SWEDISH SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES NETWORK

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Swedish Research Links 2003

The second round of the so-called Swedish Research Links (Asian–Swedish research partnership programme) – grants by Sida and the Swedish Research Council – were distributed in December 2003. The following South Asia related project applications for Swedish Research Links (Asian–Swedish research partnership programme) were granted for the three-years period 2004–06.

• Alia Ahmad, Dept. of Economics, Lund University
Project name: Community Management of Openwater Inland Fisheries – A comparative study of cases from Bangladesh and India.
Grant: SEK 450 000
Abstract: The objective of the project is to compare the experiences of community-based management of fisheries in Madhya Pradesh, India and in Bangladesh. The focus will be on the role of externally- financed NGOs in promoting social capital and collective action in sustainable management of common-pool fisheries resources and poverty reduction.

• Prosun Bhattacharya, Division of Land and Water Resources, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm
Project name: Arsenic in groundwater of Bangladesh: Options for safe drinking water.
Grant: SEK 320 000

• Pernille Gooch, Division of Human Ecology, Dept. of European Ethnology, Lund University
Project name: Proposal for planning grants for developing project on analysis of Contemporary issues related to carrying capacity of pastoralism in higher Himalaya
Grant: SEK 55 000 (only for 2004)

• Tomas Gustavsson, Section of Signals and Systems, School of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg
Projekt name: Computer-aided oral cancer screening and education in India
Grant: SEK 326 000

• Zarina Nahar Kabir, Division of Geriatric Epidemiology, Dept of NEUROTEC, Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm
Project name: Poverty and Health in ageing in rural Bangladesh.
Grant: SEK 300 000

• Ashok Kumar, Dept. of Biotechnology, Lund University
Project name: Development of integrated product recovery process for urokinase production and purification.
In collaboration with IIT Delhi, India
Grant: SEK 228 000

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Swedish Research Council Project grants for Research within Humanities and Social Sciences 2003

The following South Asia related project application were granted in November 2003:

• Agneta Herlitz, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Occupational Therapy and Elderly Care (NEUROTEC); Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm.
Project name: Sex differences in cognition: The impact of age, education, and cultural setting.
In this comparative project data will be collected from various groups in Bangladesh; children, adults and elderly people.
Grant: SEK 1 545 000 (for the three-years period 2004–06)

• Ashok Swain, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Project name: Prevention of Violent Conflicts through Respect for Minority Rights: Democracy and International Peace and Security
Grant: SEK 190 000 (only for 2003)

Swedish Research Council Project grants for Research within Medicine 2003

The following South Asia related project application was in November 2003 granted for the three-years period 2004–06:

• Marie Vahter, Division of Metals & Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm
Project name: Does the Biotransformation of Arsenic increase Human Fetal Toxicity?
This project led by Professor Marie Vahter focuses on the problems that arsenic cause in Bangladesh.
Grant: SEK 975 000