At the University, there are a range of research projects in a variety of topics.
This research project focuses on barriers and possibilities for increased community gardening in small and medium-sized towns in Sweden. We particularly explore the potential of using community...
In summary, this research project focuses on 1) investigating people's perceptions about waste and how it is managed, and 2) to reduce waste for preventive purposes before it even arises.
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...
The overall goal of the project is to strengthen the green and digital transformation of the region’s businesses with artificial intelligence to boost growth and develop sustainable products and...
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...
Many cities around the world have experienced tremendous growth in short-term rentals due to Air bnb's growing popularity. But what happens to residential areas, the labor market and local resident...
The target of this research is to come up with a step by step design instruction for AI experts to modify and optimize their acoustic sensor array for robust and reliable AI monitoring system.
ALPine mountain hay MEadows MAnagement: Best practices to maintain their Favorable Conservation Status against underuse under different property right regimes inside and outside protected areas.
The AMSUSS Project, Additive Manufacturing of SUper-duplex Stainless Steels, is a business-driven initiative focusing on process development, specifically for powder bed fusion methods.
This research project examines constructions of household preparedness. From an intersectional perspective, we investigate how class, gender, gender and functionality interact with preparedness...
We constantly see high hopes linked to the digitalization of the public sector, while as many as 87.5% of digitalization initiatives fail. This project therefore focuses on procurement processes...
Sports are constantly evolving and impose new demands on equipment and technology while creating opportunities to develop new sustainable products and services.
The airport of the future will be largely autonomous and will have a high degree of remote control. This places high demands on reliable technology and monitoring, technologies that are developed i...
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...
The project is analyzing the organization of Barnspåret, an activity within the municipality of Sundsvall with a special focus on children, young people and their parents. Our aim is to create...
The purpose of the project is to gain a deeper understanding of encounters of patients with mental illness in forensic psychiatric care from nurses's perspective.
In Sweden, about 1.5 TWh of vehicle fuel is produced in the form of biogas every year, from available organic waste. An alternative route is for biomass to be gasified into synthesis gas and then...
In our project, new innovative renewable products from the Swedish forest are being developed in a green, modern and sustainable way.
The BioRem Energy & Metal project is based on the concept of circular bioeconomy and aims to create opportunities to keep more of the forestry material within a value-creating system as opposed to...
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...
In a future nature reserve on the border between Västernorrland and Jämtland County, there is a pine-dominated forest that has clear traces of historical fires. In order to learn more about the are...
Access to local news is an important aspect of the democratic process but surviving in the digital media landscape has been a challenge for local news organizations. This project studies the...
The project is about NEETS (Not in Education, Employment, or Training), and especially young mothers and the long-term unemployed. The overall aim is to provide policy recommendations.
The pulp industry is known for its smelly gases. The smell is caused by process disruptions that lead to emissions of volatile organic sulphate compounds as sulfate hydrogen. The emissions imply...
The project studies democratic innovations at the local level, with focus on new ways of organizing local politics and involving different actors in local decision-making. The project will study tw...
Healthy women of reproductive age have a natural hormonal cycle, the menstrual cycle; they can also become pregnant and give birth. This affects sport in various ways. The project aims to improve...
The study focus on how trust-based governing plays out in an organisation as well as how a digital social media platform can be utilized for organisational learning.
This project aims to create a searchable digital database comprised of old national tests (pupils’ answers and teachers’ comments included) for boosting professional competences in terms of...
The purpose is to develop a material through a visual method for social change, based on young people's experiences of harassment on social media (as victims and/or perpetrators), ie a method to...
This project within English Linguistics seeks to collate information about digital tools and provide examples of how they can be used as effective devices for English language teaching and learning...
This project aims at how we can better explain and show how investments in digitization actually provide the values expressed in strategy and vision documents, but also create an understanding of...
The aim of the project is to identify surface defects in tube manufacturing with relevant data from surface measurements with machine vision systems and developed AI-based method for data managemen...
In the DRIVEN project, Mittuniversitetet together with 23 companies and organizations will develop new courses adapted to the needs of data-driven development in various industries. In the four-yea...
