SWEDISH SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES NETWORK

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Sida grants to South Asia related projects in November 2005:

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 2005 grants were distributed to a large number of projects, out of which quite a large number were related to South Asia:

Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm:

Researcher: Ingela Ternström
Research Project:HIV/AIDS – The true tragedy of the commons? Effects of HIV/AIDS on management and use of local natural resources.
Area: Nepal
Funding: SEK 1 800 000 for three years

Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg:

The Image Analysis Group, Department of Signals and Systems
Researchers: Tomas Gustavsson (project coordinator)
Research Project: Computer-aided oral cancer screening and education in India. More information (in Swedish)
Area: India
Funding: SEK 1 000 000 for two years

Göteborg University:

Division of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Biomedicine at Sahlgrenska Academy
Researchers: Ann-Mari Svennerholm (project coordinator)
Doctorate Project: Development of an ETEC vaccine for use in infants in developing countries. More information.
Area: Bangladesh
Funding: SEK 300 000 for one year

Department of Social Anthropology, School of Global Studies
Researchers: Susanne Åsman (PhD candidate) & Wil Burghoorn (project coordinator)
Doctorate Project: Gender, agency and trafficking among Tamang in Nepal: The narratives, experiences and practices of Bombay returnees
Area: Nepal
Funding: SEK 1 100 000 for two years

Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm

Division of Metals & Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine
Researcher: Marie Vahter (project coordinator)
Research Project: Intake of arsenic-rich tube well water in Bangladesh and adverse reproductive outcome - interactions with nutritional status.
Area: Bangladesh
Funding: SEK 1 350 000 for three years

Dept of Public Health Sciences, Division of International Health (IHCAR)
Researcher: Vinod K Diwan (project coordinator)
Doctorate Project: Gender and tuberculosis control in a rural district in India.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 1 200 000 for two years

Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC)
Researcher: Ute Römling (project coordinator)
Research Project: Role of Biofilm on the Survival and Spread of Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae and Salmonella enterica in the Natural Aquatic Environment of the Bay of Bengal.
Area: South Asia
Funding: SEK 300 000 for one year

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm

Department of Land and Water Resources Engineering
Researcher: Nandita Singh(project coordinator)
Research Project: Women and water: Encountering the challenges of water resource management in rural India from gender perspective.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 500 000 for one year

Department of Land and Water Resources Engineering
Researcher: Prosun Bhattacharya (project coordinator)
Doctorate Project: Options for safe drinking water in regions with high-arsenic groundwater in Bangladesh.
Area: Bangladesh
Funding: SEK 1 200 000 for two years

Department of Land and Water Resources Engineering
Researcher: Gunnar Jacks (project coordinator)
Doctorate Project: Risk for sea water intrusion in the Kerala coastal aquifers.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 120 000 for one year

Campus IT University in Kista
(joint venture between the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, and Stockholm University)

Software Development Unit, Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences
Researcher: Love Ekenberg (project coordinator)
Doctorate Project: Success indicators for e-learning projects in developing countries. More information.
Area: Sri Lanka
Funding: SEK 900 000 for two years

Linköping University

Department of Water and Environmental Studies
Researcher: Jan Lundquist (project coordinator)
Doctorate Project: Rights and Participation in Policy Making and Management of Scarce Water Resources (Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh).
Area: India
Funding: SEK 1 000 000 for two years

Department of Water and Environmental Studies
Researcher: Julie Wilk (project coordinator)
Doctorate Project: Defining water poverty to meet local goals, through stakeholder involvement in the Bhavani River Basin, India.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 1 650 000 for three years

Lund University

Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies (ACE)
Researcher: Sidsel Hansson
Research Project: Gender, Education, Religion, and Environment. Women's activism and self-education in an environmental risk district in Northwest India.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 500 000 for one year

Department of Sociology
Researcher: Malin Arvidsson
Research Project/planning grant: Institutions and livelihoods: perspectives on change in rural Bangladesh.
Area: Bangladesh
Funding: SEK 75 000 for one year

