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Om några veckor ges mycket goda möjligheter att följa forskningen runt om i Sverige och inom SWEAH, när 25 doktorander från nationella forskarskolan presenterar sina projekt vid den 23:e IAGG World Conference i Amsterdam, den 5–9 juli. – Jag kommer att presentera en studie som utforskar kliniska kluster i en slutenvårdsgeriatrisk svensk population, baserat på diagnoser och andra hälsovariabler. Fo

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/svensk-doktorandforskning-sprids-internationellt - 2026-10-07

Imorgon öppnar anmälan till SWEAH:s forskningskonferens i höst. Då samlas forskare och intressenter inom åldrande och hälsa och på scen som "keynote speaker" under andra konferensdagen står hälsoekonomen Linus Jönsson, Karolinska Institutet. Med föredraget ”Från forskning till samhällsnytta: att främja demensprevention för att möta samhällets behov” vill professor Jönsson rikta strålkastarljuset m

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/halsoekonomen-implementering-ar-minst-lika-svart-som-att-ta-fram-nya-behandlingar - 2026-10-07

Styrgruppen för SWEAH:s alumnnätverk SAIN håller på att ta fram en ny strategiplan för de kommande åren. Idag bjöds medlemmarna i nätverket in för att bidra med inspel kring vad de önskar att SAIN ska arbeta med framöver. Och vad de själva vill få ut av nätverket. – Vi delade också in oss i mindre grupper för att diskutera interdisciplinära forskningsfrågor och möjlig forskning som vi skulle kunna

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/nya-ideer-om-framtidens-forskning-inom-aldrande-och-halsa - 2026-10-07

SWEAH-alumn Anna Nivestam, Kristianstad universitet, är aktuell med vägledningen ”Äldre personers delaktighet i skapandet av åldersvänliga miljöer". – Äldre personer behöver vara delaktiga i arbetet med att skapa åldersvänliga miljöer. Men det saknas ofta stöd för hur beslutsfattare konkret kan involvera äldre personer i utvecklingen av åldersvänliga miljöer. Vägledningen ger kunskap och praktiska

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/sa-ska-aldre-personers-tankar-om-miljoer-tas-tillvara - 2026-10-07

SWEAH-doktoranden Karin Högstedt, Karolinska Institutet, har publicerat sin första delstudie. – Den visade att rehabilitering i hemmet hade små effekter på grundläggande dagliga aktiviteter och fysisk prestation, med låg till mycket låg säkerhet i evidens. Vårt fokus låg på hemrehabiliteringsinsatser ansikte mot ansikte inom arbetsterapi och/eller fysioterapi för äldre personer med låg fysisk pres

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/rehabilitering-i-hemmet-hade-sma-effekter - 2026-10-07

Många menar att lösningen på bostadsbristen är enkel: om äldre flyttar från sina villor till mindre bostäder, så kan fler barnfamiljer och unga vuxna få plats på bostadsmarknaden. Men ny forskning visar att verkligheten är betydligt mer komplicerad. I en ny avhandling från David Dahlgren i forskargruppen Tillämpad gerontologi vid Lunds universitet, undersöks vad som påverkar äldre villaägares besl

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/darfor-flyttar-inte-aldre-fran-villan-trots-halsoproblem-och-bostadsbrist - 2026-10-07

NordForsk, an organisation under the Nordic Council of Ministers that funds cooperative research between researchers in the Nordics, awarded Ida Nafstad the equivalent of €324,000 as part of a larger research grant. Her research group intends to promote democratic engagement participation among marginalised groups in environmental policy-making. Transitional Environmental Justice (EnJUSTICE) is a

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/research-strives-amplify-marginalized-voices-nordic-baltic-green-transition - 2026-10-07

The Sociology of Law Department received four positive answers for funding requests this month. The Crafoord Foundation funds Anna Lundberg's ”Public employees’ mobilization against the Informers Act” project with 500,000 SEK. Information about the research will be available later this year.They also granted Jannice Käll 200,000 SEK for the organisation of Critical Legal Conference 2024: Speculati

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/several-successful-grant-applications-june - 2026-10-07

On Friday, September 13, Oscar Björkenfeldt successfully defended his thesis, "Online Harassment Against Journalists: A Socio-Legal and Working-Life Study of the Challenges and Impacts in Swedish Journalism". By integrating sociology of law and work-life science, Oscar Björkenfeldt developed insights into how online harassment targeting journalists influences journalistic practices.Björkenfeldt us

