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At the Department of historical, philosophical, and religious studies we conduct research within archaeology, history, history of ideas, philosophy, religious studies and theology. Several of our scholars also work within interdisciplinary research environments and projects.

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Disability in Past Life Histories: Archival Facts and Literary Fiction from 19th-century Sweden (DISTORY)
Research area: General literary studies, History, Statistics
Duration 1 January 2024 until 31 December 2026
Type of project Research project
HerCul

Prioritization of climate-threatened cultural heritage – attitudes and methods

Research area: Archaeology
Duration 1 January 2023 until 31 December 2025
Type of project Research project
AICE The AI-Supported Image Analysis in Large Bowel Camera Capsule Endoscopy.
Research area: Philosophy and philosophy of science
Duration 1 September 2022 until 31 August 2026
Type of project Research project
Peripheral Visions: When global agendas meet Nordic energy peripheries
Research area: Ecology, Educational sciences, History, History of ideas, Political science
Duration 1 September 2022 until 31 August 2025
Type of project Research project
Israel Ruong: a scientific biography
Research area: Educational sciences, History
Duration 29 August 2022 until 29 August 2026
Type of project PhD project
Scandinavianism and the school during the 19th century
Research area: Educational sciences, History
Duration 29 August 2022 until 29 August 2026
Type of project PhD project
Social democracy and the labour communes: Organizational choices 1889-1932
Research area: History
Duration 28 August 2022 until 28 August 2026
Type of project PhD project
Route to Paris
Duration 1 November 2021 until 31 October 2025
Type of project Research project
Causation, Correlation and Sensitivity
Research area: Philosophy and philosophy of science
Duration 1 August 2021 until 31 July 2024
Type of project Research project
AutogrAIde – AI for Automating Grading
Duration 1 June 2021 until 1 June 2022
Type of project Research project
The elementary school teachers' collective agency 1846 - 1880
Research area: Educational sciences, History
Duration 1 September 2020 until 1 February 2025
Type of project PhD project
Causation, responsibility and moral norms
Research area: Philosophy and philosophy of science
Duration 1 September 2020 until 31 August 2022
Type of project Post-doc project
Which speech act is required for lying and misleading?
Research area: Philosophy and philosophy of science
Duration 31 August 2020 until 2 June 2024
Type of project Research project
Per Engdahl, the New Swedish Movement and swedish (neo-)fascism
Research area: History
Duration 31 August 2020 until 31 August 2024
Type of project PhD project
Teachers' way of renegotiating history teaching in relation to a multi-ethnic classroom context
Research area: Educational sciences, History
Duration 3 August 2020
Type of project PhD project
The power of one? -The long-term increase in one-person households in Sweden, 1900-2017
Research area: Demography, History
Duration 30 June 2020 until 30 June 2023
Type of project Research project
DISTIME Ageing with disabilities in past, present and future societies: Risks, loads and later life outcomes
Research area: Demography, History, Media and communications, Public health and health care science, Social work, Statistics
Duration 1 January 2020 until 30 June 2030
Type of project Research project
How are we able to think about things?
Research area: Philosophy and philosophy of science
Duration 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2022
Type of project Research project
The DIRECT-study

Disclosure of genetic risk to prevent cancer

Research area: Cancer, Philosophy and philosophy of science
Duration 2 September 2019 until 31 December 2025
Type of project Research project
AI, Democracy and Self-Determination
Research area: Computing science, Philosophy and philosophy of science
Duration 1 September 2019 until 1 September 2023
Type of project Research project
Cultural environments and landscapes in a changed climate. Climate adaptation of the Swedish Transport Administration's operations for robust planning for increased achievement of environmental goals
Research area: Archaeology
Duration 1 January 2019 until 28 February 2021
Type of project Research project
Responsibility and disability
Research area: Philosophy and philosophy of science
Duration 1 January 2019 until 30 June 2021
Type of project Research project
Teaching Rival Histories: History Teachers’ Epistemological Stances and Epistemic Switching
Research area: Educational sciences, History
Duration 1 January 2019 until 31 December 2022
Type of project Research project
Emotions in 18th century Everyday Life: Class, gender, and godliness in Pehr Stenberg’s autobiography
Research area: Ethnology, Museology
Duration 1 January 2019
Type of project Research project
Epigenetics, Experience and Responsibility: Implications for neurodevelopmental disorders
Research area: Philosophy and philosophy of science
Duration 1 January 2019 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project
Does Self-Giving Love Require an Evolutionary World? Evolutionary Theodicy in Light of the Mystical Tradition
Research area: Religious studies and theology
Duration 1 December 2018 until 30 November 2020
Type of project Research project
Caring stories in Swedish compulsory school
Research area: Educational sciences, Gender studies, Religious studies and theology
Duration 23 September 2018 until 23 September 2023
Type of project PhD project
Capital Crime and the Royal Mercy. Emotion, discourse and praxis in petitioning the Judicial inspection, 1660–1779
Research area: History
Duration 3 September 2018 until 3 September 2022
Type of project Research project
Blinded by the light: studying settlement patterns using NIR – spectroscopy and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions
Research area: Archaeology, Digital humanities, Earth science
Duration 3 September 2018 until 14 November 2023
Type of project PhD project
Determining the Value-Space of Well-Being in the Capability Approach
Research area: Philosophy and philosophy of science
Duration 3 September 2018 until 2 September 2022
Type of project PhD project
Springboards and Parentheses: Representations of the Age of Liberty and the reign of Gustav III in historical culture 1870–1990
Research area: Educational sciences, History
Duration 3 September 2018 until 3 September 2022
Type of project PhD project
Controversial issues in social studies education: A comparative study in subject didactics
Research area: Educational sciences
Duration 1 April 2018 until 30 June 2023
Type of project Research project
Bring down the sky to the earth: how to use forests to open up for constructive climate change pathways in local contexts
Research area: History, Political science
Duration 1 January 2018 until 31 December 2021
Type of project Research project
Future People and the Concept of Sustainability
Research area: Philosophy and philosophy of science
Duration 1 September 2017 until 31 December 2020
Type of project Research project
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
Type of project Research project
The Rise and Risks of CRISPR/Cas9: Cultural and Ethical Perspectives on the New Gene Technology
Research area: History of ideas, Philosophy and philosophy of science
Duration 1 July 2017 until 30 June 2020
Type of project Research project
Property rights under attack? A historical comparison of private property rights to forest land.
Research area: History, History of ideas
Duration 1 June 2017 until 31 December 2019
Type of project Research project
Conveying basic values – Methods for moral reasoning and teachers’ attitudes to values
Research area: Philosophy and philosophy of science, Religious studies and theology
Duration 18 May 2017 until 31 December 2018
Type of project Research project
Honor thy father and thy mother- ambivalent emotions and conflicts between parent and child generations in early modern Sweden and Finland
Research area: History
Duration 7 March 2017 until 31 December 2017
Type of project Research project
DataARC - a Cyberinfrastructure to Enable Interdisciplinary Research on the Long-Term Human Ecodynamics of the North Atlantic
Research area: Archaeology, Biological sciences, Earth science, History
Duration 1 September 2016 until 9 September 2019
Type of project Research project
Latest update: 2020-12-09