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Right now, many are looking forward to the big gerontology conference NKG in Stockholm, in June. One who decided to go early on is alumna Charlotta Nilsen, coordinator of the SWEAH Alumni Interdisciplinary Network, SAIN. She is lecturer and program manager for the master's program in gerontology at the Institute of Gerontology at the School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, and part of

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/sain-alumna-about-nkg-high-search-pressure-year - 2025-11-15

At the moment, feverish activity is underway to compile the graduate school's eleven-year activities. Before the summer, Lund University's vice-chancellor decided that an external evaluation of SWEAH should be carried out in the spring of 2025. – It is very important to have an external review, because Lund University and the other 12 universities that finance SWEAH need information before decisio

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/graduate-school-will-be-reviewed - 2025-11-15

Meet some of the expectant doctoral students who will participate at the Nordic Congress of Gerontology in Stockholm, June 12-14, 2024. How will you participate at NKG? Mariam: In several ways, I have an oral presentation in the “Long-term Care” session, related to my recent publication on person-centered integrated care interventions in Sweden. I will also be a part of the panel discussion on res

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/their-way-nkg-i-generally-enjoy-public-speaking - 2025-11-15

Hello Rebecca Baxter, moderator on SWEAH Alumni Interdisciplinary Network, SAIN’s panel discussion at NKG June 11. A few questions before the big conference starts next week. A lot of ageing events are arranged for researchers - why participate at NKG in particular?– The NKG is an excellent opportunity to connect with people who are at the forefront of ageing research in the Nordics, and internati

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/exploring-what-i-should-have-told-myself-30-years-ago - 2025-11-15

More than 20 years ago, Swedish Professor Susanne Iwarsson and UK Professor Judith Phillips, started collaborating across national borders. When Susanne established the graduate school SWEAH 2017, Judith immediately sent some of their PhD students to some of the courses in Sweden. Soon around 20 SWEAH PhD students and postdocs will visit their counterparts at the University in Stirling, Scotland,

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/uk-professor-youve-got-fantastic-data-sets - 2025-11-15

Relive the Nordic gerontology conference 27th NKG 2024 in pictures. SWEAH participated with a number of doctoral students, postdocs, supervisors and researchers on all conference days at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm in mid-June 2024. See pictures and videos from the conference on our Swedish website and in our social media.

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/sweah-nordic-gerontology-conference-nkg2024 - 2025-11-15

One of the seminars at the Nordic Gerontology Congress, NKG2024, 12-14 June in Stockholm, was about the future. On Thursday 13 June SWEAH coordinator, Professor Susanne Iwarsson, and study coordinator Associate Professor Steven Schmidt, held a seminar about graduate education in gerontology in Northern Europe together with other leaders from universities in Europe.– During our ten years, we have h

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/graduate-leaders-we-need-invite-young-people - 2025-11-15

Some pictures and a video from the celebration toast at the Nordic gerontology congress NKG2024 in Stockholm, 13 June 2024. SWEAH coordinator, Professor Susanne Iwarsson, celebrated with a toast and balloons together with PhD students, alumni, teachers, researchers and guests. Read fun facts about SWEAH's 10 years.

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/national-graduate-school-sweah-celebrates-ten-years - 2025-11-15

SWEAH's course in Lund, where also British postdocs and doctoral students have participated, is over. We check the travel fever of some of the Swedish PhD students and alumni who will go to Stirling in UK in September for continued knowledge exchange there. Anna Nivestam, SWEAH-alumna (SAIN), Kristianstad UniversityHow has the collaboration been with the British participants in the course?–  The e

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/way-scotland-together-we-can-find-common-solutions - 2025-11-15

SWEAH's travelers left an almost 30-degree Sweden and arrived in typical September rain and Stirling half as hot. But then the sun came and a packed program with, among other things, lectures and workshops on quantitative and qualitative methods, and a competition where the best presentations were crowned. The postdoctoral students competed in their own class, where Thomas Lowe from the Netherland

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/old-and-new-contacts-are-made-great-britain - 2025-11-15

SWEAH's research administrator, Stina Elfverson, is taking a six-month leave of absence from October 1, 2024. She is going out and seeing the world. What are you going to do?– I will work as a tour guide, which has long been my "jobby" alongside work at the university. In the past I have traveled a lot in Asia and Europe, but now I am focusing on Africa and will visit Egypt, Madagascar and Namibia

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/pausing-sweah-job-adventures-africa - 2025-11-15

For several years, doctoral students at the research school have been able to travel out into the world and take part in international research in ageing and health. Now SWEAH has granted three more applications, which concern trips to Australia, Italy and Portugal. In this autumn call the following applications were granted: Pernilla Alencar Siljehag, Karolinska InstitutetPernilla is granted 20 0

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/they-are-awarded-sweahs-travel-grant - 2025-11-15

Last September was the application deadline for new PhD students who want to join the SWEAH research school next year. A total of 14 applications were received, from 5 men and 9 women at 5 of the 13 partner universities; Dalarna University, Karolinska Institutet, Linköping University, Lund University and Umeå University. Two of the applications were not complete and will therefore not be processed

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/now-new-doctoral-students-are-reviewed - 2025-11-15

SWEAH alumnus Wossenseged Jemberie, Umeå University, receives Forte establishment grant and alumni Anna Marseglia and Kuan Yu-Pan, KI, receives Forte project grant. Assistant Professor Anna Marseglia at Karolinska Institutet receives Forte project grant - almost SEK 5 million - to a project about gender differences in social health, resilience and cognition across the life course (the interplay of

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/millions-sweah-alumni-projects - 2025-11-15

District nurse and SWEAH PhD student Pernilla Alencar Siljehag, at Stiftelsen Stockholms läns Äldrecentrum, earlier this year received SWEAH's travel grant of SEK 20,000 to visit Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, in Portugal. Now she has returned from an almost two-week stay in Lisbon. Pernilla Alencar Siljehag has presented her research project and gained a substantial exchange of knowledge with other

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/unusually-many-people-over-65-no-home-care - 2025-11-15

The work in SWEAH's management continues with high energy. At the turn of the year, some new people entered as members of the graduate school's board. In addition, alumni have been granted assignments in their postdoctoral career development. The graduate school SWEAH is led by a board consisting of members from SWEAH's partner universities. Affiliated PhD students and a SWEAH alumnus also partici

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-commitment-new-year - 2025-11-15

On Tuesday, the new PhD students from partner universities around the country, who have joined the graduate school in 2025, met for the first time. During the introduction day in Lund, they got to meet SWEAH's management and PhD students who have been active in the graduate school since before. Together, the newly admitted PhD students have knowledge and experience from large parts of the world, f

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/here-are-sweahs-new-phd-students - 2025-11-15

This winter SWEAH PhD student, Isabelle von Saenger, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, visited the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University, USA. Thanks to a travel grant from SWEAH she could share her research and learn from other researchers.– I learned more about the impact of sleep on the health of the older adults, that there are specific guidel

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/traveling-and-changing-perspectives-best-energy-boost - 2025-11-15

The Great Gerontology Prize 2025 is awarded to SWEAH's coordinator, Professor Susanne Iwarsson. The prize is given to people who have made a difference in the field of older adults and ageing. The motivation of the Swedish Gerontological Society, which awards the prize annually, is as follows:"Professor Iwarsson is a prominent researcher who for many years has contributed in an exemplary way to th

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/years-gerontology-award-goes-susanne-iwarsson - 2025-11-15

A new SWEAH 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. Read the full article on CASE's website.

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/he-wants-contribute-better-life-people-dementia - 2025-11-15