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How can we assess the impacts of social norms on low-carbon mobility options? One recent study experimenting and assessing the impacts on social norms on low-carbon mobility options indicates that for social norms to be effective, other policy instruments are critically needed too. Policymakers and scientists are paying increasing attention to how social norms can promote pro-environmental behavio

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/social-norms-pro-environmental-behaviour-and-sustainable-energy-use-0 - 2025-10-13

Varför gör människor motstånd mot åtgärder som ska skydda dem mot klimatrisker? Denna fråga utforskas i en studie från Lunds universitet som kartlägger var, och i vilka sammanhang, olika grupper motsätter sig klimatanpassningar.  – Klimatanpassning ses alltmer som något nödvändigt och bra, där brist på pengar eller kapacitet är det enda hindret för framgångsrika lösningar. Människor som inte vill

https://www.lu.se/artikel/global-kartlaggning-av-motstand-mot-klimatanpassning - 2025-10-12

A new centre to stimulate interest in science, technology and research is being built at Campus Helsingborg. In the long term, the Helsingborg Science Centre will attract 50,000 visitors a year, following the example of the Vattenhallen Science Centre in Lund. Lund University, together with the City of Helsingborg, Wihlborgs, Navet Analytics and the Helsingborg Trade Association, is laying the fou

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/science-centre-be-established-campus-helsingborg - 2025-10-12

What ethical challenges might you come across in your research and how should you deal with them? A new course aimed at all the University’s researchers will help you orientate yourself in research ethics issues. The course is structured around five themes within research ethics: academic freedom, good research practice in experiments on humans, animal experiments and other issues that affect your

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-ethics-research-staff-lund-university - 2025-10-12

At its last meeting, the Faculty Board decided on changes in the promotion process from senior lecturer to professor. Among other things, an annual application round with a deadline of 15 February will be introduced. A permanently employed senior lecturer may be promoted to professor if there is an operational need and if the person has the qualifications for employment as a professor. A request t

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-procedures-promotion-professor - 2025-10-13

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jan Teorell has published a paper explaining election fraud historically in the case of Sweden, drawing on original data from second-instance election petitions filed in 1719–1908, "Partisanship and Unreformed Bureaucracy: The Drivers of Election Fraud in Sweden, 1719-1908". These petitions reveal systematic procedural violations committed by local election officials towa

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-eighteenth-century-election-fraud-sweden - 2025-10-13

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/observing-emergence-quantum-phase-transition-shell-shell - 2025-10-13

CMES researcher Oliver Scharbrodt has been interviewed in Swedish journal Dagen about the Muslim minority in Sweden, protests and inclusive space. The article "Islamolog: Korankrisen är Sveriges 'Satansverserna'" (English translation: "Islamologist: The Qur'an Crisis is Sweden's 'The Satanic Verses'"), written by Jonathan Newton, was published online on 31 July 2023 in Dagen. Below are som excerpt

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/muslims-sweden-protests-and-inclusivity - 2025-10-13

Jana Wrange and Rikard Bengtsson have co-authored the article ”Internal and external perceptions of small state security: the case of Estonia”, which has been published in the journal ”European Security”. This article concerns small state security from a cognitive perspective and investigates Estonia as a security actor as perceived by all littoral Baltic Sea states. Drawing on unique elite survey

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wrange-and-bengtsson-small-state-security - 2025-10-13

The Centre for Economic Demography now welcomes short applications for funds for research related costs that will be incurred during 2023! In this new round of CED research funding, we welcome you to e-mail Madeleine Jarl (madeleine [dot] jarl [at] ekh [dot] lu [dot] se) a short application no later than 31 January 2023, with description of the purpose and implementation of funding. This time we w

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/ced-research-funding - 2025-10-13

The Swedish Cancer Foundation, Cancerfonden, has announced the researchers it will be supporting in its most recent round of funding and Lund Stem Cell Center was especially successful, with seven scientists awarded a total of almost 30 million SEK. Cristian Bellodi, a research team leader from the Division of Molecular Hematology, was awarded 12 million SEK - the largest grant to any researcher a

