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CASE-professorn Susanne Iwarsson får sin andra titel som hedersdoktor, samtidigt som finska presidenten Stubb. Iwarsson utnämns som hedersdoktor vid Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, Jyväskylä universitet som ligger i landskapet Mellersta Finland. Hon hedras för "sin banbrytande forskning om samspelet mellan åldrande människors fungerande förmåga och miljöegenskaper".– Jag är så hedrad och sto

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/utnamns-till-hedersdoktor-tillsammans-med-finska-presidenten - 2025-11-05

Förra året gjorde CASE-forskare en analys av samverkan med omgivande samhälle på uppdrag av Forte. Nu har analysen presenterats och godkänts av myndigheten. Bakom rapporten (Dnr. 2024-01551) står CASE-forskarna Sara Hultqvist, Afsaneh Taei, Susanne Iwarsson och Oskar Jonsson, som ledde arbetet.Vad överraskade er mest?– Trots att Forte i den aktuella utlysningen inte ställde krav på samverkansplane

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/nya-insikter-om-hur-samverkan-forstas-och-planeras - 2025-11-05

Ett 20-tal medarbetare inom hemtjänsten i Härnösands kommun går just nu en tre veckor lång högskoleutbildning via Lunds universitet. Syftet är att stärka personalens kompetens när det gäller åldrande, ålderism och aktiviteters betydelse för hälsa under åldrandet. Läs hela nyheten på Härnösand kommuns hemsida.

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/personal-inom-hemtjansten-gar-hogskoleutbildning - 2025-11-05

CASE arrangerar regelbundet vetenskapliga föreläsningar, så kallade CASE Scientific Sessions. En av de mest välbesökta på länge hölls under tisdagen och handlade om kommunala initiativ och forskning för ökad kompetens och kvalitet i äldreomsorgen. – Det läggs mycket pengar på olika projekt, en utredning 2016 visade 17 olika statliga satsninga under 20 år på total drygt 21 miljarder kronor. Men man

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/stort-intresse-hur-forskning-kan-oka-kvaliteten-i-kommunerna - 2025-11-05

CASE:s koordinator Steven Schmidt höll föredrag på Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2025 i Tokyo förra månaden. Och lärde sig om hållbara lösningar i framtiden. Ett av årets teman handlade om åldrande, med fokus på hur den byggda miljön påverkar hälsa och välbefinnande.– Jag blev inbjuden att presentera vid en särskild session med titeln ”Förbättra hälsa och välbefinnande”. De ville ha exe

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/gav-svenskt-perspektiv-pa-asienkonferens - 2025-11-05

CASE-forskare har beviljats 193 000 kronor från Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, SLU, i projektmedel för att genomföra projektet ”Lokal äldreomsorg i nationell och nordisk kontext”. Initiativtagare till projektet är CASE-forskarna Sara Hultqvist vid Socialhögskolan i Lund och Magnus Zingmark vid Umeå universitet och Östersunds kommun, samt forskaren Karolina Parding, Luleå tekniska universitet,– Det

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/de-vill-starka-mindre-kommuners-aldreomsorg - 2025-11-05

CASE-doktoranden Samantha Svärdh i forskargruppen Tillämpad Gerontologi, höll sitt kappaseminarium ”Välfärdsteknik - Vägen framåt för hemtjänst” på torsdagen. Med sin kommande doktorsavhandling till våren föreslår hon praktiska strategier för att förbättra hur användare upplever välfärdsteknik. Hennes fyra studier ingår i det större mer övergripande forskningsprojektet "Welfare@home". Resultaten s

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/nya-resultat-pa-gang-om-hemtjanstens-valfardsteknik - 2025-11-05

CASE-doktoranden Glenn Möllergren, Socialhögskolan i Lund, är i full gång med att intervjua äldre personer under sin stipendieresa i Rumänien. Läs hela artikeln på forskarskolan SWEAH:s hemsida.

