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In our everyday lives, we surround ourselves with electronics without really thinking about it. We go to work by car or train, travel by air when we go on holiday, and are reliant on our mobile phones, iPads and laptops. We take the products’ functions for granted, until they suddenly stop working. The fact is that this happens fairly often – every year in Sweden, we pay roughly SEK 2 billion to r

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eu-project-produce-more-reliable-electronics - 2025-10-05

When you take a dip in a Swedish lake, it is not unusual to find you cannot see the lake bottom. Lake water coloured brown by organic material can be an inconvenience for swimming tourists, but mainly causes problems for the ecosystem and drinking water. Focusing on Lake Bolmen, researchers, public authorities and local organisations are now joining forces in a research project to find methods tha

https://www.science.lu.se/article/many-reasons-take-care-lake-water - 2025-10-05

By analysing high-resolution data from a 10-metre telescope in Hawaii, researchers in Lund, Sweden, have managed to gain new insights into three stars in the centre of the Milky Way. The stars turned out to be unusually young with a puzzling chemical composition that surprises the researchers. In the study, which is published in the scientific journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the Lund re

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/astronomers-have-managed-date-three-mysterious-baby-stars-heart-milky-way - 2025-10-05

Published 19 March 2021 Illustration: Carin Carlsson New article: A challenging balancing act to engage children and their families in a healthy lifestyle – Nurses' experiences of child-centred health dialogue in child health services in Sweden. Abstract Aims and objectives: To describe nurses' experiences of a child-centred family guided intervention of obesity tested within the child health serv

https://www.childfamilyhealth.lu.se/article/nurses-experiences-child-centred-health-dialogue-child-health-services-sweden - 2024-06-25

Christine Wamsler has been appointed Professor of Sustainability Science to continue driving forward LUCSUS’ work on urban sustainability, risk reduction and adaptation. How do you build sustainable cities? How can cities respond to increasing disasters and climate change impacts? Who should be involved and how?- The questions are many, and all have one common factor: the answers cannot be found w

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/christine-wamsler-new-professor-sustainability-science - 2025-10-05

High income and education level, and being married are beneficial if you end up unable to pay your mortgages. In a quantitative study published in the Journal of Consumer Policy, doctoral candidate in sociology of law Mikael Lundholm found that “higher socio-economic status is positively correlated with greater potential for compensation” during a foreclosure. He also concludes that this correlati

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/people-high-socio-economic-status-get-more-value-their-properties-when-faced-foreclosure - 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

Three years after its debut, the Noria South Asia Program (SAPROG) is pleased to invite you to its third South Asia Research Workshop, organized in collaboration with the National Institute of Eastern Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) and held January 24th at INALCO - 2 rue de Lille, 75007. The Workshop is intended for PhD and advanced MA students in the social sciences working on South Asia-re

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-south-asia-research-workshop-paris - 2025-10-05

The traditional graduation ceremony for the master's programmes at the Faculty of Social Sciences took place on Wednesday June 8 in the beautiful main building of Lund University. This was a day full of excitement, relief, happiness and anticipation as students joined together in taking their last official steps at Lund University. The ceremony included speeches, music, and individual congratulati

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/graduation-ceremony-masters-students-0 - 2025-10-05

There has been a new role at the University since August, a work environment coordinator who focuses on the work environment of students. The new work environment coordinator is based at the Student Health Centre, as part of Student Affairs, with the mission to provide a node for support and coordination of student work environment issues on a university-wide level. The work environment coordinato

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-work-environment-coordinator-focused-student-work-environment - 2025-10-06

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 - 2025-10-05

Engagement with alternative health theories and a scepticism towards authorities, politicians and pharmaceutical companies seem to unite the heterogeneous group of vaccine sceptics. “Many of them are not afraid of becoming infected with infectious diseases because they are convinced it will not happen”, says ethnologist and media studies researcher Mia-Marie Hammarlin, who is in the early phase of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-vaccine-sceptics-think - 2025-10-05

In late October 2016, the Swedish Research Council decided upon project grants within Humanities. Two projects given a grant relates to South Asian studies, from Uppsala University and Stockholm University. Within Medicine, one project grant from Uppsala University was given a grant relate to South Asian studies. List of South Asia related projects 2016Stockholm University  Dr. Johanna Lundström G

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/research-council-grants-south-asia-related-projects - 2025-10-05

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 focuses on identifying and testing local solutions to challenges within the food-water-energy nexus. We have been collaborating with a local brewer in Landskrona

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-story-collaboration-local-brewery-improve-sustainability-craft-beer-industry - 2025-10-05

Applications are now open for 2 postdoctoral fellowships in China’s, Japan’s, and/or Korea’s contemporary society at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. Starting date 1 October 2020, or by agreement. DutiesThe person employed is expected to work independently but should also cooperate with other researchers at the Centre. The postdoctoral fellow should participate in

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/applications-open-2-postdoctoral-fellowships - 2025-10-05

K2 – Sveriges nationella centrum för forskning och utbildning om kollektivtrafik– grundades i Lund 2013. Sedan dess har K2 producerat mycket forskning, utbildning och arrangerat mängder av arrangemang med målet att sprida kunskap om kollektivtrafikens roll för en hållbar utveckling. Nu går K2 in i sitt sista år med den ursprungliga finansieringen men allt tyder på att verksamheten fortsätter, om ä

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/nationellt-centrum-forskning-och-utbildning-om-kollektivtrafik-gar-i-ny-fas - 2025-10-05

Ett förändrat klimat innebär att vi medborgare kommer att behöva ta mer ansvar för att skydda oss själva och vår egendom vid extrema väderhändelser. Samtidigt finns det stora skillnader mellan oss vad gäller resurser och förmåga att göra detta. En ny avhandling från Lunds universitet menar att det är hög tid att börja prata om den enskildes roll även när det gäller effekterna av klimatförändringar

https://www.lu.se/artikel/klimat-och-extremvader-vi-behover-ta-mer-eget-ansvar - 2025-10-05

Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse har utsett 29 nya Wallenberg Academy Fellows. Tre av dessa kommer från Lund. Det femåriga anslaget ger de unga forskarna möjligheter att göra viktiga vetenskapliga genombrott genom att få långsiktig forskningsfinansiering i Sverige. Historikern Per Anders Rudling: Migration och exil har påverkat bilden av Ukraina Långdistansnationalism beskriver hur personer so

https://www.lu.se/artikel/tre-lundaforskare-blir-wallenberg-academy-fellows-2019 - 2025-10-06

Donald Trumps tullkrig har dominerat årets nyhetsflöde. Men enligt nationalekonomen Fredrik NG Andersson riskerar vi att stirra oss blinda på de kortsiktiga effekterna. I själva verket står världen inför en ny maktordning som på sikt förändrar både politik och ekonomi – och markerar slutet för 1990-talets världsbild. Osäkerheten kring tullarna har väckt en rad frågor: vilka blir de omedelbara effe

https://www.lu.se/artikel/dags-att-saga-adjo-till-1990-talet - 2025-10-06

Rubriken ovan var titeln för höstens första frukostseminarium med LU Land. Seminarieserien syftar till att lyfta samhällsaktuella utmaningar med koppling till hållbar markanvändning och belysa dessa utmaningar från olika perspektiv, för att sedan diskutera möjliga vägar framåt. Miljömålet om Levande skogar i riskzonen Sveriges 16 miljökvalitetsmål beskriver det tillstånd i den svenska miljön som d

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/hur-kan-den-biologiska-mangfalden-i-skogen-kartlaggas-sa-att-det-blir-enklare-markagare-att-ta - 2025-10-05