SCAS News - 16 November, 2023
News from the SCAS Community
Last week, the Swedish Research Council (VR) announced the awardees of its Research Project Grants
and Research Environment Grants in the 2023 round. In the humanities and social sciences section, a
number of scholars from the SCAS community were among the ones whose projects were selected. Also
one of the Research Environment Grants on the Social Consequences of Digitalisation was awarded to a
former SCAS Fellow.
Current Pro Futura Scientia Fellow Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist (Stockholm
University) receives - in collaboration with, and among others, former Pro Futura
Scientia Fellow Rodney Edvinsson - a VR research project grant totalling approx.
SEK 3.8
million for the years 2024-2026.
The project is called "Spannmål till varje
pris: Geografiska mönster av livsmedelssäkerhet i det förindustriella Europa". Char-
pentier
Ljungqvist was in residence
in 2019-20, whereas Edvinsson was at the
Collegium in
2014-15.
Former Pro Futura Scientia Fellow Eva Erman (Institute for
Futures Studies, Stock-
holm, and Stockholm University) is awarded both a VR research environment grant
on the social consequences of digitalisation for the project "Automatiserad politisk
makt: hur träffsäker, kvalitetssäkrad, accepterad och legitim är användningen av
AI i den offentliga sektorn?" (approx. SEK 17.4 million; 2023-28), and a VR research
project grant for the project "Den globala styrningen av artificiell intelligens och demo-
kratins utmaningar" (approx. SEK 6.5 million; 2023-26). Erman was in residence at
SCAS in the autumn of
2011 and the autumn of 2012.
Current Barbro Klein Fellow Ewa Machotka (Stockholm University) receives a VR
research
project grant (totalling approx. SEK 4.9 million for the years 2024-26) for
her project "Can Art be National? Japonisme and Transculturation in Turn of the
Century Sweden and Poland". Machotka is in
residence at SCAS in the autumn of
2023.
Former Fellow Folke Tersman (Uppsala University) receives a VR research project
grant for the
project "Framsteg i etiken i ljuset av oenighet". The grant amounts to
SEK 4.3 million for the years 2024 2026.
Tersman was in residence at SCAS
in the
autumn term of 2008. He is also
a former member of the Pro
Futura Scientia
Selection
Committee.
Former Fellow Per Wisselgren (Uppsala University) receives a VR research project
grant totalling approx. SEK 5 million for the years 2024-26
for his project titled "Forskningsfinansieringens effekter: De statliga forskningsrådens
etablering och humanvetenskapernas formering, 1947–1977". Wisselgren was a Fellow in residence
at the Collegium in the autumn of 2002.
Photo credits: Sarah Thorén (Charpentier Ljungqvist); Mikael Wallerstedt (Machotka); Lars Wallin (Edvinsson)
