Design for sustainable learning at Kulturmagasinet
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Research Projects
At the University, there are a range of research projects in a variety of substances.
Ongoing Research Projects
Duvkom - Digitization of the education system in the municipalities
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Gender equality integrated administration
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A transition to an even more preventive and health-promoting municipal activity
The municipality of Härnösand has begun a major change. It is a change or perhaps rather a transformation initiated by municipal director Lars Liljedahl.
Accessible and Inclusive Nature-Based Tourism: Promising Practices of Universal Design in Sweden
The purpose of this project is to determine the level of access to different types of Swedish recreational outdoor environments (e.g., mountainous and forested areas, winter- and summer destination...
Aegis
Asthma is relatively common among the population in Sweden, but even more common among those who practice endurance training in the cold, such as cross-country skiers. Can the use of heat and...
AGERA
"AGEnda 2030 and the global goals for sustainable development as a framework for collaboration". The purpose is to develop collaboration capacity for the eight participating universities to...
AI Competence
The project will increase knowledge, recruit and build competence in Artificial Intelligence in Västernorrland and Jämtland / Härjedalen through targeted recruitment efforts to Mid Sweden Universit...
AMPeRe
The AMPeRE Project, Industrialization of Additive Manufacturing, through multi-purpose post-PRocEssing, is a business-driven initiative focusing on post-processing, specifically for powder bed fusi...
Antenna systems for smart wells
The project aims to jointly design a smart and energy-efficient sensor system to observe water level in wells. The focus is to design an antenna solution that is easy to integrate in manufacturing...
Arm cycling - mechanical and physiological effects
What is the significance of different sitting positions when cycling on an arm bike? A new study is expected to give trainers and athletes increased knowledge about the advantages and disadvantages...
At the fringes of crisis management: Informal aspects of crisis management
This PhD project studies crisis management from a practice theory perspective to capture informal aspects of crisis management.
Athlete monitoring in elite cross-country skiing: monitoring training and health to improve performance
Athlete monitoring can be the key to success. It can show how the body responds to exercise, what works and what does not.
Augmented Sports
Sports are constantly evolving and impose new demands on equipment and technology while creating opportunities to develop new sustainable products and services.
Better late than never: indicators of the forest landscape's green infrastructure
Functioning green infrastructure (GI) for biodiversity conservation in Sweden is challenged by the loss of remaining forests with high conservation values.
Bigasyn
In Sweden, about 1.2 TWh biogas vehicle fuel is produced each year. Biogas as a vehicle fuel has been commercialized well in Sweden.
BioChemCat - Integration of chemical catalysis with industrial biotechnology for biomass utilization
In our project, new innovative renewable products from the Swedish forest are being developed in a green, modern and sustainable way.
Biomore
This project creates, synthesizes, and disseminates new knowledge for society, academia, and industry on how increased biomass demands can be met while improving the overall land use sustainability.
BioRem Fiber
Within the BioRem Fiber research project, the goal is to develop market-adapted environmental technology to clean up fiber banks along the coast of Västernorrland with the help of fungi, plants and...
Business and Innovation Development for Enterprises (BID4E)
BID4E will specifically target SME entrepreneurs who seek to transform their business models by building competences towards utilizing digitalization and, by doing so, aim to exploit international...
Cold start
The project aims to develop a stable working methodology in order to be able to use the EBM process to repair details. But also utilize the process's properties, high energy and vacuum environment,...
Collaboration and coordination of crisis communication during the corona crisis 2020 (SACK20)
The purpose of the study is to analyze the collaboration and coordination of Swedish authorities' crisis communication during the corona pandemic, and its impact on decision making.
Creating Collaborative Resilience Awareness, Analysis and Action for Finance, Food and Fuel Systems in Interactive Games – CCRAAAFFFTING
This project aims to find out how society can best recover from an IT event, natural disaster, political unrest, or something else that dramatically affects payment systems, transport and food supply.
Cross-border collaboration for safety 3 (GSS3)
GSS3 strives to increase safety for residents and guests in the border area between Norway and Sweden.
