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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. All over the world, thousands of experts are sitting entering information about their home countries into a huge democracy database. Soon, three quarters of the world’s countries will have been entered. “In my megalomaniac moments, I usually compare the database to the CERN particle accelerator. It will be as importan

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/gigantic-database-stores-information-about-democracy-worldwide - 2026-07-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “Really good research is often interdisciplinary”, said Kerstin Sahlin from the Swedish Research Council (VR) at a seminar in Lund on how the land lies for research funding. She wanted to debunk the myth that VR is not good at encouraging interdisciplinary projects. Quite the opposite – a working group has recently be

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tips-funding-bodies - 2026-07-17

This years' WCMM Research Day 2024 with the focus on "Tissue & Bioengineering in Molecular Medicine" served as an ideal platform for WCMM Lund affiliates to dive into the topic of regenerative medicine, a strong focus of the WCMM Lund that has created many projects that resulted in high quality peer-reviewed publications and the opportunity for good education of young researchers. The event has br

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-research-day-2024 - 2026-07-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. – The SDG:s can help us as a sustainability centre to reflect around impact and how we are contributing to the goals. Where does our research sit in this context, and how can we make it more relevant to stakeholders and communities?, says Emily Boyd. This is important she notes, because today the SDG.s are becoming in

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/emily-boyd-lucsus-and-sustainable-development-goals - 2026-07-17

Länge sades det att typ 1-diabetiker är normalviktiga och att typ 2-diabetiker ofta är överviktiga. Det stämmer inte längre. Bland personer med typ 1-diabetes är övervikt och fetma allt vanligare och med samma hälsovådliga konsekvenser som vid typ 2-diabetes. En svårighet med att hålla vikten är att insulinbehandling i sig ökar risken för övervikt. Frågan togs upp i tidskriften The Lancet Diabetes

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/overvikt-ar-ett-vaxande-problem-bland-personer-med-typ-1-diabetes - 2026-07-17

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. SciLifeLab har tillsammans med Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse under våren lanserat ett omfattande nationellt program med 67 forskningsprojekt kring covid-19. Syftet är att bekämpa coronapandemin och sammanlagt får projekten dela på 50 miljoner kronor. Vid Lunds universitet har sex forskningsprojekt fått del av

https://www.lu.se/artikel/flera-lundaforskare-bekampar-covid-19-med-stod-fran-scilifelab - 2026-07-16

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. SciLifeLab har tillsammans med Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse under våren lanserat ett omfattande nationellt program med 67 forskningsprojekt kring covid-19. Syftet är att bekämpa coronapandemin och sammanlagt får projekten dela på 50 miljoner kronor. Vid Lunds universitet har sex forskningsprojekt fått del av

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/flera-lundaforskare-bekampar-covid-19-med-stod-fran-scilifelab - 2026-07-17

Ian Manners har publicerat ett kapitel om "Planetary Politics in the Twenty-Second Century" i The Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century redigerad av Laura Horn, Ayşem Mert och Franziska Müller. Abstract: After two centuries of immanent planetary politics, by the twenty-second century the politics had become planetary. This means that since the 2020s political analysis encompasse

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/ian-manners-om-planetary-politics-under-det-tjugoandra-arhundradet - 2026-07-17

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. NYTT FRÅN VÅRA FORSKARE: Boken EU Civil Society: Patterns of Cooperation, Competition and Conflict har just utkommit på Palgrave Macmillan. Sara Kalm och Håkan Johansson från Socialhögskolan (Lunds universitet) är redaktörer och författare till bokens inledningskapitel. Ylva Stubbergaard bidrar med kapitlet "Conflic

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/kalm-stubbergaard-och-hedling-i-ny-bok-om-eu-och-civilsamhalle - 2026-07-17

On 26 May, a large number of emails were sent to University employees regarding a meeting between demonstrators and the University Management. This was not an IT security breach, but legitimate way of reaching many recipients since all staff email addresses are listed on the University’s website.Our freedom of speech provides space for large numbers of different opinions to be expressed and dissem

