An on-site meeting, discussing PhD projects and the varying conditions under which they conduct them. Three PhD students from the institution, originating from South Korea, China and Mexico, and Isabelle von Saenger (second from left). Photo: Private This winter SWEAH PhD student, Isabelle von Saenger, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, visited the Edson College of Nursing and Health

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/traveling-and-changing-perspectives-best-energy-boost - 2025-08-25

Professor Susanne Iwarsson receives the 2025 Great Gerontology Prize. Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg The Great Gerontology Prize 2025 is awarded to SWEAH's coordinator, Professor Susanne Iwarsson. The prize is given to people who have made a difference in the field of older adults and ageing. The motivation of the Swedish Gerontological Society, which awards the prize annually, is as follows:"Prof

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/years-gerontology-award-goes-susanne-iwarsson - 2025-08-25

Johannes Malm continues to develop his dementia app in Lund. Photo: Lill Eriksson A new SWEAH face appears in the Applied Gerontology research group's premises in Forum Medicum, Lund. The PhD student, economist and self-taught programmer Johannes Malm, now divides his time between Lund and Jönköping Universities (Schools of Health Sciences), as well as Blekinge Institute of Technology. Read the fu

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/he-wants-contribute-better-life-people-dementia - 2025-08-25

SWEAH PhD student Klara Le applied for and received a travel grant to learn more in Australia. Photo: Private A few questions for SWEAH PhD student Klara Le at Örebro University, who has just returned from a research trip in Sydney, Australia. Klara Le was awarded a travel grant of SEK 50,000 from SWEAH to visit the School of Social Sciences, at Western Sydney University, in Australia during Febru

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Professor Kerstin Tham from Sweden, Professor Marja Jylhä from Finland and Professor Clemens Tesch-Roemer from Germany visit SWEAH at Lund University. Photo: Lill Eriksson Now they are here, to scrutinize SWEAH’s operations inside and out. Yesterday three external evaluators landed in Lund, to review the Swedish National Graduate School on Ageing and Health. During tuesday and wednesday this week,

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In April, Gothenburg welcomed 16 PhD students from the national graduate school SWEAH. Photo: Pär Bjälkebring The SWEAH postgraduate course 'Gerontology – Multidisciplinary and Integrative Perspectives on Aging', is well underway. On April 3-4 it was time for lectures and seminars and 16 SWEAH PhD students gathered at University of Gothenburg. One of them was Sandra Lukic, from Lund University.How

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/learned-new-course-ageing-can-be-superpower - 2025-08-25

The PhD Student Days in Lund this spring are a writing retreat, where there is plenty of time for one's own writing. Photo: Lill Eriksson This spring's SWEAH PhD Student Days on April 8-10 are a creative feast in the art of writing. How do you actually write the best kappa and how do you create a scientific manuscript that really captures the reader? After the first day's workshop "Writing an intr

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Oskar Jonsson practices tandem pedaling with fellow researcher Peggy Chi, ahead of his research tour around southern Sweden. Photo: Stina Elfverson As a researcher, you sometimes have to work a little extra to get your knowledge out there. SWEAH's Impact Officer, Oskar Jonsson, has been training hard during the winter and spring. On May 4, he will embark on a 1,000-kilometer lecture tour on ageing

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/time-1000-kilometers-bike-research-tour-tandem - 2025-08-25

None of the technologies, except the medication robot, helped ease staff shortages, in the study. Photo: Sebastian Scholtz/Creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Lack of choice, clashing views and time pressure are findings in a first article on welfare technology, from the Welfare@home project, which includes SWEAH PhD student Samantha Svärdh, Lund University. Her second article gives us informatio

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/welfare-technology-not-solution-without-user-engagement - 2025-08-25

Foto: Raphael Nogueira/Unsplash SWEAH PhD student Pernilla Alencar Siljehag has received an invitation from Latin America's leading and largest institution in public health, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil. – The research group I am going to visit is running a gigantic population study involving six major federal universities. It is reminiscent of the SNAC study, which I am using data from h

