Published 16 March 2020 Message from the LUDC Executive Board. Photo by CDC on Unsplash Dear Friends and colleagues,We are all now well aware that the COVID-19 pandemic is spreading fast in Sweden and around the world. There is a lot of information to digest. Some of this is factual and helpful, but there is also a great deal of poorly informed speculation, that risks promoting anxiety and panic.

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/updates-covid-19 - 2025-07-07

By maria [dot] johansson [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Johansson) - published 18 September 2024 Sofia graduated from Lund University’s master’s program in Economic Growth, Population and Development in 2022 and has since built a career in international relations, currently working as an Adviser at the UN Headquarters in New York. In our interview, Sofia shares her journey from studies to the U

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/sofia-brannstrom-alumna-msc-economic-growth-population-and-development-2022 - 2025-07-07

Published 18 December 2020 Karin Aggestam has been appointed as Director for Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and coordinator of the strategic research area “Middle East in the Contemporary World". Why have you been appointed as new director and scientific research coordinator on the Middle East? From the start, I was part of the team that planned the new Centre for Middle Eastern Studies

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-has-been-appointed-new-director-centre-middle-eastern-studies - 2025-07-07

Published 19 December 2018 Elsa Hedling defended her dissertation "Blending Politics and New Media. Mediatized Practices of EU Digital Diplomacy" on December 19 at 10:00 in Eden auditorium. Discussant was Professor Alister Miskimmon, Queen’s University Belfast. In her PhD thesis titled “Blending Politics and New Media. Mediatized Practices of EU Digital Diplomacy”, Elsa Hedling explores the relati

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elsa-hedling-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-07-07

Published 24 January 2025 Elsa Hedling is an affiliated researcher at the Psychological Defence Research Institute at Lund University, where she contributes to advance research on disinformation and hybrid threats. Elsa Hedling is an Associate Professor (Docent) in Political Science and an Associate Senior Lecturer in European Studies at the Centre for Languages and Literature. Her research focuse

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/researcher-profile-elsa-hedling - 2025-07-07

Av maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - publicerad 14 december 2021 "Jag tror att människor från civilsamhället kan tillföra perspektiv, som gör forskningen än mer trovärdig", säger Stig Ålund. Forskning om utsatta människor ligger Stig Ålund särskilt varmt om hjärtat. Men han har många hjärtefrågor och vill att fler pensionärer ska intressera sig för och även medverk

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/mer-om-stig-alund-en-av-medicinska-fakultetens-tva-hedersdoktorer-i-ar - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

Published 13 January 2015 A team of archaeologists in Egypt has made a number of exceptional discoveries, including a stela – a relief design carved into a stone wall – with what are believed to be 2500-year-old inscriptions. The project is led by Maria Nilsson from Lund University in Sweden. “What is unique about the stela is that it shows the gods Amun-Ra and Toth together. These two deities are

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/archaeologists-make-unique-discoveries-egypt - 2025-07-07

Published 16 December 2015 Johannes Stripple was one of nearly 1,000 people who ran a relay race, organised by the Swedish theatre company Riksteatern, from the Arctic to Paris – for life and the climate. Each participant had their own reasons why they wanted to participate in this climate initiative. For Johannes Stripple, it was about the frustration that so little progress has been made in the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/he-runs-climate - 2025-07-07

Published 17 October 2017 Photo: Ajay Narendra How can a bee fly straight home in the middle of the night after a complicated route through thick vegetation in search of food? For the first time, researchers have been able to show what happens in the brain of the bee. The bee brain Bees and many other animals use what is known as optical flow to determine how fast they are going and how far they h

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-bees-find-their-way-home - 2025-07-07

By anna [dot] lothman [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Löthman) - published 12 June 2025 By welcoming Laurence Mott, LUSEM further builds its capacity to combine academic excellence with practical experience and deepen its international network. LUSEM has appointed its first Professor of Practice, Laurence Mott. Through this new role, Laurence will provide strategic advice to LUSEM’s leadership an

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/laurence-mott-joins-lusem-professor-practice - 2025-07-07

By malin [dot] neptin [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Malin Neptin) - published 6 December 2022 Do you want to expand the scope of your research within one of the Europe's most successful university alliances? Would you like to strengthen existing collaborations with colleagues at University of Paris-Saclay, Lund University, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, University of Porto and University of

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/call-application-euglohria-seeding-grant-deadline-january-15th-2023-2 - 2025-07-07

Publicerad 18 maj 2023 Universitetet har på många sätt ett imponerande globalt engagemang vilket vi under året kunnat konstatera i arbetet kring Globalt Dynamiskt Engagemang (GDE). Samtidigt har vi ett sviktande internationellt genomslag, särskilt när det mäts som antalet citeringar av publikationer i topprankade tidskrifter. Denna utveckling, som vi delar med många andra lärosäten, är bekymmersam

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/insatser-okat-internationellt-genomslag - 2025-07-07

Av tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - publicerad 31 oktober 2022 Foto: iStock Forskare vid Lunds universitet har kartlagt en stamcellsliknande tumörcell som kan påverka spridning och prognos vid den aggressivaste formen av hjärntumör, glioblastom. Studien som publicerats i Acta Neuropathologica Communications, visar att tumörcellerna är resistenta mot de flesta cancerläkeme

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/stamcellsliknande-tumorcell-kan-forklara-tillvaxt-och-spridning-av-glioblastom - 2025-07-07

Av louise [dot] larsson [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Larsson) - publicerad 2 april 2024 Snygghetsstudien gav genklang i all världens medier. TEMA FORSKNING SOM VÄCKER KÄNSLOR Kommer ni ihåg ”snygghets­studien”? Den fick mycket uppmärksamhet under hösten 2022, anmäldes för brister i forskningsmetoden, men konstaterades senare inte ha avvikit från god forskningssed. Nationalekonomen Adrian Meh

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/snygghetsstudien-en-perfekt-storm - 2025-07-08

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

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/best-article-prize-2020-goes-sociology-article-victims-domestic-abuse - 2025-07-07

Published 5 December 2023 Lund University has been rated number 8 in the world out of 1,403 universities assessed in the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability, which ranks sustainable development at higher education institutions around the globe. This places the University third-best in Europe and highest in Sweden. The QS World University Rankings: Sustainability is a framework for showing

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranks-top-10-global-sustainability-ranking - 2025-07-07