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The annual Sustainability Week in Lund is fast approaching, with a packed programme once again this year. From the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, we find music, performance and artistic research in interactive events that aim to do more than simply inform — they aim to move people.Sustainability is a multifaceted field that extends far beyond the natural sciences. The concept also encompasse

https://www.mhm.lu.se/en/article/sustainability-you-can-feel-artistic-perspectives-during-sustainability-week-lund - 2026-05-07

The glymphatic system clears waste products from the brain. Roberta Battistella defends her thesis about the role of this system in Parkinson’s disease on December 1. Here, she tells about her time as a Ph.D student in Iben Lundgaards research group at MultiPark. Tell us about your research! “The glymphatic system removes waste products from the brain with the help of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). It

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/glymphatic-system-pd-phd-interview-roberta-battistella - 2026-05-07

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. The award is annually granted to the author (authors) of a Master´s thesis written at the Department of Strategic Communication of Lund University. Send your thesis and a copy of your official grade at the latest 16th of June 2017. The thesis should hold a high academic quality and bring new knowledge to the area of

https://www.isk.lu.se/artikel/apply-gullers-grupp-award - 2026-05-07

Professor Oksana Tymoshchuk came to Lund with her children as soon as the opportunity arose. She also wanted to help students from her home university escape the ongoing turmoil in Ukraine. Now four medical students have arrived to study here for six months with a full Erasmus scholarship. “It’s a fantastic opportunity, with such practical studies. The other week I got to stitch up a Cesarean!” “I

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/ukrainian-medical-students-arrive-lund-after-lightning-fast-application-process - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Peace-building, mediation and justice issues are on the agenda for Karin Aggestam who holds the prestigious Pufendorf chair, which provides the holder the opportunity to devote most of her time to research. – The chair is a research position but I have made sure to retain some teaching. Interaction with the students i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-first-woman-and-political-scientist-appointed-pufendorf-chair-0 - 2026-05-07

The WCMM & DDLS Leadership Seminar Series, an initiative designed to equip WCMM & DDLS Lund PIs with leadership skills essential for shaping the future of medical science, has now held its second session of 2026. On 11 February, we were delighted to welcome KArin Jirström, Vice Dean responsible for PhD studies and campus development, as our invited speaker. Karin gave an in-depth overview of the F

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-ddls-leadership-seminar-fun-research-education-board - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This fall SASNET welcomes a new visiting scholar Vittorio Felci. Vittorio Felci graduated in Political Science (2005) and obtained a second-level Master degree in Middle East Studies at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo,” Italy (2007). He earned a Ph.D in History of International Relations from the University of Flor

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-visiting-scholar-sasnet - 2026-05-07

At the foot of the mountains, among more than 200 vineyards, lies Stellenbosch University, that Lund University collaborates with. Daniella Rylander Ottosson and Göran Karlsson, Senior lecturers at Lund University's Stem Cell Center, are currently on sabbatical here. During fall they have been affiliated with STIAS (Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study), an interdisciplinary research institut

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/lund-south-africa-science-everyday-life-and-vineyards - 2026-05-07

Lund University and SRA EpiHealth has decided to support six projects with seeding funding that will cover salary costs for preparation of a project application and a research plan targeting national funding bodies.  Lena Sandin Wranker, one of the recipients of the funding, is a research assistant, PhD, and a specialist physician in pain rehabilitation, at the Department of Clinical Sciences Malm

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/six-projects-epidemiology-will-get-seed-funding - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. During her PhD studies Shelby Shrigley has been exploring patient-specific cell replacement therapy for Parkinson's disease. Defending her PhD thesis on March 12th, here Shelby tells us about her research within the Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology research group led by Prof. Malin Parmar and her time spent

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-shelby-shrigley - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. During her PhD studies Shelby Shrigley has been exploring patient-specific cell replacement therapy for Parkinson's disease. Defending her PhD thesis on March 12th, here Shelby tells us about her research within the Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology research group led by Prof. Malin Parmar and her time spent

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-shelby-shrigley - 2026-05-08

When the Swedish Research Council announced funding for so-called "centres of excellence" almost three years ago, a total of 15 new initiatives were approved across Sweden. Only one of them was awarded to Lund: COMMONS – Commonalities in biomembrane and biomolecular interactions.A year has now passed since COMMONS was inaugurated with a ceremony at the Department of Chemistry. What has happened si

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/commons-centre-excellence-focus-common-ground - 2026-05-07

The impact party politics has on the circulation of information about COVID-19 is the topic of a new article in the Canadian Journal of Political Science. Doctoral Student of Social Anthropology Isabelle Johansson has together with researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside published the article titled: ”The Partisan Impact on Local Government Dissemination of COVID-19 Information: Assess

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-do-politics-impact-access-information-about-covid-19 - 2026-05-07

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/master-students-study-trip-tunis - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Sustainability in education should be an issue for the University leadership, as well as researchers and teachers, according to Anne Jerneck and Kim Nicholas, both researchers at LUCSUS.Reflecting on Wednesday’s event for students and staff, on the theme “sustainability in education”, organised by Sustainability Forum

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sustainability-education-should-be-issue-university-leadership-say-lucsus-researchers - 2026-05-07

Bokfonden slut Bokfonden, som bestod av medel från det uppsagda Elsevier-avtalet (från juli 2018 till december 2019) är förbrukad. Fonden bestod av totalt ca 13 miljoner kr som nu betalats ut eller öronmärkts för publicering av 111 böcker. Nu går bokfonden i stället in i den ordinarie modellen för finansiering av Open Access-publicering, tillsammans med stöd till publicering i Open Access-tidskrif

https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-maj-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation-3 - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Margarita Chumarina, from the iPSC laboratory for CNS disease modeling, will be defending her PhD thesis on Wednesday 15th of January. Researching in the group led by Laurent Roybon, Margarita has been utilizing stem cell-based models to study cellular alterations in Parkinson’s disease. Here, Margarita answers a few

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-margarita-chumarina - 2026-05-08

A kind reminder to register for the 2022 edition of the Swedish Bioinformatics Workshop (SBW)! This year it will take place at Umeå University, October 27-28. The two days will be filled with inspiring talks, including keynote talks by Kerstin Lindblad-Toh (Uppsala University/Broad Institute), Debora S. Marks (Harvard University), and Simon Anders (Heidelberg University). There will also be three

https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/swedish-bioinformatics-workshop-2022 - 2026-05-07

The latest IIIEE Energy blog introduces guest researcher's Senja Laakso’s work on Sustainable Practices and Energy Transitions. In January and February 2024, Senja Laakso from the Centre for Consumer Society Research, University of Helsinki, and Tampere University visited us at the IIIEE for six weeks. The latest Energy Blog is the first post of a two-part series presenting Senja and her interesti

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/bridging-communities-guest-researcher-exploring-and-redefining-energy-citizenship - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Helen Avery's work concerns sustainability transitions in the Middle East, with a particular focus on strategies for environmentally and socially sustainable society building. Research interests include organisational development, creativity and transdisciplinarity in higher education, internationalisation strategies,

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-helen-avery-meeting-research-colleagues-kurdistan - 2026-05-07