Publicerad 13 juni 2023 Den 1 juni blev ett 70-tal kriminologistudenter formellt kandidater i kriminologi vid kriminologiprogrammets avslutningsceremoni. I en tid där universitetet står inför utmaningar som artificiell intelligens och ökat politiskt inflytande, framhöll ceremonin vikten av mänsklig expertis och akademisk frihet. Avslutningsceremonin för Kandidatprogrammet i kriminologi markerar öv

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Publicerad 16 juni 2023 Patrik Olsson är doktor i rättssociologi och har bland annat forskat om barnsrättigheter och gängkriminalitet. Måndag den 12 juni knivhögg en kvinna i Ängelholm en för henne okänd tioårig flicka. Händelsen är mycket ovanlig. Brottslighet mot barn begås oftast av personer i närmiljön, säger Patrik Olsson, lektor vid Rättssociologiska institutionen, till Sveriges radio P4 Kri

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Publicerad 13 juni 2023 Fredagen den 9 juni försvarade Marie Leth-Espensen sin avhandling "Animals and the Politics of Suffering: Essays on Law, Care and Interspecies Relations", som undersöker konsekvenserna av olika strategier för att hantera lantbruksdjurs lidande i Danmark. Ett återkommande tema iMarie Leth-Espensens forskning är de idéer som formar hur vi tänker kring omsorg för andra djur. H

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Publicerad 24 augusti 2023 Seniorprofessor Håkan Hydén och vår tidigare doktorand Hildur Fjóla Antonsdóttir presenterar "Combining the Legal and the Social in Sociology of Law: An Homage to Reza Banakar", antologin som publicerades till minne av Reza Banakar, professor i rättssociologi som gick bort i augusti 2020. Ladda ner boken gratis på bloomsburycollections.com.  

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Published 23 March 2017 A bracelet with a unique ”panic grip” - featuring a built-in mobile phone and GPS system - has been developed by a former industrial design student at Lund University in Sweden. The device doesn’t require a base station in your home. WATCH VIDEO STORYThe mobile bracelet can be programmed with up to seven phone numbers. When activated, the microphone and speakers are switche

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-student-develops-bracelet-personal-safety-alarm - 2025-04-25

Published 24 March 2017 The male stegodyphus bicolor is "the most beautiful spider in the world" according to Klaus Birkhofer. The photo is taken in Namibia. Photo: Klaus Birkhofer Spiders eat between 400 and 800 million tons of insects and springtails each year. In comparison, people worldwide eat 400 million tons of meat and fish per year. The enormous amount the spiders eat helps to regulate an

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/spiders-eat-more-insects-people-eat-meat-and-fish - 2025-04-25

Published 27 March 2017 When stem cells are cultivated in the fibre network they enter between the fibres and develop into neurons (red) or glial cells (green). The blue structures are cell nuclei. (Picture taken with a confocal microscope) The usual way of cultivating cells is to use a flat laboratory dish of glass. However, inside a human body, the cells do not grow on a flat surface, but rather

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cells-grow-more-naturally-spaghetti - 2025-04-25

Published 29 March 2017 Assistens Cemetery (Photo: Sian Anthony) When the city of Copenhagen decided to build a new underground station in the Assistens Cemetery where many famous Danes are buried, they had to remove part of the entire north-eastern corner of the cemetery and re-bury the people who had been laid to rest in this area. This presented a unique opportunity for archaeologists at the Mu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-study-1000-modern-burials - 2025-04-25

Published 30 March 2017 A group of researchers at Lund University in Sweden have made the first iron-based molecule capable of emitting light. This could contribute to the development of affordable and environmentally friendly materials for e.g. solar cells, light sources and displays. For over 50 years, chemists have developed metal-based dye molecules for a wide range of different applications,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/modern-alchemy-creates-luminescent-iron-molecules - 2025-04-25

