By annika [dot] persson [at] ses [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Persson) - published 13 February 2024 The book "Why Meetings Matter – Everyday Arenas for Making, Performing and Maintaining Organisations" A place to discuss issues, to make decisions and for brainstorming ideas. Meetings are necessary for the development of a workplace. Even so, claims of the opposite is often heard. With “Why meetings m

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/why-are-meetings-important-new-book-explains - 2025-06-11

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 20 February 2025 The study shines a light on the need for adaptation laws and policies that empower vulnerable communities, rather than displacing them, say the researchers. Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson. How should societies adapt to rising seas, floods, and other climate threats? These questions are explored in a new study

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/rethinking-laws-climate-adaptation-exploring-resistance-flooded-cartagena - 2025-06-11

Published 24 January 2023 TEM image of soot aggregate. Soot is generated from incomplete combustion or pyrolysis of organic compounds. Soot strongly absorbs solar radiation contributing to global warming. Additionally, soot can enter deeply into human organs causing various types of cancers. Understanding soot nano-structures and properties is essential to predict their impacts on climate and huma

https://www.combustionphysics.lu.se/article/using-surface-enhanced-raman-spectroscopy-sers-and-resonant-raman-spectroscopy-characterize-soot - 2025-06-11

Published 10 October 2016 The India-China Corridor Spring School will be held in Guwahati, Assam, India, on 25-26 March 2017. The theme for the spring school will be ”Modern Empires, Flows, Environments and Livelihoods”, and it is jointly organised by  Prof. Gunnel Cederlöf, Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, the Linnaeus University, Sweden (lead faculty member);  Prof

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/swedish-support-guwahati-spring-school-india-china-corridor - 2025-06-11

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 30 August 2022 The summer 2022 brought extreme heatwaves in many places globally, and the debate has a included the term "killer heat". In moist areas the high temperatures will be even harder to the human body, and the rising temperatures may make certain areas very hard to live in by the end of this century. High

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/killer-heat-may-make-middle-east-uninhabitable-within-century - 2025-06-11

Published 27 March 2025 Hambantota International Port as photographed in October 2023 by the author. Focusing on China's engagement in Sri Lanka's Hambantota International Port, the article investigates how and why narratives related to the Shekou Model are used to “sell” the development of international Belt and Road Initiative port projects and who the primary beneficiary of this strategy is. Ta

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-research-tabita-rosendal-has-published-new-article-journal-contemporary-asia - 2025-06-11

Published 12 March 2018 Women’s role in peace processes, and fluid boundaries between male and female in society and popular culture. These are topics researched by the new honorary doctors in social sciences – Jacqui True and Jack Halberstam – whose degrees will be conferred on 25 May in Lund Cathedral. Jacqui True is a professor of political science and international relations at Monash Universi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-honorary-doctors-experts-women-peace-processes-and-gender-shift - 2025-06-11

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/organic-farming-methods-favors-pollinators - 2025-06-11

Published 29 October 2016 Malin Parmar (Photo: Kennet Ruona) The first transplantation of stem cells in patients with Parkinson's disease is almost within reach. However, it remains a challenge for researchers to control stem cells accurately in the lab in order to achieve successful and functional stem cell therapies for patients. - In our preclinical assessments of stem cell-derived dopamine neu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/breakthrough-production-dopamine-neurons-parkinsons-disease - 2025-06-11

Av kristina [dot] lindgarde [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde) - publicerad 18 december 2019 Alla människor har en djupt rotad beredskap att motstå kunskap, särskilt när den kommer från andra grupper. Därför behöver samhället strukturer, rutiner och incitament som försvårar självbekräftelse, enligt Mikael Klintman. Bild: Shelagh Murphy/Unsplash Sanningssökande och vetgirighet sägs var

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/kampen-mot-kunskapsresistens-forbiser-vart-evolutionara-arv - 2025-06-11

