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Current research projects at the Department of Cultural and Media Sciences are listed here.

A promised land? Drivers, challenges and opportunities related to the (green) industrialization of Northern Sweden
Research area: Economic history, Economics, Human geography, Political science
Duration 1 January 2023 until 31 December 2029
Type of project Research project
Mobilized villages: how local communities acted during the forest fires in 2018 and reorient themselves towards the future
Research area: Ethnology
Duration 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2022
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Social prescribing
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 July 2019 until 31 December 2025
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Alcohol and Social Media use among university students in Uganda: Perceptions, patterns and experiences, and the feasibility of social media based interventions for alcohol prevention
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 February 2019 until 28 February 2023
Type of project PhD project
Rural resilience: Ethnographic perspectives on voluntary practices in rural Norrland
Research area: Ethnology
Duration 1 January 2019 until 31 December 2022
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Emotions in 18th century Everyday Life: Class, gender, and godliness in Pehr Stenberg’s autobiography
Research area: Ethnology, Museology
Duration 1 January 2019
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Welfare State Analytics. Text Mining and Modeling Swedish Politics, Media & Culture, 1945-1989 (WeStAc)
Research area: Digital humanities, Media and communications
Duration 1 January 2019 until 31 December 2023
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Climate Change and the Double Amplification of Arctic Tourism: Challenges and Potential Solutions for Tourism and Sustainable Development in an Arctic Context
Research area: Human geography
Duration 1 December 2018 until 31 December 2023
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STAR-C: Sustainable behaviour change for health supported by person-Tailored, Adaptive, Risk-aware digital Coaching in a social context
Research area: Computing science, Public health and health care science
Duration 1 December 2018 until 30 November 2024
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European History Reloaded: Curation and Appropriation of Digital Audiovisual Heritage
Research area: Digital humanities
Duration 1 September 2018 until 31 August 2021
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Digital media initiatives as a resistance strategy by Indigenous peoples’ movements in contemporary Brazil
Research area: Media and communications
Duration 1 January 2018
Type of project PhD project
Digital landscapes of care: The digitalisation of Swedish health care and its significance for older patients in rural areas
Research area: Ethnology, Media and communications
Duration 1 January 2018 until 31 December 2021
Type of project Research project
Other Places: Sápmi, Meänmaa, and Migrant Cartographies.
Research area: General literary studies
Duration 1 January 2018 until 31 December 2019
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Outbreak ethnography - cultural and social perspectives
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 8 December 2017 until 1 March 2018
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iAccept: Soft surveillance – between acceptance and resistance
Research area: Digital humanities, Philosophy and philosophy of science, Religious studies and theology
Duration 1 July 2017 until 30 June 2021
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Oral narrative as intangible cultural heritage and social force
Research area: Ethnology
Duration 1 January 2017 until 31 December 2020
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Colonialism versus Decolonisation: The Role of Laestadius and Laestadianism in Contemporary Sámi and Tornedalian Texts
Research area: General literary studies
Duration 3 February 2016 until 31 December 2017
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LITERATURE AND PLACE-MAKING: MEÄNMAA IN CONTEMPORARY, TORNEDALIAN, IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE
Research area: General literary studies
Duration 2 February 2016 until 31 December 2019
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DISLIFE Liveable disabilities: Life courses and opportunity structures across time
Research area: Demography, History, Media and communications, Public health and health care science
Duration 1 February 2016 until 31 July 2021
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Digital Models. Techno-historical collections, digital humanities & narratives of industrialisation
Research area: Digital humanities, Media and communications
Duration 4 January 2016 until 31 December 2019
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Swedish Jazz Discourses 1919-1969
Research area: Ethnology
Duration 1 January 2015 until 31 December 2018
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Rural morality: meaning, mobilisation and citizenship in initiatives for a sustainable rural Swedish North
Research area: Ethnology, Human geography
Duration 1 January 2015 until 31 December 2018
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Swedish Images of Italy: Travel Literature in the Age of Liberty (1719–72)
Research area: General literary studies
Duration 1 January 2015 until 31 December 2021
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Swedish teachers’ views on the relation between ethics and aesthetics when it comes to text-based works of fiction.
Duration 1 September 2014
Type of project PhD project
Digital files – the press interface in 1800
Research area: Digital humanities, Media and communications, Sociology
Duration 1 January 2014 until 31 December 2016
Type of project Research project
Streaming Heritage: Following Files In Digital Music Distribution
Research area: Digital humanities, Media and communications
Duration 1 January 2014 until 31 December 2018
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Filmarkivet.se - a platform for cinema history
Research area: Media and communications
Duration 1 January 2013 until 31 December 2016
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Epidemics, vaccination and the power of narratives.