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/cancerfonden-supports-research-role-rna-modification-cancer-development - 2025-10-13

The agreement for Inspera, which is used for digital examinations at Lund University, has been extended for another four years. This means that both teachers and students can continue to use the tool until September 2028. Inspera facilitates grading and contributes to a more secure examination environment. Meanwhile, preparations for a new procurement process for future needs are underway. Photo:

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/agreement-inspera-extended-continued-opportunity-digital-exams - 2025-10-13

The economic sanctions against Russian following the invasion of Ukraine are having spillover effects in Central Asia. With the prospect of economic and social strain forcing Russian employers to lay off migrant workers, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan are preparing to receive high numbers of newly unemployed men. The fall of the  Russian rouble in March - as a consequence of Western sancti

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/central-asian-migrant-workers-risk-mass-unemployment - 2025-10-13

Joint seminar - discussion. Welcome to the seminar in collaboration between the Center of Ageing and Supportive Environments, Urban Arena and Lund University Proactive Ageing Profile Area. The event is planned as part of MIRAI 2.0 seed-funding to develop collaborations between Japan and Sweden on living environments and health in ageing societies in times of crises.  The aim of the current seminar

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/living-environments-and-health-ageing-societies-times-crises - 2025-10-13

Lund University saved the most energy among Sweden’s higher education institutions. During the autumn and spring, we succeeded in reducing our energy consumption by 1.9 million kWh from October 2022 to March 2023 compared to the same period the previous year. Through a combination of rapid measures, long-term work and successful cooperation with Lund University, Akademiska Hus can now report a rec

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-saved-record-amount-energy - 2025-10-12

The ostrich is genetically wired to adapt to rising or falling temperatures. However, when the temperature fluctuates more often, as it does with climate change, the flightless bird with a 40-gram brain finds it much more difficult. A research team at Lund University has shown that the ostrich is very sensitive to fluctuating temperatures in terms of whether it reproduces. If the temperature rises

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/ostriches-can-adapt-heat-or-cold-not-both - 2025-10-13

Associate Senior Lecturer Olena Bokareva has been granted SEK 7.8 million for the research project Sustainable Carbon Capture, Transportation and Storage: Liability and Governance in Light of International and EU Law. Associate Senior Lecturer Olena Bokareva, Lund University, and Associate Senior Lecturer Gabriela Argüello, University of Gothenburg, together with two postdoctoral researchers, will

https://www.law.lu.se/article/olena-bokareva-awarded-multi-million-grant-marianne-and-marcus-wallenberg-foundation - 2025-10-13

Vissa ämnen skrivs det särskilt ofta i media om under sommaren. Här finns en lista över forskare vid Lunds universitet som kan svara på vanliga sommarfrågor. Aktivt och hälsosamt åldrandeDet finns många viktiga forskningsfrågor på området aktivt och hälsosamt åldrande t ex boendefrågor, äldres delaktighet i samhället, teknikutvecklingen, att åldras med funktionshinder, och åldersdiskriminering. Su

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-sommarlista-2016-massor-av-experter-fran-till-o - 2025-10-12

Många studenter vill plugga i Afrika. Och med ökad efterfrågan vill Lunds universitet få till fler strategiska utbyten. Men det är mycket att tänka på när man söker nya samarbeten. Inte bara utbildningskvaliteten är viktig utan även service, boende och mottagande ska fungera. Liksom säkerheten på campus. Studentkårens Tosca Ferndale. Foto: Anna Johansson Det är som att kliva in i en exotisk trädgå

https://www.lu.se/artikel/afrika-sakerheten-viktig-vid-nya-utbytesavtal - 2025-10-13

Local currencies may arise when there is a clear need for certain products and services in a local area and where the competences to produce them exist but the lack of traditional money puts obstacles in the way. The lack of money might be the result of pandemics, war, natural disasters, financial crises or poverty. Ester Barinaga, professor of entrepreneurship at the School of Economics and Manag

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/local-currencies-solution-times-crisis - 2025-10-12