Next to the Swedish craft beer brewery Brygghuset Finn, LUCSUS researchers have built a greenhouse where they test the possibility to grow all year-round hops. In a collaboration with the Swedish local brewery, Brygghuset Finn, LUCSUS researchers are working toward finding ways of improving sustainability of the craft beer industry. The project is part of an international research project, which f

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-story-collaboration-local-brewery-improve-sustainability-craft-beer-industry - 2025-08-21

Atopic eczema is one of the most common chronic skin diseases in Sweden and affects just over 25 per cent of all children and 10 per cent of all adults. More than half of sufferers contract the disease before the age of two. Photo: iStock Cold weather, dry air, an overactive immune system or our modern lifestyle. The causes may vary, but an increasing number of people are suffering from atopic ecz

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/atopic-eczema-widespread-disease - 2025-08-21

Återställda våtmarker, regnbäddar och grönområden i städerna - alla är de exempel på naturbaserade lösningar som kan bidra till att mildra klimatförändringar och skydda biologisk mångfald. Foto: Helena Hanson. Naturbaserade lösningar ger stora möjligheter att ta itu med miljö- och samhällsutmaningar. De kan bidra till att mildra klimatförändringar och skydda biologisk mångfald. Men för att införa

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/stora-mojligheter-naturbaserade-losningar-i-norden - 2025-08-21

Forskning som publiceras i den vetenskapliga tidskriften Diabetologia ska uppfylla högt ställda kvalitetskrav. Merparten av insända manuskript refuseras. Från och med årsskiftet tar Hindrik Mulder, läkare och professor vid Lunds universitets Diabetescentrum, över rollen som chefredaktör för tidskriften. Efter drygt tio år som European och Senior editor, biträdande chefredaktör, på Journal of Endoc

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/hindrik-mulder-ny-chefredaktor-diabetologia - 2025-08-21

Tre forskningsprojekt med sammanlagt 10 postdoktorer får anslag i den första omgången av Lunds universitets forskningsprogram för excellens med fokus på Agenda 2030 och hållbar utveckling. Totalt inkom 33 ansökningar och av dessa har 28 granskats av en extern, internationell panel. - Det här är första gången som Lunds universitet lanserar ett så här omfattande excellensprogram inom forskning och d

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/tio-postdoktorer-forst-ut-i-excellensprogrammet-hallbar-utveckling-p - 2025-08-21

Genom att undersöka dna från valrossar har ett internationellt forskarlag under ledning av Lunds universitet spårat handelsvägarna för valrosselfenben under medeltiden. De fann att nordiska vikingar och arktiska ursprungsbefolkningar troligen träffades och handlade med elfenben i avlägsna delar av högarktiska Grönland, flera århundraden innan Christopher Columbus ”upptäckte” Nordamerika. Studien p

https://www.lu.se/artikel/tidiga-moten-mellan-europeer-och-nordamerikanska-ursprungsbefolkningar-avslojade - 2025-08-22

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/21st-smogen-summer-symposium-virology - 2025-08-21

The new collaboration with the Olle Engkvist Foundation is of strategic importance to Lund University’s expansion in Science Village, says Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström. NanoLund at Lund University has established a long-term strategic collaboration with the Olle Engkvist Foundation, which intends to support the purchase of equipment for Nanolab Science Village to the tune of SEK 100 million over

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/strategic-collaboration-olle-engkvist-foundation-100-msek-nanolab-science-village - 2025-08-21

The Department of Physics, Lund University. Photo: Hampus Nilsson, LU. The Swedish Government Agency for Innovation Systems, Vinnova, will invest in 11 new competence centers starting in January 2024. Among the new ones, two are directly connected to NanoLund and the Department of Physics – which, together with the already existing center C3NiT, means that there are now three in total. New researc

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/department-physics-and-nanolund-involved-two-vinnovas-new-competence-centers - 2025-08-21

Cansu Bostan (left) shaking the hand of the external reviewer, Dr Katrin Seidel (right). Behind them are examining committee member Mark Goodale (far left), and assistant supervisor Martin Ramstedt. On Friday, June 17, Cansu Bostan successfully defended her dissertation Games of Justice: Ethnographic Inquiries on Space, Subjectivity and Law in Northern Kurdistan. She is now a Doctor in Sociology o

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/unanimous-committee-passed-cansu-bostan-doctorhood - 2025-08-21

