Av lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - publicerad 10 april 2025 I april tog Göteborg emot 16 doktorander från nationella forskarskolan SWEAH. Foto: Pär Bjälkebring SWEAH:s forskarutbildning "Gerontologi – multidisciplinära och integrerande perspektiv på åldrande" är i full gång. Den 3-4 april var det dags för föreläsningar och seminarier och 16 SWEAH-doktorander samlad

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/lart-pa-nya-kursen-aldrandet-kan-vara-en-superkraft - 2025-06-07

Av lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - publicerad 15 april 2025 Hanna Mac Innes och Helena Bjurbäck. Foto: Äldrebyrån SWEAH-alumnen Hanna Mac Innes och nyanslutna SWEAH-doktoranden Helena Bjurbäck skriver om att främja hälsa hos äldre personer genom ett socialt förebyggande arbete. Duon bidrar med ett kapitel i antologin "Ohälsa som socialt problem", som släppts av Stu

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/sweah-duo-skriver-larobok-om-forebyggande-socialtjanst - 2025-06-07

Av lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - publicerad 28 april 2025 Oskar Jonsson tränar tandemtramp tillsammans med forskarkollegan Peggy Chi, inför sin forskningsturné runt om i södra Sverige. Foto: Stina Elfverson Som forskare får man ibland ligga i lite extra för att nå ut med sin kunskap. SWEAH:s forskare med samverkansuppdrag, ”Impact Officer” Oskar Jonsson, har lega

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/dags-100-mil-pa-hojen-forskningsturne-pa-tandem - 2025-06-07

Av lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - publicerad 23 april 2025 Nu finns en uppdaterad begreppsanalys inom samspelet mellan människa och omgivande miljö. Efter drygt 20 år publiceras nu uppföljaren till en flitigt citerad artikel om begreppen tillgänglighet, användbarhet och universell utformning. SWEAH:s koordinator är en av författarna. Läs hela artikeln på CASE:s he

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/ny-modell-som-kan-skapa-delaktighet-alla - 2025-06-07

Av lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - publicerad 9 maj 2025 Photo: Raphael Nogueira/Unsplash SWEAH-doktoranden Pernilla Alencar Siljehag, som har en personlig historia från Brasilien, har fått en inbjudan från Latinamerikas främsta och största institution inom folkhälsa, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation i Brasilien. – Forskargruppen som jag ska besöka driver en gigantisk befol

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/reser-och-lar-om-utsatthet-vald-och-grasrotsaktivism - 2025-06-07

Av lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - publicerad 5 maj 2025 Nu finns en vetenskaplig artikel om vad en forskarskola kan betyda för blivande forskare. Foto: Lill Eriksson Är det någon vits med att delta i en forskarskola? Efter kvalitativa intervjuer med alumner från SWEAH finns nu en vetenskaplig publikation, som slår fast att tvärvetenskapliga forskarskolor kan spela

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/viktigt-att-nya-forskare-lar-sig-hantera-osakerheten - 2025-06-07

Av lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - publicerad 7 maj 2025 Ingen teknik, förutom medicineringsroboten, bidrog till att minska personalbristen, visar den nya studien. Foto: Sebastian Scholtz/Creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Brist på valmöjligheter, krockande åsikter och tidspress är fynd i en första artikel om välfärdsteknologi, från projektet Welfare@home, där SW

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/valfardsteknik-ingen-losning-utan-anvandarnas-medverkan - 2025-06-07

Published 11 August 2016 5G world record set by Lund University and Bristol University researchers. Photo: National Instruments Researcher Steffen Malkowsky, together with research colleagues from Lund University, Sweden, and the University of Bristol, UK, has achieved a new world record in 5G technology, thereby surpassing the previous record that he himself contributed to last spring. The succes

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-set-new-5g-world-record-and-earn-multiple-awards - 2025-06-07

Published 15 August 2016 Tuesday 16 August 2016 is "Arrival Day" for over 2,000 new international students at Lund University. Arrival Day is a dedicated day to welcome international students to their new environment at Lund University. Students are greeted by international mentors at Copenhagen Airport and at the Lund train station, before being driven to the Academic Society building to be ‘chec

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lu-welcomes-students-around-world-arrival-day - 2025-06-07

