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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At the turn of the year, Björn Badersten and Lisa Strömbom will take up their respective posts as head and assistant head of the Department of Political Science, respectively. They were both unanimously elected by the staff in mid-October, in an election held once every three years. Björn Badersten was previously assi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/continued-academic-freedom-guiding-light-new-leadership - 2026-05-13

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Digitala läromedel blir allt vanligare i skolan men få är vetenskapligt testade. Med hjälp av ett nytt läromedelsspel lyckades elever på en skola i Landskrona höja sina matematikresultat från långt under rikssnittet, till långt över – på bara sex månader. Dammhagskolan i Landskrona testade det forskningsbaserade spe

https://www.lu.se/artikel/tv-laromedelsspel-kan-forandra-matteundervisningen - 2026-05-13

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/ny-utbildningswebb-ska-satta-studenten-i-fokus - 2026-05-14

Trumps ingrepp i Venezuela var fysiskt, konkret och beväpnat. Vad som händer nu är avgörande för landets framtid, men påverkar också hela regionen, enligt forskaren Andrés Palacio. Historiskt har USA vid flera tillfällen hävdat Centralamerika, Karibien och Sydamerika som sin intressesfär. Sedan andra världskrigets slut har man försökt att destabilisera och ibland konfrontera socialistiska regimer

https://www.lu.se/artikel/venezuela-efter-maduro - 2026-05-14

Walking is probably more cognitively demanding than you think. Magnus Lindh-Rengifo defends his thesis about walking aspects in neurodegenerative disorders on December 16. Read about his experiences as a Ph.D student at MultiPark. Tell us about your research! “Walking capability can be a key feature to being able to participate in meaningful activities in your daily life. Meeting patients with neu

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/walking-neurodegeneration-phd-interview-magnus-lindh-rengifo - 2026-05-13

The EAT-Lancet diet is a framework designed to promote environmental sustainability while also preventing common diseases such as type 2 diabetes. How do we know if the diet actually works? An international research team studied seven dietary scores and found that two of them were particularly good at evaluating adherence to the diet. Reliable diet scores are important when developing sustainable

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/research-paves-way-sustainable-dietary-recommendations - 2026-05-13

The single market of the EU is often hailed as the number one success story of European integration, and it is one of the reasons why the EU is seen as a law-making machine. Single market laws are partly focused on competition law, which sets out to ban state aid and other interventionist practices in order to create a level playing field among the EU’s businesses. But when these businesses enter

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/how-can-eu-fix-global-trade - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “The state sold us for 49 years.” These are the words of one of the farmers that doctoral student Mine Islar has interviewed in Turkey. Her recently completed thesis is about the conflicts that have arisen when the government gives private companies the right to the water in several Turkish rivers. Mine Islar. “The ri

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/local-community-protests-against-leasing-rivers - 2026-05-13

The UN’s annual climate change conference takes place this year in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Over the course of two weeks, representatives of the world’s nations will gather to discuss how to achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement and contribute to the climate transition. At this year’s COP, the focus will be on topics such as climate finance, loss and damage, adaptation to climate change a

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-conference-cop27-topics-agenda - 2026-05-13

Roberto García-Roa, postdoc at the department of Biology has won yet another prestigious photo award. This time he’s the overall winner of “Capturing Ecology”, the British Ecological Society photo competition. Congratulations Roberto, what does this award mean to you? – It’s very special! First, it links two powerful allies, science and photography. They are probably two of the best tools we have

https://www.science.lu.se/article/sharp-shooting-biologist-winner-international-photography-award - 2026-05-13

The University wants to improve its ability to recruit research talent from other countries. A working group has identified existing gaps and developed proposals to address them in order to increase recruitment. Other Swedish higher education institutions are more successful in nominating, recruiting and obtaining funding for international research talent in relation to Wallenberg Academy Fellows,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/promise-employment-attract-foreign-research-talent - 2026-05-14

Kajsa Brolin explores how our genes and environment affect the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. March 27, she defends her Ph.D. project partly based on MultiPark’s biobank sample collection. Here, she tells about the newly discovered genetic risk factor that might be specific to people in the southern part of Sweden. And is coffee really protective? Tell us about your research! “My research

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/genes-and-environment-pd-phd-interview-kajsa-brolin - 2026-05-13

The board of the Einar Hansen Research Foundation has decided to appoint Professor Martin Sunnqvist as the recipient of the Einar Hansen Research Prize 2025. The board's motivation for the recipient of the Einar Hansen Research Prize 2025: "Sunnqvist is professor of legal history at the Faculty of Law at Lund University. He defended his thesis in 2014 on Constitutional Critical Judging. The Change

https://www.law.lu.se/article/recipient-einar-hansen-research-prize-2025 - 2026-05-13

On 23-24 April, this year's edition of the Retail and Wholesale Challenge took place, a competition where university students get to take on a sharp case from the business world. The winners were Devina Chudasama and Alexis Matta, students at the master's program in Service Management with a specialisation in supply chain management. The competition is organised by the Swedish Retail and Wholesale

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/student-challenge-goal-improving-helsingborg-city-center - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Global environmental problems can be addressed by means of policy instruments such as carbon dioxide taxes, building and technology standards and support for new technology, but the issues are complex and several environmental challenges must be addressed simultaneously in order to achieve optimal effect. This is evid

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/environmental-challenges-must-be-addressed-simultaneously - 2026-05-13

Last spring, the major military exercise Aurora took place. Participating was Stefan Hansson, professor, obstetrician and reserve officer – and as a patient also communicator Tove Smeds. – The most important lesson is a focus on teamwork, and that everyone, regardless of grade/position, contributes in an important way to the task they have been given. I sometimes feel that the team spirit is lacki

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/hi-stefan-hansson-what-can-academia-learn-military - 2026-05-13

Researchers have developed a model that can calculate individual countries' carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning using observations from space. The new results could be put to use within the Earth observation programme Copernicus, when satellites will be sent into space in the coming years. At the COP26 climate summit, the nations of the world agreed on a new document that for the fir

https://www.science.lu.se/article/satellites-enable-monitoring-carbon-dioxide-emissions - 2026-05-13

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Varje år tar cirka 1 500 personer livet av sig i Sverige. Den största riskfaktorn för suicid är att personen tidigare försökt ta sitt liv vid ett eller flera tillfällen. I en ny studie från Lunds universitet visar forskare att suicidrisken hos personer som försökt ta sitt liv kvarstår under lång tid. – Vi har i stud

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/suicidrisk-kvarstar-under-lang-tid - 2026-05-13

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Flera olika råd om ändrade matvanor kan leda till lägre vikt hos personer med fetma. Därför är det bra med ett brett utbud av kostråd. På kort sikt, sex månader, ger råd om lågkolhydratkost bättre effekt än lågfettkost. Långsiktigt märks inga skillnader mellan olika kostråd. Vi vet inte heller hur de olika kostråden

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/kostrad-vid-fetma-sbu-ger-gott-betyg-lchf - 2026-05-13

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/start-scapis-sveriges-storsta-studie-om-hjart-och-lungsjukdomar - 2026-05-13