Published 4 June 2018 Photo by Larissa Stünkel The Centre has received two grants that will strengthen its work on Korea during the coming academic year. Beginning in September and running through to March, the grant from the Academy of Korea Studies will fund eight guest lectures on different aspects of Korean society, such as politics, digital developments, popular culture and international rela

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Published 18 June 2018 See what our researcher Dr. Paul O’Shea has to say about the recent developments Two articles on this issue have recently been published, one on the Lund Univeristy website, you can find the article here (in Swedish) and one in the Sydsvenskan newspaper here (also in Swedish). For an English translation of the text in Sydsvenskan, please see here (PDF).For more information a

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Published 20 June 2018 Seo-Young Cho will be a visiting scholar at the Centre between 26 November and 20 December 2018. Seo-Young Cho is assistant professor of economics at Philipps-University of Marburg in Germany. Her research focuses on economic analysis of human trafficking, female migration, social capital, cyber activities, gender differences in education and behaviors, and genderbased viole

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Published 25 June 2018 Astrid Norén-Nilsson On 21 May, Dr Astrid Norén-Nilsson presented on “Cambodia; Towards 2018 elections and beyond” at the London School of Economics and Political Science Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF). The SEAF is an annual event organised by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (SEAC), a cross-disciplinary, regionally-focused academic centre within the Institute of Global

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Published 27 June 2018 On 14-15 June, Marina Svensson attended a meeting of the European Alliance for Asian Studies in Turin. The focus was on collaboration and promoting Asian studies in Europe. At the next International Convention of Asia Scholars in Leiden on 15-19 July 2019 the Alliance will run some joint panels on the future of Asian studies as well as co-organise other events.The Alliance h

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Published 24 September 2018 On 17th of September Dr. Paul O'Shea participated in the 79th Stockholm Seminar 'Japan-Russia Relations: The Islands Dispute and Geopolitical Culture'. Four islands – which are controlled by Russia but claimed by Japan – are the subject of a disagreement stretching back more than two generations. As a result, Japan and Russia have yet to sign a peace treaty to end World

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Published 15 October 2018 Nicholas Loubere has co-authored an article on Chinese migration and gold mining in the journal International Migration. This article examines irregular Southİ\South migration from China to Ghana, and the role it played in transforming livelihoods and broader developmental landscapes. It looks at the entry of approximately 50,000 Chinese migrants into the informal smallİ\

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Published 30 October 2018 Sweden is lagging behind other European countries and it is necessary to also educate the next generation of China experts in Sweden On October 18th, Marina Svensson, the director of the Centre, presented a background paper entitled Challenges for China Research and State of the Field in Europe: Lessons for Sweden at a seminar in Stockholm. It was written for a study on r

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Published 1 November 2018 Article in Arctic Yearbook 2018 – Chinese Mining in Greenland: Arctic Access or Access to Minerals? Alumnus Patrik Andersson, who studied at the center from 2014 to 2016, has published an article in the 2018 edition of the Arctic Yearbook together with co-authors Jesper Zeuthen and Per Kalvig. The article, titled “Chinese Mining in Greenland: Arctic Access or Access to Mi

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By anna [dot] axmon [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Axmon) - published 8 June 2021 This study extends TCAL by disentangling causes of death contributions. The strength of the approach is that it allows identification of mortality differences in cohorts with members still alive, as well as identification of which ages and causes of death contribute to mortality differentials between populations. R

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By anna [dot] axmon [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Axmon) - published 9 June 2021 Advances in synthetic control methods bring new opportunities to conduct rigorous research in evaluating public health interventions. However, incorporating synthetic controls in interrupted time series studies may not always nullify important threats to validity nor improve causal inference. Read the paper at http

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/can-synthetic-controls-improve-causal-inference-interrupted-time-series-evaluations-public-health - 2025-07-03

By anna [dot] axmon [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Axmon) - published 10 June 2021 Concerns have been expressed over standards of statistical interpretation. Results with P <0.05 are often referred to as ‘significant’ which, in plain English, implies important. This leads some people directly into the misconception that this provides proof that associations are clinically relevant. Read the pape

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By anna [dot] axmon [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Axmon) - published 17 June 2021 Standard errors are usually calculated based on assumptions underpinning the statistical model used in the estimation. However, there are situations in which some assumptions of the statistical model including the variance or covariance of the outcome across observations are violated, which leads to biased standar

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By anna [dot] axmon [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Axmon) - published 15 June 2021 The IDAG allows for a both intuitive and stringent way of illustrating interactions. It helps to distinguish between causal and non-causal mechanisms behind effect variation. Read the paper at https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/50/2/613/5998421

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By anna [dot] axmon [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Axmon) - published 11 June 2021 Photo: Pixabay / Gerd Altmann Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are an increasingly popular approach for identifying confounding variables that require conditioning when estimating causal effects. This review examined the use of DAGs in applied health research to inform recommendations for improving their transparenc

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By anna [dot] axmon [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Axmon) - published 12 June 2021 Statistical learning methods beyond generalized linear models, such as shrinkage methods or kernel smoothing methods, are being increasingly implemented in public health research and epidemiology because they can perform better in instances with complex or high-dimensional data—settings in which traditional statis

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/reflection-modern-methods-good-practices-applied-statistical-learning-epidemiology - 2025-07-03

By anna [dot] axmon [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Axmon) - published 13 June 2021 The ambition is to provide one of the first large-scale European family studies with individual data across three generations, which could deepen our knowledge about the role of family traits for chronic disease and its underlying mechanisms. Read the paper at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-020-0

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/malmo-offspring-study-mos-design-methods-and-first-results - 2025-07-03

By anna [dot] axmon [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Axmon) - published 14 June 2021 The network will add value to participating cohorts by increasing statistical power and exposure heterogeneity, as well as facilitating cross-cohort comparisons, cross-validation and replication. Our aim is to motivate other cohorts to join the network and encourage the use of the EU Child Cohort Network by the wi

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Published 15 May 2018 Nytt stöd för mer inkluderande forskningsfinansiering Den 27 april lanserade forskningsfinansiärerna Formas, Forte, Vinnova och Energimyndigheten ett nytt, webbaserat processtöd för att nå ut bättre till sökande från en mångfald av discipliner och sektorer och även för att stärka samverkan mellan forskning och det omgivande samhället.Pressmeddelandet finns här och själva sida

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By anna [dot] axmon [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Axmon) - published 18 June 2021 From Wikimedia Commons Health workers invest major time recording register data for maternal and newborn core health indicators. Improving data quality requires standardised register designs streamlined to capture only necessary data elements. Consistent implementation processes are also needed. Read the paper at

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/barriers-and-enablers-routine-register-data-collection-newborns-and-mothers - 2025-07-03