Cruise control strategies in cross-country skiing
In all endurance sports, the choice of cruise control strategy is an important component of optimal performance where time gains can be achieved if the speed is adapted to terrain, wind resistance...
De-normalizing harassment and (threats of) violence in the hospitality workplace
The overall purpose of this project is to identify and analyze the strategies employed in order to prevent and deal with sexual and racist harassment and (threats of) violence in the Swedish...
Detection of oil spills in stormwater
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DEVA Technicus
Mid Sweden University will create a study object in collaboration with Technichus for comparative studies of the design of indoor environments.
DEVA Timrå high school
Poor indoor environment in elementary schools in Sweden seems to be a problem in many municipalities. DEVA is a concept that aims to explore design alternatives and develop the opportunities to...
DRIVE
Rapid structural transformation takes place in green transports and the growth rate is very high in the green energy sector. To meet tomorrow's demands for green energy and green transport, we are...
e2cmp - Eco-friendly efficient chemimechanical system for sustainable packaging materials
The aim is to improve the competitive advantage of pulp fibre based materials over fossil based materials.
EcoMat - Ecofriendly sustainable strong materials
The aim of the project is to develop knowledge on how to modify paper manufacturing and pulp manufacturing process to produce fossil-free functional packaging materials.
EcoSys
This research project will develop Eco-effective processes and systems in cooperation with the paper industries in Sweden.
ECWA-NOR
The ECWA-NOR project aim to ensure the quality of our water bodys through analysis and tracking of the E.coli bacteria and eDNA.
ENM-NSP Eco-nanocellulosic materials
This research project will focus on eco-friendly engineering on ligno and nanocellulosic materials for new sustainable products.
Equivalent mathematics teaching: Competence development in mathematics didactics from an organizational perspective
The purpose of the study is to contribute with a model for collaboration between qualified and unqualified mathematics teachers, so that grades 7-9 students receive an equivalent mathematics...
Evaluation of special campaign funds in the election campaigns 2018-2019
The government has commissioned DEMICOM to evaluate the use of the special funds for the parties to information efforts ahead of the 2018 general elections and the 2019 European elections.
Foodtech
In a sustainable world, we need to change our food industry and find alternative ways of producing, consuming and communicating food.
Foodtech - fermentation of forest materials for future food
In this research project we aim to study fermentation of forest residues for future food and feed.
FORIC - Forest as a Resource Industrial College
FORIC is our industrial research school for PhD students. FORIC's full name is Forest as a Resource Industrial Research College. The research school is funded by Knowledge Foundation and we coopera...
FRAMGRAF- improved properties of additively manufactured metals by adding graphene.
In this project, we will combine the outstanding physical and mechanical properties of graphene with the flexibility of the specialist area Additive manufacturing (AM). We will conduct a feasibilit...
From communication to action in the heterogeneous society: Understanding and putting risk communication into practice
Communicating about risks is an important part of a society's crisis prevention work. In this project, risk communication is studied in a heterogeneous society from a recipient perspective, with a...
Getting closer but not close enough? About making work abilities visible in invisible systems
Knowledge of the effects of municipal labor market initiatives is limited and studies show uncertain or small effects of these. One reason for this may be that there is a lack of documentation of...
Head injuries in Swedish Ice hockey and the associated risk regulation regime
My thesis concerns risk in the form of head injuries within Swedish ice hockey and associated long-term health effects.
Hipemacell - High performance materials from cellulose fibres
This project combines state of the art scalable catalysis on cellulosic fibres with sustainable engineering.
Housing, integration, and labor
A comparison of Sweden's larger cities shows that, in segregated housing areas, income levels are lower and health risks for the residents are higher. Where you live also proves to be of great...
Hyperborean
How is airway health influenced by physical activity in cold environments? This is the main question for this research project that started in 2015.
Hyperlocal media and their democratic significance
Not long ago, traditional media, also known as legacy media, were the only ones that produced journalism. This project takes a closer look at the so-called “hyperlocals”–independent media companies...
