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On Tuesday 19 December, Marie Larsson successfully defended her thesis "The Work of Contracepting: Young people's experiences and practices with contraceptives in Sweden" and is now a doctor of sociology. Marie Larsson's thesis highlights the work that underpins young people's experiences and practices around contraceptive methods. Interviews with young people aged 18 to 29 show that the work of c

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/marie-larsson-has-defended-her-thesis-contraceptive-work-and-now-doctor-sociology - 2026-06-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University sits at number 11 of 29 Swedish universities when it comes to most flights per employee. The new travel policy currently being prepared for approval places emphasis on the need for managers to consider a travel-free meeting or a train trip before approving a flight for an employee. The Swedish Environm

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/heads-should-help-reduce-flying - 2026-06-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. By 2023 the University is to have reduced its CO2 emissions by half, according to the new sustainability plan. Things look promising right now due to Covid-19 – there will be a radical reduction this year as air travel is the biggest CO2 villain. The number of flights booked between April and October 2020 fell by 97 p

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lus-new-plan-co2-emissions-be-halved-2023 - 2026-06-07

Individuals cannot solve the climate crisis, argue researchers Carys Egan-Wyer and Jack Coffin. Policy makers should direct their attention to the (im)moral market structures that influence consumer and corporate decision-making. In the fight against climate change, it is more important to make markets more moral than to make consumers more ethical. Individual consumers are, by now, well used to b

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/why-we-need-more-moral-markets-not-more-ethical-consumers - 2026-06-07

You are out in the woods taking your new profile picture when suddenly a fog rolls in. First you think it is mystical and perfect, but it is so thick that you just look like a blurry blob in the pictures. Do not dispair just yet, this master project might be just what you need. The reason that you are looking blurred in the pictures is scattering. The photons that travel through the fog from you t

https://www.combustionphysics.lu.se/article/seeing-through-fog-looking-straight-finished-master-project - 2026-06-07

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. En stor portion civilkurage eller en riktigt desperat situation- det krävs av den som ska avslöja statshemligheter. Och livet därefter blir helt säkert aldrig sig likt. Det visar erfarenheterna från såväl Kalla krigets första stora avhoppare, makarna Petrov, som för Edward Snowden som kanske aldrig kommer att kunna

https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-forskning-om-kant-avhopp-under-kalla-kriget - 2026-06-06

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Dålig täckning och internet i sommarstugan? Eller ingenstans att ladda mobilen på tältsemestern? Här kommer några tips från Stefan Höst som forskar i digital kommunikation och internetaccess vid Lunds Tekniska Högskola. Dålig täckning?• I stort sett hela Sverige har mobiltäckning förutom några fjällområden. Orsaken

https://www.lu.se/artikel/sa-minskar-du-mobiltrogheten-i-sommar - 2026-06-06

På COP-mötets första dag i Dubai togs ett formellt beslut om att inrätta en fond för att stötta utvecklingsländer att hantera klimatskador. En pragmatisk framgång för klimaträttvisa menar hållbarhetsprofessorn Emily Boyd som nu hoppas att även Sverige ska följa efter med löften om finansiellt stöd. Emily Boyd, professor vid Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, är en av få experter i

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/manga-fragor-kvarstar-med-ny-klimatskadefond - 2026-06-07

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. En stor portion civilkurage eller en riktigt desperat situation- det krävs av den som ska avslöja statshemligheter. Och livet därefter blir helt säkert aldrig sig likt. Det visar erfarenheterna från såväl Kalla krigets första stora avhoppare, makarna Petrov, som för Edward Snowden som kanske aldrig kommer att kunna

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/ny-forskning-om-kant-avhopp-under-kalla-kriget - 2026-06-07

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Allmänt om tertialbokslutetInstitutionen/motsv ska kontinuerligt vara i fas med sin bokföring d v s alla inkomster ska löpande bokföras på respektive projekt/aktivitet, fakturor i Lupin ska snarast granskas och attesteras, anläggningstillgångar ska kompletteras så snart det kan ske etc. Bra rutiner för löpande bokfö

https://www.ekonomiwebben.lu.se/artikel/infor-tertialbokslutet-den-30-april-2019 - 2026-06-07

