By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 19 April 2023 Researchers publish study on personality research focusing on physicians' decision-making in emergency birth situations. Image: iStock/gradyreese. Swedish obstetricians and gynecologists are noticeably more emotionally stable and conscientious compared to the majority of the Swedish population. Based on t

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/obstetricians-more-emotionally-stable-most - 2024-12-25

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 20 April 2023 Illustration of the bacteria Clostridioides difficile (Image: iStock) A species of ordinary gut bacteria that we all carry flourishes when the intestinal flora is knocked out by a course of antibiotics. Since the bacteria is naturally resistant to many antibiotics, it causes problems, particularly in healthcare s

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/revealed-molecular-superpower-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria - 2024-12-25

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 20 April 2023 iStock/koto_feja Is it possible to improve the antibodies that the body produces to fight SARS-CoV2? In a study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden, this was investigated by redesigning antibodies and combining them against the virus. The modified antibodies have been tested in human cells and with

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/cocktail-modified-antibodies-provides-strong-effect-against-sars-cov-2 - 2024-12-25

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 24 April 2023 Anil Seth, professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at University of Sussex, will visit Lund University in May to give this year's prestigious Segerfalk lecture. (Image source: Anil Seth) Almost 14 million viewers have watched Anils Seth’s TED Talk “Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality”. In

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/hello-there-anil-seth - 2024-12-25

By johanna [dot] erlandson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna Erlandson) - published 24 April 2023 Rita Charon, pioneer in medical humanities, and David Julius, recipient of the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the temperature and pain receptor TRPV1, will give an open lecture on May 24. A Nobel laureate and a pioneer have been appointed honorary doctors 2023 at our faculty. On May 24, they offer

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/understanding-sensitivities-body-and-mind-open-lecture-2023-honorary-doctors-faculty-medicine - 2024-12-25

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 2 May 2023 Several Nobel laureates, renowned scientists, and successful biotech entrepreneurs are coming to Lund in May to participate in the Lund Spring Symposium, an international symposium on drug research. Medications are the physician's primary tool when treating their patients, and understanding how drugs work is

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/superstars-coming-lund-drug-and-pharmaceutical-symposium - 2024-12-25

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 20 June 2023 Isabel Goncalves, Jiangming Sun, and Andreas Edsfeldt studying two atherosclerotic plaques (Photo: Petra Olsson) A common cause of myocardial infarction and stroke is the rupture of atherosclerotic plaques. The exact location of plaque ruptures has previously been unknown, but now researchers at Lund Universit

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-discoveries-about-where-atherosclerotic-plaques-rupture-can-lead-preventive-treatments - 2024-12-25

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 20 June 2023 Håkan Axelson anresearch group is part of the large EU-funded KATY project, which focuses on the most common type of kidney cancer, clear cell renal cell carcinoma, which is one of the ten most common types of cancer worldwide. Image: iStock. What happens when you mix a group of tumor biology researchers w

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/kicking-kidney-cancer - 2024-12-25

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 24 July 2023 Researchers led by Lund University in Sweden have assisted microbiologists in Ukraine in investigating bacterial resistance among the war-wounded patients treated in hospitals. The results, which were recently published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, reveal that many of the patients were affected by bacteria t

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/alarming-antibiotic-resistance-discovered-war-torn-ukraine - 2024-12-25

Published 3 July 2019 Everything is in the same place but the address has changed. The departments visiting address is now Allhelgona Kyrkogata 18 C. To make it easier for emergency services to find the right building in the Paradis area in Lund, several university buildings changed addresses on 1 July.  The Sociology of Law Department's address was changed from  Allhelgona Kyrkogata 14.to Allhelg

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-gets-new-address - 2024-12-25

Published 29 August 2019 Amin Parsa has written the chapter ”Military Uniform and Lethal Targeting in International Law on Armed Conflict” in the newly published book Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World. In the chapter, Amin Parsa, postdoctoral researcher at The Sociology of Law Department, investigates the production of human target in laws of armed conflict as a derivative of th

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/amin-parsa-legal-materiality-laws-armed-conflict - 2024-12-25

Published 13 September 2019 Marie Leth-Espensen has co-authored an article on the recent gastronomic trend known as “New Carnivorism.” Marie Leth-Espensen, doctoral student at the Sociology of Law Department, has together with Mathias Elrød Madsen studied this relatively new food media trend. In an article in the journal Society & Animals, they discuss how examples such as the Danish TV show “Kill

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-research-ideology-meat-eating - 2024-12-25

Published 13 September 2019 Renowned criminologist Dr Molly Dragiewicz, Associate Professor at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, visited Lund University for a seminar with the criminology program students. The seminar, “Digital media and domestic violence: Emerging international research”, on Tuesday 10th April, covered the role of digita

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/seminar-domestic-abuse-and-how-it-facilitated-digital-technology - 2024-12-25

Published 30 October 2019 The Sociology of Law Department's Professor Emeritus, Karsten Åström, has received an honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Philosophy at Linköping University. For many years, Karsten Åström has been a Guest Professor at Linköping University, where he has established Welfare Law as a subject at the Faculty of Philosophy. The Faculty Board motivates awarding Åström with the

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/karsten-astrom-has-been-awarded-honorary-doctorate-linkoping-university - 2024-12-25

Published 9 December 2019 Growing amounts of hateful messages sent to journalists are threatening to undermine central democratic concepts. The extent of problem is being investigated at the Sociology of Law Department at Lund University. In the last ten years, more journalists have received hateful and threatening messages online. The trend has led to self-censorship and declining mental health a

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-research-project-studies-effects-hateful-messages-journalism - 2024-12-25

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman Rogowski) - published 7 February 2020 On Wednesday 29 January, the Sociology of Law Department hosted The Panorama Day, an annual relay seminar about ongoing research. For students, it was an opportunity to get an overview of the production of science at their current department, and deepen their understanding of the subject.

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/short-and-sweet-when-students-were-introduced-departments-research - 2024-12-25

Published 14 April 2020 In the end of February, Patrik Olsson, associate professor at Lund University visited Uzbekistan to discuss one of the main academic problems in the area. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the General Prosecutor’s Office (GPO) of the Republic of Uzbekistan were among the main organizers behind the conference ”Higher Education

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociologist-law-anticorruption-assignment-central-asia - 2024-12-25

Published 24 April 2020 Hildur Fjóla Antonsdóttir at the Sociology of Law Department defended her doctoral thesis “Decentring Criminal Law: Understandings of Justice by Victim-Survivors of Sexual Violence and its Implications for Different Justice Strategies” on Friday, 24 April. The thesis defence was a mostly digital occasion, with Hildur Fjóla Antonsdóttir streaming from Iceland, and the discus

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/hildur-fjola-antonsdottir-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2024-12-25

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman-Rogowski) - published 14 May 2020 Three researchers within the Social Science Faculty at Lund University have compiled an anthology challenging the notion of the refugee crisis of 2015. The book also investigates how Germany, Sweden, and Denmark use bureaucracy to control, discipline, and shape asylum seekers’ lives. In 2015,

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/how-northern-european-welfare-states-exercise-bureaucratic-violence-asylum-seekers - 2024-12-25

Published 20 May 2020 The Minister for Gender Equality, Åsa Lindhagen, has appointed Lena Svenaeus, researcher at the Sociology of Law Department, for an expert role in a commission for gender-equal lifetime earnings. The commission is working on proposals that may contribute to increased economic equality between women and men in the long term, a gender-equal distribution of public support measur

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/lena-svenaeus-selected-governmental-expert-committee - 2024-12-25