The project aims at understanding different types of knowledge teachers (including university lecturers, in-service and pre-service teachers) have about dyslexia i.e., knowledge, diagnosis and...
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Even though research has shown that intimate partner homicide is a serious societal issue, information about how this crime is characterised among youth is still lacking. The aim of this research...
The ECWA-NOR project aim to ensure the quality of our water bodys through analysis and tracking of the E.coli bacteria and eDNA.
Children and young people with intellectual disabilities are a vulnerable group and do not have the same preconditions for learning as other children. This can lead to physical, mental, social...
Cross-country skiing and biathlon involve complex combinations of physiological, technical and mental qualities. These research projects, through collaborations with the Swedish Ski Association and...
In the current stage of the industrial evolution, automation has become a key component for industries to thrive, and at the core of it we have Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a driving force.
The purpose of this project is to identify, describe, test, and evaluate how nursing homes and community health care can become an attractive and learning workplace that, like certified magnet...
The project is based on a person-centered lifestyle program in group for persons with mental illness with the basic components: interpersonal relationships, health education and cognitive support f...
In this project, researchers at Mid Sweden University and the company SiTek Electro Optics, will develop a position sensing detector that will expand the wavelength range of detectors down to the...
Despite their relatively low proportion of total agricultural output, Local Food Systems (LFS) are growing in popularity worldwide. Research demonstrates that LFSs directly contribute to regional...
In this research, we discuss and overview the nature and basic ideas related to enclaves and enclavisation processes in tourism development and tourist consumption.
Bereavement support can be provided once or at several occasions after the death of a loved one. To find persons who suffer from complicated grief can be meaningful for health care.
The European Education Policy Network on Teachers and School Leaders is a Europe-wide network of relevant organisations to promote co-operation, policy development and implementation at different...
Climate change is expected to lead to an increase in extreme weather events, such as heat waves, hurricanes, and extreme rainfall. I this project, we investigate how extreme weather events influenc...
FoamFiber will use nanocellulose-cellulose composites to replace fossil plastic products, in order to meet the major climate challenges in today's society.
In this research project we aim to study fermentation of forest residues for future food and feed.
Within Smart Industry Sweden, five Swedish universities are gathering cutting-edge expertise in the field of smart industry. The graduate school wants to create a cohesive group of industrial...
The project is about developing different methods to manage the consequences that arise with increased expansion of renewable energy in electricity grids.
The aim of this project is to understand how outdoor recreation and events can be used as drivers for social integration of immigrants in Östersund.
The program's goal is to pave the way for a larger project, aiming to develop a strong research environment, which in connection with high-quality education can secure competence and skills in the...
This project is the opening of a long-term collaboration between Mid Sweden University, Malmö Theatre Academy and other actors whose purpose is to examine performing arts methods that can foster mo...
The project aims for teachers, principals and other school staff at two pilot schools and the municipality's other schools to develop methods and routines regarding preventing, detecting and...
It is not only the quality of individual forest stand that influence where species occur. If suitable habitats occur within short distance it increases the chance for species to remain at landscape...
The purpose of this project is to clarify how the design of teaching materials, regarding the interaction between different modes, such as language, symbols, images and animations, can support...
Drawing on theatre studies, sociology and geography, the book delivers the transdisciplinary perspective needed to evidence the significance of performance for society and community at a time when,...
Gaming4Coding is an Erasmus-projekt with the aim of developing a game where K-12 students should learn how to program in Python. At the same time as the game must be joyful to play, it should be a...
This preliminary study will examine image content in public municipal administration and to understand how GDPR & Schrems II-case may have affected its content.
How does the rifle affect the biathlete and is it possible to develop the sport-specific training in order to perform better?
With over 1 billion active users, Google Maps ranges among the most popular web-portals for travel information search. This project aims to monitor the fragmented cultural tourism offer and to...
Östersund becomes the centre of development of a new type of energy-efficient and climate-smart aircraft wing for electric aircraft.
In this project, we contribute with a knowledge and a research overview in the realm of how housing policy is exploited at the local level to restrict the settlement of vulnerable groups in general...
The project's goal is to bring together expertise in sustainable development and additive manufacturing so that Mid Sweden University can add important knowledge to the area and position itself as ...
