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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In order to avoid water conflicts and to stimulate food production in sub-Saharan Africa, large-scale land acquisition should be regulated and focus on food production. These are the conclusions of a new doctoral thesis from Lund University in Sweden. Emma Johansson’s thesis investigates how land use is affected by la
What if we could fight climate change using bacteria that live on air? That’s the vision behind a newly funded international research project led by scientists from Lund University, the University of Tromsø, and Harvard Medical School. With support from the prestigious Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), the team aims to explore how an Arctic microbe that can feed exclusively on methane could b
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/living-air-scientists-enlist-arctic-bacteria-fight-climate-change - 2026-07-17
För att kunna ordinera patienter rätt dos fysisk aktivitet på recept, behöver hälso- och sjukvårdspersonal ta hänsyn till en mängd individuella faktorer. Det finns ett behov av att underlätta bedömningen av kondition och syreupptagningsförmåga, samt att beräkna intensiteten för konditionsträning enligt WHO’s rekommendationer för fysisk aktivitet. Nu har forskare vid Lunds universitet utvecklat en
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/konditionsapp-hjalper-varden-att-stotta - 2026-07-17
För många har den första kontakten med Lunds universitet varit ett vilset samtal till växeln. Men vilka är de som jobbar där, vad är det för frågor de får och hur har arbetet som växeltelefonist förändrats genom åren? Att jobba i växeln har inget att göra med bilden som visas i gamla journalfilmer där kvinnor sitter på rad, svarar i telefon, drar ut en sladd ur ett uttag och kopplar in den i ett a
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/valkommen-till-vaxeln - 2026-07-18
Diabetes researchers have established methods for screening people with an increased risk of developing type 1 diabetes. Current methods require multiple blood samples during each visit. An international team of researchers has developed a simplified screening method, which will increase screening efficiency. Type 1 diabetes is a disease that requires lifelong treatment with insulin. People of all
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/improved-screening-efficiency-type-1-diabetes-simplified-blood-draw - 2026-07-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 18 March 2020, @ 15:00 CMES, Lund University, Finngatan 16 Please register here: maria.lofstedt@cme.lu.se Speakers:Pınar Dinç, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University“Turkey's Unchanging Raison d'État? Narratives on Dersim 1938”Reyda Ergün, Faculty of Law, Kadir Has University,“Raison d’État and the Regimes
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/panel-discussion-raison-detat-new-turkey-postponed - 2026-07-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University is following the Government and Public Health Authority’s new recommendations regarding measures to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. The University has therefore decided that education and examinations should be conducted using online alternatives (distance education) from 18 March. University fac
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/students-transition-distance-education-march-18-2020 - 2026-07-17
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 - 2026-07-17
“True crime” has exploded in popularity and crime and punishment dominates the headlines. Linnea Wegerstad, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, opposes the tendency to label people who have committed crimes as monsters. Linnea Wegerstad researches sexual offences and has a background as a judge in training. She was about halfway through this training when she chose to return to academia. A seni
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mind-legal-scholar - 2026-07-17
Återupplev nordiska gerontologi konferensen NKG 2024 i bilder. SWEAH medverkade med en rad doktorander, handledare och forskare samtliga konferensdagar på Karolinska Institutet i Stockholm, i mitten av juni 2024. Invigning med Balettakademin och Dans för Parkinson, ett dansprogram utvecklat för Parkinsonsjuka. Queen Silvia, who recently turned 80 years old, said that the journey of ageing has af
https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/sweah-pa-nordiska-gerontologikonferensen-nkg2024 - 2026-07-17
18 people came from Africa to Lund to learn more about innovation, transformation and resilience for sustainable development. Why come all this way? And what knowledge will they bring back? Meet Pamla, Faith, Nahed and David and learn more about their thoughts on the four weeks course. And on the LundaCarnival 😁 When Senior lecturer in Economic history Martin Andersson learned that a new course o
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/africa-lund-joining-course-lusem - 2026-07-17
18 delegates traveled from Africa to Lund to learn more about innovation, transformation and resilience for sustainable development. Why come all this way? And what knowledge will they bring back? Meet Pamla, Faith, Nahed and David and learn more about their thoughts on the four weeks course. And on the LundaCarnival 😁 When Senior lecturer in Economic history Martin Andersson learned that a new c
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/africa-lund-joining-course-lusem - 2026-07-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Francisca Skoogh dreams of establishing an interdisciplinary centre for “performance science” at Lund University. She is both a pianist and a psychologist, and conducts research on her own relationship with the stage and stage performance anxiety. She is also a new member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The con
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-wants-teach-artists-overcome-stage-fright - 2026-07-17
On Friday, February 15, Alicia Fjällhed defended her thesis, "Strategic moral communication: A metatheoretical and methodological response to the normative perspective on strategic communication," which challenges the assumption that strategic communication is immoral. The basis for understanding strategic communication as immoral, a notion prevalent among many social scientists, Alicia Fjällhed s
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/alicia-fjallhed-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2026-07-17
When it comes to some people, one can't help but think of the old quote Veni Vidi Vici*. And about Saonee Sarker, Professor of Informatics at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), this is fitting: She came in the middle of the pandemic and quickly became a part of LUSEM, she saw the possibilities of the department and the School, and yes, absolutely... conquered. Now she is l
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/saonee-sarker-new-dean-virginia-tech-pamplin-college-business - 2026-07-17
Hösten 2017 briserade #metoorörelsen över världen. Just nu studerar forskare vilken effekt rörelsen har haft i Sverige. En slutsats är att sexuellt våld mot kvinnor erkänns som ett strukturellt problem och att det finns en känsla av ökad rättvisa efter #metoo. Samtidigt är det oklart om det faktiskt sker färre sexuella trakasserier idag. New York Times publicerar den 5 oktober 2017 en artikel med
https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/fem-ar-sedan-metoo-var-star-vi-idag - 2026-07-17
At the Department of Physics, she is Stina Loo, education administrator for first and second cycle programmes. But she can also call herself a linguist, entrepreneur and television personality. And now, with a dream come true: author. The book ‘Hitta din historia – släktforskning för alla’ (Find your story – genealogy for everyone), which Stina wrote together with Ingeborg Arvastsson, will be rele
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/stina-brings-history-life-new-book - 2026-07-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Just over ten years after Goran Basic came to Sweden as a refugee from the former Yugoslavia, he travelled back to his ethnically cleansed village. As a researcher in sociology, he wanted to try and carry out a non-judgemental study and interview survivors about forgiveness, reconciliation and the role of victim. One
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/life-goes-scars-remain - 2026-07-17
Clay is a material that has been used since ancient times for protecting, building and carrying things. If we learn more about how to change various properties of clays, such as through the addition of certain molecules or salts, we can use them for new and sustainable products in the fields of medicine, architecture and building materials. The strategic research area eSSENCE supports a new collab
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/clay-ancient-material-great-future - 2026-07-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. During a brief visit to Sweden, the renowned US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg received a jubilee honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Law in a formal ceremony in Stockholm. As the honoured guest did not have the opportunity to travel to Lund, the ceremony was held at the Svea Court of Appeal in Stockholm
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ruth-bader-ginsburg-receives-jubilee-honorary-doctorate - 2026-07-17
