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12 Mar 2025
He wants to contribute to a better life for people with dementia
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 divid...
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11 Mar 2025
This year's Gerontology Award goes to Susanne Iwarsson
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...
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24 Feb 2025
"Traveling and changing perspectives – the best energy boost"
This winter SWEAH PhD student, Isabelle von Saenger, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, visited the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State Uni...
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29 Jan 2025
Here are SWEAH's new PhD students
On Tuesday, the new PhD students from partner universities around the country, who have joined the graduate school in 2025, met for the first time. During the introduction day in L...
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23 Jan 2025
New commitment in the new year
The work in SWEAH's management continues with high energy. At the turn of the year, some new people entered as members of the graduate school's board. In addition, alumni have been...
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26 Nov 2024
Unusually many people over 65, but no home care
District nurse and SWEAH PhD student Pernilla Alencar Siljehag, at Stiftelsen Stockholms läns Äldrecentrum, earlier this year received SWEAH's travel grant of SEK 20,000 to visit U...
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14 Nov 2024
The graduate school will be reviewed
At the moment, feverish activity is underway to compile the graduate school's eleven-year activities. Before the summer, Lund University's vice-chancellor decided that an external ...
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23 Oct 2024
Millions to SWEAH alumni projects
SWEAH alumnus Wossenseged Jemberie, Umeå University, receives Forte establishment grant and alumni Anna Marseglia and Kuan Yu-Pan, KI, receives Forte project grant.
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22 Oct 2024
Now new doctoral students are reviewed
Last September was the application deadline for new PhD students who want to join the SWEAH research school next year. A total of 14 applications were received, from 5 men and 9 wo...
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11 Oct 2024
They are awarded SWEAH's travel grant
For several years, doctoral students at the research school have been able to travel out into the world and take part in international research in ageing and health. Now SWEAH has ...
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25 Sep 2024
Pausing the SWEAH job for adventures in Africa
SWEAH's research administrator, Stina Elfverson, is taking a six-month leave of absence from October 1, 2024. She is going out and seeing the world.
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9 Sep 2024
Old and new contacts are made in Great Britain
SWEAH's travelers left an almost 30-degree Sweden and arrived in typical September rain and Stirling half as hot. But then the sun came and a packed program with, among other thing...
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26 Aug 2024
UK Professor: "You've got fantastic data sets"
More than 20 years ago, Swedish Professor Susanne Iwarsson and UK Professor Judith Phillips, started collaborating across national borders. When Susanne established the graduate sc...
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14 Aug 2024
On the way to Scotland: "Together we can find common solutions"
SWEAH's course in Lund, where also British postdocs and doctoral students have participated, is over. We check the travel fever of some of the Swedish PhD students and alumni who w...
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14 Jun 2024
National graduate school SWEAH celebrates ten years
Some pictures and a video from the celebration toast at the Nordic gerontology congress NKG2024 in Stockholm, 13 June 2024.
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13 Jun 2024
Graduate leaders: "We need to invite young people"
One of the seminars at the Nordic Gerontology Congress, NKG2024, 12-14 June in Stockholm, was about the future.
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12 Jun 2024
SWEAH at the Nordic gerontology conference NKG2024
Relive the Nordic gerontology conference 27th NKG 2024 in pictures. SWEAH participated with a number of doctoral students, postdocs, supervisors and researchers on all conference d...
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7 Jun 2024
Exploring "What I should have told myself 30 years ago"
Hello Rebecca Baxter, moderator on SWEAH Alumni Interdisciplinary Network, SAIN’s panel discussion at NKG June 11. A few questions before the big conference starts next week.
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24 May 2024
On their way to NKG: "I generally enjoy public speaking"
Meet some of the expectant doctoral students who will participate at the Nordic Congress of Gerontology in Stockholm, June 12-14, 2024.
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16 May 2024
The SAIN alumna about NKG: "High search pressure this year"
Right now, many are looking forward to the big gerontology conference NKG in Stockholm, in June. One who decided to go early on is alumna Charlotta Nilsen, coordinator of the SWEAH...