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Three researchers within the Social Science Faculty at Lund University have compiled an anthology challenging the notion of the refugee crisis of 2015. The book also investigates how Germany, Sweden, and Denmark use bureaucracy to control, discipline, and shape asylum seekers’ lives. In 2015, the number of asylum seekers arriving in the EU doubled from the previous year, totalling over 1.3 million
A researcher who made invisible female labour visible and had her hypotheses that efficiency thinking in healthcare is neither good nor cheap confirmed when her own husband became ill. Rosmari Eliasson-Lappalainen is a pioneer in elderly research. Photo: Gunnar Menander You could say that Rosmari Eliasson-Lappalainen is the mother of Swedish elderly care research. When she got a job at the Social
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/efficiency-mindset-inappropriate-elderly-care - 2025-12-21
New research supports the theory that certain viral infections are of importance in the development of type 1 diabetes. An international research team has discovered that young children with an increased genetic risk of type 1 diabetes had an increased risk of developing diabetes-related autoantibodies in connection with Covid-19 infection. Swedish children have contributed to the study which has
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-study-virus-importance-development-type-1-diabetes - 2025-12-21
When you start teaching using the flipped classroom or make use of digital media to free up time for more active student participation methods in the classroom, you might sometimes feel that it is difficult to come up with meaningful activities for the students to spend time on now that there is a time surplus in the classroom, especially if you were previously used to lecturing for a large propor
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/blended-learning-planning-teaching-methods-active-student-participation - 2025-12-21
Charlotte Ling, professor of epigenetics at the Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Sweden, has been awarded the European Research Council’s Consolidator Grant. The funding of EUR 2 million over five years will be used to develop new methods to improve prediction, prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes. Charlotte Ling is a pioneer within epigenetics and
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/investments-epigenetics-combat-diabetes - 2025-12-21
Improved and sustainable Menstrual Health Management has great impact on several of the Sustainable Development Goals, including: Good health and well-being, Gender equality, Quality education, Sustainable cities and communities, and Clean water and sanitation. On the 28th of May we join the commemoration of the Menstrual Hygiene day to highlight the importance of improved and sustainable MHM. Dur
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/menstrual-hygiene-day-2019-itstimeforaction - 2025-12-21
Metal patterns printed on a III-V semiconductor material can control the appearance and positions of droplets arising on its surface when heated. The result is a significant step forward for controlled device fabrication on a chip. Semiconductor materials are used in electronic devices because of their unique electrical properties. III-V semiconductor materials consist of elements from the third a
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/controllable-droplets-carry-promise-self-assembled-nanodevices - 2025-12-21
As Nick Ford at the Department of Economic History prepares the defense of his doctoral dissertation "Origins of the knowledge economy: Higher education and Scandinavia's development, ca. 1800–1929", we had a chance to ask him a few questions. You are about to defend your thesis, what is it about?My thesis is about the role of higher education in fostering economic development historically. Nowada
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-thesis-three-questions-nicholas-ford - 2025-12-21
Graduate School together with CMES offers courses in Modern Standard Arabic and Persian, which are open to all Graduate School students. The courses are not credit bearing but you do receive a certificate at the end of each voluntary course.Courses in Modern Standard ArabicArabic is a sematic language and it is one of the six official languages of the UN. There are a total of 25 independent states
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/language-courses-arabic-and-persian - 2025-12-21
Hello there, Björn Ekman and Jesper Sundewall! You’re both researchers in social medicine and global health at Lund University, and now you’ve been granted SEK 600,000 from the Expert Group for Aid Studies to study the effects of global health development aid. What are you going to do within the context of your research project? – We will analyse global development assistance in the area of sexual
Christmas is approaching and we're all starting to look forward to couch time and the Christmas spirit. But before that, here are a few tips to help you relax. It is high time to apply for annual leave for the Christmas and New Year periodIf you are planning to take annual leave days in the Christmas and New Year period, it is high time to put in your application. Bear in mind that holidays are al
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ho-ho-ho-christmas-coming-first-few-tips-ahead-break - 2025-12-22
The Faculty of Medicine’s new building Forum Medicum on Sölvegatan is now ready for move-in. Forum Medicum is a new knowledge centre that connects the old BMC premises with a new building that offers 16,000 square metres of new space. The building is one of Akademiska Hus’ and Lund University’s biggest ever joint investments. The new building contains functional premises for education, research an
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/forum-medicum-faculty-medicines-new-building-now-ready-move - 2025-12-22
Dear students and colleagues, Lund University is a place for objectivity, open conversation and the gratifying quest for knowledge. We are an organisation with a unique task – to produce, discuss and communicate knowledge. We are an organisation of, and for, experts. I myself am an expert on insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. To be frank, that is pretty niche and nerdy. Yet here, at Lun
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/seasons-greetings - 2025-12-22
The Vice-Chancellor has now decided on a revised Sustainability Plan for 2023-2026. The revised plan contains concrete measures with a high level of ambition. It is hoped that the revised plan will help the University achieve the ambitious goals set out in the 2019 Sustainability Strategy. The work on the revision has involved many bodies across the University: the Education Board, Research Board,
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-will-work-broadly-sustainability-coming-years - 2025-12-22
The new Research Data Office is to make it easier for researchers to manage their research data throughout the research process. Improved and more accessible online support is now being launched in the form of unified webpages, a university-wide support service and a new, easier way to register research documents that requires neither a course nor logging in to the W3D3 system. Unified webpages on
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researchers-get-improved-online-support-research-data-management - 2025-12-22
BOTS, ALGORITHMS, JUNK NEWS: DATA SCIENCE AND THE EVIDENCE ON FOREIGN INFLUENCE-CAMPAIGNS LISA-MARIA NEUDERT, OXFORD UNIVERSITY INTERNET INSTITUTE FRIDAY, MAR 02, 15.15-17.00 / CAMPUS HELSINGBORG, ROOM E210 Political actors around the globe use algorithms and automation to sway elections, sow confusion, and target voters with propaganda messages. Micro-targeted advertising, political bots, and man
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/target-election-invitation-public-lecture-campus-helsingborg - 2025-12-21
UNESCO has added the unique archive of 500 in-depth interviews with Holocaust survivors to the Memory of the World Register. It recognises the Ravensbrück Archive as an example of a cultural heritage of great value to humanity. The University Library manages this documentary heritage and keeps the archive protected and digitally accessible to all. On 10 April, UNESCO decided to add the Ravensbrück
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/article/ravensbruck-archive-receives-memory-world-status - 2025-12-21
Take the chance and learn how to build and implement a COIL course that can give all students in the program international and cultural experience. At the end of November, Casey Dinger and Leslie Alvarez from University of Denver will be visiting Lund University in order to share their knowledge and experience about Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) courses. COIL is a cross-border
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/denver-uni-visit-workshop-cross-border-course-collabs - 2025-12-21
The islets of Langerhans in the pancreas contain not only insulin-producing cells, but also four other hormone-producing cell types. Using a new method, researchers are to study their interaction by mapping previously unknown genetic networks. “It will give us new possibilities to direct medicines at new targets”, says associate professor Nils Wierup who will present the first part of the study at
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/mapping-mechanisms-behind-type-2-diabetes - 2025-12-21
There has been a recent proliferation of research and practice on the interior dimensions of sustainability, such as values, beliefs, worldviews and inner capacities. In a new article published in Sustainability Science, LUCSUS Professor Christine Wamsler and colleagues systematise the core contributions of this emerging field for supporting sustainability and climate work. – In recent years, the
