News

  • 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. Read more
  • Katja Fall
    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. Read more
  • Daniel Johanssson
    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. Read more
  • Ahmed El Gody
    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. Read more
  • Jessica Johansson
    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. Read more
  • 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. Read more
  • 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. Read more
  • Helena Nilsson
    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. Read more
  • Professor Claes Hultman
    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 Read more
  • Håkan Stattin on the findings of the Seven Schools project.
    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. Read more

Updated: 2009-10-07

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