Publicerad 31 augusti 2023 Studentexpeditionen har nu öppnat för hösten och ni är välkomna att besöka oss 13.00 - 15.00 på tisdagar och 09.00 - 12.00 på onsdagar. Kära studenter, Studentexpeditionen har nu öppnat för hösten och ni är välkomna att besöka oss 13.00 - 15.00 på tisdagar och 09.00 - 12.00 på onsdagar. Det går även att skicka mail eller ringa oss under tiderna då expeditionen är stängd.

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/studentexpeditionens-oppettider-1 - 2025-07-03

Publicerad 20 september 2023 Vi söker flera amanuenser som ska stödja institutionens administrativa arbete gällande utbildningen på grund- och avancerad nivå. Detta är en tidsbegränsad anställning under perioden 240201-240331 med en omfattning om 20%. Läs mer om tjänsten och ansök HÄR.

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/vi-soker-1-4-amanuenser - 2025-07-03

Publicerad 23 november 2023 Projektet FEM-TRANS använder ett feministiskt tillvägagångssätt för att studera arbetsvillkoren i den transnationella leveranskedjan för de litium- och kopparråvaror som krävs för att driva den gröna energiomställningen för elfordon i Europa. Även om denna åtgärd ofta framställs som ett grundläggande steg mot att minska koldioxidutsläppen, riskerar övergången till en mi

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/medel-till-feministisk-studie-av-marginaliserade-gruppers-paverkan-av-energiomstallningen-till-el - 2025-07-03

Publicerad 29 november 2023 Sara Frenning. Foto: outdoor.se  Grattis säger vi till Sara Frenning som läst masterprogrammet i humanekologi på institutionen och som fått Outdoors stipendium på 10.000 kronor för sin mastersuppsats  "A Heavy Burden. Coloniality and Exploitation of the Subaltern in Nepal’s Mountain Tourism Industry".Motiveringen löd:"Juryn anser att Saras uppsats är både tänkvärd och l

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/stipendium-till-masterstudent-inom-humanekologi - 2025-07-03

Publicerad 20 december 2023 Över jul och nyår ser vi fram emot välbehövlig vila, både för studenter och institutionens personal. Mellan den 23 december – 7 januari har vi därför stängt (gäller även expeditionen). Ordinarie öppettider gäller igen från den 8 januari 2024. En god jul och ett gott nytt år önskar vi dig!

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/institutionens-opettider-over-jul-nyar - 2025-07-03

Publicerad 6 februari 2024 Välkommen till den första säsongen av KEG-podden!Podcasten produceras av institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi på Lunds universitet, och i varje avsnitt träffar vi forskare och pratar om ny samhällsgeografisk forskning.Avsnitt 1 släpps 19 februari och då träffar vi Stine Madsen som forskat på hållbar omställning inom dansk avfallshantering. Samtalet hål

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/premiar-keg-podden - 2025-07-03

Publicerad 8 februari 2024 Fotograf: Diana Jap, omslagsbild: Milena Bojovic Mariko Takedomi Karlsson försvarade sin avhandling i humanekologi den 29 januari 2024. Avhandlingen som har titeln Fashioning the Ecological Crisis: Sustainability and Feminism in Fashion Advertising and Communication in Contemporary Sweden är en kritisk feministisk studie som utforskar modeindustrins etiska marknadsföring

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/ny-avhandling-belyser-hur-modeforetagens-anvandning-av-feminism-och-greenwashing-bidrar-till - 2025-07-03

Published 22 December 2016 Santa’s home would logically be located in the small town of Jokkmokk in northern Sweden, according to researchers at Lund University in Sweden, who have used satellite images of the Earth to calculate the mean centre of the global population. WATCH VIDEO STORYThe results contradict the idea that Santa’s hometown is in Rovaniemi, Finland. In fact, the same calculation us

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/santa-claus-should-live-northern-sweden - 2025-07-03

Published 12 January 2017 Johan Jakobsson (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Over millions of years retroviruses have been incorporated into our human DNA, where they today make up almost 10 per cent of the total genome. A research group at Lund University in Sweden has now discovered a mechanism through which these retroviruses may have an impact on gene expression. This means that they may have played a sign

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/viruses-genome-important-our-brain - 2025-07-03

