Publicerad 27 mars 2015 Insulinceller från patienter med typ 1-diabetes kan återfå förmågan att producera insulin i laboratorium. Förmågan förbättrades dessutom ytterligare redan några dagar utanför kroppen, visar en studie med forskare från Norge och Sverige. - Våra fynd kan betyda att insulinproduktionen delvis kan återupptas ifall vi kan hitta ett sätt att stoppa sjukdomsutvecklingen, säger Lar

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/skadade-insulinceller-aterfar-sin-formaga - 2025-07-03

Publicerad 2 april 2015 En stor majoritet rapporterar att de i speciella situationer, exempelvis vid stress, nedstämdhet eller trötthet, får ett ökat sug efter godis, choklad eller annat sött. Nu visar österrikiska forskare att en stunds fysisk aktivitet effektivt dämpar det mest desperata sötsug. I undersökningen deltog 47 överviktiga personer med 28 år som genomsnittsålder. De medgav att de varj

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/stressen-vacker-sotsuget-promenaden-dampar - 2025-07-03

Publicerad 2 april 2015 Konsumtion av fet yoghurt, fil och ost var kopplad till minskad risk för typ 2-diabetes med så mycket som en femtedel, visar ny forskning från Lunds universitet. 
Hög köttkonsumtion var däremot kopplad till en ökad risk. Resultaten som nu publiceras i den vetenskapliga tidskriften “American Journal of Clinical Nutrition” är i linje med tidigare matvanestudier som indikerat

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/livsmedlet-viktigare-fetthalten-typ-2-diabetes - 2025-07-03

Publicerad 13 april 2015 Skilsmässa, dödsfall, ett nytt syskon eller andra livskriser kan trefaldiga risken att barn utvecklar diabetes typ 1. För barn med anlag för diabetes kan det innebära 12 gånger så hög risk. Det visar en studie från Linköpings universitet. Diabetes bland barn ökar. Men orsaken till varför sjukdomen bryter ut är okänd. Man vet att genetiska anlag spelar roll och man misstänk

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/traumatiska-upplevelser-kan-ge-barndiabetes - 2025-07-03

Publicerad 13 april 2015 Det nya forskningscentrumet – Wallenberg centrum för molekylärmedicinsk forskning vid Umeå universitet – ingår i en nationell plan för att Sverige ska återta sin världsledande position inom medicinsk forskning. Bakom centrumet står Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse tillsammans med bland andra Umeå universitet och Västerbottens läns landsting. Centrumet kommer att inrikt

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/storsatsning-pa-forskningscentrum-i-umea - 2025-07-03

Publicerad 13 april 2015 Sedan början av 2000-talet kan patienter med svår typ 1-diabetes behandlas med insulinproducerande betaceller. En utmaning med transplantation är biverkningar av immundämpande läkemedel. För att slippa detta och minska risken för celldöd prövas nu en ny metod på Akademiska sjukhuset där insulinproducerande ö-celler kapslas in och får syre genom en inbyggd syrgastank. – Vi

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/kapsel-ska-bevara-insulinceller-efter-transplantation - 2025-07-03

Published 26 April 2019 Mona Hemmaty at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in sociology ”On the Margins. Migrants, Status Mobility and Recent Turns in Swedish Migration Politics” today, 26 April at 10:15 in the Kulturen Auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas, Barcelona Centre for International AffairsAbstractMany people believe that c

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/mona-hemmaty-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-07-03

Published 29 April 2019 Henriette Frees Esholdt has written the article "Virgins, Terrorists, and Ten Children: Immigrants' Humorous Play with Ethnic Stereotypes in Bonding with Danes in the Workplace" published in the journal Symbolic Interaction. The article explores immigrants' self‐directed ethnic humor in collegial relationships drawing on fieldwork in a multi‐ethnic workplace, an industrial

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/immigrants-humorous-play-ethnic-stereotypes-can-have-bonding-effect - 2025-07-03

Published 10 May 2019 Matthias Abelin at the Department of Sociology has defended his doctoral thesis in social anthropology ”A Swedish Dilemma: Culture and Rule of Law in Swedish Sickness Insurance” today, Friday 10th May at 10:00 in the Eden Auditorium in Lund. Swedish society has been described as both modern, liberal democratic and deeply humanitarian; and as more or less premodern, semi-autho

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/matthias-abelin-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-07-03

