Published 28 September 2020 Petra Östergren next to a mural of a sex worker on Marion Street, Wellington, during her 2017 field studies in New Zealand, the only country in the world with an integrative policy.. Photo: Catherine Healy. Social anthropologist Petra Östergren’s research rethinks prostitution policies and receives international response and praise. Her chapter "From zero-tolerance to f

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/governing-sex-work-new-way-categorizing-prostitution-policy-may-be-standard-years-come - 2025-02-11

Published 22 September 2020 Meetings are common in contemporary working life, but they are often overlooked in academic studies and sometimes defined as empty or boring by employees. Three researchers of sociology now contribute with insights into the culture of meetings. Malin Åkerström, David Wästerfors and Sophia Yakhlef at the Department of Sociology in Lund have written the article Meetings o

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lets-pretend-not-meeting - 2025-02-11

Published 4 November 2020 Sociologist Tullia Jack's paper questions whether changes meant to increase life quality and provide basic human rights, are actually contributing to deepening social stratification. Tullia Jack has published the paper ‘Without cleanliness we can’t lead the life, no?’ Cleanliness practices, (in)accessible infrastructures, social (im)mobility and (un)sustainable consumptio

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/more-cleanliness-deepening-social-gaps - 2025-02-11

Published 5 November 2020 The impact party politics has on the circulation of information about COVID-19 is the topic of a new article in the Canadian Journal of Political Science. Doctoral Student of Social Anthropology Isabelle Johansson has together with researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside published the article titled: ”The Partisan Impact on Local Government Dissemination of CO

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-do-politics-impact-access-information-about-covid-19 - 2025-02-11

Published 10 November 2020 Alexandra Franzén, doctoral student of sociology, has published the article “But ÖB Bengt Gustafsson took me by the hand and thanked me. A comparison between Jan Guillou's and Peter Bratt's accounts of the IB-publication in 1973 and 2017 ” in the Political Science journal Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. In May 1973, the Swedish journalists Peter Bratt and Jan Guillou expose

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Published 12 February 2021 SWEDISH PARENTING SUPPORT: Lisa Eklund and Åsa Lundqvist at the Department of Sociology in Lund have published the article "Governing as peers : Reluctant experts and competent parents in the Swedish welfare state" in the French-language, international journal: Lien social et Politiques. Abstract In recent years, parenting support has gained traction in the Swedish welfa

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/competent-parents-steered-peers - 2025-02-11

Published 24 March 2021 Susanne Boethius and Malin Åkerström at the Department of Sociology in Lund are winners of the Nordic Journal of Criminology Best Article Prize 2020 with the article "Revealing hidden realities: disclosing domestic abuse to informal others". The study draws on interviews with 21 Swedish women who have been victims of domestic abuse and their social networks. The article dis

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Published 2 June 2021 Even though much of their time is spent in less dramatic situations, transnational police from a range of different counties describe their own work in terms of fighting and combat. David Sausdal, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, has spent six years ethnographically researching transnational policing efforts at both the national and international leve

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/war-language-used-transnational-police-when-describing-their-work - 2025-02-11

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 9 March 2022 Charlotta Böiers, head of StemTherapy FACS Core Facility research infrastructure, and Mikael Sommarin, research engineer, discuss the results of a 22-colour analysis made on the new FACS device Symphony S6. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter. Anna Fossum, Project Manager at the StemTherapy FACS Core Facility research i

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-addition-lund-stem-cell-center-facs-facility - 2025-02-11

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 14 March 2022 Magdalena Götz, a professor of physiology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, held the prestigious Segerfalk lecture 2021. (Photo: private) Magdalena Götz, a professor of physiology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, held the prestigious Segerfalk lecture last year. The discovery she made as a youn

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Published 17 March 2022 To the left: Petri dishes for cell cultures in the lab. To the right: Cells from the cell line the researchers used in the study. (Photo: Massimo De Marinis and Yang de Marinis) A new study from Lund University in Sweden on how the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine affects human liver cells under experimental conditions, has been viewed more than 800,000 times in just over a

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/qa-covid-19-vaccine-study-gains-attention - 2025-02-11

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 21 March 2022 Kristina Fagher together with a Chinese colleague, "Ski-doctor", on the slopes. Meeting international colleagues is very rewarding and inspiring. Photo: Private photo. Our researcher is part of the Swedish Olympic Committee’s development programme “Tomorrow’s Sports Researchers” and her research on pa

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researcher-supporting-our-athletes-most-successful-paralympic-winter-games-long-time - 2025-02-11

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 31 March 2022 The islets of Langerhans are clusters of cells that are spread out over the pancreas. Lena Eliasson and Jones Ofori separate the islets of Langerhans from the pancreas to study them in the lab. Photo: Petra Olsson Researchers at Lund University have discovered increased levels of a microRNA in type 2 diabetes

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/newly-discovered-drug-candidate-increases-insulin-secretion-type-2-diabetes - 2025-02-11

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 8 April 2022 Image: Ben Sweet Two young experimental researchers have been awarded grants from the Anna-Lisa Rosenberg Foundation, the Department of Experimental Medical Science´s own grant for research in the neurobiological field with a clinical collaboration. Congratulations Alessandro Fiorenzano on the Anna-Lis

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/young-neurobiologists-awarded-grants-alzheimers-and-parkinsons-research - 2025-02-11

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 27 April 2022 Photo: Mostphotos. In addition to memory problems and other cognitive symptoms, most people with Alzheimer’s disease also suffer from mental health issues. It has long been unclear whether these occur because of tissue changes in the brain, or whether they represent psychological reactions to cognitiv

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/psychiatric-symptoms-alzheimers-disease - 2025-02-11

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 29 April 2022 Illustration: iStock/koto_feja. This year's prestigious Segerfalk lecture will be given by Eero Castrén, Research Director at the Neuroscience Centre at the University of Helsinki. In his research on brain plasticity, he has discovered clues about which mechanisms in the brain are affected by antidepressants – an

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/brain-plasticity-and-link-depression - 2025-02-11

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 13 May 2022 Obesity and excess weight increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, but individuals of normal weight can also develop the disease. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that it is possible to identify at-risk individuals by measuring BMI in a new way. The authors of the study have iden

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/metabolic-bmi-can-predict-risk-type-2-diabetes-normal-weight-patients - 2025-02-11

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 13 May 2022 Gülsen Özkaya Sahin (Photo: Tove Smeds) At the end of March, the first cases of acute severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children were reported in the UK. Since then, the number has increased to more than 300 in around 20 countries; there are now reports of nine suspected cases in Sweden. The acute liver infecti

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researchers-search-answers-increase-acute-severe-hepatitis-children - 2025-02-11

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 23 May 2022 Charlotte Ling, Tina Rönn and Karl Bacos carry out research at Lund University Diabetes Centre. They summarise some of the most important advancements within the field of epigenetics and diabetes in a review article. Photo: Petra Olsson Epigenetics has become an important tool for researchers endeavoring to und

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/epigenetics-can-pave-way-individualised-treatment-type-2-diabetes - 2025-02-11

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 31 May 2022 Inger Kristensson Hallström and Hanne Tønnesen, head of the WHO Collaboratoring Centre at Lund University. Photo: Jon Ulvsgärd. One in three patients is asked about their lifestyle habits when they visit the outpatient healthcare clinics. This figure really ought to be higher, according to Professors Hanne Tønnesen

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/who-mission-creating-evidence-how-health-care-can-prevent-disease - 2025-02-11