Funding and projects

All projects have been placed at the Södertörn University. The projects are listed in chronological order according to the year of funding. Research projects funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, as a rule, last for three years. For further information on the projects, visit the University’s website, contact the respective project manager or the Foundation’s secretariat.

Publications
For publications visit the DiVA-portal. To access all publications registered with The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen) as funder use this link. For publications related to individual projects use simple search, choose “BETA – Projects” option and search on the project’s name. Please note, this function is under development.

Projects granted by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies from 2008 onwards can also be found in SweCRIS, a national database of grant-funded research.

Project database


2016

Effects of SSRI exposures early in life on juvenile and adult behavior in three-spine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) and possible effects in the Baltic Sea.

Field: Zoologi
Project leader: Håkan Olsén
Project type:

Various drugs have been found in effluents from sewage treatment plants (STP). Swedish studies have demonstrated a wide spect...

Firm demography and entrepreneurship in Eastern and Central Europe and in the Baltic region.

Field: Företagsekonomi
Project leader: Marcus Box
Project type:

The present project proposal focuses on entrepreneurship and firm dynamics in the Nordic-, Central- and East European economi...

Independence in higher education: A comparative study of Sweden and Russia.

Field: Svenska
Project leader: Jenny Magnusson
Project type:

Since the Bologna Declaration in 1999, independence is a concept that has gained much importance in higher education, especia...

Police, Experts and Race: Handling the “Gypsy Plague” in Denmark, Sweden and Latvia, 1930-1945.

Field: Historia
Project leader: Madeleine Hurd
Project type:

In September 2013, Dagens Nyheter ran the headline “The Police Register Thousands of Romanis”. This, of course, horrified...

Propaganda and management of information in the Ukraine-Russia conflict: From nation branding to information war.

Field: Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
Project leader: Per Ståhlberg
Project type:

The conflict between Ukraine and Russia has once again reminded the world that wars are not only fought with guns and physic...

Remembering Poland and Eastern Europe: Nostalgia, Memory, and Affect in Diasporic Women’s Writing.

Field: Engelsk litteratur
Project leader: Elizabeth Kella
Project type:

“Remembering Poland and Eastern Europe” has the aim of examining representations of Eastern Europe in fiction, autobiographi...

Returning to Europe and Turning Away From “Europe”? Post-Accession Attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe.

Field: Statsvetenskap
Project leader: Joakim Ekman
Project type:

This project addresses the recent backlash against European values in a post-communist setting, i.e. the manifold instances o...

Terra, patria, urbs. the construction of collective identities in the Swedish Baltic Empire during early-modern times.

Field: Retorik
Project leader: Annika Ström
Project type:

This project examines, from perspectives of rhetoric and the history of ideas, the construction of collective identities in t...


2015

Abroad-recruited physicians’ education on medical Swedish in Poland

Field: Svenska
Project leader: Ingela Tykesson
Project type:

Foreign-educated physicians have become increasingly important for the Swedish healthcare sector. Most of the Swedish county ...

Adverse childhood experiences, alcohol use in adulthood and mortality: Examining the associations using retrospective survey data and record linkage in Estonia

Field: Sociologi
Project leader: Andrew Stickley
Project type:

Longitudinal research suggests that childhood socioeconomic and psychosocial environment impact on health status in adulthood...

Auditing the school sector – a comparative study of systems of school inspection in Sweden, Finland and Poland

Field: Företagsekonomi
Project leader: Anders Ivarsson Westerberg
Project type:

In recent decades auditing – including activities such as supervision, evaluation, quality assurance, scrutiny, inspection, c...

Challenging the myths of weak civil society in post-socialist settings: ‘Unexpected’ alliances and mobilizations in the field of housing activism in Poland

Field: Sociologi
Project leader: Dominika V. Polanska
Project type:

Projektsammanfattning

There are many gaps in the scientific lit...

Driving forces of democracy. Context and characteristics in the democratization of Finland and Sweden 1890-2020

Field: Samtidshistoria
Project leader: Kjell Östberg
Project type:

In an international comparison, the democracies of Sweden and Finland appear to be unusually stable political cultures. Howev...

Gender and Political Cultures of Knowledge in Germany, Poland, and Sweden

Field: Genusvetenskap, statsvetenskap
Project leader: Teresa Kulawik
Project type:

The shift towards a so-called knowledge society has generated a rapidly growing scholarly interest in how knowledge is produc...

Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate forcing on the Baltic Sea

Field: Miljövetenskap
Project leader: Thomas Andrén
Project type:

During autumn 2013 the first ever scientific drilling expedition in the Baltic Sea was carried out within the International O...

Marine Spatial Planning in the Baltic Sea Region – Integrating Scales, Sectors and Knowledge

Field: Miljövetenskap
Project leader: Michael Gilek
Project type:

Threats to the Baltic Sea marine environment and natural resources posed by disparate activities such as overfishing, shippin...

New Media and the Dynamics of Civil Society in the New EU Democracies: A Paired Comparison

Field: Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
Project leader: Maria Bakardjeva
Project type:

This project is positioned at the intersection of three research traditions with often overlapping objects of inquiry, and ye...

Nuclear legacies: Negotiating radioactivity in France, Russia and Sweden

Field: Industrihistoria
Project leader: Anna Storm
Project type:

Of about 540 commercial nuclear reactors in the world, 100 have already been taken out of use. In the near future, many more ...

Sustainable Communities through Digital Design

Field: Medieteknik
Project leader: Maria Normark
Project type:

Urban farming makes a suitable case for investigating how values and ideas are shared, communicated and reproduced through di...

The Gateway to Russia: Memory Politics, Materiality and Collective Identities – St Catherine Swedish Congregation in St Petersburg around the turn of two Centuries

Field: Religionsvetenskap
Project leader: Gunilla Gunner
Project type:

The Gateway to Russia: Memory Politics, Materiality and Collective Identities – St Catherine Swedish Congregation in St Peter...

Funding and projects

All projects have been placed at the Södertörn University. The projects are listed in chronological order according to the year of funding. Research projects funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, as a rule, last for three years. For further information on the projects, visit the University’s website, contact the respective project manager or the Foundation’s secretariat.

Publications
For publications visit the DiVA-portal. To access all publications registered with The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen) as funder use this link. For publications related to individual projects use simple search, choose “BETA – Projects” option and search on the project’s name. Please note, this function is under development.

Projects granted by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies from 2008 onwards can also be found in SweCRIS, a national database of grant-funded research.