Published 28 September 2020 Petra Östergren next to a mural of a sex worker on Marion Street, Wellington, during her 2017 field studies in New Zealand, the only country in the world with an integrative policy.. Photo: Catherine Healy. Social anthropologist Petra Östergren’s research rethinks prostitution policies and receives international response and praise. Her chapter "From zero-tolerance to f

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/governing-sex-work-new-way-categorizing-prostitution-policy-may-be-standard-years-come - 2025-05-09

Published 22 September 2020 Meetings are common in contemporary working life, but they are often overlooked in academic studies and sometimes defined as empty or boring by employees. Three researchers of sociology now contribute with insights into the culture of meetings. Malin Åkerström, David Wästerfors and Sophia Yakhlef at the Department of Sociology in Lund have written the article Meetings o

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lets-pretend-not-meeting - 2025-05-09

Published 4 November 2020 Sociologist Tullia Jack's paper questions whether changes meant to increase life quality and provide basic human rights, are actually contributing to deepening social stratification. Tullia Jack has published the paper ‘Without cleanliness we can’t lead the life, no?’ Cleanliness practices, (in)accessible infrastructures, social (im)mobility and (un)sustainable consumptio

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/more-cleanliness-deepening-social-gaps - 2025-05-09

Published 5 November 2020 The impact party politics has on the circulation of information about COVID-19 is the topic of a new article in the Canadian Journal of Political Science. Doctoral Student of Social Anthropology Isabelle Johansson has together with researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside published the article titled: ”The Partisan Impact on Local Government Dissemination of CO

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-do-politics-impact-access-information-about-covid-19 - 2025-05-09

Published 10 November 2020 Alexandra Franzén, doctoral student of sociology, has published the article “But ÖB Bengt Gustafsson took me by the hand and thanked me. A comparison between Jan Guillou's and Peter Bratt's accounts of the IB-publication in 1973 and 2017 ” in the Political Science journal Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. In May 1973, the Swedish journalists Peter Bratt and Jan Guillou expose

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sociologist-examines-swedish-ib-scandal-1973 - 2025-05-09

Published 12 February 2021 SWEDISH PARENTING SUPPORT: Lisa Eklund and Åsa Lundqvist at the Department of Sociology in Lund have published the article "Governing as peers : Reluctant experts and competent parents in the Swedish welfare state" in the French-language, international journal: Lien social et Politiques. Abstract In recent years, parenting support has gained traction in the Swedish welfa

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/competent-parents-steered-peers - 2025-05-09

Published 24 March 2021 Susanne Boethius and Malin Åkerström at the Department of Sociology in Lund are winners of the Nordic Journal of Criminology Best Article Prize 2020 with the article "Revealing hidden realities: disclosing domestic abuse to informal others". The study draws on interviews with 21 Swedish women who have been victims of domestic abuse and their social networks. The article dis

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/best-article-prize-2020-goes-sociology-article-victims-domestic-abuse - 2025-05-09

Published 2 June 2021 Even though much of their time is spent in less dramatic situations, transnational police from a range of different counties describe their own work in terms of fighting and combat. David Sausdal, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, has spent six years ethnographically researching transnational policing efforts at both the national and international leve

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/war-language-used-transnational-police-when-describing-their-work - 2025-05-09

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 12 September 2023 Prize ceremony at EMV Strawberry feast. Professor Angela Cenci Nilsson and Dean Kristina Åkesson. Photo: Sofia B Liljedahl Through her work, Professor Cenci Nilsson has developed preclinical models mimicking the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia, exploiting these models

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/multiparks-coordinator-awarded-bengt-falck-prize-neuroscience - 2025-05-09

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 25 September 2023 Imaging methods are valuable tools for understanding neurodegenerative diseases and monitoring the therapeutic effects of new treatments. That is why MultiPark researchers with expertise in clinical imaging gather across research groups. Clinical imaging methods is a new special interest group (SI

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/clinical-imaging-methods-special-interest-group - 2025-05-09

