SEK 56 million in funding from the Swedish Research Council
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The Swedish Research Council has reached the decision to grant over SEK 56 million (€6.2 million) in support for 15 new research projects in the humanities, social sciences and educational sciences at Umeå University.
The Swedish Research Council is the largest state funder of basic research at Swedish higher education institutions and research institutes. Decisions regarding funding of research projects within medicine and natural and engineering sciences will be made in early November.
Statistics from the Swedish Research Council shows that Umeå University is performing strongly from a national perspective. Umeå University received the second most amount of funding in the field of educational sciences among all universities for the first grant year. In the humanities and social sciences Umeå University had the fifth highest amount of funding nationally.
The following researchers at Umeå University have received project grants from the Swedish Research Council:
Rickard Danell, Department of Sociology
Per-Olof Erixon, Department of Creative Studies (Teacher Education)
Görel Granström, Department of Law
Anders Hanberger, Department of Applied Educational Science
Linus Holm, Department of Psychology
Fredrik Karlsson, Department of Language Studies and the Department of Clinical Science, Logopedics
Jessica Driving Ljungberg, Department of Psychology
Johan Lindholm, Department of Law
Anna Larsson, Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Ulf Lundström, Department of Applied Educational Science
Guy Madison, Department of Psychology
Mikaela Nyroos, Department of Applied Educational Science
