My research, teaching (PhDs, postdocs, MA students) and collaborative activities (networks, workshops, collaboration with general society, and journals), and that of my group, The Posthumanities Hub, depend since 2008 heavily on external funding and funding received after systematic peer review.
In international competition, I have attracted funding (about 60 m SEK) from prime research funding bodies such as Swedish Research Council (VR), Swedish Research Council FORMAS, European Research Council (ERC), Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (RJ), Royal Swedish Academy (Vitterhetsakademin), the Nordic research council for Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS), the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA).
- FORMAS 2020-00282 (A Swedish research council for Sustainable Development), “Unga Framtidsskapare: medskapande Medieproduktion med unga vuxna kring komplexa klimatutmaningar”, Pi – 1,7 m SEK
- “Storying Exposure – An Experimental Workshop in Environmental Humanities Writing”, Pi Cecilia Åsberg and Posthumanities Hub with Prof Hayden Lorimer and Dr Astrida Neimanis, a collaboration between University of Glasgow and KTH Royal Institute of Technology-Linköping University. 150.000 SEK Mistra-Formas Seed Box Grant 2018-2019.
- “Open Humanities Lab“ – A Two-Day Public Environmental Humanities Event at the Open Lab facility in Stockholm 14-15 May, 2019. Almost hundred participants, some pre-registered, and a documented-filmed event. Pi Cecilia Åsberg with Posthumanities Hub, and with KTH Royal Insitute of Technology, 125.000 SEK. Mistra-Formas Seed Box Grant 2018-2019
- “Popularizing Environmental Humanities: Film and Media Resources for Young Adults Pondering the Stakes for the Future”, Pi Åsberg, and co-pi science journalist Lotten Wiklund, 175.000 SEK FORMAS (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Develoment) 2018.
- “On Common Ground: Synthesizing Equitable Environmental Humanities for Climate Change Action” 1,5 m SEK from FORMAS (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Develoment) – Pi with Dr Lauren LaFauci, a one year synthesis grant mapping out the development of environmental humanities from feminist and justice perspectives. 2018.
- “Checking in with Deep Time: Weaving justice and hope between generations”, 3 m SEK from FORMAS – with Prof Christina Fredengren, a 3-year Formas project grant on deep time, intra-generational justice and sustainable temporalities. 2018-2020.
- Kungliga Vitterhetsakademin, The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, Grant for Visiting Professor Ursula Heise, Pi together with Dr Camilla Brundin Borg of Gothenburg University. 2017
- “Posthumanism Research Network”, SSHRC, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, (co-pi Åsberg and main pi Prof Christine Daigle), total 198, 337 Canadian Dollars. 2016.
- The Tema Award 2015 to Cecilia Åsberg for bridge-building scholarly work and collegiality at interdisciplinary department of TEMA, Linköping University.
- Principal investigator (Pi) of The Seed Box: An Environmental Humanities Collaboratory 2015 with funding (50 million SEK in total – making it one of the largest humanities grants in Swedish history)
- MISTRA 20.000.000 SEK in December 2014
- FORMAS 20.000.000 SEK in February 2015
- Pi of Posthumanities International Network (PIN) funded 2014 by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond/ Swedish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, working group Technology, Society, Institution. (150.000 SEK)
- Pi of “Gender, Body, Health – in the Anthropocene” Conference 2014 contribution VR, 60.000 SEK
- “Digispace – en förstudie till ett genusmedvetet digitalt makerspace”, VINNOVA, Pi: Katarina Sperling, Visualiseringscenter C.
- “Exploring Life Transitions of Old Age Through Visual Matrix” (Pi: Ellen Ramvi) Nordic exploratory workshops of The Joint Committe for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS), 240.000 NOK.
- EU COST ACTION New Materialism, co-pi (Pi Iris van der Tuin, Utrecht Uni), 500.000 EURO. (2014-2017)
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg individual Grant (2013)
- LiU Strategic Research Initiative, (Individual Grant) (2012-2017) – 1,2 m SEK/year
- Swedish Research Council (VR) project Intersectionality: Transversal Dialogues (PI: Prof Nina Lykke) 2011-2015 – 11.000.000 SEK.
- Co-investigator of ERC StG Project “Prescriptive prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals and ‘Healthy’ Subjectivities”, with (PI) Dr. Ericka Johnson (LiU) with co-investigators Cecilia Åsberg (LiU) and Celia Roberts Lancaster University. €1.000.000/10mSEK (2010-2015)
- Swedish Research Council (VR) PI of Posthumanities Network: The Next Genderation (2009-2014), 750.000 SEK
- Pi of The Gender Lab, Swedish Ministry of Higher Education, Delegation for Gender Equality (DJ-HSV), (2010-2013), 1.500.000 SEK
- Swedish Research Council (VR), Journal Grant for NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. (2010) 100.000 SEK
- Joint Nordic Research Council Humanities-Social Sciences (NOS HS) Award Scholarly Journal (NORA) 2010-2011, 50.000 SEK and 100.000 SEK
- LiU Research Fellow Program, (Individual Recruitment Grant) 600.000 SEK/year + 1.200.000 SEK/year (2008-2012)
- Science Shop, Utrecht Netherlands “Adult Adoptées of Colour and Intersectionality” 2006-2007, ca 15.000 EURO
- FP7 ADVANCE (women in science), (five EU nations and about 500 t euro) 2006-2008
- Swedish Research Council (VR) “Addressing Pasts: History in Popular Media” (2006-2008), with Bodil Axelsson, 2.560.000 SEK.
- STINT Scholarship Visiting Doctoral Scholar, (2003), 100.000 SEK
- Social History in Linköping Award 1998. Best MA-thesis.
- Foundation grant Kvinnor Kan, 200.000 SEK, 1997-1998.
- Teaching award 2004 Polytechnics of Linköping University. Rector’s recognition of outstanding teaching evaluation.
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