PRESS RELEASE The MARS: Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective research project marked a key milestone on May 5, 2025, by hosting its mid-term meeting at Lund University. Held in a hybrid format—both in-person at the Sociology Department and online via Zoom—the event brought together researchers, seconded staff, and representatives from the European Research Executive Agency (REA) f

https://www.mars.lu.se/article/mars-project-holds-mid-term-meeting - 2025-09-07

Photo: Nastaran Taghipour/Unsplash Read the summary conclusions from the CMES policy-research dialogue that explored the multifaceted relationship between Iran and Europe. The report is based on a policy-research dialogue organised by CMES in April 2024 with international scholars and practitioners. Executive SummaryFor more than two decades, Iran’s nuclear program has been a central focus of Euro

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-policy-report-europes-changing-perceptions-and-policies-toward-iran - 2025-09-07

The 2016 World Water Week in Stockholm is held 28 August - 2 September 2016. World Water Week in Stockholm is the annual focal point for the globe’s water issues.It is organized by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). This year, the theme is "Water for Sustainable Growth". It is also the 20th jubilee of the Stockholm Junior Water Prize. In 2015, over 3,000 individuals and close to 300 c

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sustainable-growth-theme-2016-world-water-week-stockholm - 2025-09-07

Linda Karlsson at the office Linda Karlsson graduated from the Bachelor’s programme in Equality and Diversity Management in 2014. After graduation, Linda moved down under, to Australia, to start a career with the goal to improve gender equality in the workplace. You graduated from the Bachelor’s programme in Equality and Diversity Management in 2014. What have you been up to since your graduation?

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/alumni-around-world-linda-karlsson - 2025-09-07

On September 22-24, SASNET researcher Maria Tonini joined the 2017 EASAS Doctoral Workshop as a senior scholar. The workshop took place in the breathtaking island of Procida, off the Gulf of Naples, Italy. At the EASAS workshop, 15 doctoral students from EASAS partner universities had the opportunity to present a text from their dissertation and receive in-depth feedback from senior scholars and p

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-collaboration-easas-doctoral-workshop - 2025-09-07

Sophia Yakhlef at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in sociology ”United agents: community of practice within border policing in the Baltic Sea area” today, 26th October at 13:00 in Kulturens Auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Professor Helene Oppen Ingebrigtsen Gundhus, Department of Criminology, Oslo University.This study focuses on a border police collaboration project c

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sophia-yakhlef-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-09-07

Not just intense interdisciplinary discussions. In collaboration with the Pufendorf IAS, the LMK Foundation invites to an annual Idea Forum for young researchers. Last autumn, Maya Kylén and Magnus Dustler Medfak participated, and this is what it was like for them. Deadline to nominate for participation this year is April 15. Maya Kylén: "It was exciting and rewarding! The moderators (Göran Bexell

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/nominate-ideforum-2024-unexpected-outside-perspectives-can-be-more-important-world-leading-experts - 2025-09-07

An atmosphere of anticipation and excitement filled the air as the Principal Investigators (PIs) and the management of the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) gathered for this year’s Scientific Advisory Board meeting. The discussions of the meeting focused on achievements to date, future challenges and advancements both regarding the centre itself and at a national perspective, and st

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/highlights-wcmm-scientific-advisory-board-meeting - 2025-09-07

By jon [dot] ulvsgard [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jon Ulvsgärd) - published 21 December 2023 Melkamu Merid Mengesha at the Faculty of Medicine in Lund. Introduction to Research Methodology was on the agenda when doctoral student Melkamu Merid Mengesha, from Arba Minch in Ethiopia, visited the research group Child and Family Health in Lund, Sweden. Tell us about your visit– I took my first course, 

https://www.childfamilyhealth.lu.se/article/visiting-research-group-grateful-support-and-guidance - 2024-06-25

LUCSUS is part of organising next year's Political Ecology Network conference (POLLEN24) in Lund. The unfolding and entwined social-ecological crises make the challenge of how to move towards more plural and just futures more pressing than ever. Political ecology provides an important toolbox to explore the unjust and colonial power relations that condition global flows of material resources, mone

