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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 - 2026-08-29
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 - 2026-08-29
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 - 2026-08-29
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 - 2026-08-29
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 - 2026-08-29
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 - 2026-08-29
For its fourth edition of All My Relations, the Ecocamp transforms into a nomadic experience. This year, we embrace movement—not just as a physical act, but as a metaphor for existence itself. Walking, travelling, and traversing landscapes will be central to our practice, fostering new connections on the move and reflecting on migration, transition, and relational encounters. All My Relations IV i
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/call-applications-all-my-relations-iv-ecocamp-nomadic-encounters-september-4-6-2025 - 2026-08-29
The graduating students of the new MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice are working intensively on their final projects this Spring. On April 9 - 16 they invite you all for a preview of what is to come, when they present work-in-progress showings both at Malmö Theatre Academy, Skånes Dansteater and Community Kultur Centrum. This is not their final showings, those will take place in May at Malmö
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/ma-work-progress-showings-2025 - 2026-08-29
We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as assistant professor in artistic research and AI. Are you curious about the intersection of artificial intelligence, culture, and societal engagement through storytelling and the arts? At Malmö Theatre Academy, a part of Lund University, you have the opportunity to take the next step tow
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/we-are-looking-assistant-professor-artistic-research-and-ai - 2026-08-29
The third issue of Matter Journal is out, with texts from our research collegium on artistic research in theatre and performance. The third issue of Matter brings together texts that explore contemporary performing arts. Tanja Hylling Dier writes about Hjem, a project that shapes place and community through art and participation. Jörgen Dahlqvist examines time as a dramaturgical tool, using the pl
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/matter-journal-3 - 2026-08-29
Get to know our MA students who started fall 2025 and will graduate in spring 2027. Elena BinerElena Biner is a Swiss artist living and working in Copenhagen. With a background in visual communication and a strong foundation in storytelling, her practice sits at the intersection of visual arts and performative spaces, specialising in immersive experiences. In her work she blurs the line between re
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/presentation-our-master-students-performing-arts-critical-practice-programme - 2026-08-29
We are now announcing the opportunity for project support of up to SEK 150,000 (including overhead costs) to enable artists, artistic researchers and researchers from other scientific disciplines to learn from each other in an open dialogue and exploratory environment. The aim of ArtCollab is to enable artists, artistic researchers, and researchers from other scientific disciplines to learn from
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/call-project-funding-artcollab - 2026-08-29
Some years ago, Sven Bjerstedt researched the forgotten Finnish American musician and composer Einar Swan (1903–40) who wrote the immortal song, “When Your Lover Has Gone”. Bjerstedt published an 80-page biography )and participated in one-hour TV and radio documentaries on Einar Swan.Recently, Finland’s former prime minister Esko Aho translated Bjerstedt’s Swan biography into Finnish and included
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/finnish-translation-sven-bjerstedts-research-about-composer-einar-swan - 2026-08-29
In November 2025, doctoral students from the Malmö Theater Academy participated in an encounter with researchers in the field of performing arts from around the world.Doctoral students Iury Salustiano Trojaborg and Tanja Hylling Diers from the Theater Academy participated in the three-day meeting for researchers at the beginning of their research careers. The meeting was led by SOL-based researche
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/transnational-alliance-researchers-theater-and-performing-arts - 2026-08-29
Lund University has seen a record number of applications for its international recruitment initiative, Global Excellence. Eleni-Ira Panourgia is now joining the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts as an assistant professor specializing in artificial intelligence (AI).Global Excellence is the university's largest international recruitment initiative to date and aims to strengthen world-leading rese
Sven Bjerstedt, professor of music education at Malmö Theatre Academy, recently published an article in the journal KronoScope. Journal for the Study of Time: “Awareness of Time and Experience of Conscious Mental Processes during Musical Activity”.How may changes in musicians’ experience of time influence their impressions of having conscious intentions during musical activity? In this essay I wil
The annual Sustainability Week in Lund is fast approaching, with a packed programme once again this year. From the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, we find music, performance and artistic research in interactive events that aim to do more than simply inform — they aim to move people.Sustainability is a multifaceted field that extends far beyond the natural sciences. The concept also encompasse
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/sustainability-you-can-feel-artistic-perspectives-during-sustainability-week-lund - 2026-08-29
How does interaction with the surrounding cultural landscape shape the performing artists of the future?On the Master’s programme Performing Arts as Critical Practice at the Malmö Theatre Academy, partnerships with cultural institutions form a central part of the education. Here, artistic development and social reflection come together in close dialogue with the professional field.Through the vari
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/performing-arts-interaction-malmos-cultural-life - 2026-08-29
A new issue of Matter Journal of Artistic Research in Performing Arts edited by Tanja Hylling Diers, Iury Salustiano Trojaborg and Yann Coppier is out. It is dedicated to listening in artistic and pedagogical practices and contains a broad selection of approaches to listening. About MatterMatter Journal is the Malmö Theatre Academy own digital research journal, which publishes previously unpublish
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/matter-journal-5-listening - 2026-08-29
Ditte Maria Bjerg has been appointed the new rector of the Danish National School of Performing Arts. She will step into the role on 1 March 2027, at which time she will leave her current position as an associate professor at the Malmö Theatre Academy, Lund University. Ditte is a trained stage director and has, throughout her career, combined artistic work with leadership roles in the performing a
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/ditte-maria-bjerg-appointed-new-rector-danish-national-school-performing-arts - 2026-08-29
