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Charlotte Löfqvist is now retiring. She has been study coordinator for SWEAH for four years and previously also responsible for CASE's research school. Charlotte has been very involved in developing the postdoctoral assignments and has many good memories of her work with SWEAH. Charlotte Löfqvist has had the assignment as study coordinator since January 1, 2019. - Being a mentor and contributing t

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/it-has-been-very-enriching-work-interdisciplinary-and-international-group-students-and-researchers - 2025-12-29

The study coordinator is part of the graduate school's management team and convenes the graduate school's pedagogical working group. Cecilia Petterson is an assistant senior lecturer at one of the partner universities - Örebro University. She will work as a study coordinator within the framework of her employment there, on behalf of SWEAH. - It is very nice that we are now getting a study coordina

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/cecilia-petterson-sweahs-new-study-coordinator - 2025-12-29

Owasim Akram has been awarded a funding of SEK 873 803 by the Expert Group of Aid Studies/Expertgruppen för biståndsanalys (EBA). It has been proposed in partnership with Örebro University, Lund University and University of Bath in the UK. He is the lead researcher in this project. This project will commence immediately after his defence (which will occur in late December this year). This project

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/congratulations-sweah-phd-owasim-akram-recieving-both-funding-and-postdoctoral-grant - 2025-12-29

The project is called "Rehabilitation at home – development of a sustainable model, placing person's needs and environmental resources at heart (InHome)" and will be carried out in close collaboration with Marie Elf at Dalarna University. Maya Kylén has applied for the grant based on her position at Dalarna University; that is, Maya is active at two of SWEAH's partner universities. Maya is the mai

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/sweah-alumna-maya-kylen-receives-large-formas-grant - 2025-12-29

SWEAH's board decided at its last meeting to offer 20 PhD students affiliation. Meet Mariam Kirvalidze - one of the new students. Mariam Kirvalidze is a medical doctor from Georgia and has a master's degree in public health. The research area is geriatric epidemiology and her research project aims to investigate the informal care of and for older adults in Sweden. - With an ageing population and i

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/large-group-new-phd-students-join-sweah-2023 - 2025-12-29

Childlessness is a growing phenomenon in many countries, especially in China. Wenqian Xu will the next three years work with evidence-building, capacity-building and public-engagement activities on the topic "Ageing without children", within this grant. Could you please comment upon this international postdoc grant, what does it mean to you? - I am honored to receive this international postdoc gra

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/sweah-alumnus-wenqian-xu-receives-large-international-postdoc-grant-swedish-research-council - 2025-12-29

A group of 16 new SWEAH affiliates met for the first time in Lund January 26. The day started with a warm welcome by SWEAH coordinator Susanne Iwarsson and presentation of the rest of the SWEAH management.  Then Erik Eriksson and Agata Yadav, SWEAH PhD students, interviewed each other about their experiences of SWEAH. The main content of the day were the 16 presentations and introductions of the n

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/introduction-meeting-newly-affiliated-phd-students - 2025-12-29

This way into the new year, it is especially nice to welcome new PhD students to SWEAH.   In January, as usual, the management organized an introductory meeting, this time on site at Lund University. What a privilege it is to listen to presentations of new, interesting and important doctoral projects that are under development! The eighteen PhD students who have now joined SWEAH come from differen

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/sweah-newsletter-february-2023-swedish - 2025-12-29

For older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh, it is not the lack of income or assets that stand out when they talk about their situation. Instead, relationships are crucial for their wellbeing, as shown in a new doctoral thesis on older people from Örebro University. https://www.oru.se/english/news/people-living-in-extreme-poverty-value-…  

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/people-living-extreme-poverty-value-relationships-more-assets - 2025-12-29

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 an essential part of the society as well as in our daily lives alike. Therefore, the digital context should be taken into consideration when studying subjective wellbeing— also among older persons. Digitalization further

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-sweah-thesis-ageing-online-promoting-older-persons-subjective-wellbeing-digital-everyday-life - 2025-12-29

New research from SWEAH sheds light on the complex care needs of older adults with substance use problems. Substance use problems, particularly alcohol problems, are “invisible epidemic” among older adults. In his thesis Alcohol and aging: a multimethod study on heterogeneity and multidimensionality, Wossenseged Birhane Jemberie, doctoral researcher at Department of Social Work and the Centre for

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-dissertation-improving-quality-life-older-adults-alcohol-problems - 2025-12-29

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 Saint Vincent University and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Institute of Aging. The SWEAH PhD Aber Sharon Kagwa, a second year PhD. student at the Division of Nursing, Department of Neurobiology, Care Science

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/three-sweah-affiliated-researchers-are-going-canada-summer-program-aging-spa-2023 - 2025-12-29

Klara Le, PhD student Örebro University, was one of the participants in the course Gerontology – multidisciplinary and integrative perspectives on aging, organized by the University of Gothenburg. Maria Edström held the first lecture during the course meeting about older people´s visibility in the media. Followed by Per Bjälkebring’s lecture on the Emotional aspect of aging. After lunch, we had tw

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/i-got-greater-understanding-multidisciplinary-research-ageing - 2025-12-29

Right now, two new course starts are planned under SWEAH's auspices next year. All SWEAH courses are open to all PhD students, nationally and internationally, but SWEAH affiliates are given preference. Doctoral students connected to SWEAH's research school undertake to participate in at least two of the courses on aging and health that make up SWEAH's Core Curriculum during the connection period.

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/time-plan-spring-semester - 2025-12-29

Recently, SWEAH researcher Joakim Frögren published the final study in the thesis "On user involvement in research on aging and health" which he defended in April this year.The study was conducted within the framework of a citizen research project on accessible housing for the older adults and people with disabilities: "The Housing Experiment". In the now published study, Joakim Frögren explore wh

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/digital-competence-determines-how-aging-population-engages-research - 2025-12-29

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 scientific context awaits. But what should you pack, wear and what else is good to think about? SWEAH's research administrator Stina Elfverson, with extensive experience as a tour guide, gives her best tips. She started as a to

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/stinas-tips-conference - 2025-12-29

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. On Friday 16 November 2023 it was time for the dissertation of Jonathan Mak and his thesis “Genetics and biomarkers of frailty: towards individualized management of the frailty syndrome. He is trying to improve our understanding of the

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-thesis-genetics-and-biomarkers-frailty - 2025-12-29

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 event for most of the future researchers in the conference committee. Chairman Mahwish Naseer and the other junior researchers on the committee have busy days. For several months, they have planned this year's SWEAH confere

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/they-create-years-sweah-conference-chance-you-have-take - 2025-12-29

Meet some of the participants on this year's conference for students and researchers, from all around Sweden and abroad. Mariam Kirvalidze, PhD student, Karolinska institutet:– I look forward to learning about what others are doing. So I try to meet others from other universities in other parts of the country, whom I don't otherwise meet. In a workshop you are forced to do that, and that's good.Wh

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/voices-sweah-conference-2023 - 2025-12-29

Curious about doing research abroad? Peggy Ler, PhD at Karolinska Institutet, was just that, so she applied for a travel grant and went to University of Southern California. SWEAH has awarded travel grants for research stays abroad to two PhD students this year, Aber Sharon Kagwa recently traveled to Canada and now Peggy Ler has been to University of Southern California, USA.      Apply next sprin

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/years-travel-doctoral-students-other-side-atlantic - 2025-12-29