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Han inledde sin karriär med att stämma BT Kemi 1976. På fredag disputerar miljörättsadvokaten Staffan Michelson i rättssociologi. I sin avhandling har han tagit reda på hur miljöengagerade personer och företag kan ta hjälp av juridiken för att främja arbetet för en hållbar utveckling. – Många tror att makten att förändra miljön och klimatet mest finns hos politiker och myndigheter. Men det finns o

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/miljorattsadvokatens-tre-hallbarhetstips - 2025-12-19

Socialsekreterarnas arbetsuppgifter i Trelleborg har delvis övertagits av ”smarta datorer”, eller automatiserat beslutsfattande. Nu ska forskare i socialt arbete utvärdera den omstridda Trelleborgsmodellen och ta reda på vad som händer när ny teknik tar över vissa arbetsuppgifter. Blir socialsekreterarna färre eller får de istället andra arbetsuppgifter? Vad händer med yrkesidentiteten? Leder robo

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/omstridda-trelleborgsmodellen-utvarderas - 2025-12-19

Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten vid Lunds universitet har utsett journalisten Tomas Ramberg (född 1958) till hedersdoktor. Tomas Ramberg har varit knuten till Dagens Eko sedan början av 1990-talet. Han ledde under en tioårsperiod radioprogrammet Ekots lördagsintervju. För närvarande är han verksam som inrikespolitisk kommentator vid Ekoredaktionen. Han deltar också i poddradioprogrammet Det polit

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/journalisten-tomas-ramberg-blir-hedersdoktor - 2025-12-19

Lisa Strömbom vid Statsvetenskapliga institutionen är en av fem forskare som i år har beviljats anslag inom den svenska spetssatsningen Swedish Foundations’ Starting grant.Projektet som finansieras har titeln ”Pushing the boundaries of peace research – reconceptualizing and measuring agonistic peace”. Det undersöker hur fredsprocesser kan göras mer inkluderande och vilken inverkan ökad inklusivite

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/prestigefullt-projektbidrag-till-forskare-i-statsvetenskap - 2025-12-19

Vi använder mycket vatten, energi och tvättmedel för att passa in i ett förväntat renlighetsideal snarare än för att klara hygienen. För att snabba på beteendeförändringar förespråkar en ny avhandling att energiförbrukningen på exempelvis tvätt- och diskmaskiner synliggörs. Många vill minska sin klimatbelastning men känner frustration över att de inte vet vad som är smartast att satsa på. Enligt e

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/andrade-renlighetsideal-i-klimatkrisens-spar - 2025-12-19

En ny regering är på plats efter en unik period i svensk politik. Pressen på politiker att ständigt trycka på med snabba och dräpande budskap kan ha försvårat förhandlingarna, konstaterar forskare. Månaderna efter valet har kännetecknats av hård politisk debatt – inte minst i sociala medier – och förhandlingarna mellan partierna har till stor del pågått inför öppen ridå. I varje steg av processen

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/politik-harda-ord-ingen-slump - 2025-12-19

I december blev Sveriges plastutredning färdig. Och på EU-nivå finns en ny plaststrategi med bla direktiv om ett förbud mot engångsartiklar som sugrör, bestick och tallrikar. Ett bra ramverk men plastdebatten måste nyanseras. Det menar statsvetaren Tobias Nielsen som ingår i ett forskningsprogram om hållbar plastanvändning. – Både Sveriges egen plastutredning och EU-strategin utgör ett bra ramverk

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/plastdebatten-maste-nyanseras - 2025-12-19

She wants to shed new light on the dark matter that has long baffled the world of research. Now, researcher in particle physics Caterina Doglioni is receiving 2 million euro from the European Research Council (ERC). Caterina Doglioni, assistant senior lecturer in particle physics, is receiving around 2 million euro to build up a research team over five years to look for new particles that could of

https://www.science.lu.se/article/prestigious-grant-particle-physicist - 2025-12-19

How do bees always find their way home, not to mention in a straight line? What is it about the insect brain that allows them to navigate so easily? Could we copy that function? A step in this direction has now been taken by a group of scientists in a project combining the fields of biology, physics, nanoscience and informatics. At first, the line looks like a jumble. It makes turns in all directi

https://www.science.lu.se/article/mimicking-navigation-insect-brain - 2025-12-19

A particle physicist involved in popular education and who made a number of global discoveries in her research portfolio and a professor of theoretical physical chemistry who has developed theoretical models in the area straddling chemistry and physics. Melissa Franklin and Clifford Woodward have been appointed honorary doctors at the Faculty of Science at Lund University. Melissa Franklin, a part

https://www.science.lu.se/article/leading-particle-physicist-and-pioneering-chemist-named-new-honorary-doctors-science - 2025-12-19

