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Over five years, the EU invests SEK 163 million in the POLARIN research project. The aim is to promote interdisciplinary research in both polar regions. Physical geographer Dr Margareta Johansson is one of the researchers who will work in the project. Why is this polar research project needed?- The ongoing climate change is noted most clearly at our northernmost and southernmost latitudes. We ther

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/eu-lifts-polar-research-arctic-and-antarctica - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Is the world becoming a better place? Carlota Perez does not respond to this question. Instead, she explains how we are making it better. And hope is ignited in the eyes of the young members of the audience during Debatt i Lund. “The threat of climate change can be turned into an opportunity. Green economic growth wil

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-brings-hope-better-world - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Fifteen engineers from Syria have enrolled as students at the Lund Faculty of Engineering (LTH). For one year, they will top up their degrees with Swedish university credits and take an intensive language course in Swedish. The idea is to create a shortcut to employment for people who are relatively new in Sweden. “Lu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/finally-mohammad-can-begin-studying-lth - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. He advocated family planning and contraceptives already four decades before Elise Ottesen-Jensen. He was in a common-law marriage, was interested in social problems, and supported the women’s suffrage movement – and today his theories control the design of monetary policy in the West. Knut Wicksell, pioneering Profess

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/economist-whom-world-was-not-prepared - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Political scientist Johannes Stripple sees major potential for research, development and innovation in Africa and welcomes the idea of an Africa strategy at LU. He recently attended the official opening of the Clean Tech Centre at Botswana Innovation Hub – a centre that he helped establish. Political scientist Johanne

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/political-scientist-supports-africa-strategy - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “Are my gut bacteria the reason why I’m fat?” was the title of a talk held by Frida Fåk, and it is also one of her research topics: the link between the bacterial flora in the intestines and a person’s weight and health. In her spare time, she likes to draw and paint, and would like to see that hobby become her job. F

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/right-gut-bacteria-could-stop-atherosclerosis - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Enjay is a rising star among the Climate-KIC Startup Accelerator companies. Read more about the latest developments. Enjay is developing a heat pump that can reuse the heat in exhaust air from restaurant kitchens. Up until now, this heat has been wasted. Reuse has not been possible due to the large amounts of fat and

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/things-are-going-well-enjay - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Is water a dangerous substance? Can water scarcity lead to armed conflict? And what does the term shit matters actually mean? These and other issues will be discussed by 350 high school students from Spyken high school when LUCSUS and Lund University is marking World Water Day on 22nd March.A programme of educational

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-celebrates-world-water-day-hundreds-high-school-students-lund - 2026-07-01

"Jag har tur att jag fick en diagnos i tid av GÅS-mottagningen som meddelade mig att jag ligger på gränsen till KOL. Ingen annan hade sagt någonting – inte ens min Vårdcentral". Så berättar Ingrid Persson som är deltagare i forskningsprojektet ”GÅS - Gott åldrande i Skåne” och som med jämna mellanrum kallas till projektets hälsoundersökningar för deltagare över 60 år.  Ingrid har sedan fått en beh

https://www.geriatrik.lu.se/artikel/hos-gas-mottagningen-fick-jag-en-diagnos-i-tid - 2026-07-01

Christina Bökberg, universitetsadjunkt och docent i hälsofrämjande komplexa interventioner, är en av 13 lärare och examinatorer som nyss lämnade in sina slutprojekt vid fakultetens första kurs med fokus på examination, "Perspektiv på bedömning". Kursen vill ge deltagarna möjlighet att fördjupa sig i hur bedömning kan användas för bättre och mer inspirerat lärande. Hur var kursen? – Kursen har vari

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/forsta-kursen-om-examinationer-inspirerar - 2026-07-01

Markku Rummukainen, professor i klimatologi på Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap, hedras med Lunds universitets silvermedalj för sitt arbete med klimatforskning och sitt engagemang i internationella klimatfrågor. Även professor Cecilia Jarlskog, Lunds universitet, belönas för sina banbrytande insatser inom teoretisk partikelfysik. Motiveringen bakom priset är forskarnas bidrag till vetenskapl

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/professor-markku-rummukainen-cec-tilldelas-lunds-universitets-silvermedalj - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. During two days in October, the Department of Strategic Communication and its senior Lecturer James Pamment hosted the conference Managing Societal Threats in the Digital Age: The Case of Propaganda and Violent Extremism, together with the key note speaker Corneliu Bjola from Oxford University. The aim was to bring to

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/department-brings-top-scholars-together-fields-public-diplomacy-security-and-countering-violent - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Farshid Jalalvand has a PhD in infection biology and vaccine development, and he has appeared frequently in the media during the debate on the Covid-19 vaccine. “When you work, as I do, with vaccines and you understand how they work, it feels important to try to explain it so that people can take decisions based on so

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-everyones-responsibility-get-vaccinated - 2026-07-01

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Här är en lista över forskare från Lunds universitet som kan svara på många olika slags frågor som kan bli aktuella under de stundande helgerna, från A till Ö. God jul! önskar Lunds universitet AAdvent, jul och trettondag: historia, teologi och praktikStephan Borgehammar, professor i praktisk teologi, kan svara på f

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-julexperter - 2026-07-01

Isabel Bramsen har skrivit boken Fredens logik - I verden og hverdagen samt de två artiklarna "Conflictualization: Theorizing how relations, societies, and issues come to be formed by the logic of conflict" och "The justice/participation paradox: Rebel-to-party provisions and the dual performativity of confession and political authority". Fredens logikEn bok om hur vi skapar fred, inte som en naiv

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/bramsen-hogaktuell-med-ny-bok-om-fredens-logik-samt-tva-nya-artiklar - 2026-07-01

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Goran Basic har kommit ut med en ny artikel ”Definitioner av våld i överlevandes berättelser efter kriget i Bosnien” i tidskriften Sociologisk Forskning. "Artikeln har som utgångspunkt kriget i nordvästra Bosnien och Hercegovina, där serbiska soldater och poliser riktade våldsutövningen direkt mot civilbefolkningen

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/basic-om-definitioner-av-vald-i-overlevandes-berattelser - 2026-07-01

The jury was out for a long time. But now, we can announce the winner in both categories: “Best visual communication of scientific content” and “Most aesthetically appealing image”. “Not far from the manners of Lennart Nilsson, Sara Davidsson Bencker has captured two pancreatic cells at the end of their cell division cycle, connected to the top of nanotubes. The image clearly visualizes both the c

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-image-competition-we-have-winner - 2026-07-01

It has been a year since Anne L’Huillier became Lund University’s first Nobel Prize laureate. Since then, she has been trying to use the huge attention to stir interest in research and physics. She has also had to cope with the very peculiar experience of being a rock star of science, who gets asked for selfies in town.Watch an interview with Anne L’Huillier about life as a Nobel prize winner: Ann

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-year-nobel-prize-physics - 2026-06-30

We were interested to know what our Scientific Advisory Board think about the research currently underway at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC), and invited Flemming Pociot and Søren Brunak from the board to the LUDC retreat in Helsingborg recently. They spent their time at the retreat listening to presentations and getting updates, and were able to provide valuable feedback. A presentation ab

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/scientific-advisory-board-we-hope-see-more-data-about-subgroups - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Do you want to be better at summing up what is important about your research and receive help and support to present your results? If so, perhaps you would like to take part in this year’s Researchers’ Grand Prix. It is a competition in which you are to present your research in a way that is as easily accessible and e

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/improve-your-research-presentation-and-participate-years-researchers-grand-prix - 2026-07-01