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/oscar-bjorkenfeldt-completes-doctoral-student-programme - 2026-10-07

The Sociology of Law Department receives 50,000 SEK (€4,300) in faculty mobility funds to invite Sergio Jarillo de la Torre, a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Geography, University of Melbourne. His background is in social anthropology, law, and art history, and he has spent over ten years doing fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, the Marshall  Islands and Mozambique.During his two-week s

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/department-granted-funds-invite-researcher-university-melbourne - 2026-10-07

Ana Maria Vargas Falla was Lund University's only representative at COP29 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. She has researched public resistance and acceptance of climate legislation and contributed to the "10 new insights in climate science" presented during the climate summit. These are her impressions of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. I was initially very sceptical about having

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/ana-maria-vargas-falla-reflects-cop29 - 2026-10-07

Michael Molavi and Isabel Schoultz have received a major research grant from the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Programme. Together with newly hired post-doctoral researcher, Elin Jönsson, they will study how ongoing de-democratisation processes affect protest cultures and how these effects comparatively vary across Europe. Europe is experiencing a steady democratic decline. The trend is dis

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/eu-funds-research-about-democratic-decline-and-protest-culture - 2026-10-07

Climate change is a reality for communities globally, forcing governments and international agencies to propose climate adaptation measures. For many people, these top-down approaches don't always align with their needs, values or legal rights. Ana Maria Vargas is one of the researchers in the project "Everyday forms of resistance to state adaptation regulation: An ethnographic study of responses

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/the-justice-in-resisting-climate-change-policies - 2026-10-07

In October last year, the Sociology of Law Department's researcher and senior lecturer Patrik Olsson was invited to a conference in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent to contribute with expertise on the country's social and political development. On October 24, 2024, an international conference on the topic "Development of Free Civil Society and Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organizations" was held in Ta

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/patrik-olsson-invited-uzbekistan-expert-civil-society-and-non-profit-development - 2026-10-07

Ida Nafstad and Heraclitos Muhire each had an article among the five most downloaded from the journal Justice, Power and Resistance last year. Both articles have been accessed more than 2000 times since their publication. Ida Nafstad wrote the article "Police abolition and transformative justice in the footsteps of Thomas Mathiesen's penal abolition", outlining Thomas Mathiesen's penal abolition t

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/two-articles-department-among-jprs-most-downloaded - 2026-10-07

Anna Lundberg has received funding for two projects investigating how and why public employees and trade unions respectively mobilise against the government's Informers Act. The law makes it mandatory for staff in certain public organisations to report undocumented migrants to the border police. In the "Human Rights Mobilization of Welfare Professionals Against the Informers Act – Arguments, Strat

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/anna-lundberg-leads-two-new-projects-studying-informer-act - 2026-10-07

A PhD programme exploring law and governance in authoritarian regimes across Central Asia has received nearly €4.7 million in funding from the European Commission, with an additional €800,000 contributed by the Swiss Secretariat for Research, Education and Innovation. The initiative aims to provide critical insights into legal and societal structures in authoritarian states. Titled "Sociology of A

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-leads-eu55m-eu-funded-research-authoritarian-law-and-legality-central-asia - 2026-10-07

The project "ProTest: Protest as a Democracy Test. Protest Culture under Transformation and as a Transformative Power" was launched with a two-day kick-off meeting on 7–8 April at Corvinus University of Budapest. The project gathers a multidisciplinary consortium of nine European academic and research institutions to examine the evolving role of protest in democratic societies. The April meeting i

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/researchers-studying-protest-culture-gathered-budapest-project-kick - 2026-10-07

A €1.8 million EU grant will fund new research into the challenges of promoting good governance and the rule of law in non-Western societies. In May, the European Commission's HORIZON Programme confirmed the funding for Rustamjon Urinboyev's research and training program "The Political Economy of Legal and Governance Reform in Non-Western Societies: Insights from Central Asia". The project starts

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-grant-backs-research-alternative-non-western-legal-and-governance-institutions - 2026-10-07

The search is on for 25 researchers from around the world in Lund University’s largest ever international recruitment drive. Welcome to join a world-class university dedicated to understanding, explaining, and improving our world and the human condition. As an Assistant Professor, you develop your qualifications over four years. You can then be promoted to permanent employment as a senior lecturer

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-hiring-assistant-professor-law-rights-and-social-movements - 2026-10-07