Martin Joormann defended his doctoral thesis in Sociology of Law ”Legitimized Refugees: A Critical Investigation of Legitimacy Claims within the Precedents of Swedish Asylum Law” today Friday 3rd May at 10 o'clock in Kulturen's Auditorium, Tegnérsplatsen in Lund. The external reviewer was Professor Åsa Wettergren, Göteborg University.Abstract på engelskaThis study focuses on asylum cases decided a

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/martin-joormann-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-08-21

During the Fall Semester of 2024, SASNET will host a variety of events, focusing on the region of South Asia. We welcome you to join our lectures, seminars, workshop, and conferences! 26 September. SASNET Panel Discussion: "India Post Election: the Future of the World's Largest Democracy"A public panel discussion in Swedish at the Lund Public Library on the future of and in India. The panel partic

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/official-sasnet-fall-semester-program - 2025-08-21

Apply for the SUPRA Nordic scholarship before 1 June 2017. The SUPRA Nordic scholarship is one of the most important features of NIAS' Support Programme for Asian Studies. It is designed to make NIAS’ digital library and other resources accessible to PhD candidates and MA students in the Nordic countries. The scholarship covers inexpensive travel to and from Copenhagen and accommodation in a NIAS

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nias-supra-nordic-scholarship - 2025-08-21

Cover: Lund University On Friday September 2, Laleh Foroughanfar is defending her PhD thesis in Architecture and Built Environment, "The Street of Associations - Migration and Infrastructural (Re)Production of Norra Grängesbergsgatan, Malmö". Welcome to attend! Laleh Foroughanfar will be defending her PhD thesis The Street of Associations - Migration and Infrastructural (Re)Production of Norra Grä

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/phd-thesis-defence-street-associations-migration-and-infrastructural-reproduction-norra - 2025-08-21

“My first project was about giving poor families in Thailand the opportunity to send their children to school. A student and I helped set up chicken farms at the schools, which the children took care of. The money they earned by selling the eggs on the markets covered their school fees”. Leif Bjellin. Photo: Gunnar Menander So says Leif Bjellin, now retired from Lund University, but still occasion

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/helping-earthquake-victims-nepal - 2025-08-21

Olga Chkanikova defends her doctoral dissertation on 2 December 2016. Doctoral dissertation defence on 2 December. Can unsustainable patterns of food production and consumption become more sustainable through corporate practices of sustainable supply chain management? Yes they can, argues Olga Chkanikova in her doctoral dissertation, focusing on how retailers purchasing strategies can contribute t

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/sustainable-supply-chain-management-answer-more-sustainable-food-production-and-consumption - 2025-08-21

“Great efforts must be made so that we transform rather than cancel activities”, says Malin Bruce, president of LUS, and Ella Sjöbeck, vice president of LUS since June. Photo:Jenny Loftrup LU managed the transition to digital teaching. But the spring Coronavirus crisis had a negative impact on students in Lund. They found the digital exams to be stressful and sometimes unfair. This is what emerges

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/transition-worked-now-we-need-more-even-quality-teaching - 2025-08-21

Trots att språkliga och kommunikativa kompetenser spelar en central och avgörande roll i allt mänskligt (sam)arbete uppmärksammas fenomenet sällan i diskussioner om framtidens arbetsliv. Samtidigt behöver vi ställa frågor om förändrade behov av språkkunskaper på arbetsmarknad. Vem behöver kunna vilka språk i framtidens arbetsliv? Språksituationen förändras globalt och nationellt. Medan engelska en

https://www.lu.se/artikel/sprak-och-kommunikation-i-framtidens-arbetsliv - 2025-08-21

In type 2 diabetes, the body’s cells are unable to assimilate the essential hormone insulin which is produced in the beta cells of the pancreas. Exactly what is wrong with the beta cells in type 2 diabetes is the question to which Professor Erik Renström at Lund University Diabetes Centre is searching for an answer. After just over twenty years of successful research in the field, he is now being

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/nordic-award-research-what-wrong-beta-cells-type-2-diabetes - 2025-08-21

Join LUCSUS at this year's Sustainability Week. We are organising and participating in events on climate litigation, science and activism, and the role of the arts in the climate crisis. Sustainability week is an annual event in Lund organised as a joint venture by Lund University and Lund municipality. The week serves as a platform for bringing together ideas, for cross-disciplinary collaboration

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/join-lucsus-sustainability-week-17-22-april - 2025-08-21