska vid svensk universitet: Stödja undervisning, förbättra lärande
The amount of teaching and learning at universities that occurs in second language (L2) English continues to increase rapidly. This situation leads to classrooms where students and...
Constructing the Ides. Caesar's death between Republic and Empire
If provided funding from the RJ Sabbatical program, I would use the research year (12 months) to finish my monograph on the assassination of Julius Caesar, specifically focusing on...
State capacity, democracy and current global challenges
The concept of state capacity has recently experienced a rapid rise, achieving the status of a "key determinant of development" and leading to a flourishing body of inter...
A Truthmaker Account of Social Reality
A long-standing debate in the philosophy of the social sciences revolves around the following question: what is the mode of existence of socially grounded phenomena such as corpora...
Intrapreneurship in Sweden
It is obvious that our world is facing a number of pressing challenges. Around the clock media informs us on ongoing conflicts, pandemics, climate-change and social inequality.Inte...
Autocratic Genderwashing: Women’s Rights as Authoritarian Strategies
The purpose of this book project is to examine why autocracies adopt gender equality reforms. Historically, autocracies have had a bad track record with respect to the adoption of...
Extending and Developing the Knowledge-based View: From firms to platform-based ecosystems
The Sabbatical Project aims at extending and developing the knowledge-based view of the firm by studying digital platform-based ecosystems. It is important as these ecosystems have...
The Security Imaginary
This application is for twelve months’ full-time research leave to enable the completion of a monograph titled The Security Imaginary and a research visit to the Institute of Hazar...
Thinking, good and bad? Identifying the psychological mechanisms underlying charitable giving
During this sabbatical, my aim is to provide a novel theoretical background when and why people decide to help others drawing on empirical findings from research from me and my int...
The shrubification of the Swedish tundra – multidisciplinary monitoring for a consensus perspective
The tundra shrub expansion provide some of the most striking examples of ecological change in the circumpolar region over the recent decades, with profound effect on the structure-...
Early detection of smoldering fires through innovative methods
Waste management is one of the fastest growing business with global market size of over USD 1 trillion as recorded in 2019 [1].The most serious environmental concern associated wit...
Evaluating the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of the school-based Solution-focused Intervention for Mental health (SIM) in first year of upper secondary school students
Research problem and specific questionsThere is a lack of evidence-based school interventions to promote mental well-being among students in Swedish upper secondary schools.Therefo...
Using ancient DNA to predict future dynamics of herring in a warming sea
Climate change and the associated sea warming will profoundly reshape marine ecosystems globally.Numerous species will experience range shifts as populations track ideal conditions...
Aerosol Emissions from Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF)
Emissions from fossil fuel use in aviation contribute to global warming through greenhouse gas emissions and high-altitude effects. Emerging evidence show links between exposure to...
Data-driven modeling of PFAA substances in serum as basis for setting limit values for drinking water and food
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are man-made chemicals causing world-wide pollution of food and drinking water (DW) and some may be precursors of the very persistent per...