Published 16 August 2016 Scientists have been able to show that birds fly faster in flocks. Photo: Beninfreo New research at Lund University in Sweden shows that the flight speed of birds is determined by a variety of factors. Among the most sensational is that the size of the flock has a significant impact on how fast the birds can fly. The larger the flock, the higher the speed. Researchers at t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/birds-fly-faster-large-flocks - 2025-06-07

Published 17 August 2016 An American emperor dragonfly accelerates streaks of smoke down when it flaps its four wings. The photo has been edited. PHOTO: IGOR SIWANOWICZ/HUAI-TI LIN The complicated structure of the dragonfly’s wings makes them sturdier and increases their stability and flexibility in the air, without affecting the aerodynamics. The research results may become applicable in the wind

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/dragonflys-flight-technique-uncovered - 2025-06-07

Published 17 August 2016 Abuse of addictive prescription drugs is increasing, and is at risk of becoming a major public health problem in Europe. Photo: MostPhotos The largest study of prescription drug abuse in Europe shows that more than 12 per cent of Swedes over age 12 have abused prescription medication. The results, published in the scientific journal BMC Psychiatry, are based on studies in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prescription-drug-abuse-europe - 2025-06-07

Published 23 August 2016 Study uncovers what exactly makes authoritarian and socially dominant people have an increased tendency to accept torture. Photo: F. Mariani A research group of psychologists from Lund University in Sweden have shown that authoritarian people and those who perceive their own group as socially superior to others are often more inclined to accept the use of torture. The thin

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/why-do-some-people-find-it-easier-accept-torture-and-assault-others - 2025-06-07

Published 24 August 2016 21-year-old orangutang Naong demonstrated that he can predict the taste sensations. Photographer: Tomas Persson A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that orangutans can imagine whether or not a certain juice blend is good or not, based on its ingredients. Predicting an experience of something that has not yet occurred can be done by using so-called affective fo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/orangutans-can-predict-future-experiences - 2025-06-07

Published 25 August 2016 By assigning barcodes to stem cells, researchers can see how individual stem cells in the blood differ from one another, and how their functions change with age. Photo: MostPhotos By assigning a barcode to stem cells, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have made it possible to monitor large blood cell populations as well as individual blood cells, and study the chang

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/barcodes-show-blood-family-tree - 2025-06-07

Published 5 September 2016 The three-dimensional structure of the RNR enzyme from the bacterium pseudomonas aeruginosa shows how it shuts down when there is no longer a need for DNA building blocks. Illustration: Derek Logan A study of an enzyme that helps build and repair DNA in living organisms increases our understanding of how these processes are controlled and how we can use this to combat in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-knowledge-about-building-blocks-life - 2025-06-07

Published 6 September 2016 Lund University has once again been ranked as the number one university in Sweden and the 73rd best in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2016/17 that was released today. With 17,000 internationally recognised universities in the world, this ranking reinforces Lund University’s place in the global top tier of higher education, among 0.4% of the world’s univers

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-once-again-top-100-qs-university-rankings - 2025-06-07

Published 13 September 2016 Study points out how important follow-ups are to evaluate patients’ psychological well-being after gastric bypass surgery. Photo: Shutterstock Research from Lund University shows that one in five adolescents who have undergone obesity surgery experience poor mental health. Some have even had suicidal thoughts. The study is based on follow-up studies of 88 adolescents wh

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/increased-focus-mental-health-young-obesity-surgery-patients - 2025-06-07

Published 17 September 2016 Researchers at Lund and Bristol universities are making great strides in 5G technology. Photo: C. Schubert Researchers at the universities of Lund and Bristol have conducted a number of experiments using a form of 5G technology called Massive MIMO (multiple input, multiple output), and set not one but two world records in so-called spectrum efficiency for wireless commu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-making-strides-5g-technology - 2025-06-07

Published 19 September 2016 The first image of the entire sky produced with the help of Gaia data. Photo: ESA/Gaia/DPAC The European Space Agency’s satellite Gaia is now delivering its first results after having travelled around the sun for more than two years. The goal is to draw up a whole new map of the Milky Way, showing where the billion different stars are located and how they move. Lennart

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-plays-key-role-mapping-milky-way - 2025-06-07