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A new 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. In addition to personal reasons, Johannes Malm had several reasons for moving to Lund at the end of

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/he-wants-contribute-better-life-people-dementia - 2025-12-23

To address the lack of evidence regarding the links between housing, relocations, and health along the process of ageing, CASE-researchers for the first time linked comprehensive person and housing data available from population registers in Sweden. Associate Professor Giedre Gefenaite, affiliated with CASE and the profile area Proactive ageing, recently published a cohort profile paper on this, t

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/first-comprehensive-personal-and-housing-data-sweden - 2025-12-23

This year’s first interdisciplinary CASE Scientific Session yesterday, about digital technology, was a collaboration between the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine. And gathered more researchers than usual to these sessions. PhD students from the latter, Samantha Svärdh and William son Galanza, presented their preliminary findings on their work with technologies used in care for older adul

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/hot-topic-ai-and-digital-technology-older-adults - 2025-12-23

CASE Coordinator Steven Schmidt held a talk at Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2025 in Tokyo last month. And learned about sustainable solutions for the future. One of the themes this year was around ageing, with a focus on how the built environment impacts health and well-being.– I was invited to present at a special session “Improving health and well-being”. They wanted to have examples

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/swedish-perspective-asia-conference - 2025-12-23

CASE-researcher Wenqian Xu will investigate the adoption of artificial intelligence, AI, in home care and the risks associated with its implementation, together with colleagues from Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The project, called AMICA, has been granted SEK 15.3 million from NordForsk and the Estonian Research Council. Read the full news article at Medfak's website.

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/ai-powered-care-home - 2025-12-23

https://www.ctg.lu.se/article/ctg-funded - 2025-12-23

21st of March is celebrated in many parts of the world, including in Central Asian countries. It marks the spring equinox, when the night and day are equal. In Central Asia, this holiday is celebrated with festivals, food, music and dancing. For this occasion, the project team at Lund University invited guest researchers and staff of the Sociology of Law Department to an academic event on the 21st

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/21st-march-outdoors-event - 2025-12-23

The workshop “Law and Society in Central Asia” was held on the 24-26th of March, 2021. The workshop, held online on the Zoom platform, was the wrap-up event of the first year of the project “Central Asian Law: legal cultures and business environments in Central Asia” funded by the Marie Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange scheme within the H2020 Programme (grant acronym: Central Asian Law

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/24-26th-march-workshop - 2025-12-23

Central Asian Law project is continuing to organize capacity building and dissemination in order to communicate the project findings to different target audiences. On the 2nd of April, Central Asian Law project members held a presentation on the topic “Doing ethnographic fieldwork in non-Western contexts: Uzbekistan”. The presentation was held at the initiative of Tolibjon Mustafoev, researcher of

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/presentation-doing-ethnographic-fieldwork-non-western-contexts-uzbekistan - 2025-12-23

Press-Release about the CAL project’s first mid-term meeting Central Asian Law (CAL) project is funded by the European Commission’s H2020 MSCA-RISE programme (project number 870647). Therefore, the project is subject to project reporting and annual mid-term meetings with the project adviser from the European Commission’s Research Executive Agency (REA). The project first mid-term meeting took plac

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/central-asian-law-projects-first-mid-term-meeting-was-held-4-th-june-2021 - 2025-12-23

First informal meeting of the Central Asian Law project took place on September 19-20, 2019. This informal meeting was organized in order to discuss the project plans and coordinate research and secondment activities with project participants from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The meeting, held at Lund University in Sweden, helped to identify participants’ resear

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/central-asian-law-first-project-meeting-lund-university - 2025-12-23

Culture and corruption in focus at the first Central Asian Law seminar at Lund University, Department of Sociology of Law, June 5, 2020 On June 5, the Sociology of Law Department at Lund University organised the first Central Asian Law project seminar. It featured four Central Asian guest researchers who presented work relating to cultural studies, cultural branding, and corruption. More detailed

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/culture-and-corruption-focus - 2025-12-23

Central Asian Law project organized the conference titled “Understanding legal cultures in Central Asia” on 6-8 November in Istanbul, Turkey. The conference focused on the discussion of the interconnections between international actors, domestic institutions, business actors, as well as informal institutions and norms and how their interplay shape the governance, legal culture and business environ

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/conference-understanding-legal-cultures-central-asia-6-8-november-2021 - 2025-12-23

Central Asian Law project aims to inform the public about the research being conducted through various dissemination means. A researcher from Uzbekistan Tolibjon Mustafoev analysed Uzbekistan's ranking in Corruption Perception Index and its legal, social and business aspects. The policy brief was published in Russian language in the website of Uzbekistan's National Information Agency.  Full articl

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/corruption-perceptions-index-uzbekistan-legal-social-and-business-aspects - 2025-12-23

Central Asian Law project is continuing its capacity building and dissemination activities in order to communicate the project findings to different target audiences. On the 14th of March 2022, Central Asian Law project members held a presentation on the topic “Ethnographic Research and Fieldwork in Uzbekistan: Methodological Insights from the Central Asian Law Project”.  The presentation was orga

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/presentation-ethnographic-research-and-fieldwork-uzbekistan-methodological-insights - 2025-12-23

Central Asian Law project continues to produce knowledge about Central Asia and sharing it with other scholars in this area. Thus, on the 27th of May the project members participated in a panel discussion at an international conference “Central Asian Law Forum: Commercial Law at the Time of Change: New Imperatives and International Standards”. The conference was organised by one of the project par

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/international-conference-central-asian-law-forum-commercial-law-time-change-new-imperatives-and - 2025-12-23

Central Asian Law project delivered another workshop on the “Shadow economy, business environment and legal cultures in Central Asia”. The workshop took place at Lund University in Sweden on July 5-8, 2022. The workshop, that was held over 4 days, turned into a platform for the project participants to work on their research, exchange ideas and discuss the latest news and developments in Central As

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/project-workshop-shadow-economy-business-environment-and-legal-cultures-central-asia - 2025-12-23

On Thursday, 14th of October, 2021, the Central Asian Law project team participated in a panel session of the Central Eurasian Studies Society’s (CESS) annual conference. CESS Annual Conferences have been held at universities around North America since 2000, currently offering up to 70 panels and attracting approximately 300 participants from all over the world. The 21st CESS Annual Conference was

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/central-asian-law-project-participated-annual-cess-conference-14-17-october-2021 - 2025-12-23

Central Asian Law project researchers participated at another international conference, presenting their work carried out within the framework of the project. The 5th annual conference of the Law and Development Network named “Beyond the Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities for Law and Development” took place on the 24-26th of November, 2022 and was hosted by Nelson Mandela University (South Afric

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/central-asian-law-project-participated-annual-ldrn-conference-24-26-november-2021 - 2025-12-23

The faculty members of the Sociology of Law Department of Lund University, including Central Asian Law project team visited a school the Kullagymnasiet in Höganäs city. The visit took place on the 29th of October, 2021. The purpose of the visit and meeting students was to talk about the Agenda 2030 and Social Sustainability issues with students of high school at Kullagymnasiet. The discussion also

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/school-visit-central-asian-law-project-team-together-sociology-law-department - 2025-12-23