Published 20 August 2024 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 t

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/fall-2024-programme-development-lunch-seminars - 2025-07-01

Published 25 September 2024 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 o

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/two-phd-courses-development-research-open-applications - 2025-07-01

Published 30 October 2024 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. T

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Published 15 January 2025 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!Th

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Published 4 February 2025 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 rang

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/spring-2025-program-development-lunch-seminars - 2025-07-01

Published 3 March 2025 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 Un

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Published 12 May 2025 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, th

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/apply-now-power-justice-and-decoloniality-development - 2025-07-01

Published 13 December 2023 I en nyligen publicerad artikel i Dagens Nyheter räknas Psykoterapeutprogrammet till en av de tio högskoleutbildningar där flest får jobb efter avklarad examen. Så många som 96% av psykoterapeutstudenterna får jobb efter utbildningen, och det gör att programmet hamnar på tredje plats i DN:s lista. Här kan du läsa artikeln i DN.

https://www.psy.lu.se/en/article/psykoterapeuter-far-jobb-efter-utbildningen - 2025-07-01

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 9 March 2022 Charlotta Böiers, head of StemTherapy FACS Core Facility research infrastructure, and Mikael Sommarin, research engineer, discuss the results of a 22-colour analysis made on the new FACS device Symphony S6. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter. Anna Fossum, Project Manager at the StemTherapy FACS Core Facility research i

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-addition-lund-stem-cell-center-facs-facility - 2025-07-01

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 14 March 2022 Magdalena Götz, a professor of physiology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, held the prestigious Segerfalk lecture 2021. (Photo: private) Magdalena Götz, a professor of physiology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, held the prestigious Segerfalk lecture last year. The discovery she made as a youn

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/control-experiment-transformed-entire-research-field - 2025-07-01

Published 17 March 2022 To the left: Petri dishes for cell cultures in the lab. To the right: Cells from the cell line the researchers used in the study. (Photo: Massimo De Marinis and Yang de Marinis) A new study from Lund University in Sweden on how the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine affects human liver cells under experimental conditions, has been viewed more than 800,000 times in just over a

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/qa-covid-19-vaccine-study-gains-attention - 2025-07-01

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 21 March 2022 Kristina Fagher together with a Chinese colleague, "Ski-doctor", on the slopes. Meeting international colleagues is very rewarding and inspiring. Photo: Private photo. Our researcher is part of the Swedish Olympic Committee’s development programme “Tomorrow’s Sports Researchers” and her research on pa

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researcher-supporting-our-athletes-most-successful-paralympic-winter-games-long-time - 2025-07-01

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 31 March 2022 The islets of Langerhans are clusters of cells that are spread out over the pancreas. Lena Eliasson and Jones Ofori separate the islets of Langerhans from the pancreas to study them in the lab. Photo: Petra Olsson Researchers at Lund University have discovered increased levels of a microRNA in type 2 diabetes

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/newly-discovered-drug-candidate-increases-insulin-secretion-type-2-diabetes - 2025-07-01

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 8 April 2022 Image: Ben Sweet Two young experimental researchers have been awarded grants from the Anna-Lisa Rosenberg Foundation, the Department of Experimental Medical Science´s own grant for research in the neurobiological field with a clinical collaboration. Congratulations Alessandro Fiorenzano on the Anna-Lis

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/young-neurobiologists-awarded-grants-alzheimers-and-parkinsons-research - 2025-07-01

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 27 April 2022 Photo: Mostphotos. In addition to memory problems and other cognitive symptoms, most people with Alzheimer’s disease also suffer from mental health issues. It has long been unclear whether these occur because of tissue changes in the brain, or whether they represent psychological reactions to cognitiv

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/psychiatric-symptoms-alzheimers-disease - 2025-07-01

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 29 April 2022 Illustration: iStock/koto_feja. This year's prestigious Segerfalk lecture will be given by Eero Castrén, Research Director at the Neuroscience Centre at the University of Helsinki. In his research on brain plasticity, he has discovered clues about which mechanisms in the brain are affected by antidepressants – an

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/brain-plasticity-and-link-depression - 2025-07-01

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 13 May 2022 Obesity and excess weight increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, but individuals of normal weight can also develop the disease. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that it is possible to identify at-risk individuals by measuring BMI in a new way. The authors of the study have iden

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/metabolic-bmi-can-predict-risk-type-2-diabetes-normal-weight-patients - 2025-07-01

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 13 May 2022 Gülsen Özkaya Sahin (Photo: Tove Smeds) At the end of March, the first cases of acute severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children were reported in the UK. Since then, the number has increased to more than 300 in around 20 countries; there are now reports of nine suspected cases in Sweden. The acute liver infecti

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researchers-search-answers-increase-acute-severe-hepatitis-children - 2025-07-01

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 23 May 2022 Charlotte Ling, Tina Rönn and Karl Bacos carry out research at Lund University Diabetes Centre. They summarise some of the most important advancements within the field of epigenetics and diabetes in a review article. Photo: Petra Olsson Epigenetics has become an important tool for researchers endeavoring to und

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/epigenetics-can-pave-way-individualised-treatment-type-2-diabetes - 2025-07-01

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 31 May 2022 Inger Kristensson Hallström and Hanne Tønnesen, head of the WHO Collaboratoring Centre at Lund University. Photo: Jon Ulvsgärd. One in three patients is asked about their lifestyle habits when they visit the outpatient healthcare clinics. This figure really ought to be higher, according to Professors Hanne Tønnesen

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/who-mission-creating-evidence-how-health-care-can-prevent-disease - 2025-07-01