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LUCSUS Professor Christine Wamsler recently visited Australia to give the prestigious Dean’s lecture at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD). She was also invited to meet with researchers, practitioners and policy-makers in order to stimulate their work and open up a wider debate on urban adaptation and resilience. - Supporting sustainability and resilience is one of the three focus areas of the U

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/christine-wamsler-giving-deans-lecture-australia-and-creating-wider-debate-urban-adaptation-and - 2026-04-13

– Sanitation is a major challenge in India. It is partly to do with the high population density, there are more people sharing the same space, and a historically higher cultural and religious acceptance of poor sanitation, says Sara Gabrielsson from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS. Her research focus is on sanitation, health and sustainability. She is currently in India,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sanitation-more-toilets-informal-settlements-india-need-community-based-ownership-and-state-action - 2026-04-13

Cell replacement therapy has long been a hope for patients with Parkinson’s disease and efforts are on their way to use stem cell derived-dopaminergic neurons in clinical trials. On 14 October, Jessica Giacomoni defends her thesis. Her project about the direct conversion of human glial cells into therapeutic neurons directly within the brain has the ultimate goal to become an alternative to cell t

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/turning-glia-neurons-inside-brain-phd-interview-jessica-giacomoni - 2026-04-13

A person who carries the mutant gene will at some point in his or her life develop the deadly Huntington's disease. This brain disease can be inherited from generation to generation and begins insidiously, making it increasingly difficult to regulate emotions, thoughts, then movements. There is no treatment that slows down the disease. But Huntington researcher and psychiatrist Åsa Petersén works

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/huntingtons-disease-fascinating-and-touching-mystery - 2026-04-13

Pressmeddelande 6 oktober 2020 Tarmarnas bakterieflora, mikrobiotan, är förändrad hos personer med typ 2-diabetes. Nu visar en befolkningsstudie med stöd av bland annat Hjärt-Lungfonden att detsamma gäller vid förstadier till diabetes. Upptäckten öppnar för en mer individanpassad behandling. – Vår studie visar att undersökningar av tarmmikrobiotan skulle kunna användas för att tidigt identifiera p

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/tarmbakterier-visar-vagen-mot-battre-behandling-av-typ-2-diabetes - 2026-04-13

Tove Harnett är lektor vid Socialhögskolan i Lund. Hon har tillsammans med forskarkolleger från Lund och Linköping producerat en film där de argumenterar för förändringar i LSS-lagen så att även personer över 65 års ålder ska kunna beviljas assistans. Hur är den här filmen kopplad till er forskning?I projektet ”Kan en handikappolitisk modell ge en bättre äldreomsorg?” undersökte jag, Annika Taghiz

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/aldrefaltet-kan-lara-sig-av-rattighetstankandet-i-handikappolitiken - 2026-04-13

Hani Alsafadi defended his Ph.D. thesis on the 13th of February, 2023. With a longstanding interest in biomedical research and a passion for better understanding one of the least regenerative organs in the body, the lung, he has spent the past four years helping to uncover some of the mechanisms that may drive a lung disease currently without a cure, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. In this intervie

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/exploring-role-yap-and-taz-lung-epithelium-phd-interview-hani-alsafadi - 2026-04-13

Harvard professor Nathan Nunn, creative economist, is the 2020 recipient of the Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management. Professor Nunn will receive the Prize on SEK 1 million in Lund, Sweden, and give a lecture on his research on 25 March. Experimental economics and development economics are hot topics, as was seen with the Nobel laurates of 2019. This year’s recipient of the Jan S

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prize-pioneering-knowledge-africas-development - 2026-04-13

That eating plenty of vegetables, wholegrains and legumes is beneficial for health is well known. More surprising, however, is that people who eat in a environmentally-friendly way also display nutritional values that are better than researchers had expected. This is shown in a new study by Anna Stubbendorff at the Agenda 2030 Graduate School. The EAT–Lancet diet is a global dietary guideline deve

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/climate-friendly-diet-yielded-unexpectedly-strong-nutritional-outcomes - 2026-04-13

During her thesis project, Nadja Gustavsson has characterized structural changes inside neurons of a new mouse model for mixed neurogenerative disorders. On the 21st of October, she is defending her thesis supervised by Oxana Klementieva. In this interview, Nadja shares her ups and downs during her time as a Ph.D. student in MultiPark. Tell us about your Ph.D. research! Our lab utilizes a novel ap

