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Celebrate Culture Night with Lund University! Browse among all our activities for young and old, which extend from morning to late evening. Culture NIght Lund is a festival for the whole Lund Municipality, and Lund University is a part of the programme.Bring your family or friends and take a part of the events and activities that Lund University have to offer. For everybody and all ages. Some of t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-culture-night-saturday-20-september - 2026-06-30

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Chairs: Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Alf Gunvald Nielsen and Anand Vaidya  TWO sessions:1. Wednesday 21 Sept, 10.00–12.004. Thursday 22 Sept, 09.00-11.00VENUE: Ombudsmannarummet, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, LundABSTRACTS: The Subaltern as a Political Voyeur? The landscape of shifting political allegiances in an In

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-2-mapping-subaltern-modernities-neoliberal-india - 2026-06-29

Why do some people develop type 1 diabetes and others do not? Worldwide, researchers are now collaborating to find the answer to this complex question. Diabetes researchers at Lund University recently contributed data to a new study that shows that type 1 diabetes develops in three different ways in children. This improved understanding makes it possible for scientists to conduct new types of stud

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/blood-testing-children-leads-better-understanding-type-1-diabetes - 2026-06-29

It is not easy to make ends meet for many smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Everyday life is a complex management of many activities, especially for women, such as providing, preparing and cooking food; provide water and energy for cooking; manage farm activities; rearing children; and not least ensure that the family is healthy. Ill-health can easily tip families into abject poverty. Imp

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-story-building-capacity-and-improving-everyday-life-sub-saharan-africa - 2026-06-29

Det började med en nollvisionskurs. Aliaksei Laureshyn, som till vardags är biträdande prefekt på LTH:s institution för Teknik och samhälle, är en av de stående föreläsarna på Trafiksäkerhetsverkets årliga ”Vision Zero Academy”. – Lärarna kommer från hela branschen – bilindustrin, försäkringsbranschen, där finns forskare, läkare, och Trafikverkets egna anställda.2023 hade den svenska regeringen re

https://www.lthin.lth.se/artikel/2025/pa-vag-mot-omsesidigt-utbyte-av-kunskap-och-resiliens - 2026-06-29

Den 8 december invigdes MoRe-Lab (Movement & Reality Lab), en ny testmiljö för experimentell hälsovetenskap vid Lunds universitet. Samtliga av dagens tre visningar var fullbokade och frågorna många. Konkreta idéer om framtida samarbeten såg dagens ljus och nya kontakter knöts.  Spannet bland deltagarna var stort och det fann docent Steven Schmidt, direktör för MoRe-Lab, särskilt glädjande. − MoRe-

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/smakstart-more-lab - 2026-06-29

Marknad, samhälle, konsument och medborgare, globalt och lokalt, nu och i framtiden. Vid Lunds universitet frinns flera forskare som kan svara på journalistfrågor om ekonomi, med anledning av vad som händer i världen just nu. Handelshinder, handelskrig, globalisering och isolationism Fredrik N G Andersson, docent i Nationalekonomi, kan svara brett och djupt på frågor inom finansområdet, räntor, pe

https://www.lu.se/artikel/expertlista-med-anledning-av-den-ekonomiska-situationen - 2026-06-30

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Tomas Bergström, Head of Department of Political Science, explains the rule of thumb of a 40-60 percent ratio between female and male authors represented in course reading lists. "Only one of many tools for generating awareness of gender issues among the department’s staff and students." How are reading lists adopted

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/objective-serves-tool-reflection-not-straightjacket - 2026-06-29

A new study by researchers at Lund University supports the notion that patients with type 2 diabetes should be divided into subgroups and given individualised treatment. The study demonstrates that there are distinct epigenetic differences between different groups of patients with type 2 diabetes. The epigenetic markers were also associated with different risks of developing common complications i

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/epigenetic-markers-predict-complications-patients-type-2-diabetes - 2026-06-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On December 12, 2018, Anna Lindberg, affiliated researcher at SASNET, attended an International Conference on Afghanistan, organized in Stockholm by the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA). The aim of the conference was to address local Afghani perspectives on peace building, and explore the role of development pa

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/report-international-conference-afghanistan - 2026-06-29

Modern computers are a triumph of technology. A single computer chip contains billions of nanometre-scaled transistors that operate extremely reliably and at a rate of millions of operations per second. However, this high speed and reliability come at the cost of significant energy consumption: data centres and household IT appliances like computers and smartphones account for around 3% of global

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/biological-computers-could-use-far-less-energy-current-technology-working-more-slowly - 2026-06-29

Martin Stenlo’s PhD thesis aims to improve the intensive care of lung patients as well as to increase the health status of transplantable donor lungs which will improve the success rate of lung transplantation. He is defending his thesis on the 12th of November and in this interview he tells us about his translational research and his time as a PhD student. It can’t be an easy task to combine a fu

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-martin-stenlo - 2026-06-29

– We have a moral responsibility to document loss of cultural heritage, indigenous and local knowledge, declining ecosystems and eroding sense of place, says LUCSUS post-doctoral fellow Guy Jackson. He has co-authored a literature review on non-economic loss and damage which highlights the need for more research on intangible cultural heritage, and how it connects to our physical surroundings, as

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-literature-review-documents-non-economic-loss-and-damage-due-climate-change - 2026-06-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Political scientist Johannes Stripple sees major potential for research, development and innovation in Africa and welcomes the idea of an Africa strategy at LU. He recently attended the official opening of the Clean Tech Centre at Botswana Innovation Hub – a centre that he helped establish. Political scientist Johanne

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/political-scientist-supports-africa-strategy - 2026-06-29

The UN’s annual climate change conference is currently ongoing 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, damage and loss, adaptation to climate change an

https://www.science.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-conference-cop27-topics-agenda - 2026-06-29

Small passerine birds, such as blue and great tits, avoid breeding in urban areas where there are many non-native trees. Chicks also weigh less the more non-native trees there are in the vicinity of the nest. This is shown in a long-term study from Lund University, Sweden. City trees contribute to several important ecosystem services such as lowering local temperature and purifying air but are als

https://www.science.lu.se/article/urban-birds-prefer-native-trees - 2026-06-29

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-study-challenges-idea-humans-innately-nature-loving - 2026-06-29

A new policy brief offers suggestions of what is needed to report and eventually address loss and damage from climate change in Bangladesh. It is produced within the project, Recasting the Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change Extremes (DICE) - which focuses on non-economic loss and damage caused by climate change, and who it affects, how, why and at what scale. The Government of Bangladesh h

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/policy-recommendations-report-and-address-loss-and-damage-climate-change-bangladesh - 2026-06-29

Sociologists of law find that Swedish law enforcement struggles to investigate the exploitation of migrant workers. Only two percent of reported cases end up in court. Central to the justice deficit are two interacting logics: the criminal law logic and the labour migration regime. Of the 237 cases of human trafficking for forced labour and human exploitation reported to Swedish police from 2012 t

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/low-level-criminal-law-protection-exploited-migrant-workers-sweden - 2026-06-29

Are you interested in fashion, trends, communication, and sustainability? Are you already working in the fashion industry and want to deepen your knowledge? Or are you a student who wants to broaden your education? Then apply for our new stand-alone courses: The Fashion Market: Innovation and Fashion Forecasting (5 credits) and The Fashion Market: Fashion Communication and Sustainability (5 credit

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/fashion-market-focus-latest-additions-our-course-portfolio - 2026-06-29