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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCUS today, 11th December, presents a new travel policy for staff and associated researchers. It sets out a number of commitments aimed to reduce work-related emissions and takes effect from January 2019. Reducing flying amongst staff is the number one priority, since flying is the single largest source of greenhouse

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-presents-new-travel-policy-reduce-work-related-emissions - 2026-05-05

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/wine-regions-could-shrink-dramatically-climate-change-unless-growers-swap-varieties - 2026-05-05

After several years of reduced air travel due to the Covid pandemic, business trips involving flights have now risen to about the same level as before the pandemic. In other words, the goal of a 50 per cent reduction by the end of 2023 is remote, and new activities are needed to reduce the climate impact of air travel, which is one of the largest single emission sources linked to Lund University s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/air-travel-rises-considerably - 2026-05-06

The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to professors Daron Acemoglu of MIT, Simon Johnson also of MIT and James Robinson of Chicago University. “For studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity” "Three well-known and widely read Nobel laureates in Economic Sciences, relevant to several fields. The book “Why Nations Fail” by Acemoglu

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/nobel-economics-prize - 2026-05-06

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Career paths and career-development opportunities for junior researchers vary a great deal between the University’s different faculties. This is what Mia Rönnmar has observed, just over halfway through an investigation which is to result in proposals for how to ensure sound and clear career paths within Lund Universit

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vague-career-paths-be-made-clear - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new interdisciplinary research environment for human rights will soon be launched in Lund. “Interdisciplinarity and innovative thinking are required if our work on human rights is to remain relevant to society”, writes Morten Kjaerum, director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. Morten Kjaerum, director and adjunct p

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chronicle-human-rights-are-become-interdisciplinary - 2026-05-05

On Friday, December 3, Mikael Lundholm’s eight-year doctoral education ended with a successful defence of his thesis “The Social Contingency of Law: Studies of Social Control during Foreclosure in Sweden”. Mikael Lundholm’s thesis defence was the Sociology of Law Department’s first on-campus since social restrictions were prescribed at Lund University in the spring of 2019 to mitigate the spread o

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/now-it-doctor-mikael-lundholm - 2026-05-05

Nordic and Andean countries started their economic modernisation in the same way: with export of raw natural resources. Later on, Norway and Sweden became rich, while Bolivia, Chile and Peru followed a quite different path. What made them diverge from the common road? Different fiscal policies may be one of the reasons, new research from Lund University suggests. In the mid-19th century, Norway ex

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/resource-curse-new-light-research-findings-fiscal-policy-andean-and-nordic-countries - 2026-05-05

For the 10th time, Lund University is organising Sustainability Week together with Lund Municipality. With over 70 events over six days, sustainability topics will be highlighted in different ways within social, ecological and economic sustainability. It is a week of discussion and action, serious issues and hopeful visions of the future. LTH organizes its own events and participates in those orga

https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2026/sustainability-week-2026-lths-program - 2026-05-05

On the first day of the COP28 climate change conference in Dubai, a formal decision was taken to establish a loss and damage fund to support developing countries to deal with loss and damage from climate change. A pragmatic success for climate justice, says sustainability professor Emily Boyd, who now hopes that Sweden will follow suit with promises of financial support. Emily Boyd, director and p

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/many-questions-remain-new-loss-and-damage-fund-formally-established-cop28 - 2026-05-05

Dealing with heat is about more than implementing technical solutions such as cold rooms, access to water, green areas and communication systems. Equally, if not more, important is to strengthen social networks, reduce income disparities and eliminate social vulnerability. Sustainability researcher Maryam Nastar comments on the heat wave in Canada and North America based on her research on extreme

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reduced-inequality-and-better-social-networks-crucial-dealing-heatwaves - 2026-05-05

This year’s largest grant from the IngaBritt och Arne Lundbergs Forskningsstiftelse goes to Vinay S. Swaminathan at Lund University. He is awarded five million SEK for his research on how healthy breast tissue develops into tumors and spreads. Vinay S. Swaminathan’s research group has developed 3D models that mimics the tumor microenvironment in the laboratory. The technology opens new opportuniti

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/healthy-sick-3d - 2026-05-05

Kimberly Nicholas was appointed professor in Sustainability Science in June 2024. After more than 15 years at Lund University, her commitment to stopping climate change is stronger than ever. “We need to keep our eyes on the prize and focus on where the problem is to address it.” What has been the most important moment in your career? I got to witness the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015. T

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/professor-kimberly-nicholas-mission-combat-climate-change - 2026-05-05

Hi Oleksandr! You graduated from the master’s degree programme in European and International Trade and Tax Law in 2016. Can you tell us more about what you have been doing since your graduation?Since graduating in 2016, my career has really taken off. I first moved to sunny Malta, where I joined the international tax team at Deloitte. It was an exciting time to be in the field, with major developm

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/oleksandr-koriak-alumnus-msc-european-and-international-trade-and-tax-law-2016 - 2026-05-06

In September 13-15, 2023 the ClimBEco summer meeting entitled “Double up and double down: linking the global climate and biodiversity crises to bring about fast, fair and transformative change” was held. My research background is not in marine sciences, nor am I used to living by the sea, yet something about the Kristineberg Center for Marine Research brings about a comfortable feeling of being in

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/reflections-climbeco-summer-meeting-2023 - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Today Ramy Aly, Assistant Professor of Anthropology from American University in Cairo, visited CMES. He gave a talk about culture as a political tool, and censorship in Egypt today and historically. "The study of regulatory censorship is today seen as resounding dull and anachronistic. This is in part because of the w

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/culture-police-manning-barricades-allowable-art-and-culture-egypt - 2026-05-05

Mats Fred, Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren and Lina Berglund-Snodgrass (SLU) have received a 4-year grant from Formas for the project ”NavRISK: Achieving sustainability through risk-taking? The navigating between risk and and stability in urban experiments in planning”. Congratulations! SummaryThe notion that we must go beyond business-as-usual and innovate to achieve climate- and sustainability goals is w

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/project-achieving-sustainability-through-risk-taking-receives-4-year-grant-formas - 2026-05-05

Application deadline: 9 December 2024. A 4-year fully funded PhD position at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) is now open for applications.The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies is coordinating the Strategic Research Area (SRA) and the research program “The Middle East in the Contemporary World” (MECW). The program conducts cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on th

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-opening-phd-student-political-science-nuclear-politics-middle-east - 2026-05-05

In September 13-15, 2023 the ClimBEco summer meeting entitled “Double up and double down: linking the global climate and biodiversity crises to bring about fast, fair and transformative change” was held. My research background is not in marine sciences, nor am I used to living by the sea, yet something about the Kristineberg Center for Marine Research brings about a comfortable feeling of being in

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/reflections-climbeco-summer-meeting-2023 - 2026-05-05

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have investigated how the X and Y chromosomes evolve and adapt to each other within a population. The results show that breaking up coevolved sets of sex chromosomes could lead to lower survival rates among the offspring – something that could be of importance in species conservation, for example. The study is published in the journal PNAS. The results prov

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/new-study-sheds-light-how-x-and-y-chromosomes-interact - 2026-05-05