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Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Message from the director Seasonal greetings from the team at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies  This has been a strange and challenging year. We have just closed down the Centre temporarily due to escalating Covid-19 pandemic.  However, in 2021 we hope to be moving towards brighter times! CMES is set to launch some new initiatives to consolida

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-16-december-2020 - 2025-11-27

Lund University’s Future Week 18-24 October offers exhibitions, lectures, debates and tours - on site and online. The theme for this year's Future Week is "Breakthroughs". What breakthroughs are needed in research and in society for us to be able to manage our future in the best way possible? What breakthroughs do we expect to happen soon? The university’s researchers addresses this year’s theme t

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/future-week-18-24-october-2021 - 2025-11-27

Representation is not just about who gets elected. It is also about who gets access to decision makers. Orly Siow, Ashlee Christoffersen and Ceri Fowler conducted research into the engagement between government ministers and NGOs. Their findings reveal striking inequalities in who gets access to political decision-makers. Our findings reveal stark inequalities in who gets the ear of political elit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/who-gets-hearing-intersectionality-ngos-and-political-access-decision-makers - 2025-11-27

Are you curious about new development research? Or looking for inspiration and new skills for your PhD studies in development? Join the Development Research School this Spring. In the Spring of 2024, the Development Research School is excited to announce a series of new events. Development Lunch SeminarsJoin us biweekly on Thursdays for Development Lunch Seminars, where scholars present new projec

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/upcoming-events-development-lunch-seminars-development-school-webinars - 2025-11-27

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/teachers-should-respect-students-listen-them - 2025-11-27

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/risk-failure-protecting-old-forests - 2025-11-27

There is a fast-growing trend to design smart electronics with custom-sized batteries that are embedded into devices with glue and solder. As a result, repairing, reusing, repurposing, and recycling batteries and the devices they power has become increasingly difficult and sometimes simply impossible. The EU battery regulation can address these issues and improve how we produce and consume batteri

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/non-replaceable-batteries-bad-environment-and-consumers - 2025-11-27

MERGE Autumn Meeting 2017 was held on 22-23 November in Helsingborg. The theme was MERGE research and future strategies. During the two days the latest exciting research within the different research areas of MERGE was presented. Also, the research school ClimBEco was presented and a number of new ideas for courses were put forward during the meeting.The MERGE board has had a strategic discussion

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-autumn-meeting - 2025-11-27

Plants in tropical dry areas have developed an unusual strategy for survival. Instead of using their water supply during the dry season, they hold on to the last drops until the very end in order to quickly get started on photosynthesis as soon as the rainy season has begun. Using satellite technology, researchers have now managed to investigate the storage of water in plants worldwide. The resear

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/clever-strategy-sets-photosynthesis-flying-start - 2025-11-27

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/large-group-new-phd-students-join-sweah-2023 - 2025-11-27

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/chakra-nordic-journal-south-asian-studies-call-articles-and-reviews - 2025-11-28

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-discussion-statebuilding-afghanistan-global-context - 2025-11-28

The IIIEE is pleased to announce that we are part of Lund University's 'Shape the Future of Research' initiative with the a vacancy for an Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) in AI for Sustainable Transformation. We are now recruiting an Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) in the interdisciplinary field of Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Transformation.This is a ful

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/join-iiiee-assistant-professor-ai-sustainable-transformation - 2025-11-27

Fanny Christou and Spyros Sofos have just had a chapter published in The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture, published in association with the International Association for Media and Communication Research. Their contribution in the book focuses on the “Physical and Virtual Spaces Among the Palestinian Diaspora in Malmo” and is based on extensive fieldwork in Skåne and elsew

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/physical-and-virtual-spaces-among-palestinian-diaspora-malmo - 2025-11-27

Project title: Early-life environmental risk factors for inflammatory bowel disease: A Nordic birth cohort study Project: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic, debilitating immune-mediated disease with a typical onset in childhood and young adulthood. After a rising incidence over the past decades, it now affects 0.5% of Western populations, and is an emerging disease globally. There is a

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/job-opportunity-doctoral-student-medical-science-environmental-risk-factors-ibd - 2025-11-27

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-e-invoicing-legislation-1-april - 2025-11-27

As of 1 January 2020, new rules regarding entertainment apply throughout the University. The new rules will make it easier to determine what is classified as entertainment and what is not. The maximum amount for entertainment purposes has also been adjusted. One of the aspects that has been made clearer is that it is always the purpose which determines how an event is to be classified. If, for exa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-rules-regarding-entertainment - 2025-11-27

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/third-decade-epr-what-lessons-and-experiences-can-be-used-light-sources-and-other-products-0 - 2025-11-28

PhD candidate Leonidas Milios at the IIIEE is scrutinizing on concepts and policies for resource efficiency based on circular economy thinking in a new report under the research project Mistra REES. This report presents basic concepts around resources, resource efficiency and the Circular Economy. The limitations and the opportunities within the Circular Economy are identified and clearly presente

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-report-policies-resource-efficient-and-effective-solutions - 2025-11-28

The Belgian national science funding association FWO’s 90 year anniversary spotlighted the future national research agenda, focusing on collaboration to solve complex societal questions such as climate change. The Belgian national science funding association FWO’s 90 year anniversary spotlighted the future national research agenda, focusing on collaboration to solve complex societal questions such

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/circular-business-models-experimentation - 2025-11-28