Search results

New three year FORMAS research project at CMES, conducted by Lina Eklund, Pinar Dinc and Petter Pilesjö. Climate change is expected to have widespread effects on societies across the world. While it is difficult to predict exactly how we will be affected in the future, we can gain a better understanding if we study earlier extreme climate events and their effects on society. Extreme climate and co

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/societal-impacts-climate-stress-integrated-assessment-drought-vulnerability-and-conflict-syria - 2026-07-09

On 22 August 2023, Department of Business Law at Lund University School of Economics and Management was visited by an academic delegation from Wuhan University. This was an insightful academic exchange of ideas and discussions on possible future scholarly collaborations. The aim with the meeting was to explore academic collaboration on trade and sustainability towards climate neutrality. The acade

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/exploring-academic-collaboration-trade-and-sustainability-towards-climate-neutrality - 2026-07-09

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. CenCIP-forskare medverkar i den fjärde upplagan av en väl mottagen sommarkurs i Venedig med fokus på kritiska infrastrukturers resiliens. Årets upplaga av sommarkursen VIU-Critical Infrastructure Resilience är virtuell med anledning av den pågende corana-pandemin. Kursen går den 7 – 25 september och där i år är det

https://www.cencip.lu.se/artikel/virtuell-sommarkurs-i-venedig-critical-infrastructure-resilience - 2026-07-09

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Forskare vid Lunds universitet har studerat sambandet mellan problematiskt spelande och överskuldsättning. Nu publiceras studien som visar att personer som spelat på nätkasino betydligt oftare skuldsatt sig för att finansiera sitt spelande, jämfört med andra spelformer. Spelproblematiken var särskilt markant för kvi

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/spelberoende-natbaserade-hogriskspel-och-skuldsattning - 2026-07-09

Sophia New is the new lecturer and tutor at the MA program Performing Arts as Critical Practice at Malmö Theatre Academy. Previous to her role here, Sophia has been the course Leader for MA programmes at Wimbledon College of the Arts, UAL. We took the opportunity to ask Sophia New a few questions to get to know her better.  Hi Sophia!  Please tell us how you found your calling in the theatre, and

https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/get-know-sophia-new-new-lecturer-ma-program - 2026-07-09

Video games are easy to exploit, and are being used by actors ranging from IS and Hizbollah for recruitment, to Russia, who use it to spread propaganda during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. This states a report from the Psychological Defence Research Institute at Lund University in Sweden. Since the 2016 US Presidential election, many democratic governments have paid close attention to how forei

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/how-video-games-are-being-used-malign-foreign-actors-and-extremists - 2026-07-09

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/arctic-passion - 2026-07-09

The Polar regions play a crucial role in balancing global climate – with the poles heating up much faster than the rest of the world. Yet, climate projections for the Polar regions still have significant uncertainties. This is hampering efforts to curb climate change and deal with the effects we already see at play not only within the Polar regions, but also in Europe and the rest of the world. Po

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/exploring-future-climates-polar-regions - 2026-07-09

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/nielsen-och-lindvall-om-fortroende-regeringen-under-covid-19-pandemin - 2026-07-09

First they met online. Then a Lund (LU) delegation visited Stellenbosch University (SU) in South Africa. A couple of weeks ago SU came to visit LU. (And the tale goes, they rode off together into the sunset.)An eight month long Erasmus university strategic partership exchange programme between Lund and Stellenbosch, South Africa, has given the participants lots of food for thought, professional an

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/skys-not-limit-su-lu-su - 2026-07-09

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Sepsisfondens Insamlingsstiftelse, som startade 2015 på initiativ av docent Adam Linder, infektionsforskare vid Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper i Lund och överläkare vid Skånes universitetssjukhus, och kommunikatören Ulrika Knutsson, har tilldelats 2020 års Global Sepsis Awards. Juryns motivering: "We are hon

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/sepsisfonden-tilldelas-global-sepsis-awards-2020 - 2026-07-09

