Published 12 September 2019 Photo: Kennet Ruona Lund University has climbed from #98 to #96 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020, once again securing a place among the top 100 universities in the world. The ranking includes almost 1,400 universities across 92 countries, placing Lund University in the top 0,4% of the universities included.THE uses 13 performance indicators t

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Published 16 September 2019 “It is extremely momentous for me to be awarded the prize and it’s flattering not least because many significant researchers at the faculty have won the prize previously”, says Johan Malmström, this year’s winner of the Fernström Prize This year’s Fernström Prize for young, particularly promising and successful researchers at Lund University is awarded to Professor Joha

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Published 18 September 2019 Illustration: Don Davis An international study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden has found that a collision in the asteroid belt 470 million years ago created drastic changes to life on Earth. The breakup of a major asteroid filled the entire inner solar system with enormous amounts of dust leading to a unique ice age and, subsequently, to higher levels

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Published 20 September 2019 Photo: Mostphotos In recently published studies, researchers at Lund University and Skåne University Hospital in Sweden have produced new prediction models for improved personalised treatment of lymph nodes in breast cancer patients. The latest results that have now been published in Clinical Cancer Research and BMC Cancer show that up to one in every three operations c

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Published 23 September 2019 The Fernström Prize winner Søren Brunak started working with bioinformatics and machine learning in the mid-1980s. (Photo: Henrik Sørensen) Professor Søren Brunak from Copenhagen has been awarded the grand Nordic Prize for 2019 by the Eric K. Fernström Foundation. It is one of the largest Scandinavian research prizes in medicine and Søren Brunak receives the award for h

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Published 25 September 2019 (Photo: Mostphotos) Emissions of greenhouse gases have a warming effect on the climate, whereas small airborne particles in the atmosphere, aerosols, act as a cooling mechanism. That is the received wisdom in any case. However, new research from Lund University in Sweden can now show that the tiniest aerosols are increasing at the expense of the normal sized and slightl

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Published 26 September 2019 Yvonne Lundberg Giwercman and Yahia Al-Jebari (Photo: Tove Gilvad) In a new national register study from Lund University in Sweden, researchers have studied the link between prostate cancer and infertility. The study, published in the British Medical Journal, includes over one million Swedish men. “Men who seek health care for infertility and assisted reproduction were

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Published 1 October 2019 Rapid particles in an explanatory light: When electrons are no longer fixed to the atomic shell and can move freely, their wave form can be changed using laser light The discovery that free electrons can move asymmetrically provides a deeper understanding of one of the basic processes in physics: the photoelectric effect. It was first described by Albert Einstein and expla

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Published 10 October 2019 177Lutetium-DOTATATE one day after injection (coloured area), overlaid on an x-ray image (grey scale). Lund researchers Anna Sundlöv and Katarina Sjögreen-Gleisner have developed a method to personalise treatment using a newly approved radioactive cancer drug – by taking images of the drug’s dispersion inside the patient. Their article won the best publication of the year

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Published 14 October 2019 Photo: Inger Ekström Plastic waste is a growing problem around the world, despite efforts to recycle or reduce plastic use. In order to really transform the recycling process, more attention needs to be paid to the composition of plastic, according to a new research article from Lund University in Sweden. The paper presents strategies on how to improve recyclability throu

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Publicerad 7 januari 2020 Statsvetenskapliga institutionen har under 2019 varit fortsatt framgångsrika i att få forskningsanslag. Forskningsprojekten sträcker sig över ett brett fält och är inom en mängd olika forskningsinriktningar. Några huvudteman som kan skönjas är miljöpolitik, kritisk förvaltningsforskning, utrikespolitisk analys och komparativ politik. Projekten som har fått forskningsansla

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Publicerad 8 januari 2020 Douglas Brommesson och Rikard Bengtsson har skrivit artikeln "Staten som kommunikatör - En panelstudie av effekterna av kampanjen Om krisen eller kriget kommer". Artikeln har publicerats i ”Kungl. Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar och tidskrift”. 2017 tog den svenska regeringen initiativ till en landsomfattande kampanj med målet att informera medborgarna om hur man bör

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Publicerad 13 januari 2020 Roger Hildingsson har publicerat artikeln ”Sustainable Welfare in Swedish Cities: Challenges of Eco-Social Integration in Urban Sustainability Governance” i tidskriften ”Sustainability”. Artikeln handlar om ekosocial integration på urban nivå. Med empiriskt fokus på Malmö, Göteborg och Stockholm studeras svårigheterna att i praktiken integrera hänsyn till ekologisk hållb

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Publicerad 16 januari 2020 Annika Bergman Rosamond har nyligen publicerat kapitlet ”Celebrity global motherhood: Maternal care and cosmopolitan obligation” i den redigerade boken ”Troubling Motherhood Maternality in Global Politics” (redaktörer: Lucy B. Hall, Anna L. Weissman, and Laura J. Shepherd), Oxford University Press, 2020. Om bokkapitlet (på engelska)The rise to prominence of celebrity cul

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Publicerad 23 januari 2020 Johan Matz har publicerat boken ”Stalin’s Double-Edged Game: Soviet Bureaucracy and the Raoul Wallenberg case 1945-1952”. The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, 2020. Om boken (på engelska)Raoul Wallenberg, the courageous Swedish financier and trade executive turned diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in Hungary in 1944, was a

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Publicerad 27 februari 2020 Nina Wilén har tillsammans med Lindy Heinecken (Stellenbosch University) publicerat artikeln ”No Place Like Home? Postdeployment Reintegration Challenges Facing South African Peacekeepers” i tidskriften ”Armed Forces and Society”. Artikeln handlar om integrationssvårigheterna som fredsbevarande soldater upplever efter de har kommit hem från fredsuppdrag.  Vi finner att

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Publicerad 30 januari 2020 Catarina Kinnvall har publicerat en forumartikel “Multiplicity, Discipline and the Political” I tidskriften “New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of Central and East European Politics and International Relations” (redigerad av Benjamin Tallis). Publikationen kan du läsa på perspectives.iir.czCatarina Kinnvalls personliga sida

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Av kristina [dot] lindgarde [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde) - publicerad 4 februari 2020 Alla svenska lagförslag skickas ut på remiss. Motsvarande siffra för EU-lagförslag är endast fyra procent. Bild från Europarlamentet: Michael Erhardsson/Mostphotos. Kommuner, företag, föreningar och andra intressenter i Sverige får allt mindre inflytande när regeringen utformar sin EU-politik.

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Publicerad 14 februari 2020 Jan Teorell har tillsammans med Michael Coppedge, John Gerring, Adam Glynn, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Svend-Erik Skaaning, skrivit boken ”Varieties of Democracy: Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). “Varieties of Democracy” är den oumbärlig användarguiden för den som i

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Publicerad 6 mars 2020 Stina Melander har tillsammans med Benjamin Claréus genomfört en studie för att få fram en fördjupad kunskap om Försäkringskassans låga förtroendesiffror genom att undersöka hur smärtdrabbade individer upplever mötet med myndigheten. Denna studie har nu resulterat i artikeln ”Det bräckliga förtroendet – om Försäkringskassans bemötande av smärtpatienter”.  Genom en kombinatio

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