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 10 October 2023 The project addresses new hypotheses using mouse models of PD treated with drugs mimicking dopamine. People with Parkinson´s disease (PD) often develop abnormal involuntary movements (dyskinesias) during the course of their treatment with dopaminomimetic drugs.  In this new collaborative project, An

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-collaborative-project-tackles-previously-unknown-mechanisms-parkinsons-dyskinesias - 2025-05-09

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 22 September 2023 Martino Avallone defends his thesis on the 29th of September 2023. Martino Avallone spent the past four years developing tools for mapping gene expression and proteins in the brain to investigate basic biological questions and to elucidate the molecular mysteries contributing to Parkinson’s diseas

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/genetic-tools-studying-parkinsons-disease-phd-interview-martino-avallone - 2025-05-09

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 4 October 2023 Megg Garcia-Ryde defends her thesis on the 10th of October 2023. Megg Garcia-Ryde’s thesis sheds light on the early pathological processes in Alzheimer’s disease and the interplay between neurons and microglia as the disease evolves. October 10, she defends her thesis. Now, she gives her perspectives

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/neuroimmune-crosstalk-early-alzheimers-disease-phd-interview-megg-garcia-ryde - 2025-05-09

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 6 October 2023 At the Multipark Café, Tomas Björklund explained the complexity of the brain to an interested audience. Photo: Bodil Malmström In today's scientific world, microscopic images have become a powerful resource for research. With access to advanced microscopes, researchers can now create unique images of s

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/making-invisible-visible-magic-microscopic-images - 2025-05-09

By katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - published 9 October 2023 Photo: iStock/Gab13 Is it possible that a single biomarker can detect all types of diseases related to dopamine deficiency in the brain? Yes, that's what a research group in Lund is discovering. "We have observed that an enzyme in cerebrospinal fluid and in blood is a useful marker for identifying all types

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-blood-marker-can-identify-parkinsonian-diseases - 2025-05-09

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 19 October 2023 Jana Rájová defends her thesis on the 23th of October 2023. Jana Rájová’s research turns light on gene expression in different parts of the brain affected by Parkinson’s disease. October 23, she defends her thesis in the Molecular Neuromodulation research group. In this interview, she tells about ho

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/gene-expression-parkinsons-disease-phd-interview-jana-rajova - 2025-05-09

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Bento Luis) - published 24 October 2023 Many steps needs to be taken to bring a novel stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s Disease, STEM-PD, from the lab to the clinic. Illustration by Katrine Bech Lauritzen. A recent publication by MultiPark researchers at Lund University’s Lund Stem Cell Center gives a closer look at the making of a nove

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/closer-look-making-novel-stem-cell-therapy-parkinsons-disease - 2025-05-09

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 6 November 2023 MAXIV offers new techniques to unravel structural changes in biomolecules of interest to researchers in neurodegeneration. Sweden has made significant strategic investments into the national infrastructure MAX IV, with world-unique instruments usable across disciplines. One emerging area is within m

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/maxiv-high-resolution-sub-cellular-x-ray-measurements-special-interest-group - 2025-05-09

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Bento Luis) - published 13 November 2023 Researchers at Lund University have discovered that a specific group of genetic elements in our DNA influence the development of the human brain, their study was published in Science Advances. Photo: Phonlami Photos at Canva.com The human brain is an incredibly intricate organ that regulates ever

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/how-mobile-dna-shapes-human-brain - 2025-05-09

Published 16 November 2023 Andreas Bruzelius defended his Ph.D. thesis "Generating GABAergic interneurons through reprogramming and differentiation strategies" on Friday, 20 October 2023. Andreas Bruzelius, a Ph.D. student at Lund University, defended his PhD thesis on Friday, 20 October 2023. Andreas' research focuses on generating brain cells, specifically interneurons, in the lab, which has sig

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/generating-gabaergic-interneurons-phd-interview-andreas-bruzelius - 2025-05-09