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Professor Antoinette Hetzler har bidragit till antalogin Feeling Safe in School: Bullying and Violence Prevention Around the World, publicerad av Harvard Education Press. Antoinette Hetzlers expertis rör konflikter i svenska skolor. I kapitlet “Abusive Behaviour in Swedish Schools: Setting Limits and Building Citize

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/antoinette-hetzler-publicerad-i-internationell-antologi-om-valdsprevention-i-skolan - 2026-07-09

Inför riksdagsvalet 2022 flyttade en del av den politiska diskussionen till TikTok. Att vi diskuterar svensk politik på en Kinaägd plattform där snabba klipp som tangerar primära känslor premieras av algoritmerna har förfärat många. Men formen är varken farlig eller särskilt ny - utan användes redan i antikens Grekland. Det säger kommunikationsforskaren Nils Gustafsson. Medieakademins årliga kartl

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/politik-pa-tik-tok-enligt-antik-modell - 2026-07-09

Inför riksdagsvalet 2022 flyttade en del av den politiska diskussionen till TikTok. Att vi diskuterar svensk politik på en Kinaägd plattform där snabba klipp som tangerar primära känslor premieras av algoritmerna har förfärat många. Men formen är varken farlig eller särskilt ny - utan användes redan i antikens Grekland. Det säger kommunikationsforskaren Nils Gustafsson. Medieakademins årliga kartl

https://www.lu.se/artikel/politik-pa-tik-tok-enligt-antik-modell - 2026-07-10

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The role of gut microbiota in disease and health has become one of today’s hottest fields of research. In her thesis, Louise Brunkwall, nutritionist and doctoral student at Lund University in Sweden, studied overweight, obesity and the importance of diet quality in relation to our gut microbiota.  Obesity arises when

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/thesis-significance-diet-quality-gut-microbiota - 2026-07-09

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Ny Open Access-policy vid LU I förra veckan beslutade rektor om LU:s nya Open Access-policy för publikationer och konstnärliga verk. Förslaget var på remiss under hösten och har under våren diskuterats i Forskningsnämnden. Vid rektorssammanträdet den 17 juni beslutades policyn. Länk till publicerade rektorsbeslut:

https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-juni-augusti-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation - 2026-07-09

Today we welcome Antoinette Fage-Butler, associate professor at the Department of English at Aarhus University She is here at the Pufendorf IAS as part of the NordIAS Fellowship exchange and will visit the Institute for a week this time around, returning for a second week in autumn. With The NordIAS Fellowship exchange, researchers at Institutes taking part in the NordIAS network may vist other IA

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/welcome-antoinette-nordias-fellow-aarhus - 2026-07-09

Present your research in four minutes, so that you mesmerize your audience, was the task. Cancer researcher Sofie Mohlin did it best. Next challenge: the finals in Stockholm on 23 November. We're rooting for you then, Sofie! This is what Sofie Mohlin, IKVL, has to say about why it is important for researchers to present their research: "Researchers reaching out and presenting their work can help t

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/sofie-mohlin-gave-best-presentation-through-finals-researchers-grand-prix - 2026-07-09

Knowledge for Sustainable Development is an annual research conference, aimed at all researchers at Lund University who want to increase their knowledge about the challenges that lie ahead, learn how their research can contribute to change, and strengthen their contacts with researchers from other disciplines. The conference is organised by the Research Board in collaboration with the Sustainabili

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/participate-3rd-knowledge-sustainable-development-research-conference - 2026-07-10

On 17 April, the annual FEK Table Tennis Tournament unfolded. A total of 20 players battled fiercely until the very end, and the final match of this year may well be remembered as the most thrilling and of the highest quality ever! A set of quick questions for the winnersCongratulations! How do you feel?Djevdet: “Amazing!""She was amazing. It was all thanks to her!" (points at Yuqing)Yuqing: "I al

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/fek-table-tennis-tournament-2024-meet-winners - 2026-07-09