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Gender and Rights in Geographical Imaginaries: Contested Meanings and Realities The topic of the workshop this year is Gender and Rights in Geographical Imaginaries: Contested Meanings and Realities. Imagined geographies is a concept developed by a postcolonial scholar Edward Said to grasp the relationship between the meaning given to space and boundaries and the coloniality of power. The workshop

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/global-gender-matters-workshops-programme-now-available - 2026-01-19

Medan den sociala tilliten i Sverige och i andra västeuropeiska länder ligger på en relativt stabil och hög nivå, så dalar den i USA. Hur kan man förklara detta? Ny forskning visar att den amerikanska trenden till stor del kan förklaras av minskat förtroende för de politiska institutionerna samt av erfarenhet från att ha varit arbetslös. ”Skulle du säga att man i allmänhet kan lita på de flesta

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/unik-studie-visar-varfor-amerikaner-tappar-fortroende-varandra - 2026-01-19

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/innovationspris-till-diabetesforskare - 2026-01-19

Almost 14 million viewers have watched Anils Seth’s TED Talk “Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality”. In the beginning of May, he visits Lund University and Neuroscience Day to give this year's prestigious Segerfalk lecture. We meet on zoom for a conversation about AI, the mystery of consciousness and – of course – to find out what he knew about Sweden. … how would you explain consciousne

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/hello-there-anil-seth - 2026-01-19

Fredagkväll i Lund och strax ska Mikael Dolsten, hyllad forskningschef och gästprofessor i farmakologi vid Medicinska fakulteten, berätta den osannolika, men sanna, historien om hur det gick till när hans företag på nio månader tog fram ett av de vaccin som kan frälsa oss från pandemin. Det borde tagit nio år, om det nu inte varit oår. Heta forskarfrågor dryftades, vyer vidgades och hopp ingavs om

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/gastprofessorn-berattade-den-hapnadsvackande-historien-om-vaccinet-som-kan-radda-oss-fran-pandemin - 2026-01-19

OUTREACH FÖR VÅRA FORSKARE: Tobias Nielsen håller föredraget Ecuador’s Socio Bosque and Peru’s Programa Bosque as Role Models? vid ett sido-event till FN:s klimatkonferens i Peru (4/12).  REDD and Beyond: International and Indigenous Strategies in Forest ProtectionREDD is one a series of incentive-based mechanisms for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to REDD, and partly out of critic

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/nielsen-forlaser-om-sydamerikanska-forebilder - 2026-01-20

As a way of exploring the need of specific expertise within the area of computational social sciences, the Methods Centre has recruited two research engineers, Maria Lucchetta and Minahil Malik. Their role is to support the faculty's researchers who either have ongoing research projects that include relevant methods or are interested in expanding their method skills. Both Maria and Minahil are int

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-research-engineers-provide-support-computational-social-sciences - 2026-01-19

De ekonomiska sanktionerna mot Ryssland efter invasionen av Ukraina har destabiliserande effekter även i Centralasien. Eftersom ekonomiska och sociala påfrestningar i Ryssland kan leda till omfattande uppsägningar av migrantarbetare förbereder sig Tadzjikistan, Kirgizistan och Uzbekistan för ett stort antal hemvändande arbetslösa män. Rubelns värdeminskning i början av mars till följd av västerlän

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/artikel/centralasiatiska-gastarbetare-hotas-av-massarbetsloshet - 2026-01-19

Guest researcher Giulia Garofalo Geymonat is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Gender Studies, Lund University. Her recent publication Vendere e comprare sesso. Piacere, lavoro, prevaricazione (Selling and Buying Sex. Pleasure, Work, Abuse of Power), Il Mulino, Bologna 2014, reflects her knowledge of the differences among European countries as well as her experience e

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/commercial-sex-sexual-assistance-and-people-disabilities - 2026-01-19

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/miljoner-till-forskning-om-ai-i-offentlig-forvaltning - 2026-01-19

Markus Lahtinen, researcher and lecturer at the Department of Informatics, Lund University, has been interviewed by both Dagens Nyheter (DN) and Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) for expert insights on the use of AI for crime-fighting purposes. The articles in DN and SvD report on the potential integration of AI into camera surveillance, including facial recognition and automatic reading of licence plates.