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/next-pollen-conference-lund - 2025-09-07

A new article on impacts of land use on climate and ecosystem productivity over the Amazon and the South American continent has been published by Minchau Wu and a number of other MERGE researchers. The article was published in Environmental Research Letters, Volume 12, Number 5. Abstract:The Amazon basin is characterized by a strong interplay between the atmosphere and vegetation. Anthropogenic la

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/impacts-land-use-climate-and-ecosystem-productivity-over-amazon-and-south-american-continent - 2025-09-07

Photo: Jon Tyson, Unsplash.com A new doctoral thesis by Aurimas Pumputis explores how trust and control function between guests and hosts on peer-to-peer platforms like Airbnb. The study focuses on how these relationships are shaped in digital environments and how platforms use information technology to connect consumers with service providers. Trust is crucial for cooperation and orderly social r

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/trust-and-control-guest-host-relationships - 2025-09-07

The project "NORBATOUR - Nordic-Baltic Tourism Research Studies” connects four universities in a joint master course to share information and knowledge on tourism research methods, trends and studies. There is a need for new research methodsNORBATOUR connects universities in Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Denmark to develop the research within the field of tourism. The importance of the tourism indu

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/nordic-baltic-collaboration-tourism-research-master-students - 2025-09-07

© Ulrik Trojaborg During the Gallery Weekend at the Inter Arts Center, the short documentary "Voinha's Backyard" will be premiered and Iury will talk about her artistic work with C. Grace Chang. "In December 2022 I went back to my maternal grandmother Voinha’s first address in Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, the same place where we had last met in September 2018, when I recorded an interview to inves

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/our-phd-student-iury-salustiano-trojaborg-participates-malmo-gallery-weekend-inter-arts-center - 2025-09-07

The "MOCCA: Multi-level orders of corruption in Central Asia" mid-term meeting was successfully held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 2nd February. The primary objective of the meeting was to discuss the project's progress and plans and coordinate research and secondment activities among the participants. The meeting brought together European beneficiaries, Turkey, and Central Asian partners: Kazakhstan, K

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/mocca-project-mid-term-meeting-held-istanbul-2nd-february - 2025-09-07

Central Asian Law project is continuing to organize capacity building and dissemination in order to communicate the project findings to different target audiences. On the 2nd of April, Central Asian Law project members held a presentation on the topic “Doing ethnographic fieldwork in non-Western contexts: Uzbekistan”. The presentation was held at the initiative of Tolibjon Mustafoev, researcher of

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/presentation-doing-ethnographic-fieldwork-non-western-contexts-uzbekistan - 2025-09-07

Catarina Rolfsdotter and Henrik Smith It's been 20 years since the first students in Environmental Science started at Lund University. Great progress has been made in the environmental field since then, but there are still many challenges for future students to work with. Due to the anniversary, the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research invited to an afternoon with focus on today's and fut

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/20-year-jubilee-environmental-science - 2025-09-07

Roman Pasechnik. Photo by Gunnar Ingelman For 50 years, the research community has been hunting unsuccessfully for the so-called Odderon particle. Now, a Swedish-Hungarian research group has discovered the mythical particle with the help of extensive analysis of experimental data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. In 1973, two French particle physicists found that, according to

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/researchers-find-evidence-elusive-odderon-particle - 2025-09-07

On Thursday April 20, the IIIEE invited the public to an event as part of the Sustainability Week in Lund, with both a seminar and networking. As part of the Sustainability Week in Lund, IIIEE opened the doors to the public for a panel discussion on the lifelong learning to advance sustainable urban solutions. Moderator was Björn Wickenberg from the Malmö Stad/IIIEE who opened the session with a f

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/public-seminar-lifelong-learning-and-sustainable-urban-solutions - 2025-09-07

Yann Clough and Natascha Kljun. The Centre for Environmental and Climate Research has employed two new professors with research focus on human impact on environmental changes. Natascha Kljun and Yann Clough are new professors at CEC with the assignment to establish two research programmes of a high international standard in environmental science. From a starting point in science, the research prog

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lunds-first-professors-environmental-science - 2025-09-07