SWEDISH SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES NETWORK

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Sida grants to South Asia related projects in November 2003:

Sida's Developing Country Research Council (U-landsforskningsrådet) supports Swedish developing country research. The aim is to establish and maintain a knowledge base of relevance to aid and development issues, plus capacity for developing country research in Sweden. Individual researchers or groups of researchers working at universities/colleges or other research institutions in Sweden may apply for a grant. Swedish citizens working at the Scandinavian Institute for Asian Studies (Nordiska Asieninstitutet, NIAS) in Copenhagen may also apply. More information.

In November 2003 the second round for 2003 was decided upon. A total sum of SEK 47 million were distributed to a large number of projects, out of which quite a few were related to South Asia:

Göteborg University:

Dept of Social Anthropology
Researchers: Susanne Åsman (PhD candidate) & Wil Burghoorn (project coordinator)
Project: Gender, agency and trafficking among Tamang in Nepal: The narratives, experiences and practices of Mumbai returnees.
Area: Nepal
Funding: SEK 900 000 for two years (2004-05)

Dept of Clinical Immunology at Sahlgrenska Academy
Researchers: Lars Åke Hansson (project coordinator)
Project: Studying nutrient-gene interaction, influencing effects of malnutrition-infections on postnatal growth in children born in a slum in Lahore 1964-78.
Area: Pakistan
Funding: SEK 700 000 for three years (2001 and 2004-05)

Dept. of Marine Geology
Researchers: Johan Burman (PhD candidate) & Birger Schmitz (project coordinator)
Project: Marine gastropod intrashell stable isotope records as a tool to deduce Holocene monsoon variability along the South-West coast of India.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 300 000 for one year (2004)

Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at Sahlgrenska Academy
Researchers: Lars Engstrand, Anna Lundgren (PhD candidate), Erika Strömberg, Samuel Lundin & Ann-Mari Svennerholm (project coordinator)
Project: Comparision of Immune responses against Helicobacter pylori in developed and developing countries as a basisi for vaccine development.
Area: Bangladesh
Funding: SEK 1 050 000 for three years (2004-06)

Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at Sahlgrenska Academy
Researchers: Steven Attridge & Jan Holmgren (project coordinator)
Project: Development of an oral vaccine protecting against both 01 and 0139 cholera.
Area: Bangladesh, North Korea and Vietnam
Funding: SEK 500 000 for one year (2004)

Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at Sahlgrenska Academy
Researchers: Michael Lebens, Ann-Mari Svennerholm & Jan Holmgren (project coordinator)
Project: Development of an oral vaccine protecting against both 01 and 0139 cholera.
Area: Bangladesh, North Korea and Vietnam
Funding: SEK 1 050 000 for three years (2004-06)

Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm

Division of Metals & Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine
Researchers: Marie Vahter (project coordinator)
Project: Is micronutrient deficiency associated with increased uptake and accumulation of cadmium?.
Area: Bangladesh
Funding: SEK 900 000 for two years (2004-05)

Dept of Public Health Sciences, Division of International Health (IHCAR)
Researchers: Grete Fochsen (PhD candidate) & Vinod K Diwan (project coordinator)
Project: Gender and tubercolosis control in a rural district in India.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 900 000 for two years (2004-05)

Lund University

Dept. of Business Law, School of Economics and Management
Researchers: Boel Flodgren (project coordinator)
Project: Law and development – Establishing a new Research environment in Sweden.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 75 000 for one year (2004)

Dept. of Sociology
Researchers: Staffan Lindberg & Göran Djurfeldt (project coordinator)
Project: Revisiting Rural South India: Twenty-five Years of Change and Mobility.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 1 500 000 for three years (2004-06)
Abstract: In the years 1979/80 Djurfeldt and Lindberg, Lund University, and Professor Venkatesh Athreya, Bharathidasan University, India, made a study on the topic of 'Production relations and agrarian change in Tamil Nadu' (funded by SAREC, Lund and Copenhagen universities and NIAS). The study involved fieldwork in six villages in Tiruchirapalli District, including a detailed survey in 367 households, and resulted in the book 'Barriers Broken: Production relations and agrarian change in Tamil Nadu' (1990). It highlighted the contrasting social structures in the two ecotypes of wet and dry villages in Tamil Nadu. The proposed project is a restudy, based on
the study conducted in 1979/80. The new project will be an assessment in a twenty-five year perspective of the social and economic consequences of the Green Revolution, and of theories of social differentiation and mobility in rural India. It aims at grasping agrarian changes and factors, which control and direct the course of these changes.

Dept. of Sociology
Researchers: Malin Arvidsson (project coordinator)
Project: Institutions and livelihoods: Tracing agrarian change in rural South India.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 765 000 for one year (2004)

Stockholm University/KTH

Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences
Researchers: Linda Johansson (PhD candidate) & Love Ekenberg (project coordinator)
Project: Success indicators for e-learning projects in developing countries.
Area: Sri Lanka
Funding: SEK 900 000 for two years (2004-05)

Uppsala University

International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH); Dept of Women's and Children's Health
Researchers: Lars-Åke Persson (project coordinator)
Project: Intervening against intrauteringe growth restrictions in Bangladesh; gene-environment interactions
Area: Bangladesh
Funding: SEK 1 000 000 for three years (2004-06)

International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH); Dept of Women's and Children's Health
Researchers: Lars-Åke Persson (project coordinator)
Project: Developing international child health research.
Area: Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Peru and Vietnam
Funding: SEK 600 000 for three years (2004-06)

International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH); Dept of Women's and Children's Health
Researchers: Eva-Charlotte Ekström (project coordinator)
Project: Are there sustained nutritional benefits of prenatal food and micronutrient supplementation över the reproductive cycle?
Area: Bangladesh
Funding: SEK 75 000 for one year (2004)