The fluttery flight of butterflies has so far been somewhat of a mystery to researchers, given their unusually large and broad wings relative to their body size. Now researchers at Lund University in Sweden have studied the aerodynamics of butterflies in a wind tunnel. The results suggest that butterflies use a highly effective clap technique, therefore making use of their unique wings. This helps

https://www.science.lu.se/article/butterfly-wing-clap-explains-mystery-flight - 2025-12-19

Theories were introduced as far back as the 1960s about the possible existence of superheavy elements. Their most long-lived nuclei could give rise to a so-called “island of stability” far beyond the element uranium. However, a new study, led by nuclear physicists at Lund University, shows that a 50-year-old nuclear physics manifesto must now be revised. The heaviest element found in nature is ura

https://www.science.lu.se/article/nuclear-physicists-voyage-towards-mythical-island - 2025-12-19

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered the individual traits of fungi, and how their hyphae – that is, the fungal threads that grow in soil - behave very differently as they navigate through the earth’s microscopic labyrinths. The study was performed in a lab environment, and the underground system constructed synthetically from silicone. Using a microscope, researchers were able

https://www.science.lu.se/article/soldiers-snakes-and-marathon-runners-hidden-world-fungi - 2025-12-19

The world's largest bird, the ostrich, has problems reproducing when the temperature deviates by 5 degrees or more from the ideal temperature of 20 °C. The research, from Lund University, is published in Nature Communications. The results show that the females lay up to 40 percent fewer eggs if the temperature has fluctuated in the days before laying eggs. Both male and female production of gamete

https://www.science.lu.se/article/ostriches-challenged-temperature-fluctuations - 2025-12-19

For the first time, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has mapped out exactly what happens when spruce bark beetles use their sense of smell to find trees and partners to reproduce with. The hope is that the results will lead to better pest control and protection of the forest in the future. The Eurasian spruce bark beetle uses its sense of smell to locate trees and partners. The odo

https://www.science.lu.se/article/breakthrough-fight-against-spruce-bark-beetles - 2025-12-19

A Swedish-Danish research team is now launching a new theory of the process that led to the formation of Earth. Through advanced analyses of meteorites, astronomers can determine that Tellus went from being a baby planet made of ice and carbon to reaching its current size thanks to millimetre-sized pebbles. The study also shows that the Earth was formed over a much shorter period than previously t

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-study-shows-earth-was-formed-millimetre-sized-pebbles-over-short-period - 2025-12-19

Sixty-six million years ago, a gigantic celestial body crashed to Earth on the Yucatán peninsula, forming a crater 200 kilometres across. The impact plunged Earth into darkness and killed off the dinosaurs. Now, researchers from Lund University in Sweden, among others, are analysing drill cores from the crater to reconstruct in detail what happened on Earth directly after the impact. The Chicxulub

https://www.science.lu.se/article/drill-cores-mexican-crater-provide-new-knowledge-about-dinosaurs-extinction - 2025-12-19

For 50 years, the world of research has been searching eagerly for the so-called Odderon particle – entirely fruitlessly. However, a Swedish-Hungarian research team has managed to discover the mythical particle with the help of extensive data analyses. In 1973, two French particle physicists were sitting in a basement amazed. According to their calculations, it seemed there was a completely new co

https://www.science.lu.se/article/particle-physics-detective-work-behind-solution-50-year-old-riddle - 2025-12-19

Long life is common among bird parents that get help with childcare. This finding comes from researchers at the universities of Lund and Oxford who reviewed data from more than 9,000 studies. Being a parent can be tough. In general, animals that care for many offspring die young, at least in species where parents are not helped by others. However, in some species things are different and parents r

https://www.science.lu.se/article/bird-parents-receive-help-live-longer - 2025-12-19

Volcano or meteorite? Over the past 100 years, two different theories have been put forward to explain the formation of Lake Mien. However, researchers from Lund University can now definitively state in a new study that the lake in Småland was formed by a gigantic celestial object. It was long thought that the circular Lake Mien in southern Småland was the remains of a volcano. However, in 1910 th

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-study-shows-lake-mien-was-formed-meteoric-impact - 2025-12-19