Projektets huvudbudskap: Alla unga människor ska ges samma möjlighet att delta i, och kunna tillägna sig, en inkluderande undervisning med hög kvalitet.
There are many threats to biodiversity today. Invasive Alien Species (IAS) are considered one of the major threats to biodiversity. For example, 52% of the species‐rich road environments in Sweden...
Sweden has a long tradition of documenting, registering and archiving, something that historians benefit from. This project examines how the archives change as conditions change and the archivists'...
The specific purpose of the project is to increase the merit values of of boys in particular, at the selected school and to give the teachers an increased didactic competence improve teaching for...
Using the notion of the rural as a conflicted space, this project aims to expand and pluralise rural life and the image of the countryside in a way that can strengthen the ability of regions and...
My thesis concerns risk in the form of head injuries within Swedish ice hockey and associated long-term health effects.
As teleworking is favorable for the climate and health, as well as the dissemination of skills and competence, many employees and organizations wish to continue with the hybrid work model even afte...
In this project, we want to develop technologies for sensors, measuring systems and IoT solutions for monitoring in the production and use of hydrogen to provide greater security.
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...
The project is based on innovative and environmentally friendly chemistry engineering for the treatment of wood and cellulose that enables the creation of sustainable products and innovations of th...
Electric powertrains are well underway to replace internal combustion engines and become mainstream in the automotive industry. So far, they mostly operate at voltages of 300–800 V.
Young people with intellecutal disabilities (ID) have poorer conditions for good health, participation in society and influencing their lives. How can participation and influence for young people...
The purpose of this project is to strengthen businesses’ and government agencies’ crisis management capacity by providing access to the RCR Simulation Lab simulation and visualization environment.
This project aims to study how tourism is affecting the long-term development of the region of Jämtland in social and socio-economic terms.
The central problem area that we want to address in this project is how to combine different spectroscopic methods, merge 2D imaging spectral data and use AI for fast and accurate recognition of...
In collaboration with Luleå University of Technology, Mid Sweden University and STC will design a prototype sensor for the detection of various pollutants on rails over the cross-section of the rails.
This project focus is to reinforce and renew the competence in Information Visualization and Visual Analytics.
This project will build a new national infrastructure for visualization and analysis of scientific data. The new infrastructure will give researchers access to expertise and development of competen...
The program that is used in this project has been designed based on the studies of two dissertations. This has provided a person-centered lifestyle program in group for persons with mental illness...
Recruitment of foreign people IT skills can be a way to solve the skills shortage in the region. Mid Sweden University will therefore, together with Bron Innovation, develop a model for an...
Snow removal costs Sweden's municipalities about 1.5 billion per year. The goal of the project is to collect data, develop analysis methods and look at business development to streamline and increa...
I projektet "IoT Testbäddar" ska nationella testbäddar inom smart industri och smarta samhällen etableras samt en tankesmedja inom IoT med målet att öka forskning och utveckling i regionen.
The aim of this project is to stimulate adoption of climate change mitigation solutions in tourism and hospitality sector by identification and experimental testing of innovative sustainable busine...
The industry’s need for professional engineers with advanced IT skills is great. In this project, a model for work-integrated learning will be developed to meet the need and strengthen the students...
This purpose of this project is to study the cultural and creative industries and how this sector creates opportunities for regional and local development.
The purpose of Ruralscapes is to contribute to policy support, business development, and research within the intersection of tourism and cultural and creative industries.
The aim of the project is to develop methods and ways of working to create consensus on what quality in preschool is and to develop the skills of preschool principals to work with systematic qualit...
Public procurement can contribute to e.g. public health and regional development by increasing the proportion of local, sustainable food. This project is expected to answer questions about legal an...
In this program, we map and examine how local labor market programs can contribute to increase the inclusion on the labor market.
The project aims to develop airborne monitoring of water quality in the mountains. Large distances and few roads make it difficult and costly with conventional methods. We want to develop tomorrow'...
The aim of this project is to study the effects of air drag and drafting in cross-country skiing.
The purpose of the study is to identify the aspects of conceptual understanding visualized through students work with surveying tasks, and to test alternative task designs to visualize other aspect...
