Published 29 February 2024 23 – 24 October 2024, the Development Research School will host a Development Research PhD Workshop in Lund. We are happy to announce that the Development Research PhD Workshop (Lund, 23 – 24 October 2024) is now open for applications. The workshop is hosted by the Development Research School with the purpose to bring together PhD students working on development research

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/save-date-development-research-phd-workshop - 2025-07-13

By matilda [dot] skoglow [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Matilda Skoglöw) - published 16 April 2024 What impact does development research actually have? And how can this field thrive in a world of sudden policy changes and devastating wars? The 2024 DevRes conference in Lund is around the corner – meet Sara Gabrielsson, the Conference coordinator. In October, development researchers from all over Swe

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/development-polarized-world-upcoming-devres-2024-conference - 2025-07-13

Published 27 June 2024 Are you a PhD student with a development research focus? Do you want to showcase your project and get feedback while also networking with other doctoral students? This is an online opportunity for you! Works-in-Progress is a series of three online events by the Development Research School. This is an opportunity for development research PhD students from all countries and un

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/open-applications-works-progress-series-online - 2025-07-13

Published 4 July 2024 Doctoral researchers from Ghana and abroad participated in and successfully completed the third edition of the Methodology and Field Studies course, a Development Research School collaboration hosted by the University of Ghana. The Methodology and Field Studies course is a collaboration between the Development Research School, the Institute of Statistical Social & Economic Re

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/21-ghanaian-phd-students-successfully-completed-methodology-and-field-studies-course - 2025-07-13

Published 20 August 2024 Join us at lunch, every other Thursday! The Development Lunch Seminar programme for the Fall semester of 2024 is now live. This is a bi-weekly, online research seminar for anyone interested in development research, broadly defined. About the Developent Lunch SeminarsThe seminar series is a collaboration between the Development Research School and the Development Group at t

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/fall-2024-programme-development-lunch-seminars - 2025-07-13

Published 25 September 2024 PhD students worldwide can now apply to two doctoral courses, hosted by the Development Research School: "Power, Justice and (De)coloniality in Development" (Uppsala University) and "Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals" (Lund University). Both courses are free of charge and are open to doctoral students from all fields of social sciences or related fields o

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/two-phd-courses-development-research-open-applications - 2025-07-13

Published 30 October 2024 13 doctoral researchers from universities across Europe and Africa gathered in Lund to present their ongoing work and discuss development research topics. On 23 - 24 October, the Development Research School hosted an international PhD workshop in Lund (Sweden) with the purpose of bringing development research doctoral students from a broad range of backgrounds together. T

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/international-development-research-phd-workshop-held-lund - 2025-07-13

Published 15 January 2025 Looking for an opportunity to share your development research project? Apply to host a Development Lunch Seminar this spring semester! The Development Lunch Seminar is a great opportunity to share your work at any stage - from early ideas to nearly completed manuscripts - on topics broadly related to development research. PhD students are especially encouraged to apply!Th

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/present-your-research-development-lunch-seminar-spring - 2025-07-13

Published 4 February 2025 Join us at lunch, every other Thursday! The Development Lunch Seminar Program for the spring semester of 2025 is now official. About the Developent Lunch SeminarsThe seminar series is a collaboration between the Development Research School and the Development Group at the Department of Economic History at Lund University. Both junior and senior scholars - from a wide rang

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/spring-2025-program-development-lunch-seminars - 2025-07-13

Published 3 March 2025 Welcome to a public webinar about publication strategies for development research PhD students. Are you a PhD student with a focus on development research? Join us for a webinar this week on publication strategies! The webinar is suitable for PhD students of all levels.📅: 5 March 11:00 to 12.00Presenters: Fredrik Söderbaum, University of GothenburgAnders Sjögren, Uppsala Un

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/upcoming-webinar-publication-strategies-phd-students - 2025-07-13

Published 12 May 2025 The online doctoral course Power, Justice and (De)coloniality in Development is now open for applications. Application deadline is 13 June 2025. This course addresses various aspects of power in development. Rather than adapting a post-colonial perspective in which development practices and politics is portrayed as something enacted by the global North on the global South, th

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/apply-now-power-justice-and-decoloniality-development - 2025-07-13

Published 15 August 2022 Läs här om ett samarbete mellan lundaforskarna Johan Jakobsson och Malin Parmar som har lett till en ny metod för att studera åldersrelaterade hjärnsjukdomar. https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-forskningsmodell-ska-ge-svar-om-huntingtons-sjukdom  

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/ny-forskningsmodell-ska-ge-svar-om-huntingtons-sjukdom - 2025-07-13

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 21 June 2023 Would you like to learn more about our research on X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism? To read the full article please go to the following link: Exploring the Role of 'Jumping Genes' in X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-centers-interview-dr-vivien-horvath - 2025-07-13

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 7 September 2023 Patricia Gerdes, a postdoctoral researcher specializing in transposable elements and their impact on the human genome, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) program. To read the full article on Patricia Gerdes' MSCA Fellowship, please go to th

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/cracking-code-human-brain-evolution-patricia-gerdes-awarded-msca-fellowship - 2025-07-13

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 15 November 2023 I en studie ledd från Lunds universitet kan forskarna för första gången visa att traumatiska hjärnskador aktiverar vilande endogena retrovirus som under årmiljonernas gång infogats i människans DNA. Att dessa aktiveras kan vara drivande för att starta en inflammation som förvärrar hjärnskadan.

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/svart-hjarntrauma-aktiverar-vilande-kroppsegna-retrovirus-i-hjarnan - 2025-07-13

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 11 December 2023 "Tack vare ny teknik har Storbritannien precis godkänt en behandling som botar två genetiska sjukdomar. Nu ligger vägen öppen för att behandla andra sorters lidande." "– Vi kommer att kunna utveckla botande behandlingar för många ovanliga sjukdomar som inte går att bota i dag, säger Johan Jakob

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/dagens-nyheter-nya-behandlingar-sjukdomar-som-tidigare-var-omojliga-att-bota - 2025-07-13

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 19 January 2024 Today we congratulate Dr. Raquel Garza on defending her thesis! Dr. Raquel Garza's thesis "Transposable Elements in the Healthy and Diseased Human Brain" is available online.For an interview with Dr. Raquel Garza please visit Multipark's website.

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-raquel-garza - 2025-07-13

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 15 August 2024 Researchers from the Jakobsson Group at Lund University have discovered how a hidden piece of DNA, known as a transposable element, disrupts normal gene function in a disease called X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism (XDP). Published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, their findings uncover

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/how-hidden-genetic-elements-trigger-rare-neurodegenerative-disorder - 2025-07-13

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 2 March 2018 Interested in how we work with cutting out bad genes and pasting in new, healthy ones? In this case, you might find the below article on new gene techniques and our research very intersting! På svenska: Är du nyfiken på hur vi arbetar med att klippa ut de dåliga generna och klistra in nya friska ge

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/om-att-klippa-och-klistra-i-dna-how-cut-and-paste-gene-sequence - 2025-07-13

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 20 August 2018 Läs här om vår senaste publikation som presenterar en direkt länk mellan Huntingtons sjukdom och en grundläggande process som kallas autofagi.       Publikation: Huntingtin Aggregation Impairs Autophagy, Leading to Argonaute-2 Accumulation and Global MicroRNA Dysregulation  

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/nya-ron-om-huntingtons-sjukdom-publiceras - 2025-07-13