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On Friday, September 13, Oscar Björkenfeldt successfully defended his thesis, "Online Harassment Against Journalists: A Socio-Legal and Working-Life Study of the Challenges and Impacts in Swedish Journalism". By integrating sociology of law and work-life science, Oscar Björkenfeldt developed insights into how online harassment targeting journalists influences journalistic practices.Björkenfeldt us

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/oscar-bjorkenfeldt-completes-doctoral-student-programme - 2025-10-05

The Sociology of Law Department receives 50,000 SEK (€4,300) in faculty mobility funds to invite Sergio Jarillo de la Torre, a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Geography, University of Melbourne. His background is in social anthropology, law, and art history, and he has spent over ten years doing fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, the Marshall  Islands and Mozambique.During his two-week s

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/department-granted-funds-invite-researcher-university-melbourne - 2025-10-05

Ana Maria Vargas Falla was Lund University's only representative at COP29 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. She has researched public resistance and acceptance of climate legislation and contributed to the "10 new insights in climate science" presented during the climate summit. These are her impressions of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. I was initially very sceptical about having

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/ana-maria-vargas-falla-reflects-cop29 - 2025-10-05

Michael Molavi and Isabel Schoultz have received a major research grant from the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Programme. Together with newly hired post-doctoral researcher, Elin Jönsson, they will study how ongoing de-democratisation processes affect protest cultures and how these effects comparatively vary across Europe. Europe is experiencing a steady democratic decline. The trend is dis

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/eu-funds-research-about-democratic-decline-and-protest-culture - 2025-10-05

Climate change is a reality for communities globally, forcing governments and international agencies to propose climate adaptation measures. For many people, these top-down approaches don't always align with their needs, values or legal rights. Ana Maria Vargas is one of the researchers in the project "Everyday forms of resistance to state adaptation regulation: An ethnographic study of responses

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/the-justice-in-resisting-climate-change-policies - 2025-10-05

In October last year, the Sociology of Law Department's researcher and senior lecturer Patrik Olsson was invited to a conference in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent to contribute with expertise on the country's social and political development. On October 24, 2024, an international conference on the topic "Development of Free Civil Society and Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organizations" was held in Ta

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/patrik-olsson-invited-uzbekistan-expert-civil-society-and-non-profit-development - 2025-10-05

Ida Nafstad and Heraclitos Muhire each had an article among the five most downloaded from the journal Justice, Power and Resistance last year. Both articles have been accessed more than 2000 times since their publication. Ida Nafstad wrote the article "Police abolition and transformative justice in the footsteps of Thomas Mathiesen's penal abolition", outlining Thomas Mathiesen's penal abolition t

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/two-articles-department-among-jprs-most-downloaded - 2025-10-05

Anna Lundberg has received funding for two projects investigating how and why public employees and trade unions respectively mobilise against the government's Informers Act. The law makes it mandatory for staff in certain public organisations to report undocumented migrants to the border police. In the "Human Rights Mobilization of Welfare Professionals Against the Informers Act – Arguments, Strat

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/anna-lundberg-leads-two-new-projects-studying-informer-act - 2025-10-05

A PhD programme exploring law and governance in authoritarian regimes across Central Asia has received nearly €4.7 million in funding from the European Commission, with an additional €800,000 contributed by the Swiss Secretariat for Research, Education and Innovation. The initiative aims to provide critical insights into legal and societal structures in authoritarian states. Titled "Sociology of A

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-leads-eu55m-eu-funded-research-authoritarian-law-and-legality-central-asia - 2025-10-05

The project "ProTest: Protest as a Democracy Test. Protest Culture under Transformation and as a Transformative Power" was launched with a two-day kick-off meeting on 7–8 April at Corvinus University of Budapest. The project gathers a multidisciplinary consortium of nine European academic and research institutions to examine the evolving role of protest in democratic societies. The April meeting i

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/researchers-studying-protest-culture-gathered-budapest-project-kick - 2025-10-05

A €1.8 million EU grant will fund new research into the challenges of promoting good governance and the rule of law in non-Western societies. In May, the European Commission's HORIZON Programme confirmed the funding for Rustamjon Urinboyev's research and training program "The Political Economy of Legal and Governance Reform in Non-Western Societies: Insights from Central Asia". The project starts

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-grant-backs-research-alternative-non-western-legal-and-governance-institutions - 2025-10-05