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/pa-plats-i-transsylvanien-maste-jobba-med-det-de-kan - 2025-11-05

When citizens engage in public health research: pitfalls and prospects Arrangör: Lunds universitetMedverkande: Paul Franks, professor i genetisk epidemiologi vid Lunds universitet och huvudansvarig för forskningsprojektet COVID Symptom Study, Tove Fall, professor i molekylär epidemiologi vid Uppsala universitet, Maria Gomez, professor i fysiologi vid Lunds universitet.Moderator: Anders MildnerUnde

https://www.covid19app.lu.se/artikel/covid-symptom-study-live-istallet-almedalen - 2025-11-05

Although Lund University’s 350th anniversary celebrations are drawing to a close, some projects will live on, along with the working method known as the jubilee model. Carina Jensen, soon to step down from her role as jubilee coordinator, talks about Sunday’s big kick-off for the future, which is open to all. “It will start with an open house event in the main University building, celebrating the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jubliee-concludes-kick - 2025-11-05

Large science publisher Elsevier does not meet the requirements of Swedish universities and research institutes. The agreement will be cancelled 30th of June. This means that employees and students at Lund University will not have access to journal articles published by Elsevier after June 30, 2018. However, one can still read Elsevier articles published between 1995 and 30 June 2018. LU researche

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sweden-stands-open-access-cancels-agreement-elsevier - 2025-11-05

LUM managed to sneak in an interview with Carita Håkansson before she packs her bags for a hiking trip in Greece. For the first time in many years she has the chance once more to do what she loves the most – to experience nature and landscapes on foot. Thanks to a transplant, she is living a new life. Carita Håkansson fell ill around just 40 years of age. When her stomach started growing doctors d

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-got-new-liver-and-new-life - 2025-11-05

The expression “Sweden’s green gold” has a new meaning. Forests are now not only to provide timber and paper – but also save the climate. Chemical engineering researcher Christian Hulteberg has managed to transform a residual product from pulp manufacturing into a liquid that is chemically identical to petrol. The plan is to have Swedish forest fuel available at service stations by 2021. “This is

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/he-pumps-petrol-trees - 2025-11-05

Ninety thousand people die in Sweden every year. Despite 80 percent of Sweden’s population stating they would like to donate their organs after death, fewer than 200 people actually become organ donors each year. Why? This is due to, among other reasons, our limited legislation and organs not being made available because of a shortage of intensive care beds. Simply dying is not enough to become an

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/overstretched-intensive-care-leads-fewer-donations - 2025-11-05

“Superbosses” are exceptional at attracting talented people and getting them to perform at their best – while also developing them to become new, good leaders. Are superbosses to be found at the University? “I’m convinced that we would also find superbosses at Lund University if we looked”, says Christine Blomquist, who adds that there are many good leaders here. Christine Blomquist conducts resea

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/superbosses-make-others-become-good-leaders - 2025-11-05

Long ago, Carl Borrebaeck worked side by side with one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners for chemistry, Sir Gregory Winter, on the publication of an innovative technology within what was then a hot new research field: antibody engineering. In 1989, within the same couple of weeks, both researchers published findings on the technology which has now resulted in a Nobel Prize for chemistry. Since th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hard-heels-nobel-laureate - 2025-11-05

A social sciences centre in the Paradis quarter and a continued reinforcement of the Knowledge Highway are priorities in the new premises plan that presents the University’s intended renovations, extensions and new builds for the next five years. “It will be nice to complete the major projects that have been underway for a long time”, says Åsa Bergenudd, head of LU Estates. As the head of estates

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-premises-plan-reveals-universitys-future-building-projects - 2025-11-05

Broke and depressed – that’s how doctoral students risk ending up if they don’t complete their studies in time. The Doctoral Student Ombudsman, Aleksandra Popvic, says supervisors and the University must take more responsibility for the structure of the thesis work, a view supported by a survey conducted by the Swedish Union of Civil Servants (ST). More than 45 percent of responses from doctoral s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/stressed-doctoral-students-want-better-support-their-supervisors - 2025-11-05

Lund University is investing SEK 64 million in a graduate school focusing on societal challenges and the 2030 Agenda. Kristina Jönsson, associate professor in political science, will be its coordinator. “This is a unique opportunity to achieve something really new and exciting”, she says. The graduate school is funded from 2019 to 2023 with agency capital from the faculties. When fully developed,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sek-64-million-leading-graduate-school - 2025-11-05

Migration is a talking point everywhere – in politics, in the media, and not least in academia. It is often presented as problematic and demanding on resources, seldom as something which contributes to economic, cultural, and indeed intellectual development. But without migrants where would academia be exactly? That’s the question being asked by Mine Islar who has been a driving force behind the P

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/where-would-academia-be-without-migrants - 2025-11-05