Nicholas Loubere's book "Development on Loan: Microcredit and Marginalisation in Rural China" has been published open access by Amsterdam University Press. Key to China's plans to promote rural development is the de-marginalisation of the countryside through the incorporation of rural areas into the urban-based market-oriented financial system. For this reason, Chinese development planners have tu

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-book-microcredit-and-development-rural-china-published - 2025-09-05

The placement of the position is to be divided between the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies and the Division of Human Rights. The candidate needs to have written a Ph.D. thesis with a focus on some aspect of Human Rights in East and South-East Asia. Very good and documented knowledge of English is required as well as relevant knowledge in an Asian language, depending on the research pr

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/applications-open-two-year-appointment-postdoc-human-rights-east-and-south-east-asia - 2025-09-05

The programme is four-year long (240 credits) and combines courses (60 credits) with a thesis (180 credits). East and South-East Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary subject that focuses on present-day socio-political issues and developments and can include a range of topics concerning phenomena and processes in the region as a whole as well as in individual countries. The subject integrates theo

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/two-fully-funded-phd-positions-east-and-south-east-asian-studies - 2025-09-05

Marina Svensson has published an article entitled “Chinese universities: restrictions on academic freedom and global implications.” The article is included in the volume China: Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy edited by David Ismangil, Karen van der Schaaf and Stijn Deklerck, and published by Amnesty International.  The article discusses Chinese academic development over the years and the

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-academic-freedom-china - 2025-09-05

The travel group Ggumtle Airplane recently ‘landed’ at Lund University to discuss core values in education and their relation to wider values in society with the students at the Centre of East and South-East Asian Studies. On the 16th of January 2020, the Centre of East and Southeast Asian Studies of Lund University had the pleasure to welcome a South Korean delegation consisting of people of diff

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visit-south-korea-opened-discussion-core-values-swedish-education-system - 2025-09-05

The Centre announces research periods of 20 per cent up to 50 per cent for a maximum of five months during fall 2020. The applicant should have a focus on a country or region in East and South-East Asia. Preference is given to projects that fall within the Centre’s prioritised research areas: Digital Asia; human rights and social justice; and global challenges and international relations.The candi

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-applications-short-term-research-funding - 2025-09-05

Lund University is following the Government and Public Health Authority’s recommendations regarding measures to reduce the spread of the coronavirus and has therefore decided that education and examinations should be conducted using online alternatives (distance education) from 18 March. On this page we have gathered some useful information on how this affects opening hours, teaching and so on.  N

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/changes-and-information-due-covid-19-corona - 2025-09-05

Interview with Marina Svensson, Professor of Modern China Studies here at the Centre. The Corona-crisis has started discussions on Chinese social media that have been quiet for a long time. Voices are now demanding freedom of the press, and the doctor exposing the virus to the world has been called a whistle-blower. This says Marina Svensson, Professor and Director at the Centre for East and South

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/how-china-has-handled-crises - 2025-09-05

Applications are now open for 2 postdoctoral fellowships in China’s, Japan’s, and/or Korea’s contemporary society at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. Starting date 1 October 2020, or by agreement. DutiesThe person employed is expected to work independently but should also cooperate with other researchers at the Centre. The postdoctoral fellow should participate in

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/applications-open-2-postdoctoral-fellowships - 2025-09-05

Marina Svensson has published a chapter in the volume The Heritage Turn in China: The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage Marina Svensson has published a chapter in the volume The Heritage Turn in China: The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage (Amsterdam University Press) edited by Carol Ludwig, Linda Walton, and Yi-Wen Wang.The title of Marina's chapter is “L

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-heritage-china - 2025-09-05

Astrid Norén-Nilsson Dr Astrid Norén-Nilsson has co-authored an article on civil society elites in Cambodia published in the journal Politics and Governance. The title of the article is "Pathways to Leadership within and beyond Cambodian Civil Society: Elite Status and Boundary-Crossing". It addresses elitisation in Cambodian civil society and how such processes relate to holding elite status in t

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-civil-society-elites-cambodia - 2025-09-05

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 - 2025-09-05

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 - 2025-09-05

Emilia Wiklund´s poster presents older people's experiences of having been involved in a co-creative process and also an innovation project. 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

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/emilia-viklund-winner-poster-competition-during-sweah-milestone-conference - 2025-09-05

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 - 2025-09-05

Xia Li (third from the left in the picture) defended her dissertation "Biological ages: correlations, genetic determinants, and health outcomes". 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-,

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/biological-age-useful-source-information-according-new-sweah-research - 2025-09-05

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 - 2025-09-05

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 - 2025-09-05

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 - 2025-09-05

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. 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 m

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/urgent-need-develop-sustainable-housing-policies-older-people-their-home-environments - 2025-09-05