The search is on for 25 researchers from around the world in Lund University’s largest ever international recruitment drive. Welcome to join a world-class university dedicated to understanding, explaining, and improving our world and the human condition. As an Assistant Professor, you develop your qualifications over four years. You can then be promoted to permanent employment as a senior lecturer

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-hiring-assistant-professor-law-rights-and-social-movements - 2025-10-05

Låt oss presentera Hamilton – en robot med kapacitet att analysera flera olika antikroppar samtidigt – och mycket snabbare än vad som tidigare varit möjligt. Det finns bara tre robotar med den specifika antikroppstekniken i världen. Två står på ett laboratorium i Kalifornien och den tredje finns på Clinical Research Centre, CRC, i Malmö. Där har den installerats och testats av forskarna Alexander

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/hamilton-i-forskningens-tjanst - 2025-10-05

Jul- och nyårshelgen blev inte som Caroline Nilsson tänkt sig. Istället för att vara ledig från jobbet som forskningssjuksköterska i POInT-studien, fick hon rycka in och förstärka en covidavdelning på Skånes universitetssjukhus i Malmö.   Under sex veckor var Caroline Nilsson och två andra kollegor från forskningsavdelningen på Clinical Research Centre utlånade till en av covidavdelningarna på Skå

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/forskningssjukskoterskan-caroline-om-tiden-pa-en-covidavdelning - 2025-10-05

Artikel i tidskriften Forskning & Framsteg om forskningen som lett fram till bland annat Point-studien. I en ny studie visar svenska forskare i ett internationellt forskarlag att felaktig aktivering av de immunceller som kallas NK-celler är ett tidigt steg när barn drabbas av typ 1-diabetes. Frågan är nu om sjukdomsutvecklingen går att förhindra. Läs hela artikeln på Forskning & Framstegs webbplat

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/felaktigt-aktiverade-immunceller-bakom-diabetes-hos-barn - 2025-10-05

Läs artikeln av vår dietist Carin Andrén Aronson på nutritionsfakta.se, en webbplats om mat och hälsa. Typ 1-diabetes och celiaki (glutenintolerans) är två kroniska sjukdomar där det egna immunförsvaret bryter ner kroppsegna organ. Bägge dessa autoimmuna sjukdomar är ärftliga och har gemensamma gener på kromosom 6. Högriskgener kopplade till typ 1-diabetes och celiaki finns i 40 procent av den sve

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/gluten-celiaki-och-typ-1-diabetes-finns-det-nagot-samband - 2025-10-05

20-årige Alexander Dahl har deltagit i flera studier med syfte att förhindra typ 1-diabetes. Han har ätit glutenfritt, gjort glukosbelastningar och lämnat otaliga blodprover. I juni gör han sitt sista besök på mottagningen i Helsingborg. – Det blir tomt, jag har alltid gillat att komma hit, säger han. Forskningssjuksköterskan Susanne Hyberg som följt honom sedan han var liten och gick med i DipiS-

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/sista-besoket-efter-20-ar - 2025-10-05

Följ med in i labbet och se vad som händer med blodproverna som lämnas av barnen på mottagningen. Länk till filmen på YouTube   Medverkande: Evelyn Tekum Amboh, molekylärbiolog och Malin Goldman Tsubarah, biomedicinsk analytiker Filmen är producerad av Sara Liedholm     

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/video-vad-hander-med-dina-blodprover-i-point-studien - 2025-10-05

Screeningprovet som togs efter förlossningen analyseras för specifika riskgener. Hur går det till? Följ med in i labben i Sverige och Tyskland.   Medverkande: Ida Jönsson och Dorota Lacki, biomedicinska analytiker Filmen är producerad av Sara Liedholm

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/video-fran-samtycke-och-riskbedomning-till-medverkan-i-vara-studier - 2025-10-05

Visste du att maj månad är "celiac awareness month" runt om i världen? Därför uppmärksammar vi nu våra celiaki-studier lite extra. Läs om Daniel Agardh som leder PreCiSe-studien och som tror på ett vaccin mot sjukdomen.   Forskande barnläkare tror på vaccin mot celiaki   Läs artikeln på lu.se Artikeln är tidigare publicerad i Lunds universitets magasin, LUM  

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/celiaki-uppmarksammas-internationellt - 2025-10-05