By alva [dot] martensson [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Alva Mårtensson) - published 17 January 2025 Winners of the CFE best thesis award 2024 – Calam Gallacher Roig and Ida Welén. The Centre for European Studies has awarded Calam Gallacher Roig the best thesis award for his master's thesis on the framing of Ukrainian immigration by German right-wing political parties. Ida Welén received the honorary

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/winners-cfe-best-thesis-awards-2024 - 2025-04-03

By axel [dot] fegeant [at] hotmail [dot] com (Axel Fégeant) - published 14 February 2025 Lars Danielsson, Anders Ahnlid, and Maria Strömvik The USA and the EU have had a close relationship since World War II, but in recent years, the transatlantic relationship has deteriorated significantly. With Donald Trump back in the corridors of power, everything points to further challenges in the cooperatio

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/trump-and-europe - 2025-04-03

By axel [dot] fegeant [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Axel Fégeant) - published 26 March 2025 The Centre for European Studies at Lund University (CFE) announces the availability of grants for Lund University employees for preparing research applications on European matters. The grant may be used for various types of research applications, including applications for Horizon Europe. The research topic m

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/grants-preparing-research-applications-6 - 2025-04-03

By axel [dot] fegeant [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Axel Fégeant) - published 26 March 2025 The Centre for European Studies at Lund University (CFE) announces the availability of funds for seminars, symposia, and lectures on European themes to be organized at Lund University during the autumn semester 2025 and/or spring semester 2026. The funds can be used for inviting guest speakers or lecturers to

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/grants-seminars-symposia-and-lectures-0 - 2025-04-03

By evelina [dot] hagberg [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Hagberg) - published 7 April 2021 Kristy Louise Rhades (photo). This year, the Centre for European Studies has awarded the 2020 Best Thesis Award to Kristy Louise Rhades for her thesis in the Master of Arts of European Studies. Note: this article was originally published on December 18, 2020.  Kristy Louise Rhades’ thesis is called “How

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/best-thesis-award-2020 - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 20 September 2021 Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson Håkan Jönson and Kiran Maini Gerhardsson are two of twenty-two authors from Lund University who will present their books at this year's book fair, Bokmässan, in Gothenburg - in Lund's digital stand - on Thursday 23 September.   Håkans Jönsson's book is entitled "Perspekt

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/case-researchers-participate-bokmassan-2021 - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 8 December 2021 Stig Ålund is a social worker and has extensive experience as a professional in the municipal sector, including as director of the Kommunförbundet Skåne. As a pensioner, he is very active in the civil society and has positions of trust for the National Association of Pensioners (PRO) at both local and

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/stig-alund-honorary-doctor-faculty-medicine - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 4 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. CASE PhD student Christina Heller just had her Mid-way review: "Simulation models as a tool to compare housing policies

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/urgent-need-develop-sustainable-housing-policies-older-people-their-home-environments - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 1 February 2022 Congratulations to CASE researcher Giedre Gefenaite who has received so-called "research space" for three years from the Medical Faculty Board. Giedre is active in the research group Active and Healthy Aging at the Department of Health Sciences and has recently also been appointed associate professor. I

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/case-studies-importance-environment-aging-receive-funding - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 9 March 2022 Lund University's collaboration initiatives are meeting places for knowledge and development in a number of different defined problem areas. “Social rights and housing for the aging population” (2018–2021) is one of the eighteen initiatives currently in place at the university. The steering group's report

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/new-processes-and-products-through-social-rights-and-housing-aging-population - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 26 March 2022 Christine Etzerodt Laustsen's dissertation is part of the research program UserAge. The goal of the program is to gain more knowledge about involvement of older people, relatives and professionals in research in aging and health. UserAge is a collaboration between Lund University, University of Gothenburg

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/first-userage-phd-student-defends-her-dissertation - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 5 April 2022 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 Gerontolo

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/susanne-iwarsson-awarded-sohlberg-prize-nordic-regions-largest-prize-ageing-research - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 11 April 2022 Photo by Georg Arthur Pflueger on Unsplash. This study explains how older people experienced and managed everyday life during the first 100 days of the coronavirus pandemic. The findings showed how doing was adapted and changed, how the pandemic gave opportunities for being and appreciating the moment, bu

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/new-research-article-hundred-days-confinement-doing-being-becoming-and-belonging-among-older-people - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 30 May 2022 On June the 16th at 09.15, Erik Smedberg will defend his Licentiate thesis “Egressibility – Applying the concept of accessibility to the self-evacuation of people with functional limitations”.  The defense will take place in hybrid mode, and it will be conducted fully in English. The defense will take place

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/erik-smedberg-licentiate-thesis-defense - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 8 September 2022 CASE User board. From the left: Ulf Selin, Anneli af Klinteberg, AnnMari Storm, Oskar Jonsson, Göran Ternéus, Christer Ohlin och Ingemar Bryman. Ageing and health researchers involve users in their research to improve quality and ensure relevance, but there is no consensus among them whether users shou

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/new-article-case-user-involvement-ageing-and-health-research-survey-researchers-and-older-adults - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 12 December 2022 Wenqian Xu. Childlessness is a growing phenomenon in many countries, especially in China. Wenqian Xu will the next three years work with evidence-building, capacity-building and public-engagement activities on the topic "Ageing without children", within this grant. Could you please comment upon this in

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/case-guest-researcher-wenqian-xu-receives-large-international-postdoc-grant-swedish-research-council - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 19 January 2023 Technology adoption for active and healthy ageing, through a generational lens (half-time review Jens Offerman). Technology plays and will play an important role in promoting active and healthy ageing for current and future generations of older adults. However, very few studies highlight the specific kn

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/what-kind-technology-wanted-support-active-and-healthy-ageing - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 2 February 2023 Kristofer Hansson, Vanessa Stjernborg, Lena Levin and Eva Månsson Lexell. Despite efforts to overcome public transport barriers, major challenges remain. The rapid transition to a more transport-efficient society also includes digitization and new forms of mobility. This creates a growing concern about

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/new-case-research-understanding-obstacles-and-facilitators-current-and-future-public-transport - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 3 February 2023 Steven Schmidt. As of January 1, 2023, associate professor Steven Schmidt is coordinating CASE. He is also head of the research group Applied Gerontology at the Department of Health Sciences, Lund University. Steven Schmidt is associate professor of medical psychology and his research focuses on relatio

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/steven-schmidt-new-case-coordinator - 2025-04-03

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 14 February 2023 CASE researcher Arlind Reuter holds an LMK Postdoc: Technology in the home - a path to independence and well-being for older people: is this the "new normal" after the covid-19 pandemic? Researchers in this field point out that technical solutions to support an aging population should be evaluated befo

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/investigates-how-older-people-exercise-their-citizenship-home-using-digital-technology - 2025-04-03