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/markus-lahtinen-speaks-ai-and-camera-surveillance - 2026-01-20

This year’s first interdisciplinary CASE Scientific Session yesterday, about digital technology, was a collaboration between the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine. And gathered more researchers than usual to these sessions. PhD students from the latter, Samantha Svärdh and William son Galanza, presented their preliminary findings on their work with technologies used in care for older adul

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/hot-topic-ai-and-digital-technology-older-adults - 2026-01-19

No 45, 17 September 2025 In this newsletter we advertise a wide variety of NAISS training events, scheduled for the autumn term.  Since last time we have added an Introduction to Python on HPC systems.An overview on our events is available on the NAISS website.OverviewNAISS trainingOnline workshops: Mondays with Matlab, 23 SeptemberOnline training seminar: Introduction seminar for Alvis users, 1 O

https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter-0 - 2026-01-19

Beyond transformative agreementsI en artikel publicerad på EUA: s plattform "Expert Voices", skriver Astrid Söderbergh Widding och Wilhelm Widmark vid Stockholms universitet samt Anna Lundén och Britt-Marie Wideberg vid Kungliga biblioteket att Bibsamkonsortiet strävar mot att byta från läs- och publiceringsavtal till avtal som enbart handlar om publicering efter 2024. Nästa generations avtal måst

https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-april-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation - 2026-01-19

Never before so much data has been produced within life sciences. At the same time, computing power, artificial intelligence and other technology necessary to handle data have been greatly improved. The theme of this year’s WCMM Research Day held on April 12th in Lund, was artificial intelligence (AI) in medical research. A widely discussed topic that has opened up endless amounts of new opportuni

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-research-day-2023 - 2026-01-19

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/article-exploring-inclusive-cities-migrants-uk-and-sweden-scoping-review - 2026-01-19

The first call for applications, Sustainable Idea Exploration, within the University’s Sustainability Fund opened during the autumn. The aim is to explore the innovative potential of sustainability-related research projects at an early stage. Four projects have now been granted funding. From biomimicry and energy efficiency enhancement to a model for legal advice on human rights – the applications

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/four-projects-awarded-grants-sustainability-fund - 2026-01-20

What can 100,000 SEK in research funding lead to? For Yulia Vakulenko and her research group at Campus Helsingborg, Lund University, the answer turned out to be new knowledge, new methods, and international recognition from OpenAI. The research group, led by Yulia Vakulenko and based at REAL – the Centre for Retail and Logistics at Lund University – has received a Token of Appreciation from OpenAI

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/seed-funding-global-recognition-researchers-acknowledged-openai - 2026-01-19

Under LUs framtidsdagar blickar vi in i framtidens städer och dissekerar framtidens död. Några av föredragen hålls av kollegor från vår fakultet. 16 oktoberPlanerar vi för hälsosamma städer?Kristoffer Mattisson, docent i miljömedicin, Avdelningen för arbets- och miljömedicin, Medicinska fakultetenI Sverige och på många platser i världen pågår urbanisering, inte sällan sker denna genom stadsförtätn

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/medfak-ar-med-och-synar-framtiden-och-dess-dod-pa-framtidsdagarna-16-1710 - 2026-01-19

On 7 March, Lina Wedin will begin as head of the Faculty Office. During March, she will gradually replace Malou Engberg de Carvalho, who will retire at the end of the month. A warm welcome to the Faculty of Social Sciences! How does it feel to soon start your new job as head of the Faculty Office?It’s exciting to be given responsibility for such an important organisation. Since I like to meet new

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-head-faculty-office-incoming - 2026-01-19