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Working with cancer patients can be daunting for many, but Maria Brovall has dedicated her professional life to it: first as a nurse...

As a newly installed professor of sociology, he is looking forward to developing the research environment at the interdisciplin...

She is passionate about vulnerable people and about making a...

In her doctoral thesis, Lamprini Xiarchi has investigated nurses' experiences of caring for older people in Sweden and Greece. One of the more surprising findin...

A turbulent time prevails with increasing social inequalities, welfare in transition, and rapid changes in work life – this is the basis for Mattias Bengtsson’s...

On 3–4 December, the international conference SOLWE 2024 will be held at the University of Borås. The purpose of the con...

A year ago, Maria Brovall began her role as a professor of caring science at the University of Borås. Caring for cancer ...

The health sector faces major challenges in meeting the growing need for care in society as more and more people grow ol...

As our population is getting older and healthcare demands continue to rise, it’s crucial to find efficient and easy-to-u...

Most of those transported to hospital in ambulances are not seriously injured. At the same time, a quarter of all seriously injured patients are considered to b...

Assessing how seriously injured a person is, involves weighing up lots of different parameters fast. If healthcare profe...

The research on sustainable menstrual protection has received two early Christmas presents: the Spacerpad Lilibet is rea...

From flu and dizziness to cardiac arrest and serious road accidents, ambulance clinicians’ encounter patients under all ...

Several of the university's researchers have once again been included in a prestigious international ranking of the most cited researchers in the world. This li...

A new generation of researchers is now stepping out to promote dignity in the care of older people. After three years, the EU project Innovatedignity, in which ...