Published 16 September 2014 Lund University has been ranked as the 60th best university in the world and number one in Sweden by the QS World University Rankings 2014/15, released today. The latest rankings see Lund University strengthen its world top 100 university position by seven places from last year.Within Sweden, Lund University is ranked in top place among the ten ranked Swedish universiti

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ranked-one-best-universities-world - 2025-06-11

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 24 April 2023 Fredrik Söderbaum, committee member of the Development Research School, argues in the Swedish newspaper, Göteborgsposten (GP), about the need for a paradigm shift within Swedish aid. Fredrik Söderbaum, committee member of the Development Research School, writes in the Swedish newspaper, Göteborgspost

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/fredrik-soderbaum-writes-op-ed-concerning-swedish-aid - 2025-06-11

Published 1 June 2016 SASNET has been rewarded 100 000 SEK from the Crafoord Foundation with which to expand the Sweden–South Asia Media Project that began in 2015. The grant will be used to arrange conferences and workshops dealing with online harassment in India and Sweden. Threats and harassment over the internet are increasing worldwide. Social media accounts are being hijacked, private pictur

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-receives-100-000-sek-crafoordska-foundation - 2025-06-11

By charlotte [dot] leire [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Charlotte Leire) - published 14 August 2023 A new book with editors including IIIEE researchers reviews current research approaches in the field of sustainable cities. The book reveals the need for greater engagement with a diversity of perspectives and interrogates foundational assumptions in the field and offers reframed perspectives on sust

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/book-launch-research-agenda-sustainable-cities-and-communities - 2025-06-11

Published 24 March 2023 This article explores conservative Christian transnational advocacy, which defends what its leaders and supporters understand as the “natural family” against the perceived dangers of “gender ideology,” with a view to save Western civilization from imminent demise. Sara Kalm, associate professor in political science. We focus on the World Congress of Families (WCF) and inves

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sara-kalm-and-anna-meeuwisse-explore-transnational-anti-gender-networking-promoting-natural-family - 2025-06-11

Published 13 October 2021 Project title: Early-life environmental risk factors for inflammatory bowel disease: A Nordic birth cohort study Project: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic, debilitating immune-mediated disease with a typical onset in childhood and young adulthood. After a rising incidence over the past decades, it now affects 0.5% of Western populations, and is an emerging di

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/job-opportunity-doctoral-student-medical-science-environmental-risk-factors-ibd - 2025-06-11

Published 5 February 2019 NASA/JPL/Eric Kort, Alan Buis; NSF, NCAR, NOAA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Climate change causes an amplified warming of the Arctic, which may lead to the release of methane from previously frozen soils. Since it’s a strong greenhouse gas, arctic methane release can act as a positive feedback on climate change. However, anthropogenic efforts to reduce methane e

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/reductions-anthropogenic-methane-emissions-outweigh-most-likely-scenarios-arctic-methane-release - 2025-06-11

Published 29 March 2021 The competitive intelligence report for 2021 has now been completed. It is divided into different sections. Outlook covers special challenges and opportunities that the Risk Advisory Committee and University management have deemed relevant to the University’s future. The focus areas section covers trends and processes that may affect the University. The aim of competitive i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/where-does-university-stand-world - 2025-06-11

Published 15 February 2018 MARRIAGE AS A NORM AMONG YOUNG ADULTS IN CHINA: Lisa Eklund has published the chapter "The sex ratio question and the unfolding of a moral panic? Notions of power, choice and self in mate selection among women and men in higher education in China" in the book Scarce women and surplus men in China and India. The study investigates how sex ratio imbalance influences mate s

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/fear-being-left-over-turning-moral-panic - 2025-06-11

Published 19 August 2020 The extremely well-preserved genome from Winstrup’s mummy was a key element in the study (Photo: Gunnar Menander) A genetic study of small calcifications found in the lungs of the Lund 17th century bishop Peder Winstrup shows that tuberculosis is no older than about 6 000 years, as opposed to 70 000 years old as previously thought. The extremely well-preserved genome from

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mummified-bishop-rewrites-history-tuberculosis - 2025-06-11