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2012-05-10
Research on youth mental health awarded major funding
Researchers at Örebro University, Sweden have been granted 30 million SEK to study processes that more effectively may prevent mental health problems from developing in youths. The team will be focusing on underlying factors behind well-known problem behaviours to make it possible to target multiple mental health problems rather than treating one at a time. The initiative is supported jointly by the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research, the Swedish Research Council Formas, the Swedish Research Council, and VINNOVA - Sweden’s innovation agency.
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Katja Fall
2012-04-23
Increased risk of suicide and heart attack immediately after cancer diagnosis
People who have been diagnosed with cancer face a markedly increased risk of suicide and cardiovascular death during the period immediately after being given the diagnosis.
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Daniel Johansson
2012-04-04
Unique floor receives international acclaim
The Omnidirectional Floor was created for military training. British TV has enabled global recognition of the product.
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Ahmed El Gody
2012-03-14
Media technology paved the way for revolution – the case of Egypt
Research from Örebro University is showing how the media and technology, if used in the right way, can evade censorship and control. Ahmed El Gody has in his doctoral thesis followed the development of information and communication technology in Egypt.
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Jessica Johansson
2011-12-15
New biochemical changes found in children with ADHD
A new study at Örebro University in Sweden shows that children with ADHD have nearly 50 percent less of a protein that is important for attention and learning. The finding may mean that there are other biochemical disturbances in the brains of individuals with ADHD than was previously believed.
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2011-12-09
The challenge for media: viewing the world as one place
Swedish researchers Peter Berglez and Ulrika Olausson are both using Twitter in a professional capacity but they view social media primarily as a wake-up call for a news industry in crisis.
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2011-12-07
Örebro student awarded SIDA scholarship
Peder Bergenwall has been awarded a scholarship funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, SIDA, to study film culture in Uganda.
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Helena Nilsson
2011-09-26
International award to environmental researcher
Environmental chemist and PhD-student Helena Nilsson at Örebro University, Sweden, has received the Otto Hutzinger Award for her presentation at an international environmental conference in Brussels. Her research shows for the first time that the human body can transform the chemical FTOH into the toxic fluoride pollutant PFOA.
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Professor Claes Hultman
2011-05-12
Clean-tech business development receives 10 million SEK grant
An international research project at the Swedish Business School at Örebro University was recently awarded ten million SEK to study ways in which clean-tech businesses can improve their product marketing and consequently contribute to a better environment
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Håkan Stattin on the findings of the Seven Schools project.
2011-04-15
School becomes a safe haven in disadvantaged areas
Until now, evidence has suggested that problems prevalent in troubled neighbourhoods also manifest themselves at school. However, new research shows that democratic schools in under-privileged areas make pupils feel safe and respected and that they even look forward to going there. School becomes a safe haven in an otherwise troubled existence. On Wednesday, Håkan Stattin, professor of psychology at Örebro University, Sweden, presented findings from the project Seven Schools to teachers at the Vivalla school in Örebro.
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