Industrial symbiosis for competitive food production in Härnösand
The food system in Västernorrland involves several actors and both the challenges and the opportunities are many.
Industry development at banks and insurance companies through flexible, lifelong learning
The BUFFL project (industry Development at Banks and Insurance Companies through flexible lifelong learning) is pilot project with the focus on developing short, flexible courses for specialists in...
InfoViz
This project focus is to reinforce and renew the competence in Information Visualization and Visual Analytics.
Innovative and co-creative information management for follow-up of Home for Care or Housing (HVB)
The purpose of the project is to map the information needs in the follow-up of Home for care or housing (HVB) for children and young people, and together with involved actors work out a proposal fo...
IoT professionals
The IoT professionals’ project will provide advance level courses to working professionals within the technology area IoT. This in order for both the individuals and the companies they work for to...
Limiting, enabling, and shaping of Civil society organisations work in a Swedish context
This thesis aims to analyze how civil society organizations (CSOs) work is shaped, limited, and enabled in a Swedish context. As an empirical area, it focuses on the work CSOs do to help refugees a...
Litium-ion batteries
Researchers at FSCN research centre have developed high-capacity batteries using a novel nanomaterial.
Longing for children while fearing to give birth
Many women are somewhat afraid of giving birth. For some the fear is so strong that they do not dare to try to get pregnant. With this study, we want to give voice to the experiences of these women.
Management through networks
This project studies the so-called River groups. The focus is on how collaboration between private and public actors functions as a tool for risk and crisis management. They also study network...
Micro/Nanoelectronics Competence Hub
In this project researchers will establish a Competence Hub within the field of Micro/Nanoelectronics with the object to gather and share knowledge between academy and companies
MiLo — environment in the control loop
Climate change, pollution and noise have a major impact on society. In this project, researchers with new technology want to measure environmental parameters over large areas, which creates...
Mobility of arsenic in fiber banks off the coast of Västernorrland
This project investigates the risks of arsenic leaking from existing fiber banks as a result of microorganisms' production of complexing agents.
ModDD - Process modeling and new technical solutions for increased production rate
The aim of the project is to provide knowledge on how double disk refining in papermills can be more energy efficient.
Model for perceived value for the residents of Sundsvall
The municipality of Sundsvall has a desire to investigate how the residents of Sundsvall experience what the municipality delivers.
Multifunctional landscapes
This project developed new solutions for meeting increased demands of biomass for food, energy, and other biobased products, at the same time as conditions for biodiversity and multiple ecosystem...
Nanogenerators
The society of today is moving away from fossil based energy towards renewable sources.
NIIT - Next Generation Industrial IoT
NIIT is a new research action at Mid Sweden University. The industrial focus is the next generation IoT technology and methods supporting the transformation of the process industries. The research ...
Novel cellulose-based triboelectric respiratory protection with improved breathability and additional disinfection effects
A research group at the FSCN research centre, Mid Sweden University will develop more effective filter materials for respiratory protection that can be used to reduce the spread of viruses, similar...
On the governmentalization of sustainability: the case of flood risk mitigation in Sweden
A doctoral student project about the governing of flood risk mitigation.
Opportunity horizons - an experimental and exploratory collaboration between academia and culture
This collaboration project consists of a joint exploration of long-term opportunities for collaboration where we want to establish and explore conditions, frameworks and activities for collaboratio...
Parasport and inclusive exercise
People with physical and intellectual disabilities are less likely to participate in sport activities and are less physically active than their counterparts. This project aims to investigate...
People, measures and resilience: New ways to study risk communication, responsibility and preparedness
In this project we study the heterogeneous population's knowledge, willingness and conditions to communicate and deal with major societal disturbances.
Perspective on Accessibility - The Relationship Between Infrastructure and Regional Development
The purpose of the study is to investigate the relationship between the transport system (including all modes of transport and infrastructure) and regional development with a special focus on...
Political humor
The PhD project of Sara Ödmark concerns the role of the professional comedian in societal debate.
Polygenetic risk for anxiety
This projects will determine whether polygenetic risk for anxiety influences gene-expression in blood and brain function following stress.
