All news
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15 Apr 2024
They are going on research adventures abroad
Three travel grant applications from SWEAH PhD-students have been approved this spring.
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19 Mar 2024
Here, the theories of ageing are practiced
The graduate school's basic course "Theories of ageing" is proceeding according to plan. This week, around 25 doctoral students from all over the country are participating in a two...
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21 Feb 2024
He contributes to research reaching practice
It will be Oskar Jonsson who will be SWEAH's researcher with collaborative assignment of 20 percent this year. The completely new assignment includes collaborating within the welfa...
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13 Feb 2024
Steven Schmidt new study coordinator
Associate professor Steven Schmidt is SWEAH's new study coordinator.
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30 Jan 2024
Sex, abuse and virtual aids - some of the new PhDs' focus
The young researchers of the future investigate everything from sexuality in elderly care, virtual aids - to abuse in care and much more.
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29 Jan 2024
First year for Mid University and Judit in SWEAH
Last year SWEAH got a new partner university, Mid University in Sundsvall and Östersund. Judit Staller is a PhD student at the Department of Health Sciences (HOV) and is now celebr...
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25 Jan 2024
So can alumni structure their research career
Eleven postdocs from around the world, with a particular interest in research in ageing and health, visited Lund University at the beginning of the new year. Mentoring programs, co...
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11 Jan 2024
"Quality of care and work environment – two sides of the same coin"
Lund University magazine (LUM) arranges talks between home care researchers from Lund University of Technology and the University of Social Sciences in Lund (affiliated to SWEAH). ...
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24 Nov 2023
This year's travel doctoral students on the other side of the Atlantic
Curious about doing research abroad? Peggy Ler, PhD at Karolinska Institutet, was just that, so she applied for a travel grant and went to Minnesota.
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21 Nov 2023
Voices from SWEAH conference 2023
Meet some of the participants on this year's conference for students and researchers, from all around Sweden and abroad.
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20 Nov 2023
They create this year's SWEAH conference: "A chance you have to take"
On November 21-22, SWEAH's research conference is arranged for everyone who is active in the research school at the 13 affiliated universities – a big event and the first major eve...
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20 Nov 2023
New thesis: Genetics and biomarkers of frailty
SWEAH junior researcher Jonathan Mak concludes that frailty is an age-related state of physiological decline and is a strong predictor of disability and mortality.
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9 Nov 2023
Stina's tips for the conference
In a week or so it’s time for the National graduate school on ageing and health, SWEAH's biennial conference for affiliated researchers. For some, the first real event in a scienti...
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23 Oct 2023
Time to plan the spring semester
Right now, two new course starts are planned under SWEAH's auspices next year.
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1 Jun 2023
"I got a greater understanding of multidisciplinary research on ageing"
Klara Le, PhD student Örebro University, was one of the participants in the course Gerontology – multidisciplinary and integrative perspectives on aging, organized by the Universit...
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19 Apr 2023
Three SWEAH affiliated researchers are going to Canada for the Summer Program in Aging (SPA) 2023
The program is called "Longer-living older adults: Multidisciplinary approaches to a growing area of research on aging" and is hosted by the Nova Scotia Centre on Aging at Mount Sa...
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24 Mar 2023
New dissertation: Improving quality of life for older adults with alcohol problems
New research from SWEAH sheds light on the complex care needs of older adults with substance use problems.
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23 Feb 2023
New SWEAH Thesis: Ageing Online Promoting older persons' subjective wellbeing in a digital everyday life (by Emilia Viklund)
Digital technology and online services are often seen as one response to many of the challenges that the modern welfare state is expected to face. Evidently, digital technology is ...