On Friday, February 28, Monica Porzionato defended her thesis "Feeling the changing climate: An affective approach to the strategic communication of floods in a tourist city". Strategic communication studies usually consider emotions as psychological effects of communication or as an influence on people's understanding of an issue. In the first case, emotions like joy or desire result from strateg

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/successful-defence-dr-monica-porzionato - 2025-08-21

In the Safeguard project, researchers are working together to reverse the loss of wild pollinators in Europe. Photo: Stina Lundkvist CEC is one of 24 European research institutes and organizations that is participating in the EU-funded Safeguard project, where world-leading researchers and experts are collaborating to reverse the loss of wild pollinators in Europe. The project is unique as it take

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-participates-international-research-project-protect-wild-pollinators - 2025-08-21

Social and economic factors have led to a dramatic rise in type 2 diabetes and obesity around the world. In a review in Science, Mark McCarthy, professor at the University of Oxford, UK, and Paul Franks, professor at Lund University, Sweden, examine the knowledge of the actual causes and the interplay between genetics and lifestyle factors. By studying how our genes express themselves in response

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/type-2-diabetes-and-obesity-what-do-we-really-know - 2025-08-21

When the American research field "Fear of Crime" was introduced in Sweden in the 1980s, it was translated "otrygghet", a word with a previously established meaning in Swedish. The meaning of the word "otrygghet" has since then changed significantly in Sweden. From being used to signify economic and materialist unpredictability, "otrygghet" has come to be used almost exclusively in a crime context.

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hanna-sahlin-lilja-has-defended-her-thesis-fear-crime-research-sweden - 2025-08-21

Participants in the programme ‘Human Rights and Gender Equality in Climate and Disaster Displacement’ together with teacher Matthew Scott and Lord Mayor of Kampala. In a spirit of collaboration and commitment, Lund University's programme 'Human Rights and Gender Equality in Climate and Disaster Displacement' has reached its culmination. The programme's final workshop, held in Uganda on August 21-2

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/supporting-african-cities-addressing-climate-related-displacement - 2025-08-21

The Ukrainian delegation with rector Viktor in the foreground. Several are wearing traditional embroidered clothes for the celebration of Vyshyvanka Day.] For two weeks in May, teaching staff and students from Zhytomyr University experienced surroundings other than the state of war that prevails in their home country. In Sweden, they had teaching sessions on reflective thinking and, not least, a b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ukrainian-students-and-researchers-visited-school-aviation - 2025-08-22

Swapping concrete and asphalt for trees, ponds and green roofs is an example of how cities can be adapted to cope with heavy rain and climate change. But time is running out. For nature-based solutions to have a global impact, we need to act fast, according to researchers. A late summer’s day in August 2014, 100 mm of rain fell over the course of a 24-hour period in the Sofielund area in Malmö. Ba

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nature-model-greener-cities - 2025-08-21

Sverre Spoelstra is currently doing research on gamification in high-performance organisations and algorithmic leadership. Illustration: OpenAI/ChatGPT. Artificial intelligence has gone from horror visions on film to a tool in everyone’s pocket. From spelling advice to shopping tips – and now to assigning work and measuring performance. What’s next? We met with organisational researcher Sverre Spo

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/he-researches-algorithmic-leadership - 2025-08-21

Torsten Krause together with a hunter in the Amazon. Photo: Malin Palm. LUCSUS researcher Torsten Krause have been researching hunting, forest fauna and wild meat consumption, particularly in the Amazon, for the past three years. He is currently in Colombia, where his fieldwork was cut short due to the current coronavirus pandemic. In this interview, he reflects on the impacts of the coronavirus o

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflections-impacts-coronavirus-indigenous-communities-amazon-torsten-krause - 2025-08-21

Forests are important to people’s health and wellbeing and provide us with many different benefits. Photo: iStockphoto How are we going to reach climate targets? That is an ever-present question for many of us. A major new EU project, CLIMB-FOREST, will create an overview of European forests and forestry over a period of four-and-a-half years. The aim is to be able to guide the forestry industry a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-research-project-can-provide-guidance-how-european-forestry-should-be-conducted - 2025-08-21

