Published 15 September 2016 Lund University is celebrating 350 years of education and research with €350,000 in scholarships! Win a scholarship for your Master’s programme by showing that you share Lund University's vision to understand, explain and improve the world and the human condition. The scholarship can be applied to over 100 different Master’s programmes in a variety of subjects at Lund U

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Published 4 October 2016 Geographers and GIS technicians wanted! Per Becker, Engineer and Risk Manager talks about international cooperation and his work with risk management and aid work coming back after a year posting in Fiji. Thursday 6 Oct at 18:30Place: Sky High, Geocentum 1, LundThe pub serves beer, wine and snacks to membership prices. Are you not a member? No problem, you can become membe

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/whats-geographer-pub-presentation - 2025-03-13

Published 10 October 2016 The stipend from Torsten Hägerstrands stiftelse commemorating the birth of Torsten Hägerstrand a 100 years ago, October 11, 1916, has been awarded to:Andreas Skriver Hansen, Human Geography, Göteborgs Universitet. Skriver Hansen applies for funds to participate in and also arranging a session at the International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM) in Ume

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Published 24 October 2016 The Afrint research group and Development Geography in Lund warmly welcome you to the Development Research Day 2016: End hunger and achieve food security by 2030. The Development Research Day is an annual event at Lund University bringing together all fields working on development to share and discuss their research with each other, students and the public. Theme: End hun

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Published 7 December 2016 On Thursday at 15.15 , Professor Frédéric Landy will be holding a seminar on the topicNational parks within the urban agglomerations of Mumbai, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town: between urbanization and globalization, which place for ‘eco-ethnicity’?Venue, Rio (430), Geocentrum 1, Sölvegatan 10, floor 4 Frédéric Landy is the Director of the French Institute of Pondic

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Published 9 December 2016 On Thursday 10th of November 2016, we had another inspiring edition of the Development Research Day, a flagship annual event at Lund University bringing together all disciplines working on development issues since 2002. This year the Development Research Day was hosted by the Human Geography department and was dedicated to Sustainable Development Goal no. 2: “End hunger,

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/inspiring-edition-development-research-day-2016-end-hunger-and-achieve-food-security-2030 - 2025-03-13

Published 25 November 2014 During this application round four (4) applications were received. A decision has now been taken to award two scholarships, which consequently go to:Beatrice Fäldt - Gender, Children and Commercial Sexual Exploitation - A study on gender relations in the Nicaraguan contextCecilia Emilsson - Chachawarmi and Its Effects on Female Participation in Rural BoliviaWe would like

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Published 20 January 2015 A research programme in Sustainability Science at Lund University (LUCID) invites applications for up to eight PhD positions and one post-doc position, including PhD in Human Geography and PhD in Human Ecology.LUCID is a Linnaeus programme sponsored by The Swedish Research Council Formas for the period 2008-2018. It operates as a cross-faculty consortium of four departmen

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/lucid-announces-phd-position-human-ecology-and-phd-position-human-geography - 2025-03-13

Published 21 January 2015 Elin Brudin (SGSPL - Bachelor's in Urban and Regional Planning batch 2011-2014) has received a third prize for her Bachelor's thesis in a thesis contest 2014 from Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency. Read more (in Swedish). Elin's thesis is available in open access and can be downloaded from Lund University Student Thesis Database. Elin's Bachelor's thesis

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Published 13 February 2015 Johan Sandberg, the Director of Studies for LUMID - our Master's Programme in International Development and Management - presented a dissertation brief "Transformative Social Policy in Development? Demystifying Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America", written to the Expert Group Evaluation of Swedish Aid, at the Foreign Ministry."Transformative Social Policy in Deve

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Published 12 March 2015 Please note that there is an information meeting regarding MFS scholarship for Spring 2015 (application deadline: 16/4). The meeting takes place from 4 to 5 pm (sharp), in Världen (room 111), Geocentrum I.

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/mfs-information-meeting-193-4-pm - 2025-03-13

Published 13 March 2015 Foto: Joakim Stierna The upcoming development of ESS in Lund might lead to a serious housing shortage in the Scania region, according to Marko Huttunen. On the 12th of March, his research was noticed by the Swedish newspaper Skånskan. Some municipalities in Scania are better prepared for Lund's upcoming research expansion than others. Read more about Marko's thesis at http:

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By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 24 July 2023 Illustration of a Lewy body.(Image: istock.com/Marcin Klapczynski) Lewy body disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease. A research group from Lund University has now shown that the disease can be detected before symptoms appear, using a spinal fluid test. The stu

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/lewy-body-disease-can-be-detected-symptoms - 2025-03-13

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 27 July 2023 Bacterial species associated with early signs of atherosclerosis are linked to poor oral health in a new study. Daniel Jönsson, researcher and dentist, has examined the oral health of several of the participants. Photo: Petra Olsson. What is the link between atherosclerosis and gut and mouth bacteria? Research

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/gut-and-mouth-bacteria-give-researchers-new-clues-about-atherosclerosis - 2025-03-13

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 3 August 2023 The green areas in the zebrafish brain indicate that the nerve cells send electrical signals when the implanted electrode transmits external stimuli. No tissue damage was observed after the injection. Researchers at Lund and Gothenburg Universities have successfully developed temporary, organic electrodes

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By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 3 August 2023 Kristina Lång. Photo: Ingemar Hultquist. Mammography screening supported by artificial intelligence (AI) is a safe alternative to today’s conventional double reading by radiologists and can reduce heavy workloads for doctors. This has now been shown in an interim analysis of a prospective, randomised controlled t

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/ai-supported-mammography-screening-found-be-safe - 2025-03-13

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 9 August 2023 Heart failure is a common condition affecting 250 000 Swedes. Photo: iStock A research study at Lund University shows that there is an association between selenium deficiency and an increased risk of developing heart failure. The risk is twice as high for individuals with low selenium levels. Heart failur

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/link-between-selenium-deficiency-and-heart-failure - 2025-03-13

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 16 August 2023 Brainwaves, or neural oscillations, are periodic electrical activities that occur when large groups of neurons work together. Researchers now hope that these signals will teach us more about hallucinations and psychoses. Photo: Pär Halje Researchers at Lund University have developed a technique for simultaneousl

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/how-psychedelic-drugs-affect-rats-brain - 2025-03-13

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 17 August 2023 Researchers have studied the metabolism of people with overweight before and after undergoing gastric bypass surgery. The study shows that the biggest changes occurred shortly after surgery. Photo: iStock/herjua A new study from Lund University in Sweden raises questions about the efficacy of bariatric opera

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/positive-metabolic-effects-gastric-bypass-disappear-quickly - 2025-03-13

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 24 August 2023 Researchers at Lund University, Rigshospitalet Copenhagen, Hannover Medical School and the biopharma company Amniotics will investigate how natural killer cells can be tailored for the treatment of AML, glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. Photo: iStock. As certain tumor cells are able to conceal themselv

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/eu-funding-killer-cells-fight-cancer - 2025-03-13