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The construction of a dam in Ethiopia could solve many problems for the growing population along the Nile. However, when the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam began, it was met with warmongering from countries downstream. Egypt in particular felt threatened by the dam, which would regulate the Nile, the artery that runs through the heart of the country. “From a scientific perspec

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nile-lifeblood-and-source-conflict - 2025-10-15

In the early 1990s, peacemakers, politicians and researchers believed that growing water shortages would lead to an increasing number of wars and conflicts around the world. It was thought that the disputes in the Middle East would become more difficult to resolve as water resources diminished. However, views have since changed on the role of water in conflicts. Instead of being a cause of war, it

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/collaboration-water-offers-great-potential-peace - 2025-10-15

The earth is both inundated and drying up. Water supply is a complex phenomenon that has probably never been more complicated – or more important – than now. Kenneth M. Persson is a professor of water resources engineering and he took the initiative for Lund University’s Water Portal, which involves over 200 (!) water researchers. “The absolute greatest threat to well-functioning water management

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/earth-both-inundated-and-drying - 2025-10-15

We learn best through human stories. This idea underpins LUCA, a new academy for the development of case study teaching at Lund University. In April, lecturers at the University were invited to attend a workshop with one of the writers behind the Midsomer Murders television series. Steve Trafford guides participants through the art of creating an engaging story. Steve Trafford is an actor and writ

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lecturers-get-inspiration-midsomer-murders - 2025-10-15

How do you talk about a horrible and life-threatening condition in such a way as to make your audience aware of its existence, but without scaring them so much that they turn a deaf ear? And how do you get money for research into something that most people have barely heard about – or only know of under an old and partly incorrect name? This is the problem that a team of LU researchers are tacklin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/spreading-awareness-about-sepsis-common-life-threatening-condition - 2025-10-15

Fast fashion has shrunk the fashion production cycle from three months to an unbelievable two weeks. New ideas are snapped up from the catwalk, interpreted and made into trendy clothes with a low price-tag, available in shops and online. Economists attribute the success of fast fashion to innovative large companies, but anthropologist Christina Moon maintains that the background to the phenomenon

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/korean-efficiency-behind-fast-fashion - 2025-10-15

Young women who spend all their spare time shopping. Lost, superficial souls with no purpose in life? Or creative and productive people? Emma Samsioe, who has spent several years studying their behaviour, wants to show a more nuanced picture of the phenomenon. Emma Samsioe. It all started when Emma Samsioe was out shopping and noticed the young girls who mostly seemed to be just hanging out in the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fast-fashion-constant-search-latest-thing - 2025-10-15

Biohackers experiment with their own bodies to upgrade themselves. They try to acquire a supermemory, increase their metabolic rate or affect some other biological mechanism. Now an interdisciplinary project is investigating how biohacking will come to influence our view of the human body and bioscience. : Interdisciplinarity generated by a long friendship. Immunologist Jenny Grönberg-Hernàndez an

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/biohackers-crack-human-bodys-programming-code - 2025-10-15

“Behind every successful man there is a woman”, according to an old saying. So what about successful women? And what about couples where both are successful – how do they manage family life? LUM met Olle Melander and Marju Orho-Melander, who are among the Lund University researchers to have been awarded most prizes and grants in the field of medicine. Olle Melander and Marju Orho-Melander. The cou

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/planning-key-success-researcher-couple - 2025-10-15

...Jean-Robert Vialle (to the left t the photo) and Jean-Michel Tresallet who are making a documentary about the economic battle for the world’s international students. Tell us about your film project on higher education? “We are making a 90 minute documentary on where higher education is headed. Higher education is constantly linked to the country’s economic system, and we travel all over the wor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meet-french-film-makers - 2025-10-15

The LERU meetings for deans are a priority for social scientists and lawyers. These meetings have provided social scientists with new ways to approach the EU, and lawyers with doctoral student exchanges with other prestigious LERU universities. So says Ann-Katrin Bäcklund – dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences for more than six years –, and Mia Rönnmar, newly appointed dean of the Faculty of Law

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leru-collaboration-opens-new-doors-eu - 2025-10-15

The artist performs, the audience listens and applaud to show their appreciation. These are the given roles during a concert. But what happens if we dissolve these roles and the audience acts in a way that is completely unexpected. Does this change the song? The sound? The communication? This is what an interdisciplinary group at the Pufendorf Institute has studied during the spring. The six singe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/musical-experiment-subject-research - 2025-10-15

We tend to favour ourselves and our own group. We also underestimate future risks. So says evolutionary biologist Jessica Abbott about human ability – and inability – to deal with global challenges. Evolutionary biologist Jessica Abbott. “Compared to other anthropoids, such as chimpanzees and gorillas, we are skilled at resolving conflict. We can put our own personal interests aside for the good o

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainability-must-not-be-too-taxing - 2025-10-15

“Solar energy has great potential in Sweden. The fact that we use solar energy to a lesser extent than many other European countries is not due to lack of sun, but due to lack of knowledge”, says architect Jouri Kanters who has mapped what politicians, urban planners, builders and architects should be better at in order for Sweden to use more solar energy. A far too rare sight in Sweden: Houses wi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lack-knowledge-explains-low-utilisation-solar-energy - 2025-10-15

Exporting the Swedish welfare model is not a good idea. At least not as a recipe for achieving a more sustainable society, says Professor Max Koch, manager of a research team that links the climate crisis with welfare. Sweden’s relatively low carbon emissions, despite a high gross domestic product, are partly due to the use of hydropower – a competitive advantage that cannot be exported. Professor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/measuring-success-terms-economic-growth-devastating-our-climate - 2025-10-15

An antibody that did not fulfil its purpose against the disease multiple sclerosis, MS, instead made its big break in cancer research and is now starring in southern Sweden’s largest licensing agreement in Life Science history. The “father” of the antibody is Professor Carl Borrebaeck. Carl Borrebaeck. Photo: Gunnar Menander It is one of the windiest days in late summer, and the wind is blowing es

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/successful-antibody-behind-billion-crown-life-science-deal - 2025-10-15

The mountainsides are on fire. In the village below, activities are in full swing: women and men working in the fields, fishing in the river, and herding cattle along the grassy wetlands. The painting took four days to produce during fieldwork in Tanzania. Emma Johansson Li, a researcher in physical geography, has dedicated her research to land grabbing. During her most recent fieldwork in Tanzani

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/physical-geographer-uses-art-her-research - 2025-10-15

What’s the point of having lots of higher education credits if you don’t use them to make the world a little better? Activism and academia go together, according to student Johannes Witkowsky-Bengtsson. Johannes Witkowsky-Bengtsson. “As a child, I dreamed of fighting side by side with the Apache indians”, Johannes laughs. Now he is studying theology and sociology, and has recently returned from a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/activism-and-academia-go-together - 2025-10-15

“My first project was about giving poor families in Thailand the opportunity to send their children to school. A student and I helped set up chicken farms at the schools, which the children took care of. The money they earned by selling the eggs on the markets covered their school fees”. Leif Bjellin. Photo: Gunnar Menander So says Leif Bjellin, now retired from Lund University, but still occasion

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/helping-earthquake-victims-nepal - 2025-10-15

Kurds, human rights, nationalism and democracy are sensitive subjects. At least in Turkey today. When political scientist Umut Ozkirimli engages in his third mission as an academic, i.e. taking part in public debate, he gets death threats. At the moment, he receives as many as ten such threats per day. Umut Ozkirimli. Umut Ozkirimli, a political scientist from Turkey specialising in human rights,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/people-are-trying-silence-me - 2025-10-15