Putting out Fires: A Multiple Streams Analysis
What happens after we put out the (forest) fire? Are we prepared for the next one? This project will investigate whether and how crisis preparedness and management, as a policy sector at the local...
Quality of life during pregnancy
Pregnant women find themselves in a specific state - a condition that is not a disease but neither a normal state for a woman's health. In this study, we examine how pregnant women experience their...
REACTION
REACTION will build the first worldwide and European 8-inch SiC wafer pilot line facility for power technology. The project will re-set European competitiveness, rearranging worldwide factories...
Remote Timber - Robust and safe systems for remote-controlled timber loaders
The work on timber terminals around Sweden will be streamlined by developing new technology for remote control of loaders. In the research project "Remote Timber", the goal is for the same operator...
RemoteS - Systems for Remote Scaling
This project aims to develop scaling in the mines by using Remote operation systems. The work is performed within the strategic innovation programme Swedish Mining Innovation and the partners Bolid...
Resilience in Sweden: Governance, Social Networks and Learning (RISE)
The overall purpose of this project is to contribute to a resilient society through an in-depth and nuanced understanding of the contextual and underlying factors that create, maintain, break down,...
Running downhill
Being able to keep high speed at steep downhill slopes when running outdoors is an important factor for performance in the terrain. However, research is sparse regarding the most effective running...
Safety systems for head injuries
With the help of a constructed surrogate head with many sensors, the researchers hope to gain knowledge of what is happening in the brain during trauma to the head. In this way, even better safety...
SAHA
Development and evalutation of internet-based methods for assessment and treatment of mental ill-health among refugees. A research collaboration with LiU and KI.
Segment
This research project contains process modelling and full-scale evaluation of new segment design in a refiner for paper industry.
SELEKT AM
The project will increase the applicability and understanding of selective microstructure in additive manufacturing (AM). With the controlled environment offered by Electron Beam Melting technology...
Silicon-graphene electrode composite for lithium-ion batteries
In this research project we will produce upscalable electrode composite of silicon and graphene for lithium-ion batteries.
Small businesses and Covid-19 - leaders' lessons for future crises
The aim is to investigate how small businesses in Europe during the Corona crisis handled government support and issues related to work environment, health, rehabilitation and work/family balance....
Socialstyrelsen
On behalf of The National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) researchers at Miun monitors the implementation of the self-assessment scale Refugee Health Screener (RHS) within student...
SQMA Measurement Index
This SQMA-SIQ funded project is conducted in collaboration with researchers from Chalmers University to examine the use and effectiveness of the SIQ management index (MI) that was designed to suppo...
STORE - Electrical energy storage
Society is transitioning from fossil energy to green alternatives. As a result, the need to store energy from, for example, solar panels, wind power and electric cars is increasing. This project ai...
Stories about the modern
Stories about the modern - a pilot study of postcard collections at the Sundsvall Museum
The COVID-19 pandemic and mental health
How is our mental health affected by the COVID-19 pandemic?
The impact of the rifle while skiing in biathlon
How does the rifle affect the biathlete and is it possible to develop the sport-specific training in order to perform better?
The Skiers Metabolome Project
This exploratory research project aims to identify novel biomarkers of health and performance among elite cross-country skiers.
The value of leadership development in communicative leadership — an analysis of value creation in two companies
Recently, the three-year research project on communicative leadership at Mid Sweden University was funded by the KK Foundation, Sandvik Machining Solutions AB and AB Volvo.
Tourism in Contested Space
This project focuses on the role of tourism in the highly contested Israeli-Palestinian context.
TROJAM3DC
The project aims to establish the region of Jämtland / Härjedalen, Västernorrland and Tröndelag as one of Northern Europe's centers for additive manufacturing and strengthening companies in the...
WAYA
Developing an outdoor therapy program to support the health and well-being of young cancer survivors.
Youth and organized politics - a member study of the Swedish parliamentary parties' youth associations
This project examines the political parties youth organizations' and their role as a way into politics, something that has not been studied to any great extent. In this project, we intend to reduce...