Award to outstanding young researchers by the Royal Swedish Skyttean Society

Malin Eneslätt, Senior Lecturer in Nursing, and Wiebke Reim, Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, has received the Royal Skyttean Society's award for outstanding young researchers in Medicine and Health and in Social Sciences and Economics respectively.

“It's an honour to receive the award, in such large competition. To have my work recognised provides a boost and a joy in continuing,” says Malin Eneslätt, Senior Lecturer in Nursing.

Malin Eneslätt receives the Royal Skyttean Society's (Swedish: Kungliga Skytteanska Samfundet) award for young outstanding researchers in Medicine and Health 2024. The motivation reads:

‘Malin Eneslätt's research is innovative and in great demand. She has established an extensive network in her research area, has completed a postdoc at another university and has received an establishment grant from Forte to develop a digital version of the DöBra card game. Eneslätt shows great potential for further scientific progress and is currently supervising a PhD student. Her work is clearly linked to health and nursing sciences, and she shows great potential for future development in these areas.’

Since the motivation was written, Malin Eneslätt has expanded her research and is now involved in three different projects with public health perspectives on death, dying and grief. These include a project on how workplaces can provide support during difficult life events as well as exploring and co-creating integrated and person-centered care at the end-of-life in rural and remote areas. She now supervises two doctoral students.

Wiebke Reim, Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, has received the Royal Skyttean Society's award for young outstanding researchers in Social Sciences and Economics 2024. The motivation reads:

‘Wiebke Reim, Luleå University of Technology, has in a short time established herself as an independent and recognised researcher in an area with significant bearing on the development of northern Sweden. Her research on new business models in a circular and digitalised economy has had a major academic impact and is of high societal relevance. She has successfully obtained research grants and demonstrated collaboration within and outside academia. Wiebke Reim contributes to strengthening the scientific environment at her university and has great potential to do so in the future.’

“As a young researcher, it can be challenging to make the transition from being a doctoral student to a more senior researcher, and receiving this award means a lot to me, as a confirmation and motivation to continue. The Royal Skyttean Society's connection to northern Sweden is also very relevant since my research focuses a lot on what happens here,” says Wiebke Reim.

Wiebke Reim is involved in many different projects with great societal relevance, ranging from everything from transport to circularity in construction or food. Among other things, she is the project manager of one of the sub-projects of Green transition north External link, opens in new window.. She emphasizes the advantages of the research environment that promotes collaboration across subject and department boundaries at Luleå University of Technology, which she often does in her research.

“There are very good opportunities for cooperation and a willingness to work multidisciplinary. Young researchers are also close to both senior researchers and management,” says Wiebke Reim.

The prize money is SEK 20,000 and the prize will be recognized during Luleå University of Technology's Academic Ceremony on Saturday 9 November.