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-nadja-gustavsson - 2026-04-13

Angry children can be a feature of Christmas. The fact is that the disappointment children feel is a great opportunity to train them for challenges later in life. This is according to Elia Psouni, professor of developmental psychology. A friend not turning up on time, a computer crashing in the middle of a game of Fortnite or a Christmas present that just could not be more wrong. “Disappointment i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/dealing-kids-disappointment-their-christmas-presents - 2026-04-13

“English is like a membrane between us and reality”. The quote comes from a teacher at a Swedish higher education institution and describes their experience of teaching Swedish students in English. “Today, there are often no educational reasons why a particular course in the first-cycle is taught in English,” argues Peter Svensson, senior lecturer in Business Administration at Lund University Scho

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/poorer-learning-if-teaching-anglicised - 2026-04-13

Corn starch, with elements of heavy metals, powdered brick, amphetamines, ink, wall paint or furniture polish. This is what can be found in falsified medicines, a market currently considered more profitable than that of drug crime. Professor of Ethnology Susanne Lundin. Photo: Kennet Ruona Some defective medicines were authentic to begin with, but have been wrongly stored or have expired. If they

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/industry-worth-billions-puts-lives-risk - 2026-04-13

“English is like a membrane between us and reality”. The quote comes from a teacher at a Swedish higher education institution and describes their experience of teaching Swedish students in English. “Today, there are often no educational reasons why a particular course in the first-cycle is taught in English,” says Peter Svensson, senior lecturer in Business Administration at the School of Economic

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/poorer-learning-if-teaching-anglicised - 2026-04-14

She has survived a brain tumour and hates empty phrases such as “seize the day” and “live in the present”. Despite this, after the tumour operation Ulrika Sandén both researched and wrote a book on what she calls “Contentment in the moment”, an approach to life that she assimilated during her years in Vesterålen in northern Norway. “The present can be terrible. It’s more a matter of affecting the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/contentment-moment-makes-life-more-enjoyable - 2026-04-13

"Diskussioner om värde i välfärden måste bli mer nyanserade" skriver Pernilla Danielsson och Ulrika Westrup i en nyligen publicerad artikel i tidskriften Organisation & Samhälle. I takt med förändringar i samhället har en riktning mot ökad användarorientering betonats som nödvändig inom välfärden för att kunna möta invånarnas många och komplexa behov av tjänster. Numera talas det om betydelsen av

https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/betydelsen-av-varde-i-valfarden - 2026-04-13

Passion, creativity and community. That’s the essence of an ongoing craft trend, according to organisational researcher and homebrewer Stephan Schaefer. “Craft is a timeless form of work that has always been important for human development. But craft is not static. It adapts and develops to fit our modern times. This is an important message and something that companies can learn from,” he says. St

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-craft-trend-alternative-form-organising-work - 2026-04-13

På Campus Helsingborg pågår ett projekt för att utreda vilka möjligheter det finns att utveckla nuvarande lokaler så att de i högre grad motsvarar framtidens behov av attraktiva arbets-och lärandemiljöer. Ambitionen är även att skapa bättre förutsättningar för samverkan mellan olika verksamheter samt att utnyttja lokalerna effektivare. På denna sida publicerar vi samlad information och uppdatering

https://www.ch.lu.se/internt/artikel/lokalprojekt-campus-helsingborg-2030 - 2026-04-13

An increasing number of people want to help bees and other pollinators by growing flowers that are rich in pollen and nectar. But which flowers are the most beneficial? If the point is to aid threatened bee species and biodiversity, then a variety of native plants is the way to go. If you are a farmer, with large areas of insect-pollinated crops, it might be easiest to aim for a few species of flo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/flowers-benefit-both-bees-and-biodiversity - 2026-04-13

In Chichigalpa, Nicaragua, almost half of all male deaths are attributable to a mysterious kidney disease. In El Salvador, it the second most common cause of death among men. In Sri Lanka, it is believed to have caused about 25 000 deaths over the past decade. Working in heat is a common factor, so the problem is expected to increase along with global warming. The condition in question is the myst

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/heat-exhaustion-behind-mysterious-kidney-disease - 2026-04-13