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The Vice-Chancellor has decided to appoint Katia Cejie as Visiting Professor at 20% for two years, 2026–2027. The appointment is part of Lund University’s special initiative to recruit visiting professors of underrepresented gender, aimed at providing role models for staff and students by participating in the current research environment, teaching at various levels, and contributing to the faculty

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-visiting-professor-part-universitys-special-initiative-underrepresented-gender - 2026-01-19

Researchers at the Faculty of Law published two articles on The Conversation in 2025, reaching 52,000 readers. Martin Sunnqvist’s article on Denmark’s new coat of arms was particularly well-received with nearly 30,000 reads. Lund University had a record year on The Conversation in 2025. The university’s researchers published 76 articles that together reached 1.1 million reads. In total, all of the

https://www.law.lu.se/article/denmarks-coat-arms-and-cognitive-warfare-52000-readers-reached-conversation - 2026-01-19

Johan Pries, Postdoc researcher at the department, has been granted funding for a three year project. Building on ongoing Vetenskapsrådet-funded research about the Swedish People’s Parks movement, this second project was recently awarded a grant of close to three million from the FORMAS research council. The project will shift from the earlier history of the People’s Parks at their zenith in the e

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/johan-pries-lead-project-called-folkrorelsernas-kulturarv-omvandling-bevarande-och-liv-i-de-svenska - 2026-01-19

Mads Barbesgaard, lecturer at the department, has received funding for a research project. Mads has received 3.150.000 SEK in support from VR for a post-doc project titled Myanmar’s energy landscapes and the politics of geography. The project examines struggles around expansions of energy infrastructure in the midst of competing state territorialization projects, contested capital accumulation and

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/research-funding-myanmars-energy-landscapes-and-politics-geography - 2026-01-19

A research project led by Muriel Côte, senior lecturer at the department, has received funding. FORMAS will fund a project called “Fair gold? Institutionalising labour and environmental standards along the certified gold supply chain”, as part of their Annual open call 2020 - Research projects for early-career researchers, for nearly 4 million SEK for four years (2021-2024), led by Muriel Côte  an

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/research-funding-fair-gold-institutionalising-labour-and-environmental-standards-along-certified - 2026-01-19

The study aims to assess under what social, economic and spatial conditions that processes of urbanization at the lowest level of the urban hierarchy can promote the livelihoods and welfare of residents in small towns. Together with Ola Hall from the Department and colleagues at the University of Dar es Salaam, Makerere University, University of Ghana and the International Centre for Local Democra

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/agnes-andersson-djurfeldt-has-been-awarded-funding-vetenskapsradet-study-lower-level-urbanization - 2026-01-19

Markus Grillitsch, Associate senior lecturer at the Department of Human Geography, and his team has been awarded for their work with ‘Coffee Break With Researchers’.   The winning platform can be found here http://www.coffeebreakwithresearchers.org

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/coffee-break-researchers-won-rsa-media-communications-regional-studies-award - 2026-01-19

”I DN-journalisten Lasse Wierups hyllade bok ”Gangsterparadiset” finns ett antal kartor som förklarar mer än åratal av nyhetsrapportering om gängbrottsligheten. Det är kulturgeografen Nicklas Guldåker vid Lunds universitet som har gjort en socioekonomisk kartläggning av tre utanförskapsområden utifrån barntäthet och livsvillkor. Resultatet visar i korthet att allt hänger ihop: ju fler barn och ju

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/kulturgeograf-vid-lunds-universitet-bidrar-med-kartor-till-hyllad-bok - 2026-01-19

Regeringen har utsett Erik Renström till rektor för Lunds universitet 2021 - 2026 Regeringen har utsett Erik Renström till rektor för Lunds universitet 2021 - 2026. Renström är läkare och professor i experimentell endokrinologi med lång akademisk erfarenhet bakom sig. Han är för närvarande dekan för Medicinska fakulteten vid Lunds universitet.   Mer information om Erik Renström går att finna här:

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/erik-renstrom-blir-rektor-lunds-universitet - 2026-01-19