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman Rogowski) - published 16 May 2019 Doxa, a new student association at the Department of Sociology, hosted their first public event on 14th May. A panel discussion featuring researchers from Lund University and Denmark covered the implications of surveillance capitalism, a phenomenon expected to grow extensively in just a few y

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-student-association-starts-out-addressing-surveillance-capitalism - 2025-07-03

Published 2 July 2019 The building is the same, but the address has changed. From 1 July the Department of Sociology's address is Sandgatan 11. To make it easier for emergency services to find the right building in the Paradis area in Lund, several university buildings are changing addresses. On 1 July, the Department of Sociology's address was changed from Paradisgatan 5 to Sandgatan 11, with ent

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/department-sociology-gets-new-address - 2025-07-03

Published 16 August 2019 Sébastien Tutenges has studied overt and covert techniques used in bars and nightclubs to sell more alcohol, and noticed that they are most prevalent in low-priced venues with young patrons. Other than obvious methods to increase drinking – alcohol advertisements, special offers like Happy Hour, and large pitchers or shot glasses which speeds up consumption – bartenders ca

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-bars-and-nightclubs-make-you-drink-more - 2025-07-03

Published 19 August 2019 Professor Anders Kjellberg has contributed to “Collective bargaining in Europe: towards an endgame”, a four-volume collection covering collective bargaining in EU member states since the year 2000. The literature explores how collective bargaining has been weakend or significantly changed in all 28 EU states. The main policy issue addressed by the authors is how the trend

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/comprehensive-work-collective-bargaining-eu - 2025-07-03

Published 10 September 2019 The events leading up to Cyprus gaining independence from Great Britain in 1960 were not the result of instrumental rational calculations, argues sociologist Chares Demetriou in a recently published paper. Instead, a complicated series of interactions between several actors clouded the colonizer's judgement, ultimately leading to the inadvertent independence of Cyprus.

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/british-strategy-dividing-cyprus-ultimately-enabled-its-independence - 2025-07-03

Published 4 October 2019 Anna Berglund at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral thesis in social anthropology ”Ambiguous hopes: an ethnographic study of agricultural modernisation in a Rwandan village” on Friday 4th October. For her PhD project, Anna Berglund spent 13 months in a Rwandan village studying the consequences of agricultural modernization policies. The Rwandan government ha

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anna-berglund-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2025-07-03

Published 16 December 2019 It could have been a Friday the 13th disaster, but Henrik Möller managed to dodge all bad luck and successfully defended his doctoral thesis ”SPECTRAL MATTER: Materiality, Economy, and Culture of Burmese Jade in Contemporary China” on December 13. Henrik Möller states that his research project “examines intersections of material, economic and cultural aspects of carving,

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/henrik-moller-defends-his-doctoral-thesis - 2025-07-03

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman Rogowski) - published 20 December 2019 With only a few weeks remaining of its first semester, the maiden voyage of the Master’s program in Cultural Criminology at Lund University is ending. How does this unique criminology master’s program provides nuance to deviance? “I have found the course to be fantastic so far,” says Jac

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/focusing-seduction-crime-deviance-and-control - 2025-07-03

Published 14 January 2020 Lisa Eklund has co-authored the article ”Reacting to social discrimination? Men's individual and social risk behaviors in the context of a male marriage squeeze in rural China”, published in Social Science & Medicine. In China, a shortage of marriageable women is resulting in many single men, some of which engage in risky and potentially hazardous activities. The study by

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/marriage-squeezed-men-china-suffer-social-discrimination - 2025-07-03

Published 19 February 2020 Declarations and policies drafted by the UN, EU and individual nations basically promise accessibility for people with disabilities. But rhetoric is one thing, practice another. Disabled people have to use creative ways to access many places or resources in their everyday life. The sociologist David Wästerfors has studied what people with various disabilities do to manag

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/folk-methods-deal-inaccessibility - 2025-07-03

Published 17 March 2020 In a new book, sociologist Lisa Flower shows how lawyers manage their emotions in the courtroom, where emotional displays traditionally are unwelcomed. People practicing and studying law often ignore the role emotions play in court. The idea is that feelings disturb the rationality that is the judicial discipline’s foundation. Neglecting emotions will, if nothing else, make

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/uncovering-obscure-emotional-labour-law-practitioners - 2025-07-03