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Some pictures and a video from the celebration toast at the Nordic gerontology congress NKG2024 in Stockholm, 13 June 2024. SWEAH coordinator, Professor Susanne Iwarsson, celebrated with a toast and balloons together with PhD students, alumni, teachers, researchers and guests. Read fun facts about SWEAH's 10 years.
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/national-graduate-school-sweah-celebrates-ten-years - 2026-06-17
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 will go to Stirling in UK in September for continued knowledge exchange there. Anna Nivestam, SWEAH-alumna (SAIN), Kristianstad UniversityHow has the collaboration been with the British participants in the course?– The e
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/way-scotland-together-we-can-find-common-solutions - 2026-06-17
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 things, lectures and workshops on quantitative and qualitative methods, and a competition where the best presentations were crowned. The postdoctoral students competed in their own class, where Thomas Lowe from the Netherland
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/old-and-new-contacts-are-made-great-britain - 2026-06-17
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. What are you going to do?– I will work as a tour guide, which has long been my "jobby" alongside work at the university. In the past I have traveled a lot in Asia and Europe, but now I am focusing on Africa and will visit Egypt, Madagascar and Namibia
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/pausing-sweah-job-adventures-africa - 2026-06-17
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 granted three more applications, which concern trips to Australia, Italy and Portugal. In this autumn call the following applications were granted: Pernilla Alencar Siljehag, Karolinska InstitutetPernilla is granted 20 0
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/they-are-awarded-sweahs-travel-grant - 2026-06-17
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 women at 5 of the 13 partner universities; Dalarna University, Karolinska Institutet, Linköping University, Lund University and Umeå University. Two of the applications were not complete and will therefore not be processed
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/now-new-doctoral-students-are-reviewed - 2026-06-17
SWEAH alumnus Wossenseged Jemberie, Umeå University, receives Forte establishment grant and alumni Anna Marseglia and Kuan Yu-Pan, KI, receives Forte project grant. Assistant Professor Anna Marseglia at Karolinska Institutet receives Forte project grant - almost SEK 5 million - to a project about gender differences in social health, resilience and cognition across the life course (the interplay of
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/millions-sweah-alumni-projects - 2026-06-17
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 Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, in Portugal. Now she has returned from an almost two-week stay in Lisbon. Pernilla Alencar Siljehag has presented her research project and gained a substantial exchange of knowledge with other
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/unusually-many-people-over-65-no-home-care - 2026-06-17
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 granted assignments in their postdoctoral career development. The graduate school SWEAH is led by a board consisting of members from SWEAH's partner universities. Affiliated PhD students and a SWEAH alumnus also partici
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-commitment-new-year - 2026-06-17
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 Lund, they got to meet SWEAH's management and PhD students who have been active in the graduate school since before. Together, the newly admitted PhD students have knowledge and experience from large parts of the world, f
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/here-are-sweahs-new-phd-students - 2026-06-17
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 University, USA. Thanks to a travel grant from SWEAH she could share her research and learn from other researchers.– I learned more about the impact of sleep on the health of the older adults, that there are specific guidel
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/traveling-and-changing-perspectives-best-energy-boost - 2026-06-17
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 and ageing. The motivation of the Swedish Gerontological Society, which awards the prize annually, is as follows:"Professor Iwarsson is a prominent researcher who for many years has contributed in an exemplary way to th
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/years-gerontology-award-goes-susanne-iwarsson - 2026-06-17
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 divides his time between Lund and Jönköping Universities (Schools of Health Sciences), as well as Blekinge Institute of Technology. Read the full article on CASE's website.
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/he-wants-contribute-better-life-people-dementia - 2026-06-17
A few questions for SWEAH PhD student Klara Le at Örebro University, who has just returned from a research trip in Sydney, Australia. Klara Le was awarded a travel grant of SEK 50,000 from SWEAH to visit the School of Social Sciences, at Western Sydney University, in Australia during February and March.What have you learned?– I have had a great time in Sydney. During this research visit, I have co
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/so-was-klaras-research-visit-down-under - 2026-06-17
Now they are here, to scrutinize SWEAH’s operations inside and out. Yesterday three external evaluators landed in Lund, to review the Swedish National Graduate School on Ageing and Health. During tuesday and wednesday this week, they will meet with Lund University’s Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Lena Eskilsson, the SWEAH management, alumni and about 30 students who are s
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/evaluators-we-want-learn-about-all-your-secrets - 2026-06-17
The SWEAH postgraduate course 'Gerontology – Multidisciplinary and Integrative Perspectives on Aging', is well underway. On April 3-4 it was time for lectures and seminars and 16 SWEAH PhD students gathered at University of Gothenburg. One of them was Sandra Lukic, from Lund University.How were the days in Gothenburg?– Absolutely fantastic, good lectures and fruitful discussions, as well as very g
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/learned-new-course-ageing-can-be-superpower - 2026-06-17
This spring's SWEAH PhD Student Days on April 8-10 are a creative feast in the art of writing. How do you actually write the best kappa and how do you create a scientific manuscript that really captures the reader? After the first day's workshop "Writing an introduction to a manuscript or cover", the PhD students threw themselves into their own writing. Creativity flowed all around Forum Medicum's
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/how-get-started-your-writing - 2026-06-17
As a researcher, you sometimes have to work a little extra to get your knowledge out there. SWEAH's Impact Officer, Oskar Jonsson, has been training hard during the winter and spring. On May 4, he will embark on a 1,000-kilometer lecture tour on ageing and health – on a tandem bicycle, together with other SWEAH researchers, in the southern Swedish countryside. The plan is to cycle around 50 km a d
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/time-1000-kilometers-bike-research-tour-tandem - 2026-06-17
Lack of choice, clashing views and time pressure are findings in a first article on welfare technology, from the Welfare@home project, which includes SWEAH PhD student Samantha Svärdh, Lund University. Her second article gives us information about four different challenges. – Older adults and staff were often given devices without being involved in the decision. We also saw that technologies that
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/welfare-technology-not-solution-without-user-engagement - 2026-06-17
SWEAH PhD student Pernilla Alencar Siljehag has received an invitation from Latin America's leading and largest institution in public health, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil. – The research group I am going to visit is running a gigantic population study involving six major federal universities. It is reminiscent of the SNAC study, which I am using data from here in Sweden, but in multi-form
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/traveling-and-learning-about-vulnerability-violence-and-grassroots-activism - 2026-06-17
