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SSAAPS travel grants awarded 2009

Published 2009-03-29

SSAAPS’s steering committee has decided, on February 12th, to award nine travel grants during 2009 to a total cost of 410 000 SEK.

The travel grants have been awarded to:

Oscar Almén, Department of Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, SEK 40 000, research visit to China within the project ”The state’s capacity to maintain an empire: Chinese local democracy reforms as intentional state policy or challenges from below”

Mattias Burell, Department of Government, Uppsala University, SEK 45 000, research visit to China within the project ”Migrant policy in Xi’an: Bureaucratic cohesion and public opinion”

Linus Hagström, The Swedish Institute for international affairs, SEK 40 000, research visit to Japan within the project ”The politics of national identity and Japan’s changing foreign policy”

Martina Klimesova, Institute for Security and Development Policy, SEK 55 000, research visit to Singapore within the project ”Using carrots to bring peace? Negotiation and third party involvement”

Amanda Lagerkvist, Department of English, The Swedish Institute for North American Studies, Uppsala university, SEK 30 000, research visit to China within the project ”In the new ’New World’: Americans in New Shanghai”

Sofia K. Ledberg, Department of Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, SEK 50 000, research visit to China within the project ”Chinese civil-military relations in transition: Investigating attitudes and beliefs in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army”

Marina Svensson, Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund University, SEK 50 000, research visit to China within the project ”Investigative journalism in China: legal issues and media consumption on the countryside”

Nadi Tofighian, Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, SEK 40 000, research visit to South East Asia within the project ”Economic history of cinema in Southeast Asia, 1895-1925

Emilie Wellfelt, School of Humanities, History, Växjö University, SEK 60 000, research visit to Indonesia within the project ”Processes of history formation in Alor, Indonesia”.

The Bell Tower and Beyond

Dr Birgitte Malm, Associate Professor at Malmö University spent the Fall term 2009 at Furman University, USA on the STINT Excellence in Teaching Programme. STINT has since some years established co-operation with American higher education institutions, dedicated to Liberal Education.

Frizzled signalling

Gunnar Schulte at Karolinska Institutet was awarded an Institutional Grant for Younger Researchers in 2008 for the international collaboration project "Frizzled signalling - protein-protein interactions and intracellular scaffolding as a means of signal transduction".

Online games - the rise of creative industries in Asia

With a travel grant from the STINT funded SSAAPS project Patrik Ström and Mirko Ernkvist studied online games in South East Asia. The service industry has become the most important part of GDP in all of the world’s most advanced economies.

A triggered lightning

In the beginning of 2001 a lightning research group at Uppsala started a research program on NOx production from lightning flashes. During one of the international conference gatherings Professor Vernon Cooray had a discussion with Professor Vlad Rakov from University of Florida on the possibility of a joint cooperation. These discussions led to a submission of an application to STINT for funding for an international collaboration between Uppsala University and University of Florida. The application was granted and the collaboration was initiated in 2005.