Critical exploration of media related risks and opportunities for deliberative communication: development scenarios of the European media landscape.
This project explores the conditions of globally displaced older refugees and outlines the implications for social work as a human rights profession.
The climate has emerged as one of the most important global news issues. News media strengthen their environmental coverage, but so far limited scholarly attention has focused on how journalists vi...
Pollution in water can affect both people and society. In MiLo Water, the researchers will build on the technologies and methods developed in the previous project MiLo to be able to identify and...
The project objective is to study consumer and producer choices of food in the Swedish hospitality sector and how these choices can help reduce negative climate related effects.
Mistra Sport & Outdoors is a Swedish research and collaboration programme aiming to generate knowledge and solutions to increase sustainability in sport and outdoor recreation.
The project is aimed to investigating how efficiency is perceived and described in a public organization based on the needs of various stakeholders in a context where performance measurements often...
Cooperation between the Mid Sweden University and the County Administrative Board in Norrbotten, on the development of a model for simulating ecological connectivity at the county scale.
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...
In this project we study the heterogeneous population's knowledge, willingness and conditions to communicate and deal with major societal disturbances.
In Nanofiber we want to investigate the possibility of combining two unique processing methods for developing a new type of nanoparticle-based optical fiber with the potential to enable significant...
The probability of forest with high conservation value represents tool for landscape planning. It will be developed together with relevant stakeholders to ensure its implementation in green...
NeoPulp is a Research Profile with a vision to build a pioneering research profile in fibre behaviour during pulping and papermaking processes.
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 ...
The research project examines different perspectives within the framework of social workers' treatment of older transgender adults in Sweden. Special focus is norm-critical aspects.
There are different tools for training load measure in endurance sports. In biathlon and cross-country skiing, heart rate and duration are the two most used variables for training monitoring. Howev...
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...
The purpose of the follow-up research of the pilot project is to evaluate the citizen, relatives' experience of safety, participation, confidence in self-being, health and activity before/after...
The purpose of the research of team collaboration during homecoming from hospital care to homecare is to evaluate the person and their relatives' experience of safety, continuity and accessibility,...
Organizational development, Lifelong learning, Individual competence and Skills supply for Employers (OLIKA) - is about developing an innovative educational model for work-integrated lifelong...
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...
The purpose of the study is to investigate the relationships between the transport system (including all modes of transport and infrastructure) and regional development with a special focus on...
Plenoptima is European collaboration with researchers and partner organisations in an innovative training network. The aim is to develop a cross-disciplinary approach to plenoptic imaging.
Political Literatures is an interdisciplinary research network founded by academics based in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in early 2020.
In the project, researchers collaborate with school representatives to study political representatives' school visits. A survey is developed to assess the situation in Jämtland Härjedalen and...
Our goal in this project is to develop an analytical framework for assessing how a party's selection procedures define what it wants from its leader. The framework emphasises not just what should...
This projects will determine whether polygenetic risk for anxiety influences gene-expression in blood and brain function following stress.
PopCulTour is a research project that focuses on how value is created in popular (pop) culture tourism, i.e. tourism induced by for example film, television and literature. The research project...
The project explores public affairs and lobbying in a Swedish context.
This project will explore how digitization has affected value generation for arts and culture. It will examine how regulation, copyright and cultural policy have adapted to the digital production a...
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...
The project will provide empirically grounded knowledge about gig economy work and workers in Sweden. The overall purpose is to contribute to the development of strategies and policies to facilitat...
In this thesis, the aim is to create a broader understanding of the meaning of relationships and their impact on (non-)collaborative work in civil society. Civil society as a concept is used broadl...
The project RoBust aims to increase knowledge about conditions and needs for change within the tourism and small-scale artisan food industries due to societal crises. The aim is further to highligh...
This project focuses on the challenges of 5G connectivity and communication to remotely control timber loaders at timber terminals. The terminals are often isolated and have a demanding environment...
The aim of this three-year ethnographic project is to study the concrete practices and emic understandings of rural voluntary practices in Swedish Norrland.
Development and evalutation of internet-based methods for assessment and treatment of mental ill-health among refugees. A research collaboration with LiU and KI.
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,...
