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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

Published 25 November 2014 During this application round four (4) applications were received. A decision has now been taken to award two scholarships, which consequently go to:Beatrice Fäldt - Gender, Children and Commercial Sexual Exploitation - A study on gender relations in the Nicaraguan contextCecilia Emilsson - Chachawarmi and Its Effects on Female Participation in Rural BoliviaWe would like

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/results-second-application-round-during-autumn-2014-minor-field-studies-scholarships - 2025-07-03

Published 20 January 2015 A research programme in Sustainability Science at Lund University (LUCID) invites applications for up to eight PhD positions and one post-doc position, including PhD in Human Geography and PhD in Human Ecology.LUCID is a Linnaeus programme sponsored by The Swedish Research Council Formas for the period 2008-2018. It operates as a cross-faculty consortium of four departmen

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/lucid-announces-phd-position-human-ecology-and-phd-position-human-geography - 2025-07-03

Published 21 January 2015 Elin Brudin (SGSPL - Bachelor's in Urban and Regional Planning batch 2011-2014) has received a third prize for her Bachelor's thesis in a thesis contest 2014 from Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency. Read more (in Swedish). Elin's thesis is available in open access and can be downloaded from Lund University Student Thesis Database. Elin's Bachelor's thesis

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/elin-brudin-receives-prize - 2025-07-03

Published 13 February 2015 Johan Sandberg, the Director of Studies for LUMID - our Master's Programme in International Development and Management - presented a dissertation brief "Transformative Social Policy in Development? Demystifying Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America", written to the Expert Group Evaluation of Swedish Aid, at the Foreign Ministry."Transformative Social Policy in Deve

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/lumids-director-studies-johan-sandberg-has-presented-development-dissertation-brief - 2025-07-03

Published 12 March 2015 Please note that there is an information meeting regarding MFS scholarship for Spring 2015 (application deadline: 16/4). The meeting takes place from 4 to 5 pm (sharp), in Världen (room 111), Geocentrum I.

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/mfs-information-meeting-193-4-pm - 2025-07-03

Published 13 March 2015 Foto: Joakim Stierna The upcoming development of ESS in Lund might lead to a serious housing shortage in the Scania region, according to Marko Huttunen. On the 12th of March, his research was noticed by the Swedish newspaper Skånskan. Some municipalities in Scania are better prepared for Lund's upcoming research expansion than others. Read more about Marko's thesis at http:

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/marko-huttunens-thesis-recieves-attention-swedish-newspaper - 2025-07-03

By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 22 June 2020 A new joint report from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) presents the largest venture ever on precision medicine in diabetes. The report includes a detailed overview and roadmap for how this new approach to diabetes medicine can be evaluate

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/roadmap-precision-medicine-diabetes-care - 2025-07-03

By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 23 June 2020 The research group Nutritional Epidemiology has started a blog, www.nutrition.blogg.lu.se! Esther González-Padilla tells us more about it. Visit nutrition.blogg.lu.se, a blog about nutritional science. ​​​​​What is the blog about?We have started the blog mostly as a tool to inform people, within and outside

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-blog-about-nutriton - 2025-07-03

Published 24 June 2020 Karin Stenkula, Emily Sonestedt and Sebastian Kalamajski have received grants from the The Bo and Kerstin Hjelt Diabetes Foundation. Read about their research projects here. Karin Stenkula, Lund University Diabetes Centre:EHD2: a novel candidate essential for lipid transport and overall glucose homeostasisObesity is one of the main risk factors behind type 2 diabetes and car

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/hjelt-foundations-grant-holders-2020 - 2025-07-03

Published 13 August 2020 A new COVID-19 antibody test developed by scientists at Lund University in Sweden has shown robust performance upon clinical validation and application. The test detects antibodies in the blood targeting the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, and determines in just 15 minutes whether a person has had COVID-19, regardless of whether they have had any symptoms. “Unlike other serol

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-rapid-and-robust-covid-19-antibody-test-developed - 2025-07-03

Published 29 August 2020 Last week it was announced that our longtime colleague and LUDC researcher/SUS clinician Martin Ridderstråle has been appointed Senior Vice President of Patient Care in the Novo Nordisk Foundation. This is not only a remarkable achievement by Martin but also goes to show that our environment fosters excellent scientists and outstanding clinicians. Martin is one of the most

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/senior-vice-president-patient-care-novo-nordisk-foundation - 2025-07-03

Published 25 September 2020 Karl Bacos, assistant researcher at LUDC is the recipient of 2020 years Medeon stipend of 50 000 sek for his innovative work within epigenetics in diabetes.   Medeonstipendiat 2020, Karl Bacos, PhD, docent, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Picture: Sara Liedholm The Medeon stipend is handed out in connection to the acknowledgement of World Diabetes Day in Skåne which ta

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/karl-bacos-years-recipient-medeon-stipend - 2025-07-03

Published 13 August 2020 In many studies, bariatric surgery has been highlighted as an almost magical method for weight loss and reversing type 2 diabetes. One question that has remained largely unanswered is how the effect of surgery differs from the effects of a strict low-calorie diet. This question has now been examined by researchers at Lund University in Sweden in a study published in the jo

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/strict-diet-explains-metabolic-effect-gastric-pass-surgery - 2025-07-03