Published 3 July 2018 Priscilla Solano has received a three-year grant from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet VR) for a research project that will study ”a second side to the refugee crisis” - how civil society organisations filled the gaps left by EU national policies and fulfilled refugees’ and migrants’ basic needs: food, a place to stay and legal assistance. Priscilla Solano’s Inte

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Published 6 September 2018 Anna Rypi, Veronika Burcar Alm and Malin Åkerström have published an article about young male crime victims with an immigrant background in the journal Nordic Social Work Research. Interactions between the police and young people with an immigrant background are well researched internationally and are often discussed in the context of discrimination. Such interactions ma

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Published 7 September 2018 Mikael Klintman has written a chapter looking at political consumerism in the toy sector in The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism. The chapter looks at political consumerism in the toy sector, offering a brief history of consumer concerns and distinguishing among four strands of political consumerist research in this sector.Manufacturers cannot assume that parents

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Published 12 September 2018 Gökhan Kaya at the Department of Sociology defended his doctoral thesis in sociology ”Aspirations, capital and identity: four studies on the determinants of life chances for young Swedes with an immigrant background”, on 12th September at 14:00 in Stora Algatan's auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Susanne Urban, Institutet för Bostads- och urbanforsknin

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Published 24 September 2018 Erik Hannerz at the Department of Sociology and Peter Bengtsen at the Division of Art History and Visual Studies recently attended the annual Street Art & Urban Creativity Conference in Lisbon, Portual. Here they presented their plans for the upcoming Pufendorf research theme on Urban Creativity. The theme will run 1 October 2018 - 31 May 2019. During this period, an in

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Published 28 September 2018 Anders Hylmö at the Department of Sociology has defended his doctoral thesis in sociology ”Disciplined Reasoning. The mainstream-heterodoxy divide and styles of reasoning in Swedish economics” today, 28th September at 10:00 in Eden's auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Elizabeth Popp Berman, Sociology Department, University at AlbanyChair person of the d

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Published 16 October 2018 Jugdes are people not robots and emotions are inevitabably part of their daily life. In The Conversation Lisa Flower gives her view on why the US jugde Brett Kavanaugh is not seen as fit to be a jugde. Lisa Flower, studies the sociology of emotions at the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on ways in which defence lawyers represent their clients using emotions

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Published 25 October 2018 Anna Sarri Krantz at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in social anthropology: "Third Generation Survivors, Tredje generationens överlevande – en socialantropologisk studie om minne, antisemitism och identitet i spåret av Förintelsen” today, 25th October at 10:00 in Stora Algatans auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Professor Bodil Liljefors Persson

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Published 26 October 2018 Sophia Yakhlef at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in sociology ”United agents: community of practice within border policing in the Baltic Sea area” today, 26th October at 13:00 in Kulturens Auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Professor Helene Oppen Ingebrigtsen Gundhus, Department of Criminology, Oslo University.This study focuses on a border poli

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Published 30 October 2018 Lisa Flower at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in sociology ”Loyalty Work: Emotional interactions of defence lawyers in Swedish courtrooms” today, 30 October at 10:15 in Kulturens Auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Professor Terry Maroney, Vanderbilt University, Law School, Nashville, USA.AbstractDefence lawyers’ work takes place in emotionally c

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Published 6 November 2018 Urban creativity giving life to hidden places. The November issue of LUM, Lund University Magazine, includes an interview with co-coordinators of the Pufendorf theme on Urban Creativity, Erik Hannerz (Sociology) and Peter Bengtsen (Art History and Visual Studies). LUM's article Urban creativity giving life to hidden places points out that Banksys street art paintings have

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Published 19 December 2018 Tullia Jack at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in sociology ”Negotiating Conventions: cleanliness, sustainability and everyday life” today, 19 December at one o'clock in the Palaestra auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Professor Alan Warde, Department of Sociology, University of ManchesterPart of AbstractCleanliness has seen a rapid increase in

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Published 16 December 2019 By Pia [dot] romare [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Romare) - published on 23 August 2018“We must understand the ageing process itself in order to help people with conditions such as Alzheimer’s and dementia, and to possibly enable us to prevent these diseases from arising”, says Henrik Ahlenius of the Stem Cell Centre at Lund University. His aim is to develop an experim

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Published 16 December 2019 Zaal Kokaia, Professor within the Department of Clinical Sciences and Director of Lund Stem Cell Center, has been awarded Georgia’s most prestigious scientific prize - the National Prize in Science.  The award comes as a result of his outstanding contribution to world class scientific research and was presented to Prof. Kokaia at a ceremony in the Presidential Palace, Tb

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By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 13 January 2020 Margarita Chumarina defends her thesis on Wednesday 15th January Margarita Chumarina, from the iPSC laboratory for CNS disease modeling, will be defending her PhD thesis on Wednesday 15th of January. Researching in the group led by Laurent Roybon, Margarita has been utilizing stem cell-based models to

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By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 27 January 2020 Sara Nolbrant defends her thesis on Friday 31st January Sara Nolbrant, from the Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology lab, will be defending her PhD thesis on Friday 31st of January. Researching in the group led by Malin Parmar, Sara has been directing and dissecting the fate of dopaminergic neu

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Published 26 February 2020 Björn Nilsson and Nicholas Leigh We are very happy to announce that two new PIs have joined Lund Stem Cell Center! Björn Nilsson is Professor of Clinical Immunology at the Medical Faculty of Lund University, and the Head of the Division of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine at the Department of Laboratory Medicine. He is also a visiting researcher at the Broad Institute

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By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Leidholm) - published 2 March 2020 Human iPS cells Photo: Johan Jakobsson Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease make up the world’s most common diseases. A new biobank at Lund University in Sweden - the largest of its kind - with stem cells from both those affected and healthy individuals, will contribute to an

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By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 5 March 2020 UniStem day 2020 High school students from all over the Skåne region will be visiting Lund University to spend a whole day discussing the current state of stem cell research, discovering what it is like to work in a research setting, and exploring the exciting future possibilities that stem cells have to

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Published 19 March 2020 PI Agnete Kirkeby. Photo: Kennet Ruona Wallenberg Molecular Medicine Fellow Agnete Kirkeby has re-established her research group at Lund Stem Cell Center. With labs situated at both Lund and at the Department of Neuroscience at Copenhagen University, Agnete’s aim is to develop stem cell-based neural cell therapies to replace lost neurons as a treatment for brain diseases. A

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