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Meet IIIEE researcher Andrius Plepys

New business models and commercial opportunities in lighting:What stops LEDs from hitting the market? Energy efficient lighting as in LED is an essential technique in a sustainable society. In Sweden, LED is becoming affordable and has a limitless performance. Yet it is still hardly used in schools, hospitals and public areas. Why? IIIEE researcher Andrius Plepys is part of a project in search of

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-andrius-plepys - 2025-12-15

Yuliya is fighting for Ukraine

Our colleague Yuliya Voytenko Palgan is one of the driving spirits at the University who are doing everything they can to help Ukraine and the people who are fleeing. Since the war started, she has succeeded in helping her parents and a colleague escape the inferno of the war. Now, she and her father have met Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström and Pro Vice-Chancellor Per Mickwitz. Read the article at l

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/yuliya-fighting-ukraine - 2025-12-15

IIIEE Annual Report 2021

The year 2021 was characterised by COVID-19 with online meetings and hybrid education, but also by the many innovative solutions to keep a collaborate, engaging and vibrant environment for both students and staff when working from home. Looking back, we managed amazingly well with keeping a creative and joyful working environment. 2021 resulted in fantastic performance including collaborative proc

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-annual-report-2021 - 2025-12-15

Will the war in Ukraine provide a boost to nuclear power?

The Russian invasion of Ukraine raised concerns about Europe’s dependence on Russian natural gas. In a recent interview to Extrakt magazine Professor Aleh Cherp argues that this will increase the interest of European countries to construct new or prolong the operation of existing nuclear power plants. Aleh Cherp notes that such plans exist in the UK, the Netherlands, Poland and France. He also poi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/will-war-ukraine-provide-boost-nuclear-power - 2025-12-15

Welcome, Samson Mukanjari!

Meet our new colleague Samson Mukanjari who recently joined the IIIEE. Originally from Zimbabwe, with a master’s degree from the University of Cape Town and a PhD from the University of Gothenburg, he has now moved to Lund with his family. Samson has a background in economics and will be working as Associate Senior Lecturer, with focus on climate policy and natural resource management. What did yo

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-samson-mukanjari - 2025-12-15

Seeds of Transformative Learning: Investigating Past Experiences From Implementing Nature-Based Solutions

In a new article published in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities (Urban Greening section), IIIEE researchers Björn Wickenberg, Bernadett Kiss, Kes McCormick and Yuliya Voytenko Palgan unpack enabling and constraining factors for transformative learning through interpretative case study analysis of two NBS projects in Malmö, Sweden: BiodiverCity and EcoCity Augustenborg. To map instances of learning a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/seeds-transformative-learning-investigating-past-experiences-implementing-nature-based-solutions - 2025-12-15

Meet IIIEE researcher Oksana Mont

Nudging: A tool for sustainable behaviourSometimes, a gentle nudge is all it takes for us to do the right thing. With a report written by three IIIEE researchers, nudging as a behavioural tool has gained interest among a broad Swedish audience.Most of us wish to make sustainable choices and do well for ourselves as well as for society. Yet, we fail, over and over again. Sometimes though, a gentle

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-oksana-mont - 2025-12-15

New podcast episode: It’s not just a concept: a holistic approach to implement nature-based solutions

There is a clear and urgent need to accelerate the implementation of sustainability solutions. We must move beyond simple conceptual understanding of solutions, instead experimenting with collaborators in contexts in order to improve effectiveness, share learnings with others, and avoid future mistakes that waste time. In this episode, we discuss nature-based solutions as a holistic approach addre

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-its-not-just-concept-holistic-approach-implement-nature-based-solutions - 2025-12-15

Twelve higher education institutions are investing in the graduate school on aging and health

SWEAH 2.0 is the working name of the new venture on the National Graduate School on Aging and Health. Management representatives for all higher education institutions met recently to consolidate their participation in the initiative. There will be twelve higher education institutions joining forces to finance the national graduate school on aging and health, SWEAH, after the funding from the Swedi

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/twelve-higher-education-institutions-are-investing-graduate-school-aging-and-health - 2025-12-15

Towards a better understanding of what leads to digital inequalities in old age

SWEAH affiliated Arianna Poli, at Linköping University, is defending her dissertation entitled "A Divided Old Age through Research on Digital Technologies". Having access to and being able to use digital technologies is crucial for participating in today digital societies, but the access and the use of digital technologies are unequally distributed among older people.  Groups of older people in lo

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/towards-better-understanding-what-leads-digital-inequalities-old-age - 2025-12-15

Emilia Viklund winner of the poster competition during the SWEAH Milestone Conference

