By annika [dot] permevik [at] ses [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Permevik) - published 14 April 2025 The examining committee toasts Réka's approved thesis. On 11 April, Réka Tölg defended her doctoral thesis ‘The (im)possibilities of circular consumption: Producing and performing circular clothing consumption in retail and household settings’. The thesis examines how circular consumption actually happe

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/how-does-consumption-become-circular-linear-world-new-doctoral-thesis-shows-opportunities-and - 2025-07-13

Published 1 June 2017 Yesterday afternoon some 60 people gathered in the conference room at Palaestra in Lund to participate in the seminar ”Universities' role in sustainable change work” hosted by LUCE, Child Rights Institute at Lund University (CRi@LU) and partners. The event marked the start of a new online global platform aiming to strengthen international collaboration and research focusing o

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/change-agents-childrens-rights-told-their-stories - 2025-07-13

By julia [dot] luttrup [at] ch [dot] lu [dot] se (Julia Luttrup) - published 20 March 2025 The Helsingborg Trade Association wants to recognise the researchers at the Centre for Retail and Logistics (REAL), Lund University, who have made outstanding scientific publications over the past year. This is done through a new excellence scholarship. By supporting academic progress, the aim is to strength

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/excellence-scholarship-promote-quality-and-research-progress-retail-and-logistics - 2025-07-13

Published 6 December 2024 Ana Maria Vargas Falla was Lund University's only representative at COP29 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. She has researched public resistance and acceptance of climate legislation and contributed to the "10 new insights in climate science" presented during the climate summit. These are her impressions of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. I was initially v

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/ana-maria-vargas-falla-reflects-cop29 - 2025-07-13

Published 23 June 2015 On 15-16 June 2015 MERGE's annual spring/summer meeting was held at Örenäs Castle in Glumslöv. MERGE researchers and PhD students got together for two days of discussions, scientific presentations and beautiful walks around the castle area. You can find the presentations from the meeting here. Markku Rummukainen, coordinator of MERGE, started the meeting with a background on

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-summer-meeting-2015 - 2025-07-13

Published 14 September 2020 ClimBEco summermeeting in Lund. Photo: Ylva van Meeningen ClimBEco’s annual summer meeting was held this August over two consecutive days, with both online and in-person meetings in Lund, Malmö and Gothenburg. The summer meeting is one of the highlights of our graduate school, where current PhD students can meet, network and learn more about an interdisciplinary topic.

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-summer-meeting - 2025-07-13

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/metabolic-health-plays-role-obesity-related-cancers - 2025-07-13

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] pi [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 5 January 2024 Sierd de Vries is an associate professor at the department of Hydraulic Engineering at Delft University (Netherlands), and will be working as a guest researcher with the Theme Coastal Perspectives. What is your background and research interests?I work on the creation of sustainable coastal landsca

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/meet-guest-researcher-sierd-de-vries - 2025-07-13

By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 22 August 2024 Do you want to take your research further? Innovation developer Cecilia Jädert at LU Innovation encourages researchers to come and present their idea. Register for a workshop no later than 9 September. Also, read about the Faculty researchers who got help to start a business. So, what is an innovation? "Th

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/innovation-workshop-researchers-how-think-entrepreneur - 2025-07-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén and Sara Hängsel) - published 16 February 2024 For twenty years now, LTH has educated students in the programme Master of Science in Engineering Nanoscience. It’s an education that blurs the boundaries between traditional fields of knowledge such as biology, physics, chemistry, materials science, and electronics. “It felt very solemn and nic

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/no-longer-just-buzzword-science-fiction - 2025-07-13

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/progress-investigation-ultrafast-electron-dynamics-using-short-light-pulses - 2025-07-13

Published 31 January 2024 Nature Medicine asked leading researchers which clinical trials in the coming year that are likely to have an outsized impact on medicine. One of the 11 listed trials were the trial "Stem cells for Parkinson’s disease" done at Region Skåne in Lund. Both, WCMM Fellow Agnete Kirkeby and WCMM researcher Gesine Paul Visse, are part of the responsible team. The STEM-PD trial w

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/nature-medicine-lists-clinical-trials-will-shape-medicine-2024 - 2025-07-13

Published 24 September 2024 The Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) at Lund University is seeking outstanding young researchers to join our research community. We are looking for talented individuals with international research experience who are ready to make ground-breaking contributions in molecular medicine. Take your research career to the next level with the Wallenberg Centre for

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/join-wallenberg-centre-molecular-medicine-lund-university-fellow - 2025-07-13

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/large-eyes-come-high-cost - 2025-07-13

Published 6 November 2015 Left: White blood cells with bacteria. The blue colour shows the DNA in the nucleus of the white blood cells, and the red colour represents proteins in the cytoplasma. The small green dots are bacteria. Right: Here, the red and blue colours are combined By licking a wound it heals faster – this is not simply popular belief, but scientifically proven. Our saliva consists o

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mucus-first-line-defence - 2025-07-13

Published 22 February 2016 Research from Lund University and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine shows that sugar could in the future be used to discover malignant tumours. Photo: Melissa Wiese Ordinary sugar could become a contrast agent of the future for use in magnetic resonance tomography examinations of tumours. Malignant tumours show higher sugar consumption than surrounding tissue.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/using-sugar-detect-malignant-tumours - 2025-07-13

Published 22 June 2015 Tobias Nielsen, Karin Bäckstrand and Helene Axelsson. Photo by IISD/ENB On Thursday, 11 June 2015, Lund University arranged a side-event at the Bonn Climate Change Conference. Tobias Nielsen, BECC PhD student, was one of the speakers. The Bonn Climate Change Conference side-event "Carbon footprints for effective climate policy on international trade" was arranged by Lund Uni

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/report-carbon-footprints-effective-climate-policy-international-trade - 2025-07-13

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/oat-oil-preparation-makes-you-feel-fuller - 2025-07-13

Published 11 December 2014 In the hunt for better knowledge on the aging process, researchers from Lund University have now enlisted the help of small birds. A new study investigates various factors which affect whether chicks are born with long or short chromosome ends, called telomeres. The genetic make-up of our cells consists of genes lined up on chromosomes. The ends of the chromosomes are ca

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-fast-you-age-depends-your-parents - 2025-07-13

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-identifying-most-aggressive-childhood-cancers - 2025-07-13