Published 12 January 2017 The Swedish mission at Gebel el Silsila, led by Dr. Maria Nilsson from Lund University and John Ward, has discovered 12 new tombs dating from the 18th Dynasty (Thutmosid period), including crypts cut into the rock, rock-cut tombs with one or two chambers ,niches possibly used for offering, a tomb containing multiple animal burials, and several juvenal burials, some intact

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/twelve-new-tombs-discovered-gebel-el-silsila-egypt - 2025-07-03

Published 13 January 2017 Shatter cone, Siljan (Photo: Sanna Alwmark) A celestial body with a diameter of five kilometres crashed into the Earth’s surface, causing the formation of the so-called Siljan Ring in Dalarna, Sweden. The original impact crater was approximately 60 kilometres in diameter and the bedrock was covered by a layer of sediments 2.5 km thick when the projectile struck, according

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/five-km-wide-celestial-body-created-europes-largest-impact-structure - 2025-07-03

Published 16 January 2017 Nils Holmberg (Photo: Gunnar Menander) Children aged 9 are several times more sensitive to disruptive advertising than adults. This is shown by studies conducted at Lund University in Sweden, in which children’s eye movements were measured. Together with the Lund University Humanities Lab, media and communications researcher Nils Holmberg has developed a combination of me

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/children-are-disproportionately-affected-online-advertising - 2025-07-03

Published 17 January 2017 Laurent Roybon The Stem Cell Laboratory for CNS Disease Modeling (CSC Laboratory) in Lund, has created one of the largest iPSC biobanks from patients diagnosed with familial and idiopathic PD, and associated synucleionopathies. iPSCs are obtained by reprogramming patient’s somatic cells into pluripotent stem cells. This unique technique, which allows generating embryonic

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/first-archive-ips-cells-parkinsons-patients - 2025-07-03

Published 17 January 2017 Emma Sparr (Photo: Gunnar Menander) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a method that makes it possible to see how individual molecules from solvents in skin creams, medicated ointments and cleaning products affect and interact with the skin’s own molecules. In the study, the researchers have examined how molecules added to the skin through various liq

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-solvents-affect-skin - 2025-07-03

Published 19 January 2017 Jesper Fritz Previous research has shown that there may be a connection between daily physical education and improved study performance. A new extensive study from Lund University in Sweden has shown the same connection, but for boys in particular. The project involved several primary school classes in which the pupils participated in physical education on a daily basis,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/boys-more-physical-education-school-had-better-grades - 2025-07-03

Published 19 January 2017 Lund University is once again the most popular choice for international students wanting to study their Master’s degree in Sweden, with 1/3 of all applicants from the latest application round choosing Lund University programmes. Of the total 74,620 students who applied to autumn 2017 Master’s degree programmes at Swedish universities, 26,223 chose Lund University programm

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-once-again-top-choice-sweden-international-applicants - 2025-07-03

Published 23 January 2017 Zaal Kokaia Today, a stroke usually leads to permanent disability – but in the future, the stroke-injured brain could be reparable by replacing dead cells with new, healthy neurons, using transplantation. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have taken a step in that direction by showing that some neurons transplanted into the brains of stroke-injured rats were incorp

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/transplanted-neurons-incorporated-stroke-injured-rat-brain - 2025-07-03

Published 23 January 2017 The meristem. The photo was taken using confocal microscopy. (Photo: Arun Sampathkumar and Yassin Refahi) Researchers have managed to show how the cells in a plant, a multicellular organism, determine their size and regulate their growth over time. The findings overturn previous theories in the field and are potentially significant for the future of agriculture and forest

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-plant-cells-regulate-growth-shown-first-time - 2025-07-03

Published 23 January 2017 Researchers have discovered minerals from 43 meteorites that landed on Earth 470 million years ago. More than half of the mineral grains are from meteorites completely unknown or very rare in today’s meteorite flow. These findings mean that we will probably need to revise our current understanding of the history and development of the solar system. WATCH VIDEO STORYThe di

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-rare-meteorites-challenge-our-understanding-solar-system - 2025-07-03

Published 26 January 2017 Mattias Möller (Photo: Åsa Hansdotter) 1 000 new mutations in the blood group genes: that is what physician and former programmer Mattias Möller found in his research study in which he developed new software and investigated blood group genes in 2 504 people. This discovery from Lund University in Sweden was published recently in the journal Blood Advances. Genomes from 2

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-1-000-new-genetic-variants-were-discovered-blood-groups - 2025-07-03