By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 14 December 2023 Inequalities are at risk of increasing as we seek to improve the health of the population. Photo: Stefan Holm/Mostphotos and Carina Andreasson/Mostphotos That life is not fair is hardly news. But that inequalities are at risk of increasing as we seek to improve the health of the population is perhaps u

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unfair-life - 2025-02-24

Published 8 October 2015 "When actors in the private sector see the economic advantages in energy savings they are willing to adjust their ways of operating so as to benefit not only business, but society as a whole", says IIIEE researcher Bernadett Kiss. Urban Transition Öresund: Comparison of cost models supports retrofitting Copenhagen city is one of many European cities in need of energy retro

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-bernadett-kiss - 2025-02-23

Published 18 August 2023 Elias Isaksson has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Between Growth and Sustainability: Exploring the Construction of Sustainable Mobility in Swedish Transport Policy'. Congratulations! Elias Isaksson and Professor Tim Richardson in discussion during dissertation. Abstract Transport policies in Western Europe are increasingly framed in terms of sustainable mobilit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elias-isaksson-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-02-23

Published 5 June 2018 Over 50% of the global population lives in cities, and those cities all share the same pressing challenge: how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion in a sustainable way? One way of finding answers to that question is urban living labs, a type of testbed where social and technical innovations are tested in real time in an urban setting.“Urban living labs ar

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/book-release-urban-living-labs-experimenting-city-futures - 2025-02-23

Av louise [dot] larsson [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Larsson) - publicerad 4 juni 2024 Stina Vikingson och Pernilla Thellmark på en av de workshoppar för Ekonomihögskolans studenter som de anordnat under våren 2024. Foto: Louise Larsson Möt Stina Vikingson och Pernilla Thellmark på Ekonomihögskolans karriärcenter som börjat jobba konkret och handfast med personliga utvecklingsmål för hållbar

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/inre-hallbarhetsmal-studenternas-personliga-utveckling - 2025-02-23

Published 30 April 2015 The Strategic Research Area initiative for research funding was launched by the Swedish Government in the research and innovation bill of 2008. 43 Swedish strategic research areas (SRA’s) was funded by the Swedish government from 2010-2014. MERGE is one of the SRA’s that now have been evaluated. Today the evaluation, together with recommendations for the future, was publish

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/positive-evaluation-merge - 2025-02-23

Published 2 February 2024 On Wednesday, Georgia de Leeuw nailed her thesis, "The Comfort of Alignment: Mining, Green Steel, and Killjoy Desires in Sweden/Sápmi" at the Department of Political Science, Eden. Georgia de Leeuw nails her thesis to the wall in Eden, surrounded by her colleagues. In the background is the Assistant Head of Department for Doctoral studies, Ted Svensson. The public defense

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/georgia-de-leeuw-nailed-her-thesis - 2025-02-23

Published 1 March 2024 Doctor Georgia de Leeuw being celebrated at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Georgia de Leeuw has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'The comfort of alignment: Mining, green steel, and killjoy desires in Sweden/Sápmi'. Congratulations! Georgia de Leeuw and Associate Professor Mattias Borg Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen during dissertation at

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/georgia-de-leeuw-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-02-23

Published 17 May 2024 PhD defense in Political Science: Caroline Karlsson with external reviewer: Associate Professor Andreja Zevnik, University of Manchester. Photo. Caroline Karlsson has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'The Prohibitive Condition: The Performativity of the Incest Taboo and its Incestuous Remainders'. Congratulations! AbstractThis dissertation explores the political natu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/caroline-karlsson-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-02-23

Published 16 June 2022 Colm Flaherty and his supervisors Charalambos Demetriou (left) and Bo Isenberg (right). Photo: Theo Hagman-Rogowski On Thursday, June 16, Colm Flaherty successfully defended his thesis A Politics of Community: Identity, Stigma, and Meaning in the Extra-Parliamentary Left, and is from here on out a doctor of sociology. Flaherty spent his doctoral studies exploring changing fo

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/welcome-doctorhood-colm-flaherty - 2025-02-23

Published 2 July 2024 As part of the international POLLEN24 Conference, SASNET co-hosted a panel on Political Ecology of Glacierized Environments. Visiting from India was Manshi Asher, environmental justice activist and researcher. In June, the cross-continental POLLEN24 Conference was held in Lund, (Sweden), Dodoma (Tanzania), and Lima (Peru). The conference aims to provide a platform to discuss

