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In a new study, LUCSUS researcher Maryam Nastar, identifies key knowledge gaps in the evaluation of Ahmedabad’s Heat Action Plan (HAP), and highlights the need to look at the distribution of policy impacts in cities in more detail - to find out who has benefited or been excluded from the outcomes, and what barriers need to be tackled for more inclusive and effective results. Climate change is expe

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/heat-action-plans-urban-cities-risks-excluding-most-vulnerable - 2025-10-15

A completely new classification of diabetes which also predicts the risk of serious complications and provides treatment suggestions. We are now seeing the first results of ANDIS – a study covering all newly diagnosed diabetics in southern Sweden — published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. The major difference from today’s classification is that type 2 diabetes actually consists of several

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/paradigm-shift-diagnosis-diabetes - 2025-10-15

Narrative medicine provides tools for clinicians to read patients better. 2022 Sandblom Prize Lecture will be given by pioneering Professor Rita Charon of Columbia University on the discipline that uses the arts to improve understanding. Clinicians trained in narrative medicine are more able to listen for what their patients tell them, to see from others’ perspectives – including patients and fami

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/sandblom-prize-expanding-creativity-clinical-worlds-through-narrative-medicine - 2025-10-15

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a synthesis report summarizing the reports of recent years. Markku Rummukainen, Sweden's contact person for the IPCC and also Professor of Climatology at the Center for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University and a member of MERGE, answers five question about the new report. What does the new synthesis report say?

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/markku-rummukainen-new-ipcc-report-near-term-action-crucial - 2025-10-15

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a synthesis report summarizing the reports of recent years. Markku Rummukainen, Sweden's contact person for the IPCC and also Professor of Climatology at the Center for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University, answers five question about the new report. What does the new synthesis report say? – The Synthesis Report

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-climate-report-near-term-action-crucial - 2025-10-15

Currently, a worthy and fast-moving academic career requires extensive travel with high carbon dioxide emissions. Because of this, sustainability researcher Hervé Corvellec says Lund University should review its qualifications system as well as looking into students’ air travel.   “Currently, it is unreflectingly incorporated in recruitments that a candidate who has travelled extensively brings qu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-cannot-assume-doctoral-student-or-researcher-better-because-they-have-attended-more-international - 2025-10-15

By adopting methods used by activist citizen movements, municipal level politics can become more inclusive and even pave the way for sustainable transformations. Mine Islar, from LUCSUS, has studied the politics of Barcelona en Comú, an activist citizen platform that came to power in the municipality of Barcelona in 2015. Mine Islar, has followed Barcelona en Comú for three years, from 2015 - 2018

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/citizen-activist-movements-can-invigorate-local-politics - 2025-10-15

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a synthesis report summarizing the reports of recent years. Markku Rummukainen, Sweden's contact person for the IPCC and also Professor of Climatology at the Center for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University, answers five question about the new report. What does the new synthesis report say? - The Synthesis Report

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/markku-rummukainen-new-ipcc-report-near-term-action-crucial - 2025-10-15

In the intersection between business, IT and sustainability we find LUSEM alumna Sofie Bergdahl. Former managing director of Lunicore — Lund University Student Consulting and currently the customer success manager at SustainLab , a growing SaaS company with the mission to accelerate change for a better future through sustainability data. Sofie, tell us about what you do today!I'm working with sust

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/sofie-bergdahl-alumna-msc-international-strategic-management-2019 - 2025-10-15

‟Profiling is an opportunity to gather our strengths and renew our research, increase its societal impact and improve the intertwining of cutting-edge research and education.” So says Per Mickwitz, who hopes to receive many registrations of interest in the new profile areas. In part, the process concerns the SEK 500 million that the government has announced will be reallocated from direct governme

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/time-prioritize-profiling - 2025-10-15

There is a noticeably nervous atmosphere in the small examination room at the women's clinic. Medical students Caroline Hellsten, Joakim Öhman and Rasmus Hagberg are about to carry out a gynaecological examination for the first time during their studies. However, Marina Larsson Silly, who is today's 'professional patient' is calmer. She has done this before and is used to providing the students wi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/professional-patient-guides-way-medical-students - 2025-10-15

Individuals cannot solve the climate crisis, argue researchers Carys Egan-Wyer and Jack Coffin. Policy makers should direct their attention to the (im)moral market structures that influence consumer and corporate decision-making. In the fight against climate change, it is more important to make markets more moral than to make consumers more ethical. Individual consumers are, by now, well used to b

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/why-we-need-more-moral-markets-not-more-ethical-consumers - 2025-10-15

Death in the form of a skeleton with a scythe is a familiar figure of dread, but death and dying do not have to be frightening. “Death does not have to be marked by fear; it can just as often be characterised by calm and quiet. There can be a lot of joy even during the last days of a person’s life!” Carl Johan Furst. These are the words of Professor Carl Johan Fürst, head of the new Palliative Car

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-palliative-centre-improve-skills-end-life-care - 2025-10-15

In 2019, the number of flights for business travel decreased by nearly 10 per cent at the University. At the same time, train travel increased by 20 per cent.   “There are many deliberate individual decisions behind this. We are on the right track!” says the head of sustainability Claes Nilén. When you look at the numbers for travel in Lund University’s environmental report, it is evident that few

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fewer-flights-lund-university-staff-2019 - 2025-10-15

For people with mental health problems, it can take time and be difficult to achieve a successful working life. A new thesis from Lund University describes what is required to facilitate working life for persons with mental health problems: Hope and belief in the person's ability to work. To focus on the person and increase knowledge of mental illness among both employers and those who work with v

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/belief-peoples-ability-work - 2025-10-15

Since graduating from the master's degree programme in Management (MiM) in 2019, Jordan has built a successful career in Sweden, starting as an engineering consultant before becoming a Product Owner at Volvo Cars. In this interview, he shares insights into his journey, the impact of his studies, and advice for international graduates looking to enter the Swedish job market. Hi Jordan! You graduate

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/jordan-stilley-alumnus-msc-management-2019 - 2025-10-16

For over 60 years, scientists have tried to determine whether plants are pollinated primarily during the day or at night — without reaching a clear conclusion. Now, a major research review from Lund University in Sweden has revealed that nighttime pollinators play just as significant a role as daytime species in 90 percent of the cases studied. Most of us know how important bees, birds, and butter

https://www.science.lu.se/article/nocturnal-pollinators-just-important-their-daytime-colleagues - 2025-10-15

This year's recipient of the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research maps out mechanisms in the adipose tissue, which has increased the understanding of why some people with obesity develop type 2 diabetes. Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm at University of Gothenburg is spurred to find new answers when observations in the lab do not agree with the general view. Justification for awarding"I

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/ingrid-wernstedt-asterholm-receives-leif-c-groop-award-research-adipose-tissue - 2025-10-15

Today’s governance of Swedish higher education institutions is short-sighted, poorly coordinated and much too general and competitive. The separation of direct government funding between education and research has created unnatural boundaries and promoted a culture within academia that underestimates education in relation to research. Pam Fredman, former vice-chancellor at the University of Gothen

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/combine-government-funding-research-and-education - 2025-10-15

Even in Earth’s high northern-latitude forest, climate change is predicted to make wildfires more frequent and severe.Earth’s far north hosts the boreal forest, a vast green belt that stretches from North America to Siberia. The boreal forest is one of the world’s largest CO₂ sinks. Over the past few thousand years it has removed around 1 trillion tonnes of carbon from the air, storing it in the t

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/forests-destroyed-wildfires-emit-carbon-long-after-flames-die - 2025-10-15