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Modern Times 1936
What is it that software sees, hears and perceives when technologies for pattern recognition are applied to media historical sources?All historical work requires interpretation, bu...
A Happy Life. Women’s Moral Philosophy in 17th- and 18th-Century Scandinavia
What is a good life? Who decides?The project "A Happy Life" explores how Scandinavian female intellectuals in the 17th and 18th centuries treated these fundamental philos...
Traveling Voices - The diachronic development of the voice system in Baltic, Slavic, and Germanic branches from a migrational perspective
A dialogue among biologists, linguists, archaeologists, and historians over the reconstruction of the prehistoric past of Indo-European peoples has just started with the recent res...
Cultivating identities and capitalism: Scandinavians and the Siamese royal elite in-between empires.
This collaborative research project studies connections between Scandinavia and Siam (Thailand) from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century.Through a unique compilation...
Generation differences in determinants of cognitive aging: Comparisons of five population-based representative Swedish cohorts born 44-years apart and followed from age 70 on multiple occasions
Studies show large birth cohort differences in cognitive aging. In terms of level, onset of decline, and rate of change. Studies also reveal multiple interacting factors accounting...
An age-old advantage? Healthy aging in two centuries of Swedish and Dutch long-lived families (1813-2021)
A growing part of the population lives to an increasingly high age, but the years spent in good physical and mental health – the healthy life expectancy – lags behind. To reduce so...
What Happens with Education when the Convention on the Rights of the Child becomes Law
The Convention on the Rights of the Child became Swedish law on the 1st of January 2020. It was preceded by a process during which stakeholder bodies expressed different views. Whi...
Egypt as a Project: Dreamwork and masculinity in a projectified society
This research project explores social and political implications of dreams that take the shape of projects in Cairo. As in most parts of the world, projects have become the default...
The hybridization of political communication: Politicized news formats and the boundaries of journalism
Over the last decade, digital transformations towards a hybrid media system have resulted in a breakdown of boundaries between producers and consumers of news, between professional...
Why do gender inequalities in work and care persist? Parents' division of labor across contemporary families.
The transition to parenthood is critical in producing and amplifying gender inequalities in work and family life.After parenthood, mothers take on the vast majority of childcare re...
The Western Migration and Globalization of Chaitanya Vaishnavism and its Gradual Return to Bengal, India
India today is a leading world power; it is also a country still largely defined by its religious heritage.As the West increases its interactions with various Indian interests, suc...
Metascience
There is increasing concern about reproducibility in many scientific fields and to what extent statistically significant published research findings are credible.Recent large-scale...
Stress across the life course and late-life cognitive and physical function: Which modifiable social and lifestyle factors affects the association?
With a rapidly growing older population, it is important to identify factors that influence function in older age. Late-life function reflects different environmental and personal...
Transmission of iron technology among hunter-gatherers of prehistoric Arctic
Previous research by the research group and substantial new archaeological evidence has shown that iron technology (incl. bloomery steel production and smithing) was an integral pa...
Återbesök på Stenålderslokalen Ajvide – variation inom lokalen samt genetiskt- och social släktskap
Archaeogenetic research proven to be a valuable tool for studying population affiliations and patterns of migration in prehistoric populations.However, to move beyond matters of ge...
Unmapping Africa: Enlightenment Geography and the Making of Blank Spaces
In the eighteenth century, European maps of Africa became increasingly empty.Rivers and mountains, kingdoms and cities that had been mapped for centuries, suddenly disappeared and...
The Child in the Wasteocene: Trash Thematics, Waste Aesthetics, and Environmental Ethics in Swedish Children’s Culture 1969–1977
The purpose of the study is to explore the many functions of waste in Swedish children’s picture books, television programs, and theater performances from 1969 to 1977, a period th...
Forgotten Lives. Unearthing Psychiatric Patients' Life Stories in Swedish Patient Files, 1880–1910
This project investigates psychiatric patients' life stories 1880–1910. The aim is to produce new knowledge about patients' personal narratives, and underline the importa...
Investigating the distinctive features and resilience of human resource management in the Nordic countries: A longitudinal and cross-national study
How effectively industrial relations is carried out at the national level, and human resource management (HRM) at the organizational level, affect the working lives and well-being...
EEGManyPipelines - effekter av analytisk variabilitet på resultat i EEG-forskning
Electroencephalography (EEG) is widely used to investigate human cognition. However, the credibility of EEG findings has been called into question. Analysis pipelines are highly va...