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https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/world-leading-researchers-gathered-campus - 2025-09-17

For many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the health care system was strained already before the coronavirus crisis. Lack of intensive care units and respirators and the difficult economic situation in most African countries limit the resources to combat the pandemic. LUCSUS researcher Karin Steen, who returned from a teaching sabbatical in Zimbabwe when the corona pandemic broke out, share her re

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/perspectives-corona-pandemic-africa - 2025-09-17

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researcher-supporting-our-athletes-most-successful-paralympic-winter-games-long-time - 2025-09-17

IIIEE researcher Luis Mundaca Photo: Sara Bernstrup Nilsson Green economy depends on high national ambitionsSustainable growth, supporting a resource efficient and low-carbon economy, is a high priority for most governments today. But which way is the most effective for the transition towards a green economy? IIIEE researchers Luis Mundaca and Lena Neij are soon wrapping up a major global benchmar

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-researcher-luis-mundaca - 2025-09-17

Jan Nilsson's research group has identified a substance that stimulates the repair capacity and growth of vascular cells. Biomedical analyst Filiz Serifler has contributed to the project. Photo: Petra Olsson Heart attack and stroke are common complications of diabetes, as the body's ability to repair and form vessels is impaired. Researchers at Lund University have developed a new substance with t

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-peptide-may-reduce-risk-diabetes-complications - 2025-09-17

Martin Lavička, visiting research fellow at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, co-edited a new publication published by the Palacký University Press. Ideas on the (human) body, gender, and identity lie at the core of many socio-political issues and cultural trends in Asia today, while also inspiring innovative research on artistic expression from Asia's past. By focusing on socio-po

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/martin-lavicka-co-edited-new-publication-titled-embodied-entanglements-gender-identity-and-corporeal-0 - 2025-09-17

A new anthology explores how waste – in all its forms – can be an unexpected but powerful starting point for understanding and questioning contemporary society. Professor Hervé Corvellec is the editor and has also contributed with chapters in the book. The anthology, Waste as a Critique, uses waste to understand and question society. By looking at waste from the perspectives of materiality, societ

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/waste-critique - 2025-09-17

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tenure-track-positions - 2025-09-17

The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce a call for papers for the fall 2017 issue of Asia Pacific Perspectives. The issue will explore the varied interpretations of masculine identity across Asia. Deadline is 3 April. This issue will provide a forum for exchange of the latest research on both historical and contemporary constructions of masculinity in

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-fall-issue-asia-pacific-perspectives - 2025-09-17

Professor Nancy Bocken Photo: Kennet Ruona Professor Nancy Bocken has been awarded the European Research Council’s Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in the 2019 round of awards. She receives 1.5 million euros during the next five years. Nancy Bocken receives the ERC grant for her new project CIRCULAR X. The project will develop a new field of research on experimentation with

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/professor-nancy-bocken-receives-prestigious-erc-starting-grant - 2025-09-17

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/autumn-holidays-university-0 - 2025-09-18

Photo from Wikipedia University of Hong Kong invites applications for appointment as Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Asian Urban Silk-Road in the Faculty of Social Sciences (as tenure home) and the Faculty of Arts, to commence from July 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter, on a three-year fixed-term basis, with the possibility of renewal and consideration for tenure before the expiry of

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/tenure-track-assistant-professor-asian-urban-silk-road - 2025-09-17

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sylvia-schwaag-serger-appointed-new-deputy-vice-chancellor - 2025-09-17

A new anthology explores how waste – in all its forms – can be an unexpected but powerful starting point for understanding and questioning contemporary society. Professor Hervé Corvellec is the editor and has also contributed with chapters in the book. The anthology, Waste as a Critique, uses waste to understand and question society. By looking at waste from the perspectives of materiality, societ

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/waste-critique-new-anthology-herve-corvellec - 2025-09-17

In the brief, UI's Emil Lidén examines the potential for deeper security cooperation in Africa. The brief "Securing a Shared Neighbourhood: The European Union and India as Partners for Security in Africa" was recently published by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), which co-hosts the South Asia Initiative along with SASNET.  SummaryThe strategic partnership between the European U

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-report-south-asia-initiative-eu-india-relations-africa - 2025-09-17

Jakob Skovgaard and Åsa Knaggård have co-authored the article “Mapping and clustering the adoption of carbon pricing policies: what polities price carbon and why?” together with Sofía Sacks Ferrari (SIPRI, formerly the Department of Political Science, LU). The article is published in the journal Climate Policy. It concerns what countries as well as sub- and supranational entities adopt carbon taxe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-and-knaggard-adoption-carbon-pricing - 2025-09-17

Ethnologist Susanne Lundin studies peoples' attitudes towards organ­ trafficking, counterfeit medicines and transplants. Photo: Kennet Ruona Ethnologist Susanne Lundin’s research is ultimately about life and death and how people relate to the inevitable. What are people willing to do to delay the end briefly? Is there a limit beyond which someone ceases to be human? Susanne Lundin is a professor a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/her-research-concerns-our-deepest-fears - 2025-09-18

The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University has received funding from the Swedish Research Council to establish a Graduate School in Asian Studies.  The graduate school is a collaboration with the Stockholm Center for Global Asia at Stockholm University, and the Center for Asian Studies at Stockholm School of Economics. Additional partners are the Department of Languages an

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/graduate-school-asian-studies - 2025-09-17

Five split screens are created to show different perspectives on the protest. Courtesy of the artists. This article offers a significant expansion of the concept of xianchang through an insightful analysis of a COVID-19 documentary. It contributes valuable perspectives on the impact of AI-generated technology in documentary filmmaking. This article explores the expanded indexicality of documentary

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-research-digitalizing-xianchang-documentary-experiments-shanghai-covid-lockdown - 2025-09-17

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/lakes-worldwide-are-changing-colour-possibly-due-human-impact - 2025-09-17