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On Friday 24 May, PhD Student Mathilde Martin defended her thesis “Mattering at the periphery – Geographies of peri-urban life and its discontents.” Curious about Mathilde’s thesis? Here’s what it’s all about: Amid rising social discontent in the peripheries of Western European democracies, this thesis offers an exploration of “places that don't matter” through the lens of the French Yellow Vests.

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/mathilde-martin-defended-her-thesis-about-french-yellow-vests - 2026-05-13

The presence of wheelchair users may affect the evacuation decision of others. Researchers at CASE have investigated how exit choice is influenced by the presence of wheelchair users, and the design of the exits. Virtual Reality was used to design an experiment.  – Results show that exit choice was positively influenced by other people choosing the exit. Especially when the other person was a whee

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/exit-choice-and-wheelchair-users - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Catarina Kinnvall has written the article "Borders and Fear: Insecurity, Gender and the Far Right in Europe", recently published in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. Abstract:In this article I analyze how far right movements and parties in Europe are challenging European notions o

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-european-far-right - 2026-05-13

CMES Researcher Pinar Dinc has written an article published in the Conversation on the future of the self-governing region in Syria’s north-east, after the fall of the Assad regime. AbstractAfter more than a decade of brutal civil war, it took Islamist militants just 11 days to sweep through Syria and topple the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The offensive, which has been driven by the Turkish-backed

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrias-self-governing-democratic-north-east-comes-under-attack-country-flux - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. IIIEE researchers Yuliya Voytenko and Kes McCormick have joined a group of international researchers to act as guest editors for a Special Issue on smart and sustainable cities in the Local Environment journal. The special issues brings together a diverse collection of papers that explore the relationship between urba

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researchers-guest-editors-special-issue-smart-and-sustainable-cities - 2026-05-13

How do some planets end up extremely close to their host stars, despite appearing to have formed much farther away? A new international JWST study, led by the University of Southern Queensland in collaboration with MIT, seeks to answer this question. From Lund University, Judith Korth contributed key dynamical analysis. The study focuses on TOI‑1130b, a mini‑Neptune orbiting a star about 190 light

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/when-planets-migrate-lund-researcher-contributes-key-analysis-jwst-study - 2026-05-13

By analysing high-resolution data from a 10-metre telescope in Hawaii, researchers in Lund, Sweden, have managed to gain new insights into three stars in the centre of the Milky Way. The stars turned out to be unusually young with a puzzling chemical composition that surprises the researchers. In the study, which is published in the scientific journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the Lund re

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/astronomers-have-managed-date-three-mysterious-baby-stars-heart-milky-way - 2026-05-13

Through analysis of high-resolution data from a ten-metre telescope in Hawaii, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in generating new knowledge about three stars at the very heart of the Milky Way. The stars proved to be unusually young with a puzzling chemical composition that surprised the researchers. The study, which has been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, e

https://www.science.lu.se/article/astronomers-determine-age-three-mysterious-baby-stars-heart-milky-way - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr. Brigitte Mühlenbruch honoured with Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for pioneering work in the promotion of women in science. EPWS President Dr. Brigitte Mühlenbruch has been honoured with the Order of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany in acknowledgement of her pioneering work in

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/epws-president-receives-order-merit - 2026-05-13

Hunting in Sweden has a long history and could be considered a cultural heritage. Wildlife management and a sense of local community and stewardship are important keywords to describe recreational hunting. However, in recent years there has been an emerging market for commercial hunting, where hunters can buy the right to hunt on someone else’s land, where hospitality services and guiding are ofte

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/recreational-hunting-sweden-question-moral-and-balance - 2026-05-13

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/climate-litigation-cases-explained-what-their-purpose-and-what-their-impact-within-and-outside - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new blood test demonstrated remarkable promise in discriminating between persons with and without Alzheimer’s disease and in persons at known genetic risk may be able to detect the disease as early as 20 years before the onset of cognitive impairment, according to a large international study published today in the J

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-blood-test-shows-great-promise-diagnosis-alzheimers-disease - 2026-05-13

Karin Aggestam and Tim Dunne have co-authored the chapter “The failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria”, in Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (3d edition), eds S. Smith, A. Hadfield, and T. Dunne, Oxford: Oxford University Press AbstractThis chapter argues that the international community’s response to the Syrian civil war was a failure of resolute diplomacy. It first recounts how a pop

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/failure-diplomacy-and-protection-syria - 2026-05-13

https://www.architecture.lth.se/article/book-launch-nature-based-solutions-cities-global-south-18-november-2025-1500-1700 - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl has co-authored the article ”The ’Field’ in the Age of Intervention: Power, Legitimacy and Authority versus the ’Local’" which highlights the field and the semantic and socio-political meaning of the term as it is used in both academic research and policy practices. ”The ’Fie

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-analyses-field - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Department of Political Science, South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University, Germany invite applications for two doctoral positions for the duration of three years under the European Union Marie Curie Fellowship programme. This is part of the Global India project of European Training Network (ETN H2020). The Gl

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-phd-applications-political-science-heidelberg-university - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr. Mona Kanwal Sheikh from the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) held an Asia Dynamics lecture at University of Copenhagen on Friday 11 November 2016, 10.00-12.00. She spoke about ”Talking with the Pakistani Taliban”. Venue: Faculty of Humanities, Room 10-4-05, Karen Blixens Vej 4, Copenhagen.The ques

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/copenhagen-seminar-talking-pakistani-taliban - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University have designed a new bioink which allows small human-sized airways to be 3D-bioprinted with the help of patient cells for the first time. The 3D-printed constructs are biocompatible and support new blood vessel growth into the transplanted material. This is an important first step towards

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-bioink-brings-3d-printing-human-organs-closer-reality - 2026-05-13

There has been a record-breaking number of applicants for Lund University’s international recruitment drive. The original total of 25 advertised positions has been increased to 45 – researchers from some of the world’s leading universities who are now heading to Lund. The recruited researchers come from higher education institutions such as Harvard University, the University of Oxford, the Humbold

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/unprecedented-interest-lund-universitys-international-recruitment - 2026-05-13

An international research team led from Lund University, has identified epigenetic biomarkers that can predict which people with type 2 diabetes are at risk of cardiovascular disease. The study is now published in Cell Reports Medicine. People with type 2 diabetes are up to four times more likely to have heart attacks, strokes, anginas and other coronary heart diseases than healthy people. Therefo

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/biomarkers-reveal-risk-cardiovascular-disease-type-2-diabetes - 2026-05-13