Published 4 April 2017 In a collaboration between Swedish and Italian researchers, the aim was to analyse how the brain interprets information from a virtual experience of touch, created by a finger prosthesis with artificial sensation. The result was – completely unexpectedly – a new method for measuring brain health. “We were able to measure the cooperation between neural networks in a very prec

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/finger-prosthesis-provides-clues-brain-health - 2025-04-25

Published 6 April 2017 Two biology researchers at Lund University have been awarded a prestigious grant worth almost SEK 50 million from the European Research Council. One of the research projects is about the mystery of aging and how the immune system attacks the body’s own cells. The other project will study how small insects are able to navigate with the help of the Earth’s magnetic field.The M

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/two-erc-advanced-grants-lund-university - 2025-04-25

Published 6 April 2017 Scientists at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new understanding of how the first blood cells form during human development as they transition from endothelial cells to form blood cells of different types. Using a laboratory model of human stem cell development and by looking at the expression of blood cell and endothelial cell genes in each individual cell, they f

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/where-does-your-blood-actually-come - 2025-04-25

Published 6 April 2017 A chance meeting in a Yokohama pub led Lund University researcher Andreas Johansson straight to the heart of the Japanese Yakuza mafia. For two weeks, he was “embedded” with a well-known Yakuza clan, enabling him to document their tattoos through photography. He is now releasing his book of photos ”Yakuza Tattoo”. In 2014, Andreas Johansson participated in a conference in Yo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-glimpse-world-japanese-mafia-tattoos - 2025-04-25

Published 13 April 2017 Jan Sundquist (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Mindfulness group therapy has an equally positive effect as individual CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) for the treatment of a wide range of psychiatric symptoms in patients with depression, anxiety and stress-related disorders. Researchers made the finding in a new study from the Center for Primary Healthcare Research (CPF) in Malmö,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mindfulness-just-effective-cbt-broad-range-psychiatric-symptoms - 2025-04-25

Published 13 April 2017 Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in producing nanotubes from a single building block using so-called molecular self-recognition. The tube can also change shape depending on the surrounding environment. The results can contribute to the future development of transport channels for drugs through the cell membrane. In the present study, researchers fro

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Published 19 April 2017 Illustration: James Ormiston Researchers from Lund University, among others, have recently discovered a giant prehistoric worm with massive jaws. The worm lived in the sea 400 million years ago and is estimated to have been up to two metres long. The newly discovered species’ scientific name was inspired by a bassist in an American hard rock band. The worm species is the la

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Published 19 April 2017 March for Science is a citizens’ initiative from the United States, launched by private citizens and researchers who want to stand up for the importance of science and research-based knowledge in society. Particular emphasis is placed on the conception that science knows no borders and that its strength and characteristics are diversity and openness. Lund University support

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Published 28 April 2017 Elias Kristensson (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Forget high-speed cameras capturing 100 000 images per second. A research group at Lund University in Sweden has developed a camera that can film at a rate equivalent to five trillion images per second, or events as short as 0.2 trillionths of a second. This is faster than has previously been possible. The new super-fast film camera w

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/worlds-fastest-film-camera-when-light-practically-stands-still - 2025-04-25

Published 4 May 2017 Photo: Jakob Brodersen Fish that show bravery often become prey themselves, whereas shyer individuals survive to a greater extent. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now successfully established a connection between bold personalities and the risk of being killed by a predator in the wild. The researchers marked common roaches, a widespread freshwater fish, and stud

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/bravery-may-cost-fish-their-lives - 2025-04-25

Published 5 May 2017 The authors of the article at the Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Lund University: (from the left) Finja Hansen, Mariena van der Plas, Artur Schmidtchen and Jitka Petrlova (lead author). Photo: Manoj Puthia Researchers in dermatology at Lund University in Sweden believe they have cracked the mystery of why we are able to quickly prevent an infection from spreading u

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-defence-mechanism-against-bacteria-discovered - 2025-04-25