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Meetings are common in contemporary working life, but they are often overlooked in academic studies and sometimes defined as empty or boring by employees. Three researchers of sociology now contribute with insights into the culture of meetings. Malin Åkerström, David Wästerfors and Sophia Yakhlef at the Department of Sociology in Lund have written the article Meetings or Power Weeks? Boundary Work

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lets-pretend-not-meeting - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Around the midpoint of August this year, doctoral candidate Alena Minchenia arrived in Belarus to encounter a nation that had erupted into mass demonstrations. The internationally disputed August 9 presidential elections in Belarus were followed by three days of massive protests countered by extreme state repression i

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/adaptive-and-creative-protests-belarus - 2026-05-13

Four articles from LTH were published on The Conversation in 2025, reaching 34,000 readers worldwide. Visiting doctoral student Simona Sagone’s article on the EU’s new carbon tax was the most read with 25,000 views and was translated into Spanish. und University had a record year on The Conversation in 2025. The university’s researchers published 76 articles that together reached 1.1 million reads

https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2026/lth-researchers-reached-34000-readers-globally-conversation - 2026-05-13

Christie Nicoson has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Peace in a Changing Climate: Caring and Knowing the Climate-Gender-Peace Nexus'. Congratulations! AbstractScholars and practitioners argue that climate change poses particular challenges for peace. In order to understand what these challenges are and how to tackle them necessitates attention to gender, since experiences and processes

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/christie-nicoson-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2026-05-13

An economist as a comic book character, podcaster, or cultural commentator? Andreas Bergh from LUSEM has chosen all three (and a bit more) as he, alongside his lectures on microeconomics and the welfare state, curiously explores various ways to reach the public. Here, he shares his best tips on where and why. Comics – because it’s so challenging. "It’s a challenge to simplify complex things. That’

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/andreas-bergh-media-choices-research-communication - 2026-05-13

A consortium led by Paul Bourgine has been awarded EIC Transition grant with 2,5 million Euro over three years. This covers activities that are typically hard to finance - researchers refer to the famous « valley of death » illustrating the difficulty of translating promising basic research into human clinical practice. What is your project about?  "Our project is entitled DENOVOSS which stands fo

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/eic-transition-grant-advance-ossigel-bone-repair - 2026-05-13

An international team of researchers has investigated whether oral insulin can prevent early signs of type 1 diabetes and clinical diagnosis in children with an increased risk of developing the disease. Although treatment with oral insulin could not prevent development of diabetes-related autoantibodies, oral insulin delayed the rate of disease progression in children who developed such autoantibo

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/oral-insulin-delayed-onset-type-1-diabetes-some-children-increased-risk-disease - 2026-05-13

16-19 June, 2025 Chinese globalisation both past and present has been deeply entangled in processes of global extractivism that have underpinned industrialisation and capitalist development around the world. From the 19th century gold rushes in settler colonial contexts to the contemporary global scramble for lithium, Chinese labour and capital have been key to the making of our contemporary globa

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/global-china-summer-school-2025-china-circuits-global-extractivism - 2026-05-13

The new Advanced Study Groups, who will start their work at the institute in September, will investigate questions related to: artistic processes in music and literary creation; land use conflicts in Sweden; the energy crisis impacts on households; industries and on the energy transition; and the linkages between digital innovation and emergent digital inequalities in relation to human rights. We

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/institute-welcomes-four-new-advanced-study-groups-autumn - 2026-05-13

CMES researcher Svante Lundgren has been interviewed on Assyria TV about the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. The interview aired on 27 September 2023 on Assyria TV, which is an independent news organisation registered in Sweden. Below are some excerpts from the interview translated into English. The conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region is long and complicated. It is a classic territorial confl

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/understanding-nagorno-karabakh - 2026-05-13

Dhalion Biotech, a new WCMM spin-off, is transforming bone cancer research. Founded by WCMM Fellow Paul Bourgine and his team, the startup uses human bone organoids to develop advanced tools for cancer modeling and drug testing. WCMM Fellow Paul Bourgine, alongside co-founders Dimitra Zacharaki and Alejandro García García, both researchers in his group, has launched Dhalion Biotech, an innovative

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-fellow-launches-biotech-startup-advancing-bone-cancer-research - 2026-05-13

https://www.science.lu.se/article/nocturnal-migratory-birds-follow-rhythm-moon - 2026-05-13

Peat‑free garden soil, filters for pharmaceutical residues, and community spaces that support student mental health. Four new projects have been granted funding from Lund University’s Sustainability Fund to develop sustainable solutions that can be tested in practice. The call The Sustainable Proposal Testbed is open to all university employees and offers an opportunity to create a more sustainabl

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/four-new-projects-be-funded-sustainability-fund - 2026-05-14

With a focus on pancreatic regeneration and diabetes, Christos Karampelias is the latest recruit to WCMM Lund. In this interview, he discusses his research vision, the importance of collaboration and what excites him about joining Lund University. Christos Karampelias is a biomedical researcher whose work focuses on diabetes, metabolism and pancreatic biology, with particular emphasis on how insul

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/understanding-and-rebuilding-pancreas-meet-newly-recruited-wcmm-fellow-christos-karampelias - 2026-05-13

Researchers at Lund University are developing a new type of gene therapy that reprograms cancer cells within tumors into immune cells that can help the immune system fight cancer. Their approach, now published in the journal Science, could lead to more effective treatments for hard-to-treat cancers. Cancer is known for its ability to hide from the immune system, making it tough to fight. But what

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/researchers-reprogram-tumor-cells-cancer-fighting-immune-cells-living-beings - 2026-05-13

There is a constant war between bacteria and their viruses, bacteriophages, where both try to outsmart each other. An international study led by Lund University provided an important missing bit to the puzzle of how the bacteria defend themselves against phages. This is an important stepping stone towards developing effective phage-based therapies to be used as an alternative to antibiotics. Bacte

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/war-between-bacteria-and-their-virus - 2026-05-13

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/nocturnal-migratory-birds-follow-rhythm-moon - 2026-05-13

Today Sarai-Anne Ikenze succesfully defended her doctoral thesis ‘Policy Choices in African Structural Adjustment: An Exploration of Sectoral Continuity’, in which she descriptively demonstrates significant continuity over time in terms of which sectors were prioritized and the policy approaches used to structure economic activity within those sectors in ten Sub-Saharan African countries between t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sarai-anne-ikenze-has-defended-her-doctoral-thesis - 2026-05-13

Professor Emily Boyd has been researching loss and damage from climate change for more than 10 years. To her, the news that Venezuela’s last glacier, the Humboldt glacier, is being reclassified as an ice field, is extremely worrying. The speed of change is crazy. When something so visible is lost, it also brings home the scale of global climate change, says Emily Boyd, professor at Lund University

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/loss-venezuelas-last-glacier-points-future-where-loss-opposed-damage-new-reality - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Arab spring, the abuse of women and a visit to Carthage. The CMES´master students study trip to Tunis was full of meetings and here you can read about some of them. Mrs. Ibtihel Abdellatif, Truth and Dignity Commission On Friday morning we met Mrs Abdellatif, who set up Nissaat Tunisiet, an organisation supporting wom

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/master-students-study-trip-tunis - 2026-05-13