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Rhys Machold visited Lund for a book talk on "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel". In collaboration with CMES, the Swedish South Asia Studies Network (SASNET) hosted a book talk with Dr. Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow) at Finngatan 16.The book Fabricating Homeland Security by Rhys Machold locates homeland security as a universalizing transnat
A new academic year just started and the department has welcomed around 100 new master students, of which almost all of them are international students. Before starting their studies at our master programme with five different specializations, the students participate in our preparatory week learning to study the "LU-way" - the Lund University way. We have talked to the two teachers in charge of t
https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/new-master-students-learning-lu-way - 2026-07-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The LERU meetings for deans are a priority for social scientists and lawyers. These meetings have provided social scientists with new ways to approach the EU, and lawyers with doctoral student exchanges with other prestigious LERU universities. So says Ann-Katrin Bäcklund – dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences for m
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leru-collaboration-opens-new-doors-eu - 2026-07-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A few weeks after the terrorist attack on Drottninggatan in Stockholm, researchers caution against describing reality as a black-and-white struggle between good and evil. If you want to protect society against extremism, it is important that you understand how and why it occurs. Although radicalised youth who return f
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/segregation-graver-threat-isis-returnees-long-run - 2026-07-05
“True crime” has exploded in popularity and crime and punishment dominates the headlines. Linnea Wegerstad, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, opposes the tendency to label people who have committed crimes as monsters. Linnea Wegerstad researches sexual offences and has a background as a judge in training. She was about halfway through this training when she chose to return to academia. A seni
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mind-legal-scholar - 2026-07-05
Patients born with heart defects experience their first acute heart attack at a significantly earlier age than others. This is shown by a new national study from Lund University in Sweden. However, despite this earlier onset of illness, there is no difference in survival rates or the risk of further heart attacks between those with congenital heart defects and others. The study includes 214 patien
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/patients-congenital-heart-defects-are-more-likely-suffer-heart-attack-earlier-age - 2026-07-05
They become smaller as urbanisation increases. Troublesome, according to researcher Helena Hanson, because urban private gardens affect both cities’ biodiversity and human wellbeing by functioning as social green spaces. Now she strikes a blow for gardens in the urban planning. Green spaces, such as parks and allotment gardens, have a major impact on our physical and mental health and wellbeing –
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/urban-private-gardens-promote-biodiversity - 2026-07-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Meet Carina Jensen, coordinator of LU350, Lund University’s 350th anniversary, which will be celebrated from December 2016 to January 2018. How is the work on the jubilee going? “Well, we’ve passed the ideas stage and are now into the preparation phase. The LU350 committee received over 270 ideas that have been whittl
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-work-jubilee-lu-350-going - 2026-07-05
What is worth sustaining? Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir research is all about a theatre audience facing themselves with that profound question. "In my work I offer a frame or a situation for my guests to meet their own stories and their values through an encounter with a host in their own surroundings". For 20 years, the Icelander Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir has tried to create a meaningful dialogue wit
https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/no-man-island - 2026-07-05
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Amanda Klysing is one of five new PhD students at the Department of psychology. Find out what she´s up to for the next four years. "I conducted my Bachelor’s and Master’s studies in psychology at Lund University. Following the completion of the Master’s program I worked as a research assistant for a research project
https://www.psy.lu.se/artikel/meet-our-phds-amanda-klysing - 2026-07-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Jerker Lessing is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and has a burning interest in the subject of industrialised construction. Although his academic career is still in its early stages, he has already led two courses at Stanford University, California. And now, at the end of March, his latest stude
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lth-doctoral-student-sought-after-lecturer-stanford-university - 2026-07-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUM asked a handful of employees this question after almost a year of working from home. Several of them spoke about putting on some extra weight, more TV and less exercise – but they were not too keen on putting their face to that in LUM... However, another group of employees told us about their new and creative ways
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-your-body-feeling-and-how-your-training-going - 2026-07-05
What are AI writing tools and how do they affect our assessments? Three main options for considering AI writing tools in assessment are: 1. to ban their use, 2. to assume that they may be used, and set tasks which incorporate them or 3. require them to be used – to fully incorporate the tools in the assessment. Continue reading and get concrete examples on this current topic! Foto: Deepmind, Domhn
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/potential-impact-ai-tools-assessment - 2026-07-05
Future Faculty has awarded the 2024 Minerva Award to Laura Wisse, Associate Professor. Congrats to the Minerva Leadership Award, Laura Wisse, Associate Professor and PI!"Thank you, I feel very honored to receive the award as a relatively young PI and will try my best to live up to this prize in the future, to honor good academic leadership."What do you think is a good leader?"In my opinion, a goo
Future Faculty has awarded the 2024 Minerva Award to Laura Wisse, Associate Professor. Congrats to the Minerva Leadership Award, Laura Wisse, Associate Professor and PI!"Thank you, I feel very honored to receive the award as a relatively young PI and will try my best to live up to this prize in the future, to honor good academic leadership."What do you think is a good leader?"In my opinion, a goo
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Research published in the research journal Diabetologia needs to meet a high standard of quality. Most of the manuscripts submitted are rejected. At the start of 2021, Hindrik Mulder, MD and professor at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC), will take over as editor-in-chief of the journal. After just over 10 years
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/hindrik-mulder-incoming-editor-chief-diabetologia - 2026-07-05
The person behind the initiative called 'STRINGS' is theatre maker and doctoral student Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir who is also one of the researchers in Lund University's Agenda 2030 Graduate School. Hi Steinunn, you have engaged your fellow doctoral students within different disciplines to perform a series of performative events, tell us more! -Yes, in my artistic method there is always a host and
https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/agenda-2030-graduate-school-invites-you-creative-research-training-lab - 2026-07-05
The person behind the initiative called 'STRINGS' is theatre maker and doctoral student Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir who is also one of the researchers in the graduate school. Hi Steinunn, you have engaged your fellow doctoral students within different disciplines to perform a series of performative events, tell us more!-Yes, in my artistic method there is always a host and there are guests. The host
https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/agenda-2030-graduate-school-invites-you-creative-research-training-lab - 2026-07-05
Anne Lene Stein (Lund University) visited CMES to share her work on an agonistic approach to ethnographic research in Palestine and Israel. On April 24, CMES hosted a seminar with Anne Lene Stein, a doctoral student in Political Science at Lund University. In her talk, Shattered Landscapes: An Agonistic Approach to Ethnography in Palestine and Israel, she shared insights from her ethnographic fiel
Seeds and fat balls do more than just fill small birds’ stomachs. New research from Lund University in Sweden shows that feeding during the wintertime causes birds to be healthier, since they do not have to expend as much energy fighting infections. A small change in body temperature can be fatal for humans. Small birds, meanwhile, lower their body temperature at night by several degrees during th
https://www.biology.lu.se/article/bird-feeding-helps-small-birds-fight-infection - 2026-07-05
