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The principles of perceived odor intensity coding across the olfactory hierarchy
Intensity coding is at the core of perception, allowing us to discriminate between the candle and the sun, the whisper and the shout.Odors also exist across a vast intensity spectr...
Migration as "hybrid threat" at EU´s Eastern borders
Rising geopolitical tensions between the EU and its Eastern neighborhood has prompted claims that countries like Russia, Belarus, and Turkey are instrumentalizing migration as a to...
Futuring World Politics: The politics of foresight in International Organizations
In a time of resurging military conflict, looming climate disaster, technological disruption and global pandemics, the future of international politics seems radically uncertain.Am...
An inventory of language skills at school start. Which factors explain differences in Swedish among mono- and multilingual children?
Today, as a consequence of mobility and migration, a great number of children are learning society’s majority language alongside with other languages. A vast body of research is po...
The road from Tidewater Inn: UN Second Development Decade and the making of a post-colonial world order, 1969−1975
The purpose of the project THE ROAD FROM TIDEWATER INN is to deepen our understanding of the strategic and tactical considerations that shaped the industrial countries’ response to...
Unequal Opportunities to Advance Equality? Gender and Racial/Ethnic Civil Society in Comparative Context
Civil society organisations (CSOs) are key to advancing equality, particularly in their ability to influence and scrutinize government policy.However, we know very little of a) the...
Saying No: The impact on Custodianship processes of elite organizations
This project explores the impact of ‘saying no’ on custodianship processes in elite organizations.To do this, we focus on the elite French mountain rescue services in Chamonix (Pel...
Achieving change and security in social services’ work with perpetrators of intimate partner violence
Research problemSwedish social services has been tasked with support and protection of battered women since the 1990s.In 2021, the social services were given increased responsibili...
Human Rights Mobilisation of Welfare Professionals Against the Informers Act - Arguments, Strategies and Practices (HUMASP)
This project studies the protests and mobilisations against the Swedish government´s and the Sweden Democrats´ proposition of The Informers Act (angiverilagen).Through this planned...
Frontline Defenders for Peace? Exploring the role of Environmental Human Rights Defenders in the era of environmental transformation
In tandem with increasingly unsustainable global resource extraction, we are seeing friction between extraction interests, local communities and ecosystems. This friction has inten...
Relational Structures Enabling Transformative actions in small-scale fishery supply chains facing coalescing changes (ReSET)
Food supply chains connecting producers with consumers need to develop transformative actions to ensure food system resilience and sustainability, while responding to diverse envir...
The potential of common duckweed (Lemna minor) as an alternative and sustainable feed source for a resilient livestock production system in the face of climate change
The project aims to improve the resilience and sustainability of livestock production to increase food security in a world challenged by climate change and political instability.Ru...
Patient involvement utopia or opportunity – co-created model for and by women with comorbidity in homelessness with a need for coordinated welfare efforts
Research QuestionThe overall research question of the project: How can a co-created model for patient participation in the collaboration of healthcare and social interventions for...
Innovative dilute alloy electrocatalysts for carbon dioxide electroreduction in electrolyzers
Ethylene is a major commodity chemical, and its demand is expected to increase.Today, ethylene is primarily derived from thermal cracking of fossil fuel-based hydrocarbons and the...
Health, milk ejection and welfare in dairy cows that have contact with their calves
The interest in keeping dairy cows and calves together is increasing among consumers and farmers, as this is perceived as more natural than conventional practice. However, it is im...
Blind Justice? Comparing Voluntary and Coercive Rape Legislations
The purpose of this project, based on statistical and computational methods, is to systematically investigate the occurrence and content of judicial bias in rape judgements.It is b...
Work environment safety with robots at construction sites
Research problem and specific questionsBuilding construction is associated with high numbers of work accidents and injuries.Parts of these problems can be remedied by automation, w...
Older people with intellectual disabilities – the consequences of discrepancies between disparate legislation, varying organisational structures of local authorities and diverse forms of care
Research problem and specific questions Older adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) are a new category of older people, as they are now living longer thanks to better living c...
When collaboration falters: Family members’ managerial caregiving
Research problem and specific questions: Around one in ten Swedish people need support from others to help them coordinate their use of health and social care. This role tends to f...
Transformations of cultural heritage in times of war preparedness and insecurity
The war in Ukraine and the military build-up in Europe have drawn attention to the role of cultural heritage for Sweden’s defence strategy.Security discourse now emphasizes the sig...