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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The School of Social Work recently hosted an online seminar on grounded theory, which drew participants from New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, Canada, the UK, Italy and Lithuania. The virtual meeting was the first gathering of a group that has emerged on Facebook, around a common interest in the research methodology. T

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/grounded-theory-contentment-and-norwegian-fjord - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Earlier this spring, Jan Magnusson, senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, travelled to Nepal to make new contacts and explore possibilities of sending students on Minor Field Studies scholarships there. He also met with officials and teachers at Tribhuvan University, as he is helping the university develop the

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/contacts-nepal-open-future-student-visits - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A film production is under way about service user participation in education and research in Europe. The resulting film will be screened at the opening of the conference "Social Work Education in Europe: towards 2025", which will be held in Milan, this summer. The School of Social Work at Lund University is involved i

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/film-covers-integration-service-users-education - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The new volume EU Civil Society. Patterns of Cooperation, Competion and Conflict, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. Editors of the book are Håkan Johansson, professor at the School of Social Work, and Sara Kalm, senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Lund. Other contributors from the Scho

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/new-book-eu-and-civil-society - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.  Due to an anonymous threat to the university and its students via the app Jodel and which the police regards very seriously, the university will be closed on Monday for all students and staff at all campuses. More information will be posted at the university home page www.lu.se during the day. If you have any questio

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-closed-monday-october-12 - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University reopens on TuesdayA decision to reopen Lund University was taken in the afternoon of Monday 12 October following the closure that has been in force since Sunday night. Activities are expected to be running as usual from Tuesday morning.  The decision is based on new information from the Region Syd poli

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-opens-again - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Swedish Crime Victim Compensation and Support Authority's (Brottsoffermyndigheten) praises Nora Germundsson, a student at the School of Social Work, for her bachelor thesis about the expectations of the country's women's shelters. Nora Germundsson was awarded second prize for her thesis "We need the voices - stron

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/student-wins-prize-bachelors-thesis - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In the spring of 2015 Lisa Hindström and Aleksandra Goreczna wrote their bachelor thesis about sex education in Grenada, after receiving an MFS scholarship for field studies. This is the report from their travels. When we decided to apply for a Minor Field Studies scholarship from The Swedish International Development

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/report-minor-field-study - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Carina Gallo, senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, and assistant professor of criminology at Holy Names University (HNU), has been awarded the Burmeister Award by the Division of Distance Learning of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). Gallo shares the award with Julaine Fowl

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/carina-gallo-receives-award-innovative-teaching - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Some forty Swedish top researchers and university delegations visited Singapore with the aim of developing research partnerships. Kristina Göransson, Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Work, represented Lund University's Faculty of Social Sciences at the Swedish Academic Collaboration Forum (SACF) in Singapore on

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/seminar-develop-contacts-singapore - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On October 29, Anna Meeuwisse and Roberto Scaramuzzino were in Rome to present the results of a survey of Italian social workers. The survey originated in a project run at the School of Social Work between 2005 and 2008: 'Municipal individually-oriented social work in four Nordic capital areas' (FAS 2005-2008). The qu

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/researchers-present-italy - 2026-07-11

Alexandru Panican, researcher from the School of Social Work at Lund University and Richard Ulmestig from Linnaeus University has published an article about the Swedish welfare state and social assistance in the prestigious Citizenship Studies Journal. In the article Social Rights in the shadow of poor relief - Social Assistance in the universal Swedish welfare state the researchers analyse social

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/researchers-published-prestigious-journal - 2026-07-11

With over 15 research groups dedicated to Alzheimer’s disease research, MultiPark’s goal is to understand the origins of the disease, develop early diagnostics, and improve treatments. The multidisciplinary approach sheds light on the disease from several angles, bridging basic research with clinical investigations. Here are five projects. September is World Alzheimer’s Month. Globally, around 40

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/alzheimers-awareness-five-research-projects-shaping-future-understanding-diagnosis-and-care - 2026-07-11

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as ‘junk’ and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study in Cell Genomics, researchers at Lund University in Sweden show that the repetitive part of the human genome plays an active role during early brain development and may also be relevant for understanding brain diseases. DNA carries the complete set of instructions an organism

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/why-repetitive-dna-matters-human-brain-evolution-and-disease - 2026-07-11

Enormous amounts of data about Alzheimer’s Disease have been generated from clinical studies so far. Still, the molecular drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease are largely unknown. With the TAU-TIME project, Jacob Vogel aims to advance knowledge by developing an AI tool that brings together known biological mechanisms with data from patients with the disease. Recent funding from the European Research Cou

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/time-unite-lab-and-clinic-15-million-eu-build-ai-model-alzheimers-disease - 2026-07-11

Early diagnosis is key to receiving proper care and advancing research on future therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and dementia with Lewy bodies. New research from Skåne University Hospital and Lund University shows that combining a simple smell test with advanced spinal fluid analysis can predict these diseases with high accuracy, while sparing nearly half of patients f

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/smell-test-cuts-need-invasive-parkinsons-screening - 2026-07-11

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a digital cognitive test for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease that is intended for use in primary care. “This digital test, which patients perform on their own with minimal involvement from healthcare personnel, improves the primary care physician's ability to determine who should be further examined by blood tests for Alzheimer's pathology ear

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-digital-cognitive-test-diagnosing-alzheimers-disease - 2026-07-11

What if brain diseases could be cured by turning on the proper genes? Meet our scientist, Professor Cecilia Lundberg! She explains how gene therapy may complement cell therapies to combat Parkinson’s disease. Cecilia Lundberg is head of the CNS Gene Therapy Research Group and has spent her whole career developing cutting-edge tools that may be used in future therapies to slow down or cure neurodeg

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/meet-our-scientists-podcast-cecilia-lundberg-about-gene-workshop - 2026-07-11

Have you ever wondered what the journey of someone living with Parkinson’s disease looks like? Meet our scientist, Professor Per Odin! He shares his experiences of the bumpy road faced by patients he has supported over the years, both in healthcare and in research studies. Parkinson’s disease is a long, challenging course; one that science works tirelessly to understand, where halting neurodegener

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/meet-our-scientists-podcast-odin-about-parkinsons-journey - 2026-07-11

In a study led by Lund University and the Amsterdam University Medical Center, researchers used PET to analyse aggregates of tau pathology in more than 12,000 people from all over the world. The study – the largest ever of its kind – examines the connection between genetic predisposition, gender and age in relation to tau pathology in Alzheimer’s disease. The study is published in Nature Neuroscie

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/largest-ever-taupet-study-alzheimers-deepens-understanding-disease - 2026-07-11