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Conditions, Challenges, and Experiences as a Business Owner and Entrepreneur

This study seeks to fill a gap in research on farm labor in Sweden in the age of sustainability transitions. The focus is on farm work processes – who does them, with what machines, under what social conditions, and with what consequences for sustainability.

Fashion Studies examines the history of fashion, its social and economic functions and its role in the development of global production and consumption of clothing.
Fashion Studies examines the history of fashion, its social and economic functions and its role in the development of global production and consumption of clothing.
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The project ‘Fathers and children in child health care’ is an ethnographic study about institutional talk. The aim of the study is to investigate the interaction between fathers and professionals (nurses) in child health care (BVC).

This project examine why fathers working in occupations requiring the highest qualifications, such as medical doctors and lawyers, claim more than twice the length of father leave than those in occupations requiring the least qualifications, such as cleaners and machine operators.
Fatigue is anecdotally one of the most commonly reported and disabling symptoms after COVID-19 and is the cardinal symptom in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and exhaustion disorder (ED).

Electronic health records are full of important information about diagnoses and treatments of patients. Sharing this information in a federated health data network, across hospitals in the Nordic countries, will improve the quality of health care.

Federated Reinforcement Learning is an emerging research field which allows multiple AI systems to learn together – without sharing their private data. In this project, we explore how scalable systems can be built.

Feedbacks between a changing climate and vegetation (CLIVE): The role of volatile organic compounds and biogenic aerosols. CLIVE aims to explore how forests, particularly in boreal and tropical regions, influence climate change through their interactions with carbon and water cycles.
Can polar clouds dampen global warming? The current consensus states that clouds enhance surface warming in polar regions but that their impact on the net energy budget at the top of the atmosphere, and thus global climate, is either small or cooling.
This project by Eugene Costello is funded by a a Humanities and Social Sciences Project Grant from the Swedish Research Council and will run until 2025.

FELIX investigates cats' exposure to PFAS substances and links to hormone-related diseases. Cats are beneficial models of human exposure to indoor chemicals. The results are therefore highly relevant for human health as well.

One of the research areas of Theatre Studies is feminist and queer performing arts with a transnational and intersectional outlook.

Within this scientific approach, culture is studied as aesthetic, bodily and material practices from a feminist perspective.
Feminist literary researchers aim to unsettle the meaning of a text, displacing and conditionalising it.

Global politics focuses on the ways international issues relate to gender, sexuality and other social hierarchies.

Since 2010, fertility rates in Sweden have been declining. This development is rather surprising since Swedish family policies are internationally acclaimed for facilitating childbearing and childrearing. The researchers in this project seek to identify the factors that drive these developments.