Med Enheten för forskningsdata satsar universitetet på att förbättra stödet till forskarna i hanteringen av forskningsdata. Varje fakultet har nu utsett en data steward som ska stötta forskarna med det som rör forskningsdata. Den nya Enheten för forskningsdata ska ge forskare bättre stöd i att hantera sina forskningsdata enligt juridiska krav och säkerhetsstandarder. Detta genom såväl tekniska lös

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/lu-datastewards - 2025-08-22

The photo depicts Indigenous members of the Bedamuni People of Western Province, Papua New Guinea. The researchers argue that there is a need to broaden both the focus and the geographical scope of research on loss. Photo: Guy Jackson. – We have a moral responsibility to document loss of cultural heritage, indigenous and local knowledge, declining ecosystems and eroding sense of place, says LUCSUS

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-literature-review-documents-non-economic-loss-and-damage-due-climate-change - 2025-08-21

Damage in Gaza Strip Oct. 2023 (Photo: Wafa/Wikimedia Commons) The war in Gaza is testing alliances and shaking up politics, both globally and regionally. What does this mean for the West's relationship with the Middle East? How are inter-regional dynamics affected? And what is the impact of the war in Israel? Read an interview with Karin Aggestam, Political Scientist and Director of the Centre fo

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/geopolitics-and-diplomacy-wake-gaza-war - 2025-08-21

Photo by Ira Mint on Unsplash. Properly managed, the agricultural sector in Europe can contribute to many of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by improving food security, reducing poverty and enhancing biodiversity. But new research shows that indicators to measure key SDGs such as health and equality are entirely missing from the EU’s most expensive funding scheme. – What g

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-points-out-key-gaps-eus-largest-funding-scheme-common-agricultural-policy - 2025-08-21

Terese Thoni under fältarbete i Guayaquil, Ecuador. Foto: Carol Martillo Att skydda, plantera och återställa kustnära ekosystem har fått allt större uppmärksamhet som ett sätt att fånga och lagra kol i mangroveskogar, sjögräs och kustnära våtmarker. Terese Thoni har i sin avhandling undersökt dessa ekosystems betydelse i relation till de politiska klimatförhandlingarna. För tio år sedan myntades b

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/bredare-syn-pa-blatt-kol-ger-input-till-klimatmote - 2025-08-21

Drönarbild över Helsingborg. Foto: David Lundin, Helsingborg.se Forskning om hållbara leverans- och returer, förpackningar inom e-handel och arbete med barns hälsa. Det är några av de projekt på Campus Helsingborg som 2024 får stöttning av Helsingborgs stad forsknings- och utvecklingsfond. Lunds universitet och Helsingborgs stad arbetar tillsammans för att utveckla verksamheten vid Campus Helsingb

https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/helsingborgs-stad-stottar-forskning-som-skapar-samhallsnytta - 2025-08-21

Två forskare vid medicinska fakulteten får anslag, 61 miljoner, för forskning om immunologiskt långtidsminne och omprogrammering av tumörceller. Forskningen ska leda till effektivare vaccinationsstrategier och immunterapier. Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse har beviljat 835 miljoner kronor till 30 olika projekt inom medicin, naturvetenskap och teknik som bedöms ha potential att bana väg för fr

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/yuan-och-pereira-far-anslag-av-wallenbergstiftelse - 2025-08-21

3D illustration of different pollen. Is it possible that a tiny pollen dredged up from a European lake can hold answers about both our past and our future? Researchers at Lund University use pollen as old as 12 000 years to predict our future climate, and to study ecological and historical change. Researchers Esther Githumbi and Johan Lindström use pollen from the ice age to the present to inform

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/old-pollen-seed-can-predict-tomorrows-climate - 2025-08-21

In her teaching in organization and leadership at Lund University School of Economics and Management, Nadja Sörgärde works in line with what is called "blended learning". Here she talks about how she thinks about course design and use of video in teaching. Photo: Surface on Unsplash.com and Johan Bävman. My idea is that the students should be given the best possible conditions for deep learning an

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/blended-learning-practice - 2025-08-21

Sweden and Denmark are among the countries in the world with the highest type-1 diabetes prevalence. Both countries have a long tradition of excellent research and treatment, and with the new joint diabetes project DiaUnion, supported by the EU's Interreg program, we are bridging research among the two countries to jointly put in an extra effort to fight the deadly disease. The DiaUnion project st

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/denmark-and-sweden-join-forces-against-diabetes - 2025-08-21