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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 - 2025-12-03

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 - 2025-12-03

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 - 2025-12-03

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 - 2025-12-03

2019 är det internationella året för hotade ursprungsspråk. Av världens 6-7000 språk riskerar nästan hälften att vara utdöda vid seklets slut. Men vad är det som gör att vissa språk hotas och att andra går framåt? Och vilka språk är på frammarsch i Sverige? Språkforskarna Niclas Burenhult och Jonas Granfeldt vet mer. Niclas Burenhult är lingvist och har under 20 års tid arbetat med att kartlägga j

https://www.lu.se/artikel/om-sprak-vilka-hotas-och-vilka-vaxer - 2025-12-04

“True crime” has exploded in popularity and crime and punishment dominates the headlines. Linnea Wegerstad, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, opposes the tendency to label people who have committed crimes as monsters. Linnea Wegerstad researches sexual offences and has a background as a judge in training. She was about halfway through this training when she chose to return to academia. A seni

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mind-legal-scholar - 2025-12-02

Resa till Taiwan, myndighetsdialog, konferens i Alexandria, Ukrainabesök, SIO-konferens och kungabesök är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. Pers resa till Taiwan. Förra veckan var Per och en delegation i Taiwan för att besöka universitet och företag i syfte att undersöka möjligheter till framtida samarbeten. Redan i dag har LU studentutbytesavtal med National Taiwan University i Taipei, men

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-2-april - 2025-12-02

SciLifeLab har tillsammans med Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse under våren lanserat ett omfattande nationellt program med 67 forskningsprojekt kring covid-19. Syftet är att bekämpa coronapandemin och sammanlagt får projekten dela på 50 miljoner kronor. Vid Lunds universitet har sex forskningsprojekt fått del av anslaget. - Många av våra forskare har snabbt ställt om sin forskning för att på b

https://www.lu.se/artikel/flera-lundaforskare-bekampar-covid-19-med-stod-fran-scilifelab - 2025-12-02

SciLifeLab har tillsammans med Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse under våren lanserat ett omfattande nationellt program med 67 forskningsprojekt kring covid-19. Syftet är att bekämpa coronapandemin och sammanlagt får projekten dela på 50 miljoner kronor. Vid Lunds universitet har sex forskningsprojekt fått del av anslaget. - Många av våra forskare har snabbt ställt om sin forskning för att på b

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/flera-lundaforskare-bekampar-covid-19-med-stod-fran-scilifelab - 2025-12-03

Vetenskapsrådet rekommenderar öppen tillgång till forskningsdata VR slår fast att alla ska ges tillgång till forskningsdata som finansieras av offentliga medel. Rekommendationen är ett led i arbetet med att främja en övergång till öppen tillgång till forskningsdata. Målet är att en omställning ska vara genomförd senast 2026. Mer information: Vetenskapsrådet rekommenderar öppen tillgång till forskn

https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-november-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation-1 - 2025-12-03

After observing the decrease in economic activities, air pollution and carbon emissions as a result of the lockdown measures during the COVID-19, some academics argue that such down-scaling can be considered as degrowth. Although the sudden, unplanned and chaotic downscaling of social and economic activities due to Covid-19 has some similarities with degrowth, this is not what degrowth advocates f

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-degrowth-and-transformative-potential-covid-19 - 2025-12-04

Ice sheets, snow and the ocean as far as the eye can see. No shipping vessels or people in sight, and only polar bears for company. The icebreaker Oden sails between Svalbard and Greenland, and this spring, doctoral student Lovisa Nilsson joined the ship to study the transition from winter to summer in the Arctic, and how soot affects the melting of sea ice. For six weeks, the spaces onboard Oden

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/polar-bears-company - 2025-12-02

For almost 30 years, NMT days has invited upper-secondary students and teachers to a week filled with popular-science lectures and inspiring demonstrations in science, medicine, and technology. The aim is to spark curiosity, show how exciting and useful these subjects can be, and inspire future studies.Sofie Ceberg, Senior Lecturer in Medical Radiation Physics, has been part of NMT days for more t

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/five-reasons-participate-lecturer-during-nmt-days - 2025-12-03

Malin Parmar, professor of cellular neuroscience, along with three researchers in Italy and Denmark, has been awarded the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant worth EUR 10 million. The four researchers aim to develop custom-made neurons from stem cells for cell therapies to treat Parkinson’s or Huntington’s disease. Congratulations!“Thank you, it feels really fun and exciting for many reasons! One reason

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/erc-synergy-grant-awarded-development-custom-made-stem-cell-therapies - 2025-12-03

A warmer global climate can cause mutations to have more severe consequences for the health of organisms through their detrimental effect on protein function. This may have major repercussions for an organisms’ ability to adapt to, and survive in, the altered habitats of the future. This is shown in a new research study now published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Na

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/warmer-climate-may-make-new-mutations-more-harmful - 2025-12-03

CMES researcher and physical geographer Lina Eklund is tracking the destruction of Gaza week by week using satellite images. Her analyses could be significant if, once the fighting between Israel and Hamas is over, questions of possible war crimes are raised at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Lina Eklund, associate senior lecturer at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosys

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/destruction-gaza-monitored-space - 2025-12-03

New business models and commercial opportunities in lighting:What stops LEDs from hitting the market? Energy efficient lighting as in LED is an essential technique in a sustainable society. In Sweden, LED is becoming affordable and has a limitless performance. Yet it is still hardly used in schools, hospitals and public areas. Why? IIIEE researcher Andrius Plepys is part of a project in search of

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-andrius-plepys - 2025-12-03

In this series of reports, you will learn about the process for surgical treatment of advanced osteoarthritis, starting from when a patient first sees an orthopedic specialist to ultimately receiving surgery. We will give you insight into the multiple healthcare visits one needs in order to undergo joint replacement. If you or someone you know is waiting to see an orthopedic doctor for assessment

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/reportage-fatima-get-ready-surgery - 2025-12-03

Malin Parmar, professor of cellular neuroscience, along with three researchers in Italy and Denmark, has been awarded the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant worth EUR 10 million. The four researchers aim to develop custom-made neurons from stem cells for cell therapies to treat Parkinson’s or Huntington’s disease. Congratulations!“Thank you, it feels really fun and exciting for many reasons! One reason

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/erc-synergy-grant-awarded-development-custom-made-stem-cell-therapies - 2025-12-03

In a newly published study in Nature Communications, Emma Hammarlund and her research team at Lund University detail how daily fluctuations in oxygen levels influenced the rise of animal life. Their findings offer new insights as to how dramatic daily shifts in oxygen availability and stress may have played a central role in the evolution of complex organisms on Earth. “Now, when we explore animal

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-article-conversation-how-dramatic-daily-swings-oxygen-shaped-early-animal-life - 2025-12-03