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Huge congratulations to our postdoctoral researcher Gwendoline Schaff for her archievement for the project "Shared forms of housing for climate transformation: a systems mapping knowledge synthesis." The project will be a new collaboration between ABM-LU represented by Ivette Arroyo and Gwendoline Schaff and RISE represented by Shane Carnohan. We are very pleased with the very positive review they
https://www.architecture.lth.se/article/formas-grant-awarded - 2026-10-23
We’re excited to share highlights from the latest edition of the WCMM & DDLS Leadership Seminar Series, an initiative designed to empower our WCMM PIs with leadership skills essential for shaping the future of science. These seminars have focused on leadership at higher levels of decision-making, a crucial dimension for those looking to influence policy, funding priorities, and strategic research
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-ddls-leadership-seminar-series-exploring-innovation - 2026-10-23
Our warmest congratulations to Magnus Johansson, who successfully defended his thesis in Media and Communication Studies: ‘Parenting in screen times. Negotiations, practices and experiences in everyday family life’ at the Faculty of Social Sciences on Friday, 12 September. The thesis deals with parenting and screen time from a moral perspective. Through interviews with parents, the study shows how
https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/magnus-johansson-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2026-10-23
Video games have captured the spotlight for decades, sparking debates about their impact on players since the early 1990s. Played by over 3 billion people worldwide, this report acknowledges video games' political and ideological dimensions and their potential for being used for strategic communication and propaganda purposes. It attempts to better understand how influence takes place through gami
https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/video-games-tool-malign-foreign-interference-and-info-influence - 2026-10-23
Professor Oksana Mont has been awarded a six-month fellowship from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) to conduct research at Tokyo College, University of Tokyo. The project, titled Thriving without growth: Japanese pathways for sustainable business, examines how companies and institutions operate in a context of prolonged low or no economic growth. Japan’s long experience of near-steady-state economic
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/oksana-mont-awarded-fellowship-research-japan-autumn - 2026-10-23
Can a bee’s brain teach us to build better computers? Bees navigate with remarkable precision using less than one hundredth of a watt of energy, while today’s navigation chips often use over 7 watts and weigh about 80 times as much as a bee. In an interview with Horizon, Anders Mikkelsen, coordinator of the European Innovation Council-funded project InsectNeuroNano, tells us about how nature’s nav
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/how-bee-brains-are-shaping-next-generation-computer-chips - 2026-10-23
Doctoral education student Markus Arnez-Wegelius will defend his thesis on 26 April. Get a quick glimpse of his thesis, experiences and near future. You are about to defend your thesis “A Dynamic Capabilities Approach to Sustainable Business Model Innovation”. In short, what is your thesis (doctoral dissertation) about?“My thesis in a nutshell focuses on which capabilities firms need to innovate t
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-thesis-three-questions-markus-arnez-wegelius - 2026-10-23
The Faculty of Social Sciences and the School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) offer a course for those who are planning to apply for docent (associate professor/reader) in the near future. The course is seminar-based and designed to be inspirational, but also to provide useful knowledge about the research process and academia in general. Participants are also provided with an intensive version
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/becoming-docent-joint-course-faculty-social-sciences-and-lusem-0 - 2026-10-23
Hanna Bäck, Emma Renström and Royce Carroll have co-authored the article, ”Protecting the Ingroup? Authoritarianism, Immigration Attitudes, and Affective Polarization”, which is published in Frontiers in Political Science. Abstract: What makes people affectively polarized? Affective polarization is based on the idea that partisanship can be a social identity leading to polarization in the form of
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-immigration-attitudes-and-affective-polarization - 2026-10-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New book from Christer Eldh and Nilsson Fredrik about The Cultural Complexity of Service Organisation in the Öresund Region. Hospitality. The word steers our attention towards good food, excellent service and perhaps a nice place to rest. Sometimes it refers to the “DNA” or special spirit that characterises those who
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/fika-hygge-and-hospitality - 2026-10-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Sophia Yakhlef at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in sociology ”United agents: community of practice within border policing in the Baltic Sea area” today, 26th October at 13:00 in Kulturens Auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Professor Helene Oppen Ingebrigtsen Gundhus, Department of Criminolo
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sophia-yakhlef-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-10-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What does a defense lawyer actually do in court when performing loyalty towards her/his clients? Lisa Flower has just published a new article on courtroom work of defense lawyers in the “Journal of Contemporary Ethnography”. AbstractThe courtroom work of defense lawyers has received surprisingly little sociological at
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/performing-drama-courtroom - 2026-10-23
Business travel at the University took off again in November last year compared with the same month the year before. More business trips could mean that the University’s climate footprint is increasing again and that the drop seen in 2020 was a one-off phenomenon. For a time last autumn, the pandemic restrictions were eased and people started to travel again. Some employees made the most of the op
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/business-travel-university-rise - 2026-10-24
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Patients who have been so ill they have needed intensive care often have a long recovery ahead of them – both physically and mentally. The problems that can develop include unpleasant memories of nightmares and hallucinations. Previous favourite foods can suddenly taste awful. Many intensive care patients recover well
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/after-covid-19-important-intensive-care-patients-are-followed - 2026-10-23
Passports issued by fallen empires, decks of cards from the Iraq war, deceased Ukrainian students’ uncollected diplomas and much more. A new museum in Lund is collecting artefacts that show how international law affects people's lives. The initiative is being led by international law researchers who argue that we are currently witnessing a crisis of the entire international system. “International
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-museum-displays-war-artefacts-and-human-side-international-law - 2026-10-24
Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan – 18 June 2026The EU-funded MARS project convened the panel “Legal Precarity, Vernacular Navigation, and Migrant Agency across Central Eurasia and Beyond” at the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) Regional Conference on 18 June 2026. Bringing together research on migrant experiences across Europe, Central Asia, and other major migration destinations,
https://www.norca.lu.se/article/mars-panel-cess-regional-conference-2026 - 2026-10-23
What inner capacities do we need to support a more sustainable society? During the past decades, focus has been on addressing societal crises through external – technical, economic or medical – solutions. But in order to create real change, we must also tackle the underlying root causes: our broken relationship to nature, other people and not least ourselves. Our current sustainability crises are
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/inner-journey-towards-sustainable-future - 2026-10-23