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Vid universitetets forskningsstation i Hyltemossa pågår dygnet runt insamlingen av data till europeisk klimatforskning. Den största av de båda masterna sträcker sig hela 150 meter rakt upp i skyn. Varannan vecka måste stationens personal klättra till toppen för att torka rent två sensorer. Och i den lägre masten har

https://www.lu.se/artikel/klimatforskning-pa-hog-niva - 2026-06-07

Roger Hildingsson and Åsa Knaggård has recently published a book chapter on the success of the Swedish carbon tax in the edited volume Successful Public Policy in the Nordic Countries. Ever since the Swedish carbon tax was introduced in 1991, as one of the first cases in the world, it has provided a pioneering example of carbon pricing. In the chapter, ”The Swedish Carbon Tax: A Resilient Success”

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hildingsson-and-knaggard-success-swedish-carbon-tax - 2026-06-07

Together with Dalila Souguir (University of Carthage), Sourour Mzahma (University of Carthage), Hanen Filali (University of Carthage), Mohamed Hachicha (University of Carthage), CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has authored the article "Vicia–Micronucleus Test Application for Saline Irrigation Water Risk Assessment", available in the journal Plants. In view of climate change, increasing soil

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/irrigation-water-risk-assessment-tunisia - 2026-06-07

The Judges Proposals Board has appointed Torvald Larsson, LL.D. and senior lecturer in public law, as a special member in cases concerning legality review at the Administrative Court in Malmö. The appointment is for the period from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028. Legality review is a form of appeal against municipal decisions regulated in Chapter 13 of the Local Government Act (2017:725). In a

https://www.law.lu.se/article/torvald-larsson-appointed-special-member-administrative-court-malmo - 2026-06-07

At the end of March, the first cases of acute severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children were reported in the UK. Since then, the number has increased to more than 300 in around 20 countries; there are now reports of nine suspected cases in Sweden. The acute liver infection mainly affects otherwise completely healthy children under the age of 16, which puzzles researchers who are now searching

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researchers-search-answers-increase-acute-severe-hepatitis-children - 2026-06-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. - The closing party with polonaise and night walks together with all promovendi who sang various songs for the statues in one of the Helsinki parks was a special experience. Our Professor emeritus Anders Lindroth, was conferred an honorary doctorate at the Univeristy of Helsinki last week. The following motivation is

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/professor-anders-lindroth-honorary-doctor-univeristy-helsinki - 2026-06-07

The time has come to celebrate four and a half months of meetings between NanoLund PhD students and their mentors. In the closing workshop, the mentees reflected on the program and what they have learnt. Under the guidance of Tina Persson from Passage2pro, they looked back at the career development plan they did at the start of the program to think about how and what they would like to change or p

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/grand-finale-very-first-nanolund-mentoring-program - 2026-06-07

The global scientific community celebrates a major achievement as CERN’s four flagship experiments—ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb—receive the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, one of the most prestigious awards in science. This prize honors discoveries that reshape our understanding of the universe, including how particles gain mass via the Higgs boson, the imbalance between matter and

https://www.science.lu.se/article/cerns-breakthrough-physics-prize-highlights-lund-universitys-global-impact - 2026-06-07

The global scientific community celebrates a major achievement as CERN’s four flagship experiments—ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb—receive the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, one of the most prestigious awards in science. This prize honors discoveries that reshape our understanding of the universe, including how particles gain mass via the Higgs boson, the imbalance between matter and

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/cerns-breakthrough-physics-prize-highlights-lund-universitys-global-impact - 2026-06-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The majority of patients with type 2 diabetes who undergo a gastric bypass operation recover from the disease within a few days of the operation, long before their body weight falls. No one knows how this happens, but researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre in Sweden have now come up with a partial answer. In t

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/early-partial-answer-why-obesity-operations-cause-remission-diabetes - 2026-06-07