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Documentation Open House

For those of you who did not have the opportunity to visit our Open House on 24 January, it is now possible to watch the presentation and Q&A afterwards. Applications to our Fine Art programmes are open until 3 March. In the clip you can hear our Rector Maj Hasager together with students and staff at the school talk about Malmö Art Academy.We have also filmed the Q&A session that followed, where s

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/documentation-open-house - 2025-11-11

Alumni: Exhibition Sun Swallower

SÓLARGLEYPIR / SUN SWALLOWERFebruary 14 – March 15Exhibition opening: February 14, 17.00 – 18.00Skaftfell Art Center announces the forthcoming group exhibition: Sólargleypir: Sun swallower featuring works by artists Frederikke Jul Vedelsby, Gunndís Ýr Finnbogadóttir & Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir, Hanna Christel Sigurkarlsdóttir, Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Ólafur Elíasson, Una Margrét

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/alumni-exhibition-sun-swallower - 2025-11-11

Alumni: Amin Zouiten - Grand Tour

Amin Zouiten was awarded a scholarship under the Bernadotte Programme 2024, and is now exhibiting at the Academy of Fine Arts (Konstakademien) between 22 March and 3 April. Programme 22 March, starting at 16:15Elisabeth Alsheimer Evenstedt, Permanent Secretary, welcomes the audience. Amin Zouiten will give a brief introduction to the exhibition. This will be followed by a concert with Emil Sandstr

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/alumni-amin-zouiten-grand-tour - 2025-11-11

Alumni: Hanni Kamaly

You could cut it with a knifeHanni Kamaly, Melanie KittiApril 11–May 18, 2025Vernissage: Fri 11 April, 18.00–21.00Please join us for the opening of our spring exhibition.“You could cut it with a knife” is a common English idiom used to express tension so palpable you can slit it with a blade. As the world grapples with this very sensation, the exhibition takes it as its material, and presents arti

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/alumni-hanni-kamaly-1 - 2025-11-11

Alumni: Maia Torp Neergard - Reflections on soil and agriculture

The project Reflections on soil and agriculture began in 2015 when I met John Eriksen, a conventional farmer in Djursland, Jutland. Through farm work and afternoon coffee, I became part of the community around his farm and made a film portrait of him. In Part I of this exhibition project, I explore how we talk about a difficult and emotional subject like farming across rural and urban areas, acros

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/alumni-maia-torp-neergard-reflections-soil-and-agriculture - 2025-11-11

Twelve higher education institutions are investing in the graduate school on aging and health

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 - 2025-11-11

Towards a better understanding of what leads to digital inequalities in old age

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 - 2025-11-11

Emilia Viklund winner of the poster competition during the SWEAH Milestone Conference

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 - 2025-11-11

New article: Doctoral students’ experiences of being affiliated with an interdisciplinary graduate school in aging and health

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

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-article-doctoral-students-experiences-being-affiliated-interdisciplinary-graduate-school-aging - 2025-11-11

Biological age - "a useful source of information", according to new SWEAH research

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 - 2025-11-11

SWEAH Milestone Conference - watch the films

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 - 2025-11-11

New SWEAH dissertation shows no general negative effects of retirement on cognitive functioning

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

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-sweah-dissertation-shows-no-general-negative-effects-retirement-cognitive-functioning - 2025-11-11

Adjustments needed for the elderly to work after retirement

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 - 2025-11-11

Urgent need to develop sustainable housing policies for older people in their home environments

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 - 2025-11-11

SWEAH alumna Louise Sundberg has got a new job at Stiftelsen Äldrecentrum

  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 - 2025-11-11

How does socio-economic vulnerability influence housing and health dynamics among older adults in a Swedish context?

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

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/how-does-socio-economic-vulnerability-influence-housing-and-health-dynamics-among-older-adults - 2025-11-11

Trends in population health in an era of increasing longevity - new SWEAH dissertation

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 - 2025-11-11

Symposium: The social aging

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 - 2025-11-11