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https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/photo-exhibition-and-film-screening-world-burning-20-paradise - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) now announces funding for one doctoral studentship, where the doctoral student is admitted to the PhD programme in Environmental Science at the Faculty of Science, and is enrolled in the Agenda 2030 graduate school. The Centre for Environmental and Climate Science

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/project-funding-researchers-apply-doctoral-studentship-environmental-science-within-agenda-2030 - 2026-08-27

Researchers at Lund University and University of Gothenburg have produced the most detailed map of carbon emissions from Swedish forest fires to date. The results show that the largest emissions occur below the ground surface, in peat and organic soils. During the extremely hot summer of 2018, 324 forest fires were reported in Sweden. Using field measurements, models, and data from the Swedish For

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/large-forest-fire-emissions-are-hidden-underground - 2026-08-27

New article published in Scientific Reports by CMES researcher Filippo Verre, Ronny Berndtsson and Hossein Hashemi.  Read the full article here (External Link)AbstractWater scarcity is a dynamic condition influenced by a variety of factors, including environmental variables but also political, economic, technological, and social variables. This research reflects the intersection of natural resourc

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/redefining-water-scarcity-through-integrated-water-strategic-resilience-index-amid-climate-and - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Three scholars from the West Network welcome abstracts for their edited volume called “Liberal West” and Asianists are welcome to approach the topic from the Asian point of view. Deadline for abstracts is May 23 2017. Ever after the idea of “the Western civilization” was conceived, some intellectuals, politicians, and

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-abstracts-edited-volume-liberal-west - 2026-08-27

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/impact-maternity-ward-closures-maternal-and-neonatal-health - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Welcome to the inauguration of the Anti Apartheid Room at Malmö Art Academy During the spring semester 2017 the course The World Turned Upside Down: art and ethics in the rise of the Stone Age South initiated by professor Sarat Maharaj will take place at Malmö Art Academy.The start-up for the project is a reconstructi

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/course-start-world-turned-upside-down - 2026-08-27

Meet our new colleague Haein Cho, Associate Senior Lecturer in AI for Sustainable Transformation. Originally from South Korea, Haein brings an interdisciplinary background spanning environmental policy, corporate sustainability and data science, including artificial intelligence methods. Before joining the IIIEE, she worked across academia, international organizations and industry. At the IIIEE, h

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-haein-cho - 2026-08-27

Vombsjösänkan i Skåne kan bli världens första biosfärområde där den kulturella dimensionen vävs in. Om ansökan går igenom hos Unesco kan området bli en internationell föregångare som den första att arbeta med kultur i olika former av samverkan med medborgare, akademi, näringsliv och offentlig sektor. Vombsjösänkan i Eslöv, Lunds och Sjöbos kommun i södra Skåne är ett 110 000 hektar stort område va

https://www.lu.se/artikel/vombsjosankan-pa-vag-att-bli-ett-nytt-unikt-biosfaromrade - 2026-08-28

Under Lund Spring Symposium möttes två erfarna forskningsledare från läkemedelsindustrin – Jan M. Lundberg och Mikael Dolsten – i ett samtal om vetenskapligt mod, motgångar, tekniksprång och framtidstro. Den andra upplagan av Lund Spring Symposium gick av stapeln i maj 2025 och var kryddad med höjdpunkter. En sådan var ett innehållsrikt och tankeväckande samtal mellan Mikael Dolsten, tidigare fors

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/vetenskap-ansvar-och-uthallighet-ett-samtal-om-framtidens-lakemedel - 2026-08-28

Meet the new guest professor at Lund University Cancer Centre (LUCC) Mary Beth Terry from Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, US. Mary Beth Terry was recently employed as guest professor at Lund University Cancer Centre from March 2025 until 2028. She will be working 10% of full time and her employment is supported by LUCC and Mrs Berta Kamprad Foundation.She recently visited Lund

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/meet-new-guest-professor-cancer-epidemiology-and-prevention - 2026-08-27

Sahana Subramanian recently completed her master’s degree at Lund University. Her thesis “Expanding Freedoms and Improving Commons through Labour”, studies Kerala’s Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme and, for this, she received this year’s SASNET Best South Asia Thesis Award.  Sahana Subramanian, recently admitted as a doctoral student at LUCSUS, was introduced to the concept of ‘urban em

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sahana-subramanian-urban-india-facing-twin-crisis - 2026-08-27

Several Qur’an burnings occurred in Sweden this summer leading to protests in Muslim-majority countries. The repercussions might be limited in the short-term with the strong reactions from governments and Islamic organisations mostly being of a symbolic nature. However, the increasing perception in many countries in the MENA region that Swedish state and society are hostile to Islam endangers Swed

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-mena-responses-quran-burnings-sweden - 2026-08-27

Reaching the 1.5°C climate target requires a drastic decline in the use of fossil fuels, especially coal in Asia and OECD. Has such decline ever happed in the past? At the first glance, the answer is ‘no’. Globally, new energy and technologies have always been added on top of the old ones (so that past ‘energy transitions’ are sometimes humorously called ‘energy additions’!) But a new research co-

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/historical-lessons-getting-rid-fossil-fuels - 2026-08-27

Lund University hosted an MSCA Ambassador event for high-school students from Uzbekistan on December 6-7, 2024. 19 students from the Academic lyceum of University of World Economy and Diplomacy from Tashkent, Uzbekistan visited Lund University. 19 students (12 boys and 7 girls), accompanied by their four teachers, visited the department of Sociology of Law at Lund University. During their visit, M

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/msca-ambassador-event-high-school-students-uzbekistan - 2026-08-27

Professor Deliang Chen has been elected Fellow of TWAS, the world academy of sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries. Professor Deliang Chen, University of Gothenburg and PI in MERGE, has been elected Fellow of TWAS, the world academy of sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries. He was one of 44 new Fellows elected on the Academy's 26th General Meetin

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/deliang-chen-new-fellow-twas-world-academy-sciences - 2026-08-27

Reducing plastic waste and plastic pollution in our oceans is on the agenda for UN’s member states since March 2022. In a hearing between the French Sénat and Assemblée Nationale regarding this matter, Professor Hervé Corvellec participated as an invited expert on plastic waste and answered the question “Why is there so much plastic waste?”. In March 2022 UN Member States agreed to start negotiati

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/herve-corvellec-plastic-embedded-consumption - 2026-08-27

LUCSUS is part of organising next year's Political Ecology Network conference (POLLEN24) in Lund. The unfolding and entwined social-ecological crises make the challenge of how to move towards more plural and just futures more pressing than ever. Political ecology provides an important toolbox to explore the unjust and colonial power relations that condition global flows of material resources, mone

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/next-pollen-conference-lund - 2026-08-27

Professor Deliang Chen has been elected Fellow of TWAS, the world academy of sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries. Professor Deliang Chen, University of Gothenburg and PI in BECC, has been elected Fellow of TWAS, the world academy of sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries. He was one of 44 new Fellows elected on the Academy's 26th General Meeting

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/deliang-chen-elected-fellow-world-academy-sciences-twas - 2026-08-27

Catarina Kinnvall has together with co-author Pasko Kisić Merino (Karlstad University) published the article ‘Governing Emotions: Hybrid media, Ontological Insecurity and the Normalisation of Far-Right Fantasies’ in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. Abstract Focusing on the debates on ‘due impartiality’ provided to far-right leaders in Swedish media, this article uses a Lacanian approach to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-governing-emotions-hybrid-media-ontological-insecurity-and-normalisation-far-right - 2026-08-27