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Since the 1980:s border policies in both Mexico and the United States have transformed the outflow of migrants from Central America. By the turn of the 21st century the outflow of migrants began to be called a humanitarian crisis by civil society. Priscilla Solano at the Department of Sociology in Lund has published the article "Migrating through the Corridor of Death: The Making of a Complex Huma

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/migration-transformed-crisis - 2025-12-11

Three researchers at Lund University, all with a long list of significant research credentials, have been awarded the ERC Advanced Grant worth EUR 2.5 million each to further develop and advance their research projects. Two of them are MultiPark research leaders. They do research on chaperone proteins’ function in neurodegenerative diseases and blood tests for rapid screening of drugs in the treat

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/double-success-multipark-research-groups-prestigious-eu-grant-round - 2025-12-11

Astronomic amounts of new digital information about the world, our genetic heritage and our habits are continuously being generated. This information is a goldmine for research – as long as the data can be accessed, stored and analysed. “We have a lot of expertise in the field. More and more areas of Lund University are nearing the threshold for big data as an integral part of research and teachin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/big-data-research-both-reality-and-rhetoric - 2025-12-11

Is it OK for a manager to email employees in the evenings and on weekends? More employers should have explicit rules about emailing outside working hours, according to Mikael Ottosson, who is researching the work environment within a project entitled “Going home already? Fluid working hours means freedom to some people and stress to others, says Mikael Ottoson. Photo: Ulrika Oredsson Our working h

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/should-employees-be-reachable-email-during-their-leisure-time - 2025-12-11

Tremendous amounts of money, an ambitious and carefully considered appointment process and major start-up packages for new employees – these are the three things that characterise WCMM, the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine in Lund. Professor Freddy Ståhlberg is the director of WCMM. WCMM in Lund has sister organisations at the universities in Umeå, Gothenburg and Linköping. Together with t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/medical-centre-recruiting-top-junior-researchers - 2025-12-11

The new EU framework programme Horizon Europe is more generous than ever. It makes just over EUR 95.5 billion available for European researchers and innovators to share. The first calls for applications have opened and the remainder will be announced continuously over the next seven years. “It is time to prepare applications for the next round now”, says Caroline Sundberg, EU Policy Officer at the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eu-more-generous-ever - 2025-12-12

The graduating students of the new MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice are working intensively on their final projects this Spring. On April 9 - 16 they invite you all for a preview of what is to come, when they present work-in-progress showings both at Malmö Theatre Academy, Skånes Dansteater and Community Kultur Centrum. This is not their final showings, those will take place in May at Malmö

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/ma-work-progress-showings-2025 - 2025-12-11

Återupplev nordiska gerontologi konferensen NKG 2024 i bilder. SWEAH medverkade med en rad doktorander, handledare och forskare samtliga konferensdagar på Karolinska Institutet i Stockholm, i mitten av juni 2024.   Invigning med Balettakademin och Dans för Parkinson, ett dansprogram utvecklat för Parkinsonsjuka. Queen Silvia, who recently turned 80 years old, said that the journey of ageing has af

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/sweah-pa-nordiska-gerontologikonferensen-nkg2024 - 2025-12-11

Nu drar det ihop sig till Almedalsveckan 2023. Statsvetenskapliga institutionens forskare är på plats och medverkar i olika paneler och diskussioner. Torsdag 29 juni Israel vid vägs ände som liberaldemokratisk stat? Israel kantas av den värsta interna politiska krisen på årtionden efter att dess nytillträdda högerextrema regering försöker ta total politisk kontroll över rättsapparaten. Vilka polit

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/statsvetare-pa-almedalsveckan-2023 - 2025-12-11

The fight against COVID-19 continues. In Lund, researchers have been awarded a large Vinnova grant to identify a compound that could be used to prevent viral infection, and thus save lives. The project is a co-operation between preclinical, clinical researchers and a company, an efficient way for creating synergies in research. Project Manager for the study is researcher Sinem Tas, Fellow in Darcy

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-interdisciplinary-co-op-between-researchers-healthcare-and-industry-formed-fight-virus - 2025-12-12

