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In 2022–2023, food prices in Sweden rose by 25 per cent. But it wasn't just households' wallets that were hit hard by the price increases – public health was too. Swedish consumers ate less dietary fibre, fruit and vegetables, according to a new report from Lund University. The text below was originally published as a press release by Amanda Lindström on Lund University’s international website on

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/historically-high-food-prices-made-us-eat-less-fruit-and-vegetables - 2026-08-18

The year 2024 was a record year for Lund University in terms of the number of articles published in The Conversation. Fifty-five articles by 50 researchers amassed a total of 1.6 million reads. Mikael Roll, a researcher at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, topped the list with an article about the brain and reading. The Conversation is an international news website that gives researc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-breaks-record-conversation-2024 - 2026-08-18

The 24th of October we conducted a traditional nailing ceremony as the departments doctoral student Marthe Nehl nailed her doctors thesis ”Infrastructuring independent cultural production: Empirical and conceptual explorations”. Nehl is defending her thesis during a defence the 19th of November. "This thesis, which is in the interdisciplinary realm of service studies, addresses current debates in

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/marthe-nehl-nailed-her-dissertation - 2026-08-17

The 21st of March we conducted a traditional nailing ceremony as the departments doctoral student Réka Tölg nailed her doctors thesis ”The (im)possibilities of circular consumption: Producing and performing circular clothing consumption in retail and household settings”. Réka is defending her thesis during a dissertation the 11th of April. In her dissertation "The (im)possibilities of circular con

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/reka-tolg-nailed-her-dissertation - 2026-08-17

A point-of-care test developed by researchers at Lund University is poised to transform fertility treatment protocols globally. The innovation, backed by a clinical study published in Frontiers in Endocrinology, enables rapid identification of optimal hormone treatments for IVF patients, significantly improving success rates while minimising side effects. Led by Professor Yvonne Lundberg Giwercman

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/breakthrough-testing-method-ivf-treatment-shows-38-increase-babies-born - 2026-08-17

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/closing-international-student-career-programme-semester-event-internships - 2026-08-17

The EU has awarded Rustamjon Urinboyev €4.73 million to lead a new doctoral network on law, religion, and governance in post-imperial Muslim-majority societies. Eleven European universities will recruit 15 PhD students for the programme. Four of these will be based at the Sociology of Law Department. The grant will fund the new doctoral network MINARET. The researchers will study how constitutiona

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/major-eu-grant-lund-led-phd-programme-islamic-legal-cultures - 2026-08-17

https://www.physchem.lu.se/article/ingemar-wadso - 2026-08-17

https://www.advancedchiptechnologies.lu.se/article/strengthening-national-collaboration-act-consortium-meeting-kth - 2026-08-17

On October 16-17th, 2024 Uzbekistan hosted the IV Tashkent Anticorruption Forum to promote innovation, strengthen compliance, and foster global cooperation. The Forum was organized by the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Republic Uzbekistan in collaboration with European Union, the consortium led by GIZ, UNDP and UNODC ROCA. The Forum brought together 250 representatives from anticorruption agencies,

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/iv-tashkent-anticorruption-forum-panel-discussion-nuruipa-mukanova-secretary-general-anticorruption - 2026-08-17

This year, the Mats Paulsson Foundation for Research, Innovation and Societal Development awarded grants to eight outstanding research projects — among them, a project led by WCMM Fellow and Professor Filipe Pereira at Lund University. The awarded initiatives highlight scientific excellence and innovation with potential to address major societal challenges and drive development in the life science

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-fellow-filipe-pereira-awarded-grant-mats-paulsson-foundation - 2026-08-17

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/pandemics-and-alertness - 2026-08-17

The Nordic-Baltic Sound Residency Network gathers institutions, programmes and shares opportunities for international sound artists on behalf of 8 network partners. Representing a growing number of partners in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Lithuania, The Nordic-Baltic Sound Residency Network is an initiative across the Nordics and Baltics. The partners within the network all offer residency program

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/new-nordic-baltic-sound-residency-network-connecting-opportunities-sound-artists-across-borders - 2026-08-17

Vinnova has granted funding for the planning of clusters of excellence for groundbreaking technology. Of the 45 projects approved, five are at The Faculty of Engineering, and two are led by NextG2Com researchers. The projects granted by Vinnova bring together actors in all six strategic technology areas: AI and autonomous systems, materials and production technology, energy technology, biotechnolo

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/lth-projects-receive-funding-vinnova-plan-future-technology-clusters - 2026-08-17

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/international-workshop-green-extractivism - 2026-08-17

RuoXuan Xu has been awarded first prize in the Swedish Demographic Association’s 2026 thesis competition for a study on declining fertility intentions among Generation Z women in China. The Swedish Demographic Association has named RuoXuan Xu the winner of its 2026 thesis competition for the thesis “Why Are Fertility Intentions Declining Among Generation Z Women? Insights from the Chinese Context”

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lund-sociology-student-wins-award-thesis-family-and-fertility - 2026-08-17

On 11–12 December, the Board of the Faculty of Science and the Board of Lund University of Technology (LTH) made a decision regarding the faculties' joint establishment in Science Village and outlined the next steps in the process.The decisions, based on proposals from the Operations Steering Group (VSG) and the Science Village Stage 2 project group, include the following:Previous options for a Sc

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/board-decision-next-steps-universitys-establishment-science-village - 2026-08-17

On Friday, January 24, Isabelle Karlsson defended her thesis titled "Making foreign policy matter: A discursive analysis of the strategic communication of Sweden's feminist foreign policy", which shows the complexity of strategic communication in an international context. Positive public opinion is important for states to realise foreign policy objectives and ambitions. Therefore, they strive to c

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/isabelle-karlsson-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2026-08-17

An investigation by Miljödata AB, the provider of the Adato system used by Lund University, shows that the group behind last week’s cyberattack on Adato managed to access certain information about all university employees. Former employees are also affected. What information has the threat actor obtained?The data accessed by the threat actor includes, among other things, personal identity numbers,

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/update-59-cyberattack-our-system-provider-has-resulted-data-breach - 2026-08-17

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/work-environment-prize-malin-alsved-and-jakob-londahl - 2026-08-17