Collaboration between School Age Educare Center (SAEC) and school. SAEC and classroom teachers' perspectives om collaboration regarding pupils with special needs.
"Health, Learning, and create sense of Security" is a model aiming to offer early and coordinated support to children and their families, in order to reduce more extensive interventions later in...
The overarching aim of SECRA is to contribute to more resilient communities in Asia through institutionalized, systematic, monitored, innovative, and inclusive university enterprise collaboration i...
Additive Manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, is a rapidly growing manufacturing method. To make more advanced products, new materials are needed. In this project, we will develop an...
The corona pandemic provides a unique opportunity for researchers to explore experiences from healthcare during the ongoing pandemic. The project will follow the nurses and nursing students to...
The aim of this project is to formulate, through a socio-environmental framework, how integrated landscape management in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) can reduce communities’ vulnerability to...
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....
Renewable energy increases the need for better frequency reserve in the power grid. Hydropower has the potential to be able to compensate for fluctuations in the grid. Within this project, new...
Territories across the Northern periphery (NPA) programme area have sparsely populated areas, remote communities with high energy needs linked to their cold and extreme climates, many with...
The project aims to map prerequisites for municipalities regarding larger establishments. What consequences does it have for municipalities when establishments come to the town? What lessons can be...
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...
In order to reduce problem-creating behaviors in the classroom and at school, increase academic results and create favorable conditions for study peace, a common basic view is needed among the staf...
The prevalence of dementia diseases is increasing worldwide with advancing age and growing populations. In Sweden alone, which currently has a population of approximately 9 million people, there ar...
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The aim of the project is to enhance the sustainable production of wood biomass, interlinking current research efforts started in partnering Nordic and Baltic countries.
To take the step from lab scale research to demonstration of pilot production and then on to product and product development, a test-bed is needed for coating of graphene composites with large-scal...
This exploratory research project aims to identify novel biomarkers of health and performance among elite cross-country skiers.
The goal is that more elderly people can be active in nature for improved quality of life, physical and mental health. We want to increase knowledge about the connection between health, outdoor...
This is a project in collaboration with Ånge municipality in accordance with the collaboration agreement. The project aims to promote school attendance and prevent school absenteeism.
This project focuses on the role of tourism in the highly contested Israeli-Palestinian context.
This project wil enable the development of IoT-based solutions in construction machinery with the aim of reducing and making visible CO2 emissions in planning, procurement and accounting.
In the project, methods and tools are sought, tested, and developed that can support and enable entrepreneurs in the Swedish countryside to improve and develop together. The project is carried out ...
A project where the Sami election is studied on the basis of factors such as turnout, political confidence, the composition of the parties voters, opinions on various issues and media habits.
The research project 'Effective and efficient impact assessment in transport planning' (VEM) is a transdisciplinary project.
The aim of the project is to develop a tool for an improved interaction between various groups in planning and design of a sustainable wind power development.
In this project we develop restoration methods to create ecologically important dead wood structures that are now very scarce in managed pine forests.
Many countries in Europe suffer from the same problem when it comes to lack of qualified teachers. To handle the situation, a new network is now being created, funded by the Swedish Research Counci...
This project will enhance research methods and strategies for transparent and balanced decision-making in the development of wind power establishments. The focus will be on the juncture between win...
The aim of the project “Narratives of the modern era” is to study the social meanings afforded by the multi-modal postcard practice in the emerging Swedish modern society 1900–1920.
Research has shown that young people are exposed to violence in a variety of different arenas, including their homes, school, in public and online. This project therefore aims to examine violence...
Recent research has shown that the effects of violence may linger in spaces and texts, ‘haunting’ them. This project aims to explore such haunting effects of violence narratives in cultural texts i...
Discourses and dilemmas in the social services investigations. The ambition is to contribute with a norm-critical perspective and, through this, method development in the social services' work with...
Identifying physiological markers that can be used to predict hypoxic “blackout” in freedivers
The purpose of this research study is to increase opportunities for movement, both everyday physical activity and sports participation, in children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities.
Many pregnant women experience some degree of fear or worry when thinking of the upcoming childbirth. In this project, we talk to women with fear of childbirth and healthcare professionals about...
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