The fight against COVID-19 continues. In Lund, researchers have been awarded a large Vinnova grant to identify a compound that could be used to prevent viral infection, and thus save lives. The project is a co-operation between preclinical, clinical researchers and a company, an efficient way for creating synergies in research. Project Manager for the study is researcher Sinem Tas, Fellow in Darcy

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-interdisciplinary-co-op-between-researchers-healthcare-and-industry-formed-fight-virus - 2025-12-12

Hej fina kollegor och tack för era fantastiska blomsterhälsningar! Året har 366 dagar, så fortsätt skicka in, vi fortsätter att publicera hälsningarna löpande. ... Lisette Eklund, arbetsmiljösamordnare, Kansli EMVJag vill ge Lisette ett stort fång med rosor för hennes engagemang, oerhört trevliga och proffsiga ledarskap.  Hon lägger hela sin själ i att skapa en trygg arbetsmiljö där alla kan triva

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/jag-vill-ge-en-blomma-till - 2025-12-11

Tord Ajanki started diabetesportalen.se just over a decade ago. Now he is to relinquish the editorship and retire. “It feels strange, good in one way, but it’s difficult to stop doing something that you have been involved in for so long”, he says. Tord Ajanki initially trained as a nurse.  “My wife and I wanted to save the world! We were going to do the training and work abroad as aid workers, and

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/father-diabetesportalense-retires - 2025-12-11

Tomas Bergström, Head of Department of Political Science, explains the rule of thumb of a 40-60 percent ratio between female and male authors represented in course reading lists. "Only one of many tools for generating awareness of gender issues among the department’s staff and students." How are reading lists adopted at the Department of Political Science?In light of the information about the Depa

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/objective-serves-tool-reflection-not-straightjacket - 2025-12-11

A record donation of SEK 350 million from the IKEA Foundation has secured the future of the School of Industrial Design at Lund University. It is not the first time that the school has received a major donation from IKEA. It all started at a meeting over a lot of coffee and snuff between Ingvar Kamprad and Thomas Johannesson, former Dean of the Faculty of Engineering (LTH)… Thomas Johannesson was

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/shared-vision-about-good-design-everyone-behind-huge-donations - 2025-12-11

For decades, the Swedish forest have been intensely managed through clear-cutting and tree planting to maximize wood production. This type of management has created a strong culture and tradition where foresters feel that it is difficult to gain knowledge about, and support for, other forest management methods, for instance continuous cover forestry. This is according to researchers at LUCSUS who

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/norms-make-transition-forestry-without-major-clear-cutting-difficult - 2025-12-11

Marine coastal ecosystems are severely threatened by the negative effects of climate change. At the same time, they are very important for climate change mitigation since they can store large amounts of carbon, and help sustain both life under water, and people’s livelihoods. LUCSUS is part of the four-year EU funded project Marine Coastal Ecosystem Biodiversity and Services in a Changing world. T

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-part-eu-project-support-and-restore-marine-coastal-ecosystems - 2025-12-11

He is our least known celebrity – a man of power who took the initiative for Lund University and was literally ‘prepared for both’. The 17th century bishop Peder Winstrup is an exciting historical person – and corpse – that will now be studied in a major interdisciplinary project. For many years, a beautiful coffin has stood in the crypt of the Cathedral. In it lies 17th century bishop Peder Winst

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/old-bishop-winstrup-returns-academy - 2025-12-11

Science should be able to be reproduced, but in reality, this is a step that is often overlooked. Researcher Burak Tunca at Lund University School of Economics and Management sees several possible measures that could make research better – and more open. “Researchers should always pre-register their studies and be open with their data. That way we can avoid bias and hypotheses being changed during

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/new-findings-noted-research-fails-replicate - 2025-12-12

The quest to control the remarkable phenomena of quantum physics is ongoing around the world. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is making the subject even hotter. Lund University is also involved in exploring the unknown – and at times mind-boggling – perspectives of quantum states. Mathieu Gisselbrecht, senior lecturer in Physics, leads the way down the basement corridor of the Laser Centre at F

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researching-another-reality - 2025-12-12