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In our Annual Report for 2019 we share highlights in research, education and impact from the previous year. Read about some of the highlights here and download or read the full report online. Word from Director Emily Boyd 2019 was an unusually busy year for LUCSUS. In January we transitioned into the Faculty of Social Sciences after a two-year transition process. This shift poses new and interesti

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-annual-report-highlights-2019 - 2025-10-30

Efter ett långvarigt ekonomiskt krisläge står Libanon på ruinens brant. Valutan har förlorat stort i värde och människors besparingar har ätits upp. Krisen i landet utspelas även på det politiska och sociala planet. Trots detta fortsätter den korrupta eliten att styra landet, utan att straffas för sina missgärningar. Rola el-Husseini forskar på den politiska situationen i Libanon vid Centrum för M

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/kommer-den-libanesiska-staten-att-overleva-krisen - 2025-10-29

Nya e-resurserInför 2021 har det startas prenumeration på nedan resurser. Vi har redan access till resurserna men prenumerationerna startar först 1a januari.Konstnärliga fakultetens bibliotek har startat en prenumeration på Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI); EAI’s Educational Streaming Service is a unique subscription-based resource with almost 2,000 titles by 65 artists that are available for stream

https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-december-januari-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation - 2025-10-29

US cities facing sea level rise need to look beyond traditional strategies for managing issues such as critical erosion and coastal squeeze, according to new research from LUCSUS. Civil society initiatives must now play a crucial role in adapting society to climate change, researcher Chad Boda argues in his dissertation. Using the City of Flagler Beach in Florida as a case study, LUCSUS researcher

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sea-level-rise-urgently-requires-new-forms-decision-making-dissertation-chad-boda - 2025-10-29

Skissernas Museum – Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art now welcomes all employees at Lund University to a guided lunch tour through the exhibition! Skissernas Museum’s major exhibition for the spring and summer highlights the architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885–1975) and some of his most famous buildings. The projects presented in the exhibition – the Eastern Cemetery with chapel and flower ki

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lunch-showings-exhibition-architecture-sculpture-sigurd-lewerentz-petra-gipp - 2025-10-30

A well visited full day with engaged and broad audience and speakers were the results of the first official BECC grand seminar jointly organized with MERGE. A grand seminar is defined as a full day filled with speakers and possibilities for discussions. November 26, BECC and MERGE jointly presented The Science and Politics of 1.5C. The organizers thank all participants and presenters of the day an

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/report-science-and-politics-15c-seminar - 2025-10-29

The climate crisis has received less media coverage during the corona pandemic despite that many think the climate challenges demand equally urgent attention. During the coming two weeks the United Nations gather the world in the Climate Dialogues 2020 “to increase the momentum for greater climate ambition” in an online format. Our climate researcher Markku Rummukainen comments on the event. When

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/global-dialogues-boost-climate-work - 2025-10-29

LUCSUS organises two events at the Future week at Lund University, discussing the future of social movements and the future of traveling, in the light of both the climate crisis and the coronavirus pandemic. The events will take place both onsite and online. 14 October 15.00-16.00:  The future of traveling, mobility and flyingFlying, or rather flying less, has been in the public debate for the las

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lund-university-future-week-12-18-october - 2025-10-29

Remember the ”beauty study”? It received a lot of attention in the autumn of 2022; was reported for flaws in the research method, but was later found not to have deviated from good research practice. Economist Adrian Mehic had not even defended his doctoral thesis yet, but had an article from his forthcoming thesis published in a scientific journal.”I could imagine that it would create a lot of bu

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/beauty-study-perfect-storm - 2025-10-29

At yesterday’s meeting, the board of Pufendorf IAS decided to invite four new Themes to the institute this fall. We received ten theme applications in December 2023, six of these were sent on to external experts for review and four of these are now invited to start in September 2024. The chosen Themes are (in no particular order):Theme: DigitaxToday’s principles for taxation requires that value cr

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/four-new-themes-during-2024-2025 - 2025-10-29

"The professionals in the middle as drivers for sustainable transformation in the building sector" Postdoctoral fellow Katharina Reindl and Professor Jenny Palm have published their article entitled "The professionals in the middle as drivers for sustainable transformation in the building sector" in Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management. Abstract:The building sector in Sweden and E

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/katharina-reindl-and-jenny-palm-publish-journal-sustainable-energy-planning-and-management - 2025-10-30

As part of the Future Week at Lund University, CMES organises a panel with five Middle East scholars who will discuss future trends in the region on topics ranging from climate change, migration, human rights, protracted conflict, democratization to peace and regional security. The public event takes place on 20 October at Skissernas Museum. All are warmly welcome! The CMES panel on trendspotting

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/trendspotting-middle-east - 2025-10-29

Annika Bergman Rosamond and Ted Svensson have both contributed with a book chapter to the edited volume ”The politics of identity: place, space and discourse”. Ted’s chapter centres on discrimination on the basis of caste in India and Annika’s text debates military intervention and the politics of memory in a Swedish context. About Annika Bergman Rosamond’s book chapter:Whilst Sweden’s changing ap

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-and-svensson-have-both-contributed-book-chapter-politics-identity - 2025-10-29

Lund was the first municipality to create a local climate policy council in 2018. The council consists of researchers from Lund University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Every year the council hands over a report to the municipal board and on May 4 Professor Lena Neij from the IIIEE presented the 2022 report. The council reviews Lund’s work with climate impact and reduction o

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/climate-report-2022-presented-lund-municipality - 2025-10-29

The current platform for strategic work applies until the end of this year, but a decision on an updated version for the period 2025-2027 has already been taken. The platform describes the University’s strategic work for the years ahead and will support us in adapting the University’s operations more quickly in an unpredictable world. The fact that the updated platform for strategic work is alread

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/platform-strategic-work-2025-2027 - 2025-10-30

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/climate-researcher-there-are-sustainable-paths-forward-basic-material-sector - 2025-10-30

At least a third of the glaciers in the Himalayan range could melt due to climate change. This will have severe consequences for almost 2 billion people, including the village communities in Nepal, since the glaciers are an important water and energy source. Researcher Mine Islar is examining the future of renewable energy through micro-hydro power in Nepal by looking at collective action to find

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-are-communities-nepal-managing-locally-produced-renewable-energy-age-climate-change - 2025-10-30

Lisa Strömbom has co-authored the article ‘The Abraham Accords’ implications for peace in the Middle East’, published in the latest issue of Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift. The Abraham Accords, signed by Israel and four Arab states in 2020, were one of President Donald Trump’s most renowned foreign policy successes. But what type of peace has emerged following the Abraham Accords? Departing from the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lisa-strombom-abraham-accords-implications-peace-middle-east - 2025-10-29

An international team of researchers – consisting of no less than four from NanoLund – have used nano focused X-rays at the NanoMAX beamline to image the complex structure of metal halide perovskite nanowires. The high-resolution imaging made it possible to see domains inside the nanowire, as the temperature was increased across a structural phase transition. The structure of perovskite materials

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nano-diffraction-ferroelastic-domains-max-iv - 2025-10-29

Lund University has been ranked 85th in the world in the QS World University rankings, making it the top ranked comprehensive university in Sweden. QS has published university rankings annually since 2004 and the ranking is done in collaboration with Elsevier. On 27 June, QS published its latest list (Ranking 2024) in which 2,963 institutions were evaluated and 1,503 universities were ranked. Lund

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-top-100-qs-world-university-ranking - 2025-10-30