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The third issue of Matter Journal is out, with texts from our research collegium on artistic research in theatre and performance. The third issue of Matter brings together texts that explore contemporary performing arts. Tanja Hylling Dier writes about Hjem, a project that shapes place and community through art and participation. Jörgen Dahlqvist examines time as a dramaturgical tool, using the pl
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/matter-journal-3 - 2025-10-29
Get to know our MA students who started fall 2025 and will graduate in spring 2027. Elena BinerElena Biner is a Swiss artist living and working in Copenhagen. With a background in visual communication and a strong foundation in storytelling, her practice sits at the intersection of visual arts and performative spaces, specialising in immersive experiences. In her work she blurs the line between re
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/presentation-our-master-students-performing-arts-critical-practice-programme - 2025-10-29
SWEAH 2.0 is the working name of the new venture on the National Graduate School on Aging and Health. Management representatives for all higher education institutions met recently to consolidate their participation in the initiative. There will be twelve higher education institutions joining forces to finance the national graduate school on aging and health, SWEAH, after the funding from the Swedi
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/twelve-higher-education-institutions-are-investing-graduate-school-aging-and-health - 2025-10-29
SWEAH affiliated Arianna Poli, at Linköping University, is defending her dissertation entitled "A Divided Old Age through Research on Digital Technologies". Having access to and being able to use digital technologies is crucial for participating in today digital societies, but the access and the use of digital technologies are unequally distributed among older people. Groups of older people in lo
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/towards-better-understanding-what-leads-digital-inequalities-old-age - 2025-10-29
Emilia Viklund is a SWEAH-affiliated doctoral student in health sciences at the Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies, Åbo Akademi University. In her research, she examines the mental well-being of the elderly and the connection to the use of digital tools. Her research concerns older people in Finland and Sweden. She also examines what the health promotion work aimed at older people looks like
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/emilia-viklund-winner-poster-competition-during-sweah-milestone-conference - 2025-10-29
The aim is to describe the development of a novel interdisciplinary graduate school, using the Swedish National Graduate School for Competitive Science on Ageing and Health (SWEAH) as a case example. The article explore doctoral students’ perceptions of being part of SWEAH and provide implications for practice. Written self-reports reflecting 78 students’ experiences and perceptions were analyzed
SWEAH affiliated Xia Li has defended her dissertation at Karolinska Institutet: Biological ages: correlations, genetic determinants, and health outcomes. She has studied “biological age”; a quantification of aging-related changes in the cellular, organ-, system-, and/or organismal features. - Biological age can be useful as a source of information different from our chronological age. We explored
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/biological-age-useful-source-information-according-new-sweah-research - 2025-10-29
SWEAH welcomed everyone who works with aging and health at the partner universities to participate in the conference. The conference gave the participants the opportunity to take part in research on aging and health in many different disciplines. Current and former SWEAH-affiliated doctoral students and their supervisors told about ongoing research and also other invited researchers contributed wi
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/sweah-milestone-conference-watch-films - 2025-10-29
Linn Zulka´s study: "On Retirement and Cognitive Aging from a Life-Span Perspective" assessed whether retirement influences cognitive functioning and how inter- and intra-individual differences in psychological and lifestyle factors moderate the association. A secondary purpose was to evaluate whether general intelligence, as measured at age 18, and social contacts later in life may function as re
Robin Jonsson's dissertation Retaining the Aging Workforce: Studies of the interplay between individual and organizational capability in the context of prolonged working lives" is about the interplay between individuals and organizations ability to continue working, or retain older employees in an extended working life. The results indicate that many early retirements are often work-related and th
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/adjustments-needed-elderly-work-after-retirement - 2025-10-29
SWEAH PhD student Christina Heller just had her Mid-way review: "Simulation models as a tool to compare housing policies for a population aging in place". Housing policies can be instrumental in addressing several major public health issues. - Thus, there is an urgent need to develop sustainable housing policies to accommodate the growing number of seniors in accessible home environments. In order
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/urgent-need-develop-sustainable-housing-policies-older-people-their-home-environments - 2025-10-29
1 How does the working method of an R&D unit differ from how it works at the university? The tasks are more varied and the collaboration between colleagues closer. Of course, the difference also depends on which research environment you come from. Research is conducted in the same way and there are several internally driven research projects. However, we accept external assignments that require
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/sweah-alumna-louise-sundberg-has-got-new-job-stiftelsen-aldrecentrum - 2025-10-29
Half way review for SWEAH PhD student Agata Yadav. Socio-economic vulnerability in later life, such as having a low pension or residing in a deprived neighbourhood, is associated with reduced coping abilities and increased deprivation risks. However, research on housing and health dynamics for older adults with socio-economic vulnerability is lacking. One of Agata Yadav´s studies showed that mos
Five questions to Anna Meyer, who just had her thesis defence. What is you research about? My work concerns the changing disease and mortality patterns among the old in Sweden since the 1990s. Using nationwide register data I explore how the occurrence and survival of different diseases has changed in the total population and in different groups (e.g. socioeconomic groups, men and women, or health
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/trends-population-health-era-increasing-longevity-new-sweah-dissertation - 2025-10-29
SWEAH affiliated Hanna Mac Innes is one of the organizers of a symposium with Professor Merril Silverstein, Professor Kieran Walsh and Professor Sigurveig Sigurðardóttir, March 24 in Göteborg. The symposium will also be held online, and the Zoom link will be available the day before. Hanna, can you explain the connection between these professors and SWEAH? The people attending the symposium is my
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/symposium-social-aging - 2025-10-29
Anna Nivestam's research is about health-promoting aspects of preventive home visits to older people, from an individual and a societal perspective. With the help of register data from a project for preventive home visits, she has, among other things, identified factors that may be associated with good health and which physical aspects can prevent older people from participating in social contexts
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-sweah-research-shows-several-health-promoting-effects-preventive-home-visits - 2025-10-29
Christine Etzerodt Laustsen's research focuses on the involvement of professionals in research in aging and health. It is about how researchers and professionals can benefit from each other's perspectives to bridge the gap that exists between research and practice and make research more relevant and useful in practice. The involvement can look different and be to different extents, in different pa
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-sweah-dissertation-involvement-professionals-research - 2025-10-29
The jury has unanimously agreed to award the Susanne Iwarsson Sohlberg Prize. To be eligible, the candidate must have built up a strong research group and initiated research of great importance for the development of gerontology. The prize will be awarded during the opening ceremony of the Nordic Gerontology Congress - 26NKG - in Odense on June 8. The prize goes to a researcher working in a Nordic
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/susanne-iwarsson-awarded-sohlberg-prize-nordic-regions-largest-prize-aging-research - 2025-10-29
Ida Karlsson's connection to the graduate school SWEAH is strong. She is the main supervisor of Peggy Ler, SWEAH doctoral student. She has also taken the postdoctoral course "From junior to senior researcher in research on aging and health" and participated in SWEAH's mentoring program for postdoctoral fellows. The focus of Ida Karlsson's research is the genetic epidemiology of ageing, where she u
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/prize-promising-researchers-gerontology-2022-awarded-ida-karlsson-sweah-supervisor - 2025-10-29
How are older people undergoing hip fracture affected in terms of pain, function, depression and the risk of increased mortality? Erika Olofsson, a PhD student at the Department of Nursing, is researching this. To Umeå University webpage
