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Securing work and health when redundancies loom – does support from employment security funds buffer mental health consequences of potential dismissals?
Research problem and specific questionsThe aim of this project is to study the overall association between notification about a potential dismissal and mental health.Particular att...
Antibiotic rivers: impacts of antibiotic exposure on the gut microbiome of fish and consequence for health, behaviour, and cognition
Environmental pollution with antibiotics is an extensive and rapidly escalating global issue. Despite widespread antibiotic pollution, the direct and local impact on aquatic animal...
Sustainable Practices in The Minimalist Family? Values, Negotiations and Gender
Minimalism encourages reduced excess, decluttering, and owning less to reclaim time and achieve increased sense of freedom and fulfilment. In our current society characterised by s...
Disability in Past Life Histories: Archival Facts and Literary Fiction from 19th-century Sweden (DISTORY)
Combining a rich set of archival sources from the 1800s with literary fiction from the time describing people with disabilities, this project brings greater depth to the understand...
Project Omega: an analysis of the connections between criminal networks, fraud, and welfare crime.
Research problem and specific questions: This part of Project Omega aims to map the connection between criminal networks and welfare crimes in Sweden. The project analyzes the link...
Revisiting Artificial Sweeteners – New Field Surveys and Toxicity Evaluations Call for Action
Artificial sweeteners (AS) are environmental contaminants of emerging concern, with acesulfame and sucralose being the most commonly used.Due to the high comsumption and uncertatie...
What is the mental health crisis among young women in Sweden? - A prospective phenomenological exploration of lived experience and sense-making of mental health during adolescence and young adulthood
Research problem and specific questionsYoung women report the highest levels of mental ill-health in the Swedish population.What these alarming figures imply is not fully understoo...
Does advancing women’s empowerment lead to perceptions of threat? Research on who is threatened by women’s empowerment, under what conditions and why
The main guiding research question of this project is: what generates, fosters or reduces perceptions of advancement in women’s empowerment as threatening in Western democracies?Co...
Labor mobility and regional labor markets
This project analyzes labor mobility in the Swedish labor market.Given that individuals are mostly mobile within their local labor markets, it is essential to consider the characte...
Men who hate women online: A study of the internet as a new arena for the mobilisation of organised gender-based hate
This project seeks to analyse how organised forms of gender-based hate take shape online, in the Swedish digital context.Specifically, we will analyse the rapidly emerging movement...
A place of mine - stable housing for victims of domestic abuse
Societal relevance och utilisationEvery year, 6,000 people in Sweden stay in sheltered housing and the majority are women and children exposed to domestic violence (DV). After a st...
Inheritance
This project investigates what we call inheritance claims - claims to the effect that something inherits its features from something else - and argues that such claims are elliptic...
Boosting the reproductive performance of Arctic charr using high-throughput sequencing technologies
Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus is the second most farmed fish in Sweden, but its yield is affected by the low reproductive performance when cultivated. The fertilization success d...
GENE EDITING AND CISGENESIS OF RESISTANCE GENES TO PRODUCE LATE BLIGHT RESISTANT POTATO
In potato production, the introduction of late blight disease resistant cultivars could reduce the need for chemical fungicide treatment massively, save money and safeguard the env...
Organised leisure activities as arenas of social integration
Research problem and specific questionsAs societies are increasingly ethnically diverse, social integration is of increasing importance. Meaningful intergroup contact is known to p...
Diversity preferences, diversity-motivated behaviors and their consequences: a study of foreign-born residents in Sweden at the intersection between country of birth and reason for migration
Research problem and specific questions: Responses to international immigration are almost exclusively studied from the point of view of the majority population.Through its central...
Social sustainability in urban and rural Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian communities: How can democracy and human rights be promoted through transnational donations to civil society?
Social inclusivity, equality, and justice, as framed by the Sustainable Development Goals, require democratic processes and respect for human rights.Across Belarus, Russia, and Ukr...
The effect of transformation on plastic transport in and from agricultural soils
Application of wastewater treatment sludge on soils are highly beneficial to a bio-based society and sustainable agriculture but also increase the concentration of plastics.Plastic...
Drivers for rapid climate change in the Arctic - the role of warm and moist air intrusions and clouds
This project aims to investigate the influence of warm and moist air intrusions on Arctic clouds and thus Arctic climate.Arctic clouds are one key element of the feedback processes...
Hormonal neuromodulation during dyadic social interactions
Interacting socially with another person affects both brain and body. It changes our hormone levels, our heartbeat, and leaves traces in our brains.Recent research has suggested th...