In connection with a new report on measures to mitigate climate change, researchers at Lund University in Sweden see some hopeful signs. Among other things, Lars J Nilsson, Professor of Environmental and Energy Systems at Lund University, thinks there are good prospects for achieving zero emissions by 2050 in industries such as steel, cement, and chemicals, which are currently responsible for majo

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/un-climate-report-april-4th-what-matters-now-zero-emissions - 2026-01-19

The Swedish Government has today appointed Henrik Smith, professor in animal ecology at Lund University, as a new member of the Climate Policy Council. Henrik Smith works at the Center for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) and the Department of Biology in Lund. He will take up his position at the Climate Policy Council on 1 July. “The Swedish Climate Policy Council has been pivotal in puttin

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/henrik-smith-new-member-swedish-climate-policy-council - 2026-01-19

The research programme ”Pathways towards an efficient alignment of the financial system with the needs of biodiversity (BIOPATH)”, with Lund University as host, has been granted funding of SEK 50 million over a period of four years, starting September 2022. The financier is Mistra (Foundation for Environmental Strategic Research) and researchers from CEC will take part in the programme. Susanne Ar

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/50-millions-research-about-finance-and-biodiversity - 2026-01-19

What is happening to the climate and what role does climate research play in society? The strategic research areas MERGE and BECC, the Bolin Centre for Climate Research and SMHI are together arranging a climate symposium in Norrköping on 16-18 May 2022, the Swedish Climate Symposium. The conference means that Sweden's largest players in climate research gather for the first time for a major sympos

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/national-symposium-norrkoping-focuses-climate-research - 2026-01-19

Is it possible to put a value on nature and the vital ecosystem services it provides for us? What are the pros and cons of different valuation models? These are the key questions addressed in a new report by IPBES, the UN’s biodiversity panel, to be published on 11 July. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) can be described as the equivalent

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/how-nature-be-valued-new-report-way-ipbes - 2026-01-19

A Vice-Chancellor’s decision has been taken on five profile areas for Lund University. One of the areas is ClimBioSis, which involves several CEC researchers. Thirty researchers from over a dozen departments at Lund University were behind the profile area application for Sustainable solutions in the climate change – biodiversity – social nexus – ClimBioSis. “The application is based on a fantastic

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-says-yes-climbiosis-profile-area - 2026-01-19

New data by the research infrastructure ICOS confirms that natural carbon sinks such as the ocean and forests are not stable. Climate change makes these sinks more vulnerable, in some cases even turning them into carbon emitters. This compromises current climate targets and action plans, reserachers say. Fluxes, the European Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, is a new publication by the reserach infrastruct

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-change-makes-carbon-sinks-more-vulnerable - 2026-01-19

A new study led by Lund University in Sweden shows that cities negatively affect the diversity of birds. There are significantly fewer bird species in urban forests compared with forests in the countryside – even if the forest areas are of the same quality. The researchers examined 459 natural woodlands located in or near 32 cities in southern Sweden. They counted the occurrence of different bird

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/less-bird-diversity-city-forests - 2026-01-19

Effects of a warmer Arctic are not only negative for the climate, according to a new thesis from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University, Sweden. Modelling showed that moving the tree line upwards could increase carbon storage, as trees sequester more carbon in their biomass than tundra plants. But the results are uncertain. The Arctic – the area north of the Arctic Cir

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/complex-consequences-warmer-arctic - 2026-01-19

The machines have started rolling in at Norunda and are cutting down trees, one by one. Norunda is Sweden’s oldest measuring station for greenhouse gases and it is unique. Following several decades of being surrounded by a hundred-year-old forest, it will instead be surrounded by a clear-cut. - We expect a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions, says professor Natascha Kljun at CEC. The

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/clear-cut-forest-provides-essential-information-climate-research - 2026-01-19

The UN’s annual climate change conference takes place this year in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Over the course of two weeks, representatives of the world’s nations will gather to discuss how to achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement and contribute to the climate transition. At this year’s COP, the focus will be on topics such as climate finance, loss and damage, adaptation to climate change a

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-conference-cop27-topics-agenda - 2026-01-19