Published 13 April 2015 Rain – both its presence and more particularly its absence – controls most things in the Sahel. Despite the fact that the belt of land south of the Sahara has become greener, the outlook is gloomy when it comes to making resources stretch to a growing population in the face of climate change. Now researchers want investments in agriculture, education and family planning to

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/family-planning-new-weapon-against-threatened-sahel - 2025-05-11

Published 13 April 2015 Despite rules and legislation on water for all at a reasonable cost, water shortages hit the poor hardest. In slums in large cities, illegal water mafia have emerged that take advantage of people’s desperate need for water. Maryam Nastar has studied water politics in two fast growing cities, Hyderabad in India and Johannesburg in South Africa. Maryam Nastar has studied wate

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/water-mafia-take-advantage-poor - 2025-05-11

Published 13 April 2015 The construction of a dam in Ethiopia could solve many problems for the growing population along the Nile. However, when the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam began, it was met with warmongering from countries downstream. Egypt in particular felt threatened by the dam, which would regulate the Nile, the artery that runs through the heart of the country. “F

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nile-lifeblood-and-source-conflict - 2025-05-11

Published 13 April 2015 In the early 1990s, peacemakers, politicians and researchers believed that growing water shortages would lead to an increasing number of wars and conflicts around the world. It was thought that the disputes in the Middle East would become more difficult to resolve as water resources diminished. However, views have since changed on the role of water in conflicts. Instead of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/collaboration-water-offers-great-potential-peace - 2025-05-11

Published 13 April 2015 The earth is both inundated and drying up. Water supply is a complex phenomenon that has probably never been more complicated – or more important – than now. Kenneth M. Persson is a professor of water resources engineering and he took the initiative for Lund University’s Water Portal, which involves over 200 (!) water researchers. “The absolute greatest threat to well-funct

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/earth-both-inundated-and-drying - 2025-05-11

Published 12 May 2015 We learn best through human stories. This idea underpins LUCA, a new academy for the development of case study teaching at Lund University. In April, lecturers at the University were invited to attend a workshop with one of the writers behind the Midsomer Murders television series. Steve Trafford guides participants through the art of creating an engaging story. Steve Traffor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lecturers-get-inspiration-midsomer-murders - 2025-05-11

Published 12 May 2015 How do you talk about a horrible and life-threatening condition in such a way as to make your audience aware of its existence, but without scaring them so much that they turn a deaf ear? And how do you get money for research into something that most people have barely heard about – or only know of under an old and partly incorrect name? This is the problem that a team of LU r

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/spreading-awareness-about-sepsis-common-life-threatening-condition - 2025-05-11

Published 12 May 2015 Fast fashion has shrunk the fashion production cycle from three months to an unbelievable two weeks. New ideas are snapped up from the catwalk, interpreted and made into trendy clothes with a low price-tag, available in shops and online. Economists attribute the success of fast fashion to innovative large companies, but anthropologist Christina Moon maintains that the backgro

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/korean-efficiency-behind-fast-fashion - 2025-05-11

Published 12 May 2015 Young women who spend all their spare time shopping. Lost, superficial souls with no purpose in life? Or creative and productive people? Emma Samsioe, who has spent several years studying their behaviour, wants to show a more nuanced picture of the phenomenon. Emma Samsioe. It all started when Emma Samsioe was out shopping and noticed the young girls who mostly seemed to be j

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fast-fashion-constant-search-latest-thing - 2025-05-11

Published 12 May 2015 Biohackers experiment with their own bodies to upgrade themselves. They try to acquire a supermemory, increase their metabolic rate or affect some other biological mechanism. Now an interdisciplinary project is investigating how biohacking will come to influence our view of the human body and bioscience. : Interdisciplinarity generated by a long friendship. Immunologist Jenny

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/biohackers-crack-human-bodys-programming-code - 2025-05-11

Published 12 May 2015 “Behind every successful man there is a woman”, according to an old saying. So what about successful women? And what about couples where both are successful – how do they manage family life? LUM met Olle Melander and Marju Orho-Melander, who are among the Lund University researchers to have been awarded most prizes and grants in the field of medicine. Olle Melander and Marju

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/planning-key-success-researcher-couple - 2025-05-11

Published 15 June 2015 ...Jean-Robert Vialle (to the left t the photo) and Jean-Michel Tresallet who