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Sweden’s feminist foreign policy (FFP), launched in 2014, positioned the country as a global leader on gender equality. But how has Sweden’s image changed since the policy was rescinded in 2022? In a new article published in Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, Ole Elgström and Malena Rosén Sundström explore how EU member state officials perceive Sweden’s role in promoting gender equality—during a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/normative-leadership-weakened-elgstrom-rosen-sundstrom-fall-ffp - 2025-12-28

"My research interests spiral around ideas of change in core beliefs, and in embedded behavior patterns and practices." What do you do at LUCSUS? My PhD is part of a project called GLOCULL - exploring innovation experiments in Urban Living Labs in the Food, Water, and Energy nexus. LUCSUS is one of seven partner organisations in cities around the world.What sustainability challenge do you find mos

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-interview-darin-wahl-excited-about-idea-cultural-narratives-connection-sustainability - 2025-12-27

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 matter” the writers want to acknowledge this social phenomenon that’s so important and yet so hated.  “Why meetings matter” argues that meetings are a crucial feature of modern organisations, demonstr

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/why-are-meetings-important-new-book-explains - 2025-12-27

Sanningssökande och vetgirighet sägs vara unikt mänskliga särdrag. “Men grupptillhörighet är viktigare. Vi slutar lyssna till fakta om de nya insikterna äventyrar vår plats i gruppen”, säger Mikael Klintman, professor i sociologi. Men det finns knep att ta till. Nya berättelser om klimat, GMO, vaccination och andra infekterade ämnen skulle kunna göra debatten mindre polariserad. Vi vet allt mer oc

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/kampen-mot-kunskapsresistens-forbiser-vart-evolutionara-arv - 2025-12-27

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. Tabita Rosendal, PhD Candidate at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, has published a new

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-research-tabita-rosendal-has-published-new-article-journal-contemporary-asia - 2025-12-27

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 temperatures in combination with humid air may cause extreme heat known as wet bulb temperature, o

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/killer-heat-may-make-middle-east-uninhabitable-within-century - 2025-12-27

Exciting news for all sustainability enthusiasts! The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) has officially launched its very first student-led podcast on sustainability called "Sustainably Speaking Beyond the Aula." This mini-series podcast is led by the student body at IIIEE and is set to feature conversations with people from the institute and its alumni. The pod

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-has-launched-first-student-led-podcast-sustainability-called-sustainably-speaking-beyond-aula - 2025-12-27

Today it was time for PhD-student William Son Galanza's half time review. He presented his work "AGE-TECH: Technologies supporting engagement in meaningful activities in and out of the home while ageing".  His research project focus on technologies supporting engagement in meaningful activities, in and out of the home while ageing. With the support of the research group Applied Gerontology, the pr

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/half-time-review-about-age-tech - 2025-12-27

Archaeologist Peter Jordan has together with colleagues from the UK and the US received the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant. The research aims to shed new light on the demography of hunter-gatherer societies, potentially shifting our understanding of human history over the past 10,000 years entirely. The project FORAGER will examine why certain hunter-gatherer societies experienced both population g

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-archaeologist-awarded-erc-synergy-grant - 2025-12-28

The University’s main priority in these difficult times is the safety and well-being of our students, our staff and the community around us. As a centre of education and research in Sweden for more than 350 years, the University has stood through many major events in world history and by working together in solidarity, we will endure through these challenging times as well. At the end of February

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-and-coronavirus-covid-19 - 2025-12-27

How should societies adapt to rising seas, floods, and other climate threats? These questions are explored in a new study by LUCSUS researchers. It reveals that the answer is broader than just improved policies – it's about rethinking the very role of law itself. Researchers Ebba Brink, Ana Maria Vargas Falla and Emily Boyd examine how socio-legal processes shape climate vulnerability and resistan

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/rethinking-laws-climate-adaptation-exploring-resistance-flooded-cartagena - 2025-12-27

Lunds universitets snabbast växande onlinekurs kan ha uppemot tusen nya deltagare varje vecka. ”AI, business and the future of work” är en framgångssaga – men bakom ligger många timmars hårt arbete. – Totalt har vi nog lagt ner 8 000 timmar på att förbereda och producera kursen, säger Anamaria Dutceac Segesten.Hon är till vardags universitetslektor i Europa­studier och prodekan vid Humanistiska oc

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/tiotusentals-har-gatt-hennes-mooc-om-ai - 2025-12-26

I jämförelse med många länder har Sverige billiga läkemedel. Av 50 granskade kommer Sverige på plats 37. Thailand är det billigaste landet, 94 procent under genomsnittet för länderna. USA toppar prisligan, 307 procent över genomsnittet, visar en brittisk kartläggning. Många har liksom Sverige subventionerat pris på receptbelagda läkemedel. Men det du som enskild inte betalar här betalas av någon a

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/extrema-skillnader-ett-lakemedel-kan-kosta-nastan-vad-som-helst - 2025-12-27

The Campus Helsingborg International Student Career Programme, launched in the spring of 2025, consists of a series of events specifically designed to equip international students with the tools needed to navigate the Swedish labour market, apply for jobs and internships, visit local companies, and build valuable professional networks. The programme is organised in collaboration between the Depart

https://www.iko.lu.se/artikel/closing-international-student-career-programme-semester-event-internships - 2025-12-27

Andreas Mattsson, lecturer in journalism at the Department of Communication and Media, and freelance reporter, is the coordinator for the South Asia Media Project. In collaboration with several partners, the project will arrange two exploratory workshops during the Fall of 2015. The project is sponsored by the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) at Lund University together with the Swedis

https://www.journalistik.lu.se/artikel/forum-understanding-media-landscapes-sweden-and-india - 2025-12-27

Living forests with diverse plants and animals, forests where you can hike, hunt or pick berries and mushrooms – will they still be there when the pressure on forestry production increases? Is it possible to increase production in a sustainable way, without reducing the possibility of achieving environmental and sustainability goals? Great hopes are being placed in the forest to provide the raw ma

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/forest-under-strain-many-directions - 2025-12-27

A billion hectares – or an area a bit larger than the US – that is how much land that would be required globally to meet countries’ net-zero climate targets. For the first time researchers can show the rate and extent of projected land use changes, geographically and over time. The findings demonstrate a gap between governments’ expected reliance on land and the role that land can realistically pl

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/countries-unrealistic-land-demands-reach-net-zero-area-bit-larger-us - 2025-12-27

Using micro-engineered soil models, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have investigated the effect of tiny polystyrene particles on bacteria and fungi. While these nanoplastics reduced both bacterial and fungal growth, the fungus actually managed to "clean up" their surroundings, thereby easing the effect of the plastics. “Plastic waste is a huge global problem. Whether carelessly discarded

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/vacuum-cleaner-effect-fungi-can-hold-nanoplastics-bay - 2025-12-27

The Master’s programme in Finance at the Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) is ranked number 32 in the world in the Financial Times ranking of finance programmes that was released today. This is a climb from place 38 last year. “Our students simply seem to be very satisfied with where our programme has taken them professionally”, says Kristina Eneroth, Vice-Dean at LUSEM. T

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/school-economics-and-management-continues-climb-financial-times-ranking - 2025-12-27

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 neurons we noticed that the outcome in animal models varied dram

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/breakthrough-production-dopamine-neurons-parkinsons-disease - 2025-12-27