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/traveling-and-learning-about-vulnerability-violence-and-grassroots-activism - 2025-08-25

Photo: Joshua Hoehne/Unsplash With impact officer Oskar Jonsson, SWEAH will strengthen approaches to collaboration, user involvement and community engagement based on the research and activities conducted within SWEAH. PhD students affiliated with SWEAH will now be involved in his work. – During the spring I will review all theses produced within SWEAH the last three years, says Oskar Jonsson.He f

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/reviewing-sweah-papers-maximize-societal-impact - 2025-08-25

There is now a scientific article about what a graduate school can mean for future researchers. Photo: Lill Eriksson Is there any point in participating in a graduate school? After qualitative interviews with alumni from SWEAH, a scientific publication has now been published, which establishes that interdisciplinary graduate schools can play a crucial role in educating the next generation of resea

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/important-new-researchers-deal-uncertainty - 2025-08-25

William Son Galanza doing a Bologna-by-night-tour by bike. Photo: Private SWEAH PhD student William Son Galanza at Lund University is back in business after a visit at University of Bologna in Italy, during March to May. – I am surprised by how advanced their research on fall prediction and smart assistive technology is, such as a prototype of smart crutches that allows biofeedback and telemonitor

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/back-italy-i-felt-potential-international-and-interdisciplinary-work - 2025-08-25

Sibiu. Photo: Atlas Obscura/Unsplash In Sweden he fears a risk of care damage, which likely does not exist in countries like Romania. During three months in the autumn, SWEAH PhD student Glenn Möllergren, Lund University, will live in Romania and find out more about it. First one year in the 1990s and then at a number of longer stays for education and work. Soon a smaller moving load will go to Ro

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/romania-you-bite-bullet-and-do-it-yourself - 2025-08-25

Read about the long career of nationally renowned Professor Susanne Iwarsson. Photo: André de Loisted THE PORTRAIT. Ageing has been a common theme throughout her career. With only two years left until retirement, Professor Susanne Iwarsson is starting to slow down – a little. A personal interview with researcher and SWEAH coordinator, Professor Susanne Iwarsson, is published in the magazine Arbets

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/long-term-care-clinic-professorship - 2025-08-25

Photo: Vardan Papikyan/Unsplash Last fall, the municipality of Härnösand launched an initiative to more effectively support the older adults with rehabilitation and preventive health interventions. The first phase of part of the initiative, in the form of a “task force” led by Eva Ekvall Hansson, Professor of physiotherapy at Lund University, is now being completed. An assessment and intervention

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/task-force-harnosand-project-we-are-already-seeing-positive-developments - 2025-08-25

The seven elements of WHO Framework for Knowledge Translation on Ageing and Health. SWEAH is committed to strengthening approaches to collaboration, user involvement and community engagement based on the research and activities conducted within the graduate school. Now SWEAH PhD students can use a tool to enhance how they connect research with collaborators outside of academia, increase the visibi

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/collaboration-outside-academia-now-being-strengthened - 2025-08-25

For its fourth edition of All My Relations, the Ecocamp transforms into a nomadic experience. This year, we embrace movement—not just as a physical act, but as a metaphor for existence itself. Walking, travelling, and traversing landscapes will be central to our practice, fostering new connections on the move and reflecting on migration, transition, and relational encounters. All My Relations IV i

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The graduating students of the new MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice are working intensively on their final projects this Spring. On April 9 - 16 they invite you all for a preview of what is to come, when they present work-in-progress showings both at Malmö Theatre Academy, Skånes Dansteater and Community Kultur Centrum. This is not their final showings, those will take place in May at Malmö

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We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as assistant professor in artistic research and AI. Are you curious about the intersection of artificial intelligence, culture, and societal engagement through storytelling and the arts? At Malmö Theatre Academy, a part of Lund University, you have the opportunity to take the next step tow

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/we-are-looking-assistant-professor-artistic-research-and-ai - 2025-08-25