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“We are dependent on one another globally – this became evident not least through the Ebola epidemic. For cooperation to work and develop, Africa cannot be left out of the loop”, says Benedict Oppong Asamoah, researcher and lecturer in public health. He hopes that the University’s focus on Africa will lead to more and better contacts Benedict Oppong Asamoah. Photo: Gunnar Menander Lund University

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/africa-strategy-shows-great-potential - 2026-01-09

Nature-based solutions offer excellent opportunities to address environmental and social challenges. They can help mitigate climate change and protect biodiversity. However, better governance and funding, complemented by clear political priorities, are needed to scale up such solutions in the Nordic region. This is the finding of a new research report from the Nordic Council of Ministers, in which

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/opportunities-scale-nature-based-solutions-nordics - 2026-01-09

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/international-islet-cell-researchers-met-conference-malmo - 2026-01-09

Israel is in shock. The most basic task of a country's defence forces is to guard and protect its borders. Yet the Israeli army was caught completely off guard when thousands of terrorists entered the country to murder and take hostages. Read the interview with Karin Aggestam, Professor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Advanced Middle East Studies and expert on the Israeli-Palestin

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/war-between-israel-and-hamas - 2026-01-09

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/skys-limit-using-airborne-dna-monitor-insect-biodiversity - 2026-01-09

Central Asian Law project organized the conference titled “Understanding legal cultures in Central Asia” on 6-8 November in Istanbul, Turkey. The conference focused on the discussion of the interconnections between international actors, domestic institutions, business actors, as well as informal institutions and norms and how their interplay shape the governance, legal culture and business environ

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/conference-understanding-legal-cultures-central-asia-6-8-november-2021 - 2026-01-09

Several researchers at the Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies were doing field work during the Arab Spring. It has left deep traces in them - but also resulted in new research projects. The Arab Spring is a term describing the uprisings that started in several countries in North Africa and the Middle East in 2011. The first one took place in Tunisia and was then followed by unrest in Egypt

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arab-spring-ten-years-after - 2026-01-10

CMES is looking to employ an ambitious Middle Eastern scholar and political scientist. Last application day: September 15, 2022 General Information Last application date: September 15, 2022 11:59 PM CEST Type of employment: Permanent position Contract type: Full time First day of employment: By agreement Reference number: PA2022/2541 Link to the job listing in English Link to the job listing in Sw

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/open-position-associate-senior-lecturer-middle-eastern-studies-and-political-science - 2026-01-10

Internationalisation has become more important – and more complex – in recent years. In a world where democracy and academic freedom are under threat, Lund University needs to take greater responsibility for its international collaboration, according to International Coordinator Pär Svensson. In recent years, the focus on internationalisation, through the Global Dynamic Engagement (GDE) approach i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/internationalisation-important-comprehensive-and-complex - 2026-01-10

Just before the summer, the Vice-Chancellor decided on Lund University's Green Travel Plan. It highlights the issues the University needs to work on in the future to further enhance its work on sustainable commuting to work and studies. The University's work within CoAction to promote a carbon-neutral Lund, as well as the previous project on sustainable mobility at Lund University, have now result

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/green-travel-plan-commuting-decided - 2026-01-10

Very few support climate change, pollution and the general destruction of our planet, but why then is it so hard to make a truly sustainable future desirable? Researchers Carys Egan-Wyer and Jon Bertilsson have looked into this from a marketing perspective and point to some instances where their field could make a difference.“Marketing in the service of companies has done a tremendous job of creat

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/climate-crisis-has-marketing-problem - 2026-01-10

Summer, sun and annual leave! Read through the tips below, so that you will be able to wind down properly during your time off. Some weeks before your vacations Apply for your annual leave into Primula (don't applies for teachers) Submit outstanding travel expense reports Primula Take the opportunity to register your documents before the summer holidays so that your colleagues can easily find them

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-bear-mind-summer - 2026-01-10

In 2016, a forgotten archival treasure was found in the cellar of the Department of Geology. The material included a unique map of Iceland from 1844 and a geological map of the whole of New Zealand dated 1869. Now 322 works have been restored and plans are afoot for an exhibition. Through arched windows, a pale November light faintly illuminates the Hansen conference room on the fourth floor of th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/forgotten-treasure-trove-maps-restored-its-former-glory - 2026-01-10

Johannes Rousk is one of the world’s most cited and influential researchers, according to the analytics company Clarivate. If you ask him, the road to success was marked by luck, opportunity and fantastic people. Luck is a concept that researchers don’t use very often, but Johannes Rousk does. For him, it is not about finding the answer to the holy grail through divine intervention, which in the w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-luck-strategy-behind-most-cited-research - 2026-01-10

The owlet, little over three weeks old, squints slightly as Hannah Watson lays it on its back in a plastic container that once held vanilla ice cream. It seems quite happy there. Things get a little trickier when the owlet is to be measured, weighed and swabbed for bacterial samples from both front and behind. Finally, a little prick with a needle to see whether it is a male or female, and whether

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tracking-owls-send-sms-their-nests - 2026-01-10

The first phase was filled with creativity and collective effort. Elsa Trolle Önnerfors was surprised by how smooth the transition to distance education was. However, now the focus is more on how students are feeling and on perseverance – for how long is unknown "I used a year's worth of creativity in the first few weeks, and learnt that you can do a lot if you are not afraid to test things out",

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-phase-requires-stamina-and-consideration - 2026-01-10

By Pia [dot] romare [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Romare) - published on 23 August 2018“We must understand the ageing process itself in order to help people with conditions such as Alzheimer’s and dementia, and to possibly enable us to prevent these diseases from arising”, says Henrik Ahlenius of the Stem Cell Centre at Lund University. His aim is to develop an experimental model for human nerve

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/how-do-dementia-diseases-affect-our-brains - 2026-01-10

The idea of publishing research findings in open access journals is in many ways an asset in the research community. Unfortunately, it has also entailed the emergence of many unprofessional agents on the market. Their only purpose is to trick researchers into giving them money. Not only does a successful researcher need to produce good research, their findings must also be visible among tough comp

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/always-check-magasine-carefully - 2026-01-10

Each year, Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies welcomes international Fellows who join our interdisciplinary research groups. The Institute’s coordinator Eva Persson tells us about the programme and why it matters. What is the International Fellows Programme?Experience has shown that the core idea of the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies holds true: When people with different perspecti

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/opening-minds-across-borders-our-international-fellows-pufendorf-ias - 2026-01-09

Insulin secretion into the bloodstream requires a protein called CD59. New research led by Lund University shows that the two protein variants that are responsible for this function of CD59 are affected in diabetes. The study has been recently published in PNAS. Insulin affects many bodily functions, and is required for survival. It causes cells to take up glucose from the blood, storage of energy

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/newly-discovered-protein-variants-are-key-insulin-secretion - 2026-01-09