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/emails-over-weekend-about-demonstrations - 2026-07-16

Future Week has become Future Days. It will continue to showcase innovative research with focus on the big questions of the future. The popular science programme will now be formed around the pioneering visions of researchers and teaching staff from all the University’s faculties. For the past three years, Lund University’s Future Week has presented ground-breaking research; research that has its

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/future-days-2022-future-week-new-guise - 2026-07-17

Simon Davidsson har tilldelats Statsvetenskapliga förbundets pris för bästa uppsats av yngre forskare presenterad vid förbundets årsmöte 2022. Davidsson tilldelas priset för uppsatsen "Testing Paths to Strong Parties in Western Europe or the Efficient Secret Shared." Motiveringen lyder:    Davidssons uppsats är en noggrann undersökning av förklaringar till utvecklingen av partistyrka i västeuropei

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/simon-davidsson-tilldelas-statsvetenskapliga-forbundets-pris - 2026-07-17

Every four years, the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies is evaluated to monitor how the institute meets its overall objectives and follows its basic principles. This year, an external panel has evaluated the activities during the years 2018–2021 (yes, including the pandemic years), the model on which the Pufendorf Institute rests and what makes the institute unique. The panel consisted of M

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/pufendorf-institutes-sustainable-principles - 2026-07-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Many patients seeking treatment for chronic hip and groin pain are referred to an orthopaedic surgeon. Physiotherapist Anders Pålsson’s doctoral thesis from Lund University shows that these patients perceive a low quality of life and have low physical functioning. If their pain can be pinpointed and diagnosed at an ea

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/earlier-diagnosis-shortens-queues-orthopaedics - 2026-07-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On 19-21 April 2017, the British Association of South Asian Studies (BASAS) will hold its annual conference in Nottingham. The conference is hosted by Nottingham University’s Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies (IAPS) and Nottingham Trent University’s Postcolonial Studies Centre. The keynote speaker is Urvashi Butal

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/basas-annual-conference-2017-nottingham - 2026-07-17

Lund University has been sliding down the lists of the three main university ranking organisations for several years. Today, we make only one of the top 100 lists, and even then with a mere five places above the 100 cut-off. Daniel J. Guhr is an expert on the importance of these rankings and knows what the consequences can be if the downward trend continues. “Losing a top 100 position in all three

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/consultants-warning-major-consequences-falling-outside-top-100 - 2026-07-16

On Friday 23 May, the university's major ceremony, the doctoral conferment, took place. During the ceremony in Lund Cathedral, the 239 doctors who have completed their doctoral studies and defended a doctoral thesis at Lund University over the past year, including some from the Department of Service Studies, were awarded their doctorates. At Friday's ceremony, the newly awarded doctorates marched

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/festive-and-solemn-universitys-doctoral-conferment - 2026-07-17

With only a few weeks remaining of its first semester, the maiden voyage of the Master’s programme in Cultural Criminology at Lund University is ending. How does this unique criminology master’s programme provide nuance to deviance? “I have found the course to be fantastic so far,” says Jack Lowe, one of the 14 students currently in the Master’s programme in Cultural Criminology. Having received h

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/focusing-seduction-crime-deviance-and-control - 2026-07-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Climate networks aim to strengthen municipalities’ efforts to combat climate change. But membership benefits need to be much clearer communicated in order to utilise the networks’ full potential; and should highlight the importance of network membership to drive local climate politics forward, argues researcher Henner

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-municipal-climate-networks-can-improve-their-impact-new-research-article - 2026-07-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. George Neville works as a post-doctoral researcher within the Misty project, with a special focus on migration and the SDGs. In this interview, he tells us about what sustainability challenge he finds most interesting, what drives him as a researcher, and about what he did before he came to LUCSUS. What do you do at L

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-interview-george-neville-researches-migration-transformation-and-sustainability - 2026-07-17