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From Here to Eternity: A Study of How the Peace of the Grave is Interpreted in Practice
As the result of urbanisation, densification and Sweden’s move towards a multicultural society there will, within a few years, be a shortage of burial plots in Sweden’s metropolita...
Identifying new sources of nitrogen fixation in Sweden’s boreal forests
Nitrogen supports forest productivity, and nitrogen supplied to trees primarily originates from biological nitrogen fixation, a process that converts atmospheric nitrogen to plant-...
Supporting older spousal caregivers who care for a partner with multimorbidity at home - a cluster randomized person-centred intervention trial to promote preparedness, quality of life and health
Research problem and specific questions: This project aims to evaluate the person-centred Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool Intervention (CSNAT-I), in Swedish “Ditt behov av stöd...
Regulating the Polluter Elite: Exploring policy measures limiting carbon footprints of the rich
Our society is caught up in a double crisis.While levels and structures of social inequality have reached scales that experts comparable to the 19th century, the climate and enviro...
A randomised controlled trial comparing metabolic surgery to optimised care in patients with severe obesity and a prior myocardial infarction (MIMS-study (Myocardial Infarction and Metabolic Surgery))
Obesity is associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease (CVD).Metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) has in several randomized controlled trials (RCT) been shown...
What are they doing? A programme theory of the Swedish social services interventions Contact Person and Contact Family for children
Research problem and specific questions Every year, 10-15,000 children in Sweden receive a contact person or contact family from the social service. These are means-tested interven...
Are bats exposed to chemicals primarily through the aquatic environment?
This research proposal focus on bats and their exposure to anthropogenic chemicals.Several anthropogenic chemicals enter our waterways annually and exposed aquatic insects bioaccum...
Evaluating effectiveness of the school-based intervention Sustainable Innovation for Children Transporting Actively (SICTA)
Research problem and specific questions Children are increasingly sedentary - a great public health threat that urgently needs to be addressed.A simple way to reverse this trend is...
Smart condition monitoring of municipal sewer pipe networks - Smart Sewers
Water and wastewater organizations spend billions annually to renew their networks. Efficient renewal strategies for prioritization are crucial to make the most of limited resource...
Stockholm Center on Global Governance
Global governance is required to deal with transboundary problems, such as climatic changes, health pandemics, financial crises, and military conflicts.Yet global governance is inc...
EDUCATE: Excellence Dark Universe Centre and Technology Enabler
The nature of dark matter and dark energy, which together make up 95% of the Universe´s energy budget, is unknown.This is arguably among the biggest puzzles in natural science toda...
Chemical mechanisms of Life
At the scale of atoms, Life is controlled by chemical reactions between nucleic acids, proteins, and metabolites. However, there are large gaps of understanding on how the differen...
COMMONS-Commonalities in membrane molecular interactions
Biological processes and drug formulations rely on finetuned biomolecular interactions.A vast amount of current research is spent on very important discoveries and characterization...
The centre for art and the political imaginary
The Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary has two main purposes: 1) to examine the ways artistic practice shape how the political is (re-)imagined and represented today; 2) to...
Prevention of type 2 diabetes by digital lifestyle management
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a major threat to human health worldwide.Despite the enormous potential in addressing the root cause of the problem by early lifestyle intervention, which...
Are small particles a large problem? – Assessing the environmental impact of current and future levels of nanoplastics on natural aquatic ecosystems
Society is facing a global environmental challenge where the state of knowledge is meager, namely the release of plastic nanoparticles. Today, plastic constitute one of the fastest...
Towards a sustainable and resilient water supply in Sweden: Holistic solutions to groundwater drought and water scarcity
Groundwater, the “invisible resource”, provides drinking water to 80% of Swedish municipalities and is tapped by ~600000 private wells for domestic, industrial, and agricultural us...
Understanding Metabolic-Reproductive Disruption in Vertebrates: Lifelong Mitochondrial, Epigenomic and Physiological Effects of Developmental Exposure to Environmental Toxicants
Substantial evidence exists that early exposure to endocrine disruptors (EDs) causes reproductive dysfunction in vertebrates.Some of the OECD guidelines for testing the effects of...
Lichen monitoring using airborne DNA – effects of climate change and land use
Biodiversity declines rapidly across the globe due to various environmental changes, including land use and climate change.Long-term monitoring is fundamental to understand the mec...
Women in social and structural homelessness: intersectional perspectives on social and geographical exclusion, and how such exclusion can be prevented
An increasing housing shortage has led to a significantly greater responsibility for the municipalities when it comes to providing housing for vulnerable groups.The resulting acute...