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Drivers of toxic cyanobacteria – solutions for drinking water management
Cyanobacterial blooms pose a severe health and environmental threat in surface waters around the world since they produce toxins, especially microcystins, that are hazardous to hum...
NavRISK: Achieving sustainability through risk-taking? The navigating between risk and and stability in urban experiments in planning
The notion that we must go beyond business-as-usual and innovate to achieve climate- and sustainability goals is widely held. However, developing novel solutions always involves a...
Autism - a greater problem now than before? On autism, school performance and mental health issues over time
Research problems and specific questionsThe number of individuals diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has increased by at least 500% the last decades and empirical eviden...
Grain at any price: Geographical patterns of food security in pre-industrial Europe
Grain was a vital product in pre-industrial Europe and its price variations are an indicator of food availability and subsistence stress.Our 3-year project aims to assess, quantify...
Segregation across multiple domains: How does workplace and neighbourhood segregation shape the employment trajectories of refugees and their children?
Research problem and specific questions Increased rates of refugee immigration have led to rising concerns about integration in Sweden.Public debates often involve residential segr...
Remote meeting technologies and the value of time: An ethnographic study of digital home care services
Research problem and specific questionsThe ways in which increased digitalisation affects time appears to be at the heart of many current societal debates. Time is a multidimension...
Cleaning agents and occupational airway disease: a translational perspective of mixture effects from in vitro to regulation
Research problem and specific questions: Cleaning and disinfection agents are widely used in various occupational settings and a growing body of evidence from observational studies...
Profiling the Evolutionary Adaptation of the Zymoseptoria tritici to Control Measures and Changing Temperatures
Wheat is the most important food crop worldwide.Septoria blotch caused by Zymoseptoria tritici is a major disease of wheat, causing up to 30% yield loss in Sweden and the world.Due...
Over-indebtedness and suicidal behavior - mapping of risk factors with particular focus on young adults, gender, and gambling disorder
Research problem and specific questionsHow can suicidal behavior in the case of over-indebtedness be prevented? Which risk factors can be identified?Over-indebtedness and suicidal...
How does AI in public decision-making affect the formation of public values? A study of professionalism and accountability in labor market policies
Research problem and specific questionsAI is on the verge of reforming how policy is implemented in public administration. The rapid development of AI technology raises several imp...
Overstocking or Encroachments? Interrogating the political ecology of land use conflicts on Sámi lands.
Sustainable development has become a mainstream principle in environmental governance. Yet, there are many, often opposing, ideas of what sustainable development means. Such opposi...
Think before you ink? Tattoos as a novel risk factor for immunologic disease
Research problem and specific questionsWe have just shown that tattoos increase the risk of lymphoma – cancer originating from immune cells. Now, it is paramount to invesigate if t...
Characterisation of occupational exposure to metals and chemicals and potential health effects during manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries
Research problem and specific questions: In Sweden, a large-scale expansion of lithium-ion battery (LiB) production for transports is underway in line with the green transition to...
Global infrastructure, (neo)extractive operations, and socio-environmental transformations: the "planetary" making of the River Plate basin.
Scholars have recently referred to "global infrastructure" to indicate the implementation of transnational mega-infrastructure projects – i.e. ports, logistical clusters,...
Pictorial Knowledge and Lantern Lectures in the 19th-Century Media Culture
At the end of the 19th century, public lectures with image slides made a great success in Sweden and other countries.The lectures were organized by societies of civil education and...
Farmers’ attitudes and use of seed exchange systems for maintaining crop biodiversity
A well-established, but puzzling, procedure in traditional agriculture has since ancient times been exchange of seed among farmers. Even when self-produced seed was sufficient, new...
Asking about violence - organizational strategies and professional communicative practice at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency
Research problem and specific questionsIntimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive social problem, but the fact that less than 40% of IPV victims seek help makes institutional i...
THE FOURTH PART: STYLE, THE I, ETHICS IN A SWEDISH BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF A MINORITY
This study in literary composition aims to create new knowledge on ethics, style and "the I" as a pronoun in literary and in feminist academic writing.The study is co-fun...
Infrastructure for solar physics: the European Solar Telescope EST
The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a proposed 4.2-m diameter telescope with planned start of operations in 2029. It will replace the national solar telescopes currently in opera...
ArchLab
Archaeology is an intrinsically interdisciplinary field and the only humanities subject which studies the long-term human past, using natural science methods to provide empirical e...