Published 13 March 2020 The Centre announces research periods of 20 per cent up to 50 per cent for a maximum of five months during fall 2020. The applicant should have a focus on a country or region in East and South-East Asia. Preference is given to projects that fall within the Centre’s prioritised research areas: Digital Asia; human rights and social justice; and global challenges and internati

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Published 20 March 2020 Lund University is following the Government and Public Health Authority’s recommendations regarding measures to reduce the spread of the coronavirus and has therefore decided that education and examinations should be conducted using online alternatives (distance education) from 18 March. On this page we have gathered some useful information on how this affects opening hours

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Published 20 April 2020 Interview with Marina Svensson, Professor of Modern China Studies here at the Centre. The Corona-crisis has started discussions on Chinese social media that have been quiet for a long time. Voices are now demanding freedom of the press, and the doctor exposing the virus to the world has been called a whistle-blower. This says Marina Svensson, Professor and Director at the C

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/how-china-has-handled-crises - 2025-07-03

Published 2 June 2020 Applications are now open for 2 postdoctoral fellowships in China’s, Japan’s, and/or Korea’s contemporary society at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. Starting date 1 October 2020, or by agreement. DutiesThe person employed is expected to work independently but should also cooperate with other researchers at the Centre. The postdoctoral fellow

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Published 24 June 2020 Marina Svensson has published a chapter in the volume The Heritage Turn in China: The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage Marina Svensson has published a chapter in the volume The Heritage Turn in China: The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage (Amsterdam University Press) edited by Carol Ludwig, Linda Walton, and Yi-Wen Wang.The title of

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Published 4 September 2020 Astrid Norén-Nilsson Dr Astrid Norén-Nilsson has co-authored an article on civil society elites in Cambodia published in the journal Politics and Governance. The title of the article is "Pathways to Leadership within and beyond Cambodian Civil Society: Elite Status and Boundary-Crossing". It addresses elitisation in Cambodian civil society and how such processes relate t

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-civil-society-elites-cambodia - 2025-07-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 13 September 2021 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

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/twelve-higher-education-institutions-are-investing-graduate-school-aging-and-health - 2025-07-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 14 October 2021 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

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/towards-better-understanding-what-leads-digital-inequalities-old-age - 2025-07-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 21 October 2021 Emilia Wiklund´s poster presents older people's experiences of having been involved in a co-creative process and also an innovation project. 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,

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/emilia-viklund-winner-poster-competition-during-sweah-milestone-conference - 2025-07-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 11 November 2021 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

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-article-doctoral-students-experiences-being-affiliated-interdisciplinary-graduate-school-aging - 2025-07-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 16 November 2021 Xia Li (third from the left in the picture) defended her dissertation "Biological ages: correlations, genetic determinants, and health outcomes". SWEAH affiliated Xia Li has defended her dissertation at Karolinska Institutet: Biological ages: correlations, genetic determinants, and health outcomes. She

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/biological-age-useful-source-information-according-new-sweah-research - 2025-07-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 12 January 2022 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

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/sweah-milestone-conference-watch-films - 2025-07-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 24 January 2022 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 g

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-sweah-dissertation-shows-no-general-negative-effects-retirement-cognitive-functioning - 2025-07-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 27 January 2022 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 exten

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/adjustments-needed-elderly-work-after-retirement - 2025-07-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 10 February 2022 Christina Heller, PhD student, Department of Health Sciences, Lund University Mid-way review 2022/02/01. With Björn Slaug, main supervisor, and one of the reviewers Marianne Abramsson. SWEAH PhD student Christina Heller just had her Mid-way review: "Simulation models as a tool to compare housing polici

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/urgent-need-develop-sustainable-housing-policies-older-people-their-home-environments - 2025-07-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 16 February 2022 Photo: Mai Engström.   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 sa

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/sweah-alumna-louise-sundberg-has-got-new-job-stiftelsen-aldrecentrum - 2025-07-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 25 February 2022 Agatha Yadav with her reviewers: Cristina Joy Torgé, Senior Lecturer Gerontology Institute of Gerontology, School of Health and Welfare Jönköping University and Tapio Salonen, Professor in Social Work Malmö University. Half way review for SWEAH PhD student Agata Yadav. Socio-economic vulnerability in l

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/how-does-socio-economic-vulnerability-influence-housing-and-health-dynamics-among-older-adults - 2025-07-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 28 February 2022 Anna Meyer. 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

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/trends-population-health-era-increasing-longevity-new-sweah-dissertation - 2025-07-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 28 February 2022 Photo by Ekaterina Shakharova on Unsplash. 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 a

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/symposium-social-aging - 2025-07-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 7 March 2022 The preventive home visit can contribute to preparedness by equipping both the older person and society for the future, Anna Nivestam´s research shows. Anna Nivestam's research is about health-promoting aspects of preventive home visits to older people, from an individual and a societal perspective. With t

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-sweah-research-shows-several-health-promoting-effects-preventive-home-visits - 2025-07-03