Emilia Viklund is a SWEAH-affiliated doctoral student in health sciences at the Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies, Åbo Akademi University. In her research, she examines the mental well-being of the elderly and the connection to the use of digital tools. Her research concerns older people in Finland and Sweden. She also examines what the health promotion work aimed at older people looks like

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/emilia-viklund-winner-poster-competition-during-sweah-milestone-conference - 2025-12-15

New article: Doctoral students’ experiences of being affiliated with an interdisciplinary graduate school in aging and health

The aim is to describe the development of a novel interdisciplinary graduate school, using the Swedish National Graduate School for Competitive Science on Ageing and Health (SWEAH) as a case example. The article explore doctoral students’ perceptions of being part of SWEAH and provide implications for practice. Written self-reports reflecting 78 students’ experiences and perceptions were analyzed

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-article-doctoral-students-experiences-being-affiliated-interdisciplinary-graduate-school-aging - 2025-12-15

Biological age - "a useful source of information", according to new SWEAH research

SWEAH affiliated Xia Li has defended her dissertation at Karolinska Institutet: Biological ages: correlations, genetic determinants, and health outcomes. She has studied “biological age”; a quantification of aging-related changes in the cellular, organ-, system-, and/or organismal features. - Biological age can be useful as a source of information different from our chronological age. We explored

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/biological-age-useful-source-information-according-new-sweah-research - 2025-12-15

SWEAH Milestone Conference - watch the films

SWEAH welcomed everyone who works with aging and health at the partner universities to participate in the conference. The conference gave the participants the opportunity to take part in research on aging and health in many different disciplines. Current and former SWEAH-affiliated doctoral students and their supervisors told about ongoing research and also other invited researchers contributed wi

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/sweah-milestone-conference-watch-films - 2025-12-15

New SWEAH dissertation shows no general negative effects of retirement on cognitive functioning

Linn Zulka´s study: "On Retirement and Cognitive Aging from a Life-Span Perspective" assessed whether retirement influences cognitive functioning and how inter- and intra-individual differences in psychological and lifestyle factors moderate the association. A secondary purpose was to evaluate whether general intelligence, as measured at age 18, and social contacts later in life may function as re

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-sweah-dissertation-shows-no-general-negative-effects-retirement-cognitive-functioning - 2025-12-15

Adjustments needed for the elderly to work after retirement

Robin Jonsson's dissertation Retaining the Aging Workforce: Studies of the interplay between individual and organizational capability in the context of prolonged working lives" is about the interplay between individuals and organizations ability to continue working, or retain older employees in an extended working life. The results indicate that many early retirements are often work-related and th

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/adjustments-needed-elderly-work-after-retirement - 2025-12-15

Urgent need to develop sustainable housing policies for older people in their home environments

SWEAH PhD student Christina Heller just had her Mid-way review: "Simulation models as a tool to compare housing policies for a population aging in place". Housing policies can be instrumental in addressing several major public health issues. - Thus, there is an urgent need to develop sustainable housing policies to accommodate the growing number of seniors in accessible home environments. In order

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/urgent-need-develop-sustainable-housing-policies-older-people-their-home-environments - 2025-12-15

SWEAH alumna Louise Sundberg has got a new job at Stiftelsen Äldrecentrum

  1 How does the working method of an R&D unit differ from how it works at the university? The tasks are more varied and the collaboration between colleagues closer. Of course, the difference also depends on which research environment you come from.  Research is conducted in the same way and there are several internally driven research projects. However, we accept external assignments that require

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/sweah-alumna-louise-sundberg-has-got-new-job-stiftelsen-aldrecentrum - 2025-12-15

How does socio-economic vulnerability influence housing and health dynamics among older adults in a Swedish context?

Half way review for SWEAH PhD student Agata Yadav. Socio-economic vulnerability in later life, such as having a low pension or residing in a deprived neighbourhood, is associated with reduced coping abilities and increased deprivation risks.  However, research on housing and health dynamics for older adults with socio-economic vulnerability is lacking.  One of Agata Yadav´s studies showed that mos

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/how-does-socio-economic-vulnerability-influence-housing-and-health-dynamics-among-older-adults - 2025-12-15

Trends in population health in an era of increasing longevity - new SWEAH dissertation

Five questions to Anna Meyer, who just had her thesis defence. What is you research about? My work concerns the changing disease and mortality patterns among the old in Sweden since the 1990s. Using nationwide register data I explore how the occurrence and survival of different diseases has changed in the total population and in different groups (e.g. socioeconomic groups, men and women, or health

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/trends-population-health-era-increasing-longevity-new-sweah-dissertation - 2025-12-15