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What impact does development research actually have? And how can this field thrive in a world of sudden policy changes and devastating wars? The 2024 DevRes conference in Lund is around the corner – meet Sara Gabrielsson, the Conference coordinator. In October, development researchers from all over Sweden (and beyond) will gather in Lund for the bi-annual DevRes conference. Sara Gabrielsson, Confe

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/development-polarized-world-upcoming-devres-2024-conference - 2026-04-23

Are you a PhD student with a development research focus? Do you want to showcase your project and get feedback while also networking with other doctoral students? This is an online opportunity for you! Works-in-Progress is a series of three online events by the Development Research School. This is an opportunity for development research PhD students from all countries and universitites to showcase

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/open-applications-works-progress-series-online - 2026-04-23

Doctoral researchers from Ghana and abroad participated in and successfully completed the third edition of the Methodology and Field Studies course, a Development Research School collaboration hosted by the University of Ghana. The Methodology and Field Studies course is a collaboration between the Development Research School, the Institute of Statistical Social & Economic Research (ISSER), and th

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/21-ghanaian-phd-students-successfully-completed-methodology-and-field-studies-course - 2026-04-23

Join us at lunch, every other Thursday! The Development Lunch Seminar programme for the Fall semester of 2024 is now live. This is a bi-weekly, online research seminar for anyone interested in development research, broadly defined. About the Developent Lunch SeminarsThe seminar series is a collaboration between the Development Research School and the Development Group at the Department of Economic

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/fall-2024-programme-development-lunch-seminars - 2026-04-23

PhD students worldwide can now apply to two doctoral courses, hosted by the Development Research School: "Power, Justice and (De)coloniality in Development" (Uppsala University) and "Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals" (Lund University). Both courses are free of charge and are open to doctoral students from all fields of social sciences or related fields of study. Priority will be gi

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/two-phd-courses-development-research-open-applications - 2026-04-23

13 doctoral researchers from universities across Europe and Africa gathered in Lund to present their ongoing work and discuss development research topics. On 23 - 24 October, the Development Research School hosted an international PhD workshop in Lund (Sweden) with the purpose of bringing development research doctoral students from a broad range of backgrounds together. The event was an opportunit

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/international-development-research-phd-workshop-held-lund - 2026-04-23

Looking for an opportunity to share your development research project? Apply to host a Development Lunch Seminar this spring semester! The Development Lunch Seminar is a great opportunity to share your work at any stage - from early ideas to nearly completed manuscripts - on topics broadly related to development research. PhD students are especially encouraged to apply!The seminars take place ever

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/present-your-research-development-lunch-seminar-spring - 2026-04-23

Join us at lunch, every other Thursday! The Development Lunch Seminar Program for the spring semester of 2025 is now official. About the Developent Lunch SeminarsThe seminar series is a collaboration between the Development Research School and the Development Group at the Department of Economic History at Lund University. Both junior and senior scholars - from a wide range of disciplines and unive

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/spring-2025-program-development-lunch-seminars - 2026-04-23

Welcome to a public webinar about publication strategies for development research PhD students. Are you a PhD student with a focus on development research? Join us for a webinar this week on publication strategies! The webinar is suitable for PhD students of all levels.📅: 5 March 11:00 to 12.00Presenters: Fredrik Söderbaum, University of GothenburgAnders Sjögren, Uppsala UniversityRead more about

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/upcoming-webinar-publication-strategies-phd-students - 2026-04-23

The online doctoral course Power, Justice and (De)coloniality in Development is now open for applications. Application deadline is 13 June 2025. This course addresses various aspects of power in development. Rather than adapting a post-colonial perspective in which development practices and politics is portrayed as something enacted by the global North on the global South, the course is situated i

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/apply-now-power-justice-and-decoloniality-development - 2026-04-23

During Summer of 2025, the fourth edition of the Methodology and Field Studies course brought together 19 PhD students in Ghana. The participants in the Methodology and Field Studies course were competetively selected from eight universities across Ghana. The aim of the four-day course was to strengthen research methodology skills, encourage interdisciplinary dialogue, and provide tools for improv

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/fourth-edition-methodology-and-field-studies-course-held-university-ghana - 2026-04-23

Join us at lunch, every other Thursday! The Development Lunch Seminar Program for the fall semester of 2025 is now official. 18 September (Online)“Women Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprises and Women Empowerment”Abigail Zaato (SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Ghana)2 October (Online)“Women and Peacebuilding at Community Level in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Understandin

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/fall-2025-program-development-lunch-seminars - 2026-04-23

With 2025, this original era of the Development Research School is coming to and end, but the programme committee is hopeful about the future of the school. The Development Research School - an international collaboration between Lund University, Uppsala University, Gothenburg University and the University of Ghana - was established in January 2022 . The focus of the partnership has been sustainab

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/future-development-research-school - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Using the CRISPR/Cas9 “gene scissors” researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre in Sweden have managed to “turn off” an enzyme that proved to play a key role in the regulation of the diabetes-associated TXNIP gene. The results are decreased cell death and increased insulin production in the genetically modified p

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/decreased-cell-death-and-increased-insulin-production-pancreatic-beta-cells-genome-edit-crisprcas9 - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Charlotte Ling, professor of epigenetics at the Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Sweden, has been awarded the European Research Council’s Consolidator Grant. The funding of EUR 2 million over five years will be used to develop new methods to improve prediction, prevention and

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/investments-epigenetics-combat-diabetes - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. BEAt-DKD (“Biomarker Enterprise to Attack Diabetic Kidney Disease”), a unique public private partnership funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), member companies from the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and the sta

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/beat-dkd-innovative-medicines-initiative-project-precision-medicine-dkd - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In his research in zebrafish, Olov Andersson of Karolinska Institutet strives to generate insulin-producing cells and new treatment methods for diabetes. This has led to his selection as a recipient of the Leif C. Groop award for outstanding research, awarded by the Lund University Diabetes Centre and sponsored by Nov

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/prize-awarded-research-zebrafish-could-lead-new-treatments-diabetes - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A two-days seminar gathered some 70 researchers from the University of Bergen, the Institute for Molecular Medicine in Finland (FIMM) and Lund University Diabetes Centre. - We wanted to strengthen the bonds that already exist and in the future create a Nordic network of metabolic researchers, says Ola Hansson who orga

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/nordic-network-metabolic-researchers - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In Skåne, newborn babies can be screened for type 1 diabetes and celiac disease (gluten intolerance). To raise awareness about the screening we will be running an information campain on all commuter trains and busses in Skåne during week 15 and 19. Children found to be at risk are eligable to participate in our preven

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/screening-t1d-and-celiac-disease - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The 3rd Joint EASD Islet Study Group and Beta-Cell Workshop gathered experts in islet cell biology - mainly beta cells - ranging from development to function and with a focus on both type 1- and type 2-diabetes. This year the EASD islet study group and the bi-annual beta cell workshop were merged gathering current isl

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/3rd-joint-easd-islet-study-group-and-beta-cell-workshop - 2026-04-23