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Do SYStem-dynamics models in Climate Assemblies (SYSCA) enhance deliberation and support transformative change?
How can democratic societies support the transformative policies needed for sustainability?Politicised debates rarely grasp complex societal and environmental interactions, especia...
Towards better risk assessment of cadmium in agricultural soil for sustainable nutrient management
This PhD project aims to determine sustainable application rates of recycled nutrient sources like biogas digestates, biofuel ashes, and beachcast seaweed. These sources can replac...
Solving the conflict between reindeer herding and forestry in northern Sweden – new approaches linking indigenous local knowledge, retrospective landscape data and adapted forest management
Reindeer herding and forestry are the dominant, overlapping and competing forms of land use in northern Sweden.While reindeer herding have a long history of spatially broad but low...
From bondage to the free labor market: wages, prices and living standards in the Caribbean for a century after emancipation
How have the living standards of workers worldwide developed historically, and what has determined this development?To answer these questions of comparative development, scholars h...
Alternatives to Autocracy: Counterfactual thinking in Roman imperial historiography
The project questions the widely held assumption that one-man rule was perceived as inevitable by the historians of the Roman Empire (31 BCE - CE 476).Inspired by research on count...
Consultants as Public Servants? Upholding Public Values in Central Government Agencies‘ use of Private Consultants
Research problem and specific questionsThe overarching question for this project is how inclusion of private consultants in government agencies affects public values.The project ex...
ADAPTide: decrypting sustainable and responsive nutrition by mapping the effects of plant-based foods on metabolic profiling
What we eat has a significant impact on the environment. That´s mainly because food habits strongly influence food production, directly impacting the ecosystem.Identifying healthy...
The bit(less) debate and how to facilitate human behaviour change to improve horse welfare
A concerningly high percentage, i.e. 35-80% of sports horses suffer from mouth injuries. Limited research has addressed the causes of these injuries, although such knowledge would...
On the road again: The rise and decline of itinerant rule
Modern states are centered on capitals. However, in the past many states lacked capitals and centralized government agencies. Instead, rulers governed by travelling around their re...
Peatland ditching and subsequent afforestation as a driver of surface water browning - the role of fungal communities
Browning - that freshwaters are becoming increasingly brown - is widely observed in northern regions, and is caused by increased leaking of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and iron...
Effective field theories in subatomic physics
This application nominates Prof. Daniel Phillips of Ohio University, USA for the Tage Erlander visiting professorship in 2024. Prof.Phillips is a world-leading expert in effective...
Anne Orford, University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor Orford’s appointment as Olof Palme Visiting Professorship would benefit Swedish research on three significant and related issues: (1) the threats and challenges posed by...
Center for modeling adaptive mechanisms in living systems under stress
We propose consolidating a multidisciplinary complexity center that develops unifying computational approaches to studying living systems under stress -- from cells to ecosystems.T...
Knowingly causing ourselves harm
People often behave in ways they know will result in negative consequences.Examples range from behaviors that result in harm to the individual, such addiction, to those that harm h...
Centre for Integrated Metaphotonics
Integrated photonics refers to the science and technology that deals with the synthesis, processing and detection of light at the chip scale.The field is enabling many exciting sci...
Center for Geometry and Physics
The Center for Geometry and Physics is an interdisciplinary center with purpose to bring together researchers in theoretical physics (physics) and geometry (pure mathematics).Both...
Shifting the Calculus of Candidacy? Assessing the Impact of Hostile Political Climates on the Political Ambitions of Marginalized Groups
In many established democracies, citizens who consider entering politics face increasingly hostile political climates. How does this affect the desire to pursue a political career...
Development of a robotized research platform for direct remanufacturing of end-of-life Li-ion batteries
With the rapid growth of the battery-powered electric vehicle fleet, the need for higher efficiency recycling of spent battery materials will increase.Traditional pyro/hydro-metall...
One foot here one foot there: how is sustainable economic development, innovation and working life affected by second home ownership in Sweden?
This project is based on the premise that our daily lives are increasingly fragmented across different locations, for many that is between their primary and secondary homes.Technol...
Can Art be National? Japonisme and Transculturation in Turn of the Century Sweden and Poland.
Motivated by a revival of discourses on national canons of art across Europe, the aim of this project in Art History is to advance a critical understanding of the role of transcult...