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/politics-ecology-and-glaciers-sasnet-pollen24-conference - 2025-02-23

Published 16 February 2024 The University building. Photo: Mikael Risedal A new three-year term of office has begun for the University’s eight deans. Five are new in the role, while three have been around for some time. LUM has put a few questions to each of them. Annika Olsson, Faculty of Engineering (LTH), second term of office Annika Olsson. Photo: Kennet Ruona What’s the first thing you will b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-term-deans - 2025-02-24

Av tord [dot] ajanki [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tord Ajanki) - publicerad 9 december 2022 En stor norsk undersökning visar att den som känner sig ensam löper en betydande ökad risk att insjukna i typ 2-diabetes. Bland de deltagare som på frågan om de känt sig ensamma under de senaste två veckorna svarade ”väldigt mycket” var risken för diabetes fördubblad jämfört med de som inte känt sig ensamma.

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/ensamhet-riskfaktor-typ-2-diabetes - 2025-02-23

Publicerad 19 september 2012 En ny analys av den svenska så kallade SOS-studien (Swedish Obese Subjects) visar att personer som genomgår fetmakirurgi fortsätter att utnyttja sjukvården lika mycket som personer som får konventionell fetmabehandling. Detta trots att det kirurgiska ingreppet i sig ofta ger bestående viktnedgång över en 20-årsperiod – och därmed minskad risk för livsstilssjukdomar som

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/lagre-lakemedelskostnader-20-ar-efter-fetmakirurg - 2025-02-24

Published 13 February 2024 Fotograf: Diana Jap, omslagsbild: Milena Bojovic The thesis, entitled Fashioning the Ecological Crisis: Sustainability and Feminism in Fashion Advertising and Communication in Contemporary Sweden, is a critical feminist study that explores the fashion industry's ethical marketing in its advertising and communication aimed at consumers.  Such ethical marketing and communi

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/thesis-sheds-light-how-fashion-companies-use-greenwashing-marketing-campaigns-contributes - 2025-02-23

Published 5 December 2018 The disproportionate impacts of climate change on vulnerable groups, art for the SDG:s, and political and personal stories about flying and climate change. This is the focus of three LUCSUS projects that recently received funding from Formas.  Other projects include research on mobilisation for the SDG:s, and an exploration of love in relation to land and place in Zimbabw

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-projects-lucsus-climate-change-flying-and-sanitation - 2025-02-23

Published 13 December 2016 Maria Tonini and Admir Skodo will join SASNET as researchers from 1 January 2017. As a SASNET researcher, Maria will explore patterns of inclusion and exclusion as they are articulated in digital media in India and Sweden, with special focus on social media platforms and user-generated content. Issues of interest include: online harassment, marginalization, and visibilit

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/two-researchers-will-join-sasnet - 2025-02-23

Av maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - publicerad 14 juni 2023 Begreppet proaktivt åldrande beskrivs nu för första gången i en vetenskaplig tidskrift. Forskarna bakom artikeln pekar på behovet av ett bredare och synsätt på åldrandet. Begreppet ”proaktivt åldrande” har hittills inte beskrivits i den vetenskapliga litteraturen. I den nyligen publicerade artikeln "‘Proa

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/nytt-vetenskapligt-begrepp-kan-forandra-synen-pa-aldrandet - 2025-02-24

Av Noomi [dot] Egan [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - publicerad 5 februari 2018 Sune Sunesson, Pufendorfinstitutets vetenskapliga rådgivare Det fortsätter där allt började. När Professor Sune Sunesson nu har blivit vetenskaplig rådgivare efter sex år som föreståndare för Pufendorfinstitutet flyttar han tillbaka till sitt gamla rum som vetter åt husets baksida. Han är glad över a

https://www.pi.lu.se/artikel/sune-sunesson-blickar-framat-i-sin-nya-roll-som-institutets-vetenskapliga-radgivare - 2025-02-23

Av anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - publicerad 8 november 2021 Bild: TeamDAF/Istockphoto. Den 31 oktober samlas representanter från världens alla hörn i Glasgow för att delta i FN:s stora klimattoppmöte COP26 som ska pågå i två veckor. Förväntningarna är skyhöga efter fjolårets inställda konferens och den alarmerande rapport som FN:s klimatpanel IPCC släppte

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/klimattoppmotet-i-glasgow-vad-handlar-det-om-och-vad-spelar-det-roll - 2025-02-23