Division of Social Medicine and Global Health, Department of Health Sciences (at Malmö)
Researchers: Stig Larsson(project coordinator)
Doctorate Project: The role of assistive technology among people with disabilities in the south: Poverty alleviation and human rights in Bangladesh.
Area: Bangladesh
Funding: SEK 1 000 000 for two years

Department of Sociology of Law
Researchers: Karsten Åström (project coordinator)
Research Project: Relevance of socio-cultural context in realization of the human right to water in India: An insight from gender perspective.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 1 500 000 for three years

Division of Water Resources Engineering, Department of Building and Environmental Technology
Researchers: Magnus Larsson (project coordinator)
Research Project: Seasonal closure of coastal inlets in Sri Lanka. Physical processes and mathematical modelling.
Area: Sri Lanka
Funding: SEK 600 000 for three years

Department of History
Researchers: Anna Lindberg
Research Project: Marriage traditions in South India from 1930 to the present. More information.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 1 800 000 for three years

Department of Biotechnology
Researchers: Benoit Guieysse (project coordinator)
Research Project: Biomonitoring of microbial communities in waste stabilization ponds enhanced pollutant removal.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 800 000 for two years

Stockholm University

Biogeochemistry, Dept. of Geology and Geochemistry, Earth Sciences Centre
Researchers: Joyanto Routh (project coordinator)
Guest Researcher grant: Microbial Arsenite oxidation: Implications on arsenic cycling in aquifer system.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 148 000 for one year

Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)
Researcher: Fabrizio Zilibotti (project coordinator)
Project:Bridging the digital devide: A study on the barriers to IT and Telecom (ICT) adoption in developing countries.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 1 000 000 for two years

Dept. of Economic History
Researchers: Per Hilding (project coordinator)
Project: Helping or hurting? Policies for combating child labour in hazardous occupations in India.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 2 400 000 for three years

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala

Department of Plant Biology & Forest Genetics
Researchers: Sylvia Lindberg (project coordinator)
Research Project: Salinity stress and crop responses – physiological and molecular processes in rice. More information.
Area: Bangladesh
Funding: SEK 500 000 for one year

Uppsala University

Dept. of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
Researcher: Gunnel Cederlöf
Research Project: The Environmental History of Law. State making and land conflicts in colonial India. More information.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 2 400 000 for three years (2005-07)

Dept. of Economics
Researchers: Ranjula Bali Swain
Research Project: Can insurance markets work for the poor? A study of microinsurance in India.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 1 200 000 for three years

Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research
Researchers: Ashok Swain
Continued Research Project: Conserving Forest or Concieving Protest? Social Networks and anti-Protected Areas Movements in India.
Area: India
Funding: SEK 1 000 000 for two years

International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH); Dept of Women's and Children's Health
Researchers: Lars-Åke Persson (project coordinator)
Research Project: Prenatal influences on chronic disease risk indicators and immune function in early childhood: follow-up of the 'MINIMat' maternal food and micronutrion study .
Area: Bangladesh
Funding: SEK 1 050 000 for three years

International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH); Dept of Women's and Children's Health
Researchers: Lars-Åke Persson (project coordinator)
Doctorate Project: Effect of arsenic exposure through drinking water on reproductive outcome and child survival: epidemiological studies in Bangladesh.
Area: Bangladesh
Funding: SEK 1 150 000 for two years

International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH); Dept of Women's and Children's Health
Researchers: Gunilla Lindmark (project coordinator)
Research Project: Does counselling of abused women using Primary level health care promoters help the women?
Area: Bangladesh
Funding: SEK 400 000 for two years

International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH); Dept of Women's and Children's Health
Researchers: Pia Olsson (project coordinator)
Research Project: Adolescent childbearing and abortion in Sri Lanka. A qualitive interview investigation.
Area: Sri Lanka
Funding: SEK 600 000 for two years

International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH); Dept of Women's and Children's Health
Researcher: Hanna Eneroth
Doctorate Project: Effects of exclusive breastfeeding and prenatal micronutrient supplementation on micronutrient status of infants where low birth weight is prevalent.
Area: Bangladesh
Funding: SEK 1 200 000 for two years