SCAS News - 8 November, 2022

Three Current SCAS Fellows Receive Research Grants from the Swedish Research Council

Yesterday, it was announced that three current SCAS Fellows – Lisa Hellman, Janina Neufeld and
Jeffrey Paller - have been awarded major research grants from the Swedish Research Council (VR),
within the Humanities and Social Sciences section. Congratulations!

They receive the grants for the following research projects/environments:

Lisa Hellman
Research project: Rörd av rörelse: kommunicerade erfarenheter av separation under 1500- och 1600-talen
(SEK 17 983 000; Research environment grant)

Lisa Hellman is a Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at SCAS and the Department of History, Lund University.
She is also Research Leader at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Universität Bonn.
Currently, during the academic year 2022-23, she is in residence at the Collegium.

Janina Neufeld
Research project: Detaljorienterad perception vid autism och synestesi: En tvillingstudie om mekanismer
och konsekvenser för social kognition
(SEK 4 474 000; Research project grant)

Janina Neufeld is a SCAS Pro Futura Scientia Fellow and Researcher/Assistant Professor at the Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders at Karolinska Institutet (KIND), and the Department of Women's and
Children's Health at Karolinska Institutet. She is in residence at SCAS in the academic year 2022-23.

Jeffrey Paller
Research project: Politisk förändring och lokal styrning i framväxande städer
(SEK 11 959 775; Research environment grant )

Jeffrey Paller is a Fellow in residence at SCAS in the academic year 2022-23. He is also a Researcher of the
Program on Governance and Local Development at the University of Gothenburg, and Associate Professor
of Politics at the University of San Francisco.


Also among the SCAS Alumni one finds a number of research grant recipients, namely Krister Bykvist
(Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm); Stefan Enroth (Uppsala University); Anandi Hattiangadi
(Stockholm University); Magnus Ivarsson (Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm); Maria
Johansen (University of Gothenburg); and Adrienne Sörbom (Stockholm University). Sörbom’s project
involves SCAS Principal Christina Garsten. Also Ulf Landegren (Uppsala University), who is responsible
for the Measurable Human theme of the Natural Science Programme at SCAS, receives a grant. The above
grants are spread across the Humanities and Social Sciences; Medicine and Health; and, Natural and
Engineering Sciences sections.

Congratulations!

The Swedish Research Council is Sweden’s largest governmental research funding body, and supports
research of the highest quality within all scientific fields.

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