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Investing in biogas benefits society

In order to encourage biogas production – an environmentally and economically sustainable alternative to fossil fuels – researchers and PhD students at Halmstad University, in cooperation with farmers in Vessigebro and Falkenberg municipality, conduct a project aimed at furthering the sustainable business model innovation processes in farming businesses.

Students create smart heat pump

It started as a project at the Swedish heating company NIBE and quickly became a collaboration between NIBE, Halmstad University and Electronics Centre in Halmstad (ECH). It soon developed into a Master’s thesis project and resulted in not only a new, smart product, but also two full time positions for the students at NIBE in Markaryd. The road has been long and had a few bumps, but in the end: a successful collaborative co-production resulting in a new, cost-effective antenna ready to go on the market.

Professor’s portrait: on important social issues such as online marketing and e-health services

Helena Sandberg is the researcher that is frequently involved in very contemporary projects, such as online marketing, ehealth services, and digitalisation. In the qualitative ethnographic study “Små barns digitala vardagsliv” [Young children’s digital daily lives], DIGIKIDS Sweden, she studies the digital habits of young children.

Professor’s portrait: Henrika, horses and health

Henrika Jormfeldt, newly appointed Professor of Nursing, likes to walk with horses. It is not just an interest in animals and nature. It also about sustainable health throughout life. Her research shows that people in hard and difficult life situations benefit from walking with horses. Perhaps the most important health innovation of our time is to approach our green environment.

Professor’s portrait: health promotion and the two parallel missions that the Swedish sports movement is based on

Sport and exercise have always been a natural part of Eva-Carin Lindgren’s life. As a researcher, she has been interested in everything from health promotion among non-physically active adolescents, to how the Swedish sporting movement can be inclusive while creating sustainable opportunities for elite athletes.

Professor’s portrait: a desire to improve the world

Who should have the right to consume when the earth's resources are scarce? How is the welfare state affected by environmental issues and climate change? Human ecology encompasses interdisciplinary perspectives from both natural and social sciences. It was this fact that encouraged Pernilla Ouis to take Lund University’s first course in human ecology in the mid-nineties. She came with a Bachelor’s Degree in Natural Sciences with chemistry as the main subject, as well as a great interest in animals and environment which she had had since childhood.

Professor’s portrait: helping people live a life they feel good about

Lena-Karin Erlandsson’s field of research is the balance between different types of activities and how they are affected by our health.

Professor’s portrait: a teaching interest brought Mark Dougherty to Sweden

Vehicle activated signs, artificial intelligence’s inability to forget, and tools to evaluate Parkinson’s disease – these are just a few of the topics that Professor Mark Dougherty has spent his time on the past few years.

Interdisciplinary workshop about a sustainable future and business models

New creative ways of working. Students from different education programmes and countries. University and business life. That was the scene earlier this term when a co-creation workshop about business models and the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals, took place at Halmstad University.