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In type 2 diabetes, the body's ability to release insulin is impaired, which leads to high blood glucose levels. Research led from Lund University shows how the levels of a particular protein are elevated in the pancreas of people with type 2 diabetes. By knocking out the gene for the protein IGFBP7, the researchers discovered that insulin secretion was improved. Reduced insulin secretion leads to

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/protein-affects-ability-secrete-insulin-type-2-diabetes - 2025-12-09

This year's recipient of the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research maps out mechanisms in the adipose tissue, which has increased the understanding of why some people with obesity develop type 2 diabetes. Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm at University of Gothenburg is spurred to find new answers when observations in the lab do not agree with the general view. Justification for awarding"I

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/ingrid-wernstedt-asterholm-receives-leif-c-groop-award-research-adipose-tissue - 2025-12-09

Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm received the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research at the annual LUDC Diabetes Research Day. "This award allows me to rest in the feeling that all the work I have done is good enough, at least for a short while,” said the recipient. Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm at Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg is this year’s recipient of the Leif C. Groop

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/diabetes-event-highlighted-findings-may-lead-new-treatments - 2025-12-09

Pufendorfinstitutet har antagit Tema "Sound of Democracy" för arbete 1 september 2023 – 30 april 2024. Ett stort grattis riktar vi till de forskare som kommer att ingå i detta Tema och som även är aktiva i Ljudmiljöcentrums forskarnätverk. I Temat Sound of Democracy: how everyday sound environments support, reflect and deflect democratic values kommer demokratiska värderingar att utforskas genom v

https://www.lmc.lu.se/artikel/sound-democracy-nytt-tema-vid-pufendorfinstitutet - 2025-12-09

Är det ett tidigt tecken på stress att du inte kan njuta av musik? Finns det sammanhang där buller är bra? Vad skiljer Djungellekan i Helsingborg från en vanlig lekplats? Och vad menas med en ljudmiljö á la carte? Tre forskare och en ljudkreatör samlades för att prata hållbara ljudmiljöer under Hållbarhetsveckan. Som en del av Hållbarhetsveckan vid Lunds universitet arrangerade Ljudmiljöcentrum de

https://www.lmc.lu.se/artikel/hallbara-ljudmiljoer-hur-nar-vi-dit-panelsamtal-under-hallbarhetsveckan - 2025-12-09

Projektets huvudsyfte är att utreda vilken effekt olika sociala aktiviteter, som körsång och vanlig kursverksamhet, har på rösthälsa och allmänt välbefinnande för äldre vuxna. Det är vanligt att rösten försämras och blir svagare med stigande ålder, och vi vill ta reda på om körsång och andra sociala aktiviteter kan motverka detta. Dessutom vill vi undersöka om en simulerad visuell miljö (virtual r

https://www.lmc.lu.se/artikel/deltagare-sokes-till-forskningsprojekt-om-rost-och-valbefinnande - 2025-12-09

Den 19 november 2024 går konferensen Sound Environments av stapeln. Mer information kommer inom kort!

https://www.lmc.lu.se/artikel/save-date - 2025-12-09

The conference welcomes papers that take gender as a critical tool of analysis in studies of media, culture, communication and ICTs. The focus of the conference is studies on China and the Nordic countries, but studies on other regions as well as more general or theoretical papers are also welcome. Scholars from different disciplines and research fields, among others gender studies, communication

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-gender-and-communication-22-23-september-2014-beijing - 2025-12-09

Four new working papers in the Centre's Working Papers in Contemporary Asian Studies series are now available as PDF files.To the working papers

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-working-papers - 2025-12-09

Sustainable City Development: Theories, methods, challenges, and experiences in China and the Nordic countries in Shanghai 28-31 October. Call for papers to research workshop and ph.d course with deadline 1 April, 2014.These activities are organised by the Sino-Nordic Urban Governance for Sustainable Cities Network of which the Centre is a member.For further information see here (new window) 

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-papers-sustainable-city-development-theories-methods-challenges-and-experiences-china-and - 2025-12-09

Lund University hereby declares the following vacancy at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies open for application. The application deadline is May 15, 2014. Please spread this information in your networks.More information

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/postdoctoral-fellow-modern-chinese-studies - 2025-12-09

Postdoctoral research fellow Jens Sejrup has published the article "Awakening the Sufferers: Reflections on Public Relations, Activism, and Subalternity in Postcolonial Controversies between Taiwan and Japan" in SAGE journal Public Relations Inquiry, vol. 3, no. 1 (2014).

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-dr-jens-sejrup - 2025-12-09

Marina has an article entitled “Heritage's place: heritage narratives in Chinese city promotional films," in the the book Branding Chinese Mega-Cities: Policies, Practices and Positioning ed. by Per Olof Berg and Emma Björner, Elgar, 2014.For further information see here (new window)

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-associate-professor-marina-svensson-0 - 2025-12-09

The centre is currently looking for a full time administrator (limited tenure to 2015-07-31). QualificationsDocumented excellent ability in Swedish and English, a B.A. or comparable qualification in economics, experience of the administrative systems in use at Lund University (e.g. purchasing routines, DFS, Primula, e-recruitment, etc) as well as excellent competence in using Office software (e.g.

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/availble-job-centre - 2025-12-09

Malte P. Benjamins who graduated in 2013 from the programme has an article titled  "International actors in NIMBY controversies: Obstacle or opportunity for environmental campaigns?" published online in the China Information journal. The article will also available be in China Information's November issue.To the article

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/article-alumnus-malte-p-benjamins - 2025-12-09

Deadline: 15 October 2014 Conference dates: 11-14 August 2015 The European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) will hold its 8th conference from 11 to 14 August 2015 at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria. As an international and multi-disciplinary organisation, EuroSEAS invites scholars and PhD students from all academic disciplines with

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-panel-proposals-8th-euroseas-conference-vienna - 2025-12-09

Researchers within the Digital China project presented papers at two conferences in Beijing on 22-24 September. The Centre together with CASS co-organised the 5th Sino-Nordic Women and Gender Conference on the topic of gender and communication as well as the 2nd Sino-Swedish ICT4D conference. The conferences gathered a total of 85 participants and dealt with issues related to gender equality, repr

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/5th-sino-nordic-women-and-gender-conference-and-2nd-sino-swedish-ict4d-conference - 2025-12-09

Abstract deadline: 1 December 2014Conference dates: 5-6 March 2015You are most welcome to the Eleventh Annual NAJS Conference. The conference will take place at the Centre for East and South-­East Asian Studies, Lund University.We invite paper proposals on a broad set of topics related to Japanese society and culture, past and present, including politics and international relations, economy and bu

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-papers-eleventh-najs-conference-study-contemporary-japanese-society - 2025-12-09

Marina Svensson has published a chapter on Gender equality and empowerment in China: Discourses and experiences in a comparative perspective. The chapter is included in a book entitled Education, Media and Sexuality Health Services for Girls and Women: 20 Years Experiences of China's Policy and Practice. The book is part of the Education and Development for Rural Women and Girls in China Series pu

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/gender-equality-and-empowerment-china - 2025-12-09

Mina Roces will be a visiting researcher here at the Centre from the beginning of October to the end of November. Mina Roces received her Phd in History from the University of Michigan and is presently Professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.Read more about Mina here

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visiting-professor-mina-roces - 2025-12-09