Research area: Ethnology
Duration 1 January 2013 until 31 December 2016
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The baby-boomers retire: Cultural beliefs and social effects of an ageing population
Research area: Ethnology, Media and communications
Duration 1 January 2010 until 31 December 2014
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Women’s public sphere in the Swedish daily newspapers 1920-1950
Duration 16 March 2009 until 30 June 2009
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Gender and Ethnicity in Kurdisk theatre in Sweden
Duration 26 February 2009 until 31 December 2011
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The conditions for making music - between cultural policy, economcis and esthetics
Research area: Ethnology
Duration 1 January 2009 until 31 December 2012
Type of project Research project
Ada Nilsson at the barricades in Triewaldsgränd. A biography
Duration 1 January 2009 until 31 December 2010
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The viewing image
Duration 17 April 2007 until 31 December 2008
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Scandinavian Nudes: Art, Creativity and Sexuality
Research area: Art history
Duration 6 March 2007 until 31 December 2010
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"love and something to laugh at!furthermore". Sara Lidman and the loveable gaze
Research area: General literary studies
Duration 25 February 2007 until 30 June 2007
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Passion and emancipation. Love, modernity and gender in Swedish 20th-century novels
Research area: General literary studies
Duration 25 February 2007 until 31 January 2008
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Love’s challenges. Revolt and Romance in Contemporary Popular Fiction
Duration 25 February 2007 until 31 December 2008
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Changing ideals - The swedish reception of Italian art during the 19th century
Duration 23 February 2007 until 31 December 2010
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The institutionalisation of the artlife in a swedish regional context 1850-1950
Duration 23 February 2007 until 31 December 2010
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An illustrated Nordic North
Duration 23 February 2007 until 31 December 2013
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Feminist academic writing as creative practice and emancipatory strategy
Research area: Gender studies, General literary studies
Duration 22 February 2007 until 31 December 2009
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Scared, pious, kind - and a bit feminine? Emotions and reactions in the Annunciation of Virgin Mary
Research area: Art history
Duration 22 February 2007 until 31 December 2010
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Inventing Norrland. The Construction of a Selfconsciousness in Norrlandic Writers from Pelle Molin to Eyvind Johnson.
Research area: General literary studies
Duration 20 February 2007 until 30 June 2008
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Jazz and the Jazz musician
Research area: Ethnology
Duration 9 February 2007 until 31 December 2009
Type of project Research project
Heritage as a resource on a local and regional level
Research area: Religious studies and theology
Duration 1 February 2007 until 31 December 2007
Type of project Research project
Challenging Gender - A Research Programme at Umeå Advanced Gender Studies
Research area: Art history, Education, Ethnology, Gender studies, General literary studies, History, Political science, Public health and health care science, Sociology
Duration 1 January 2007 until 31 December 2011
Type of project Research project
The Museum, The Exhibition, The Visitor. Learning in a new arena of education.
Research area: History of ideas
Duration 1 January 2007 until 30 September 2010
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Making meaning in/of old age
Research area: Ethnology
Duration 1 January 2007 until 31 December 2008
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Ambivalences – on art and gliding positions
Research area: Art history
Duration 1 January 2007 until 31 December 2009
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The museum, the exhibition and the visitors
Research area: Education
Duration 1 January 2007 until 31 December 2009
Type of project Research project
Evaluation of the project "Schools of diversity ideas"
Research area: Education, Ethnology
Duration 1 August 2006 until 31 May 2008
Type of project Research project
The nuclear waste issue in the media
Research area: Media and communications
Duration 1 January 2006 until 14 February 2007
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Focal Points of Humanities Today
Duration 1 January 2006 until 31 December 2010
Type of project Research project
Metamorphosis of the Artwork
Duration 1 January 2006 until 31 December 2009
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Music and politics in Sweden during the 1970’s
Research area: Ethnology
Duration 1 May 2005 until 31 December 2007
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Analogcal thinking and literary value
Research area: General literary studies
Duration 1 January 2004 until 31 December 2010
Type of project Research project
The school as a place for constructions of gender and sexuality
Research area: Ethnology
Duration 1 January 2004 until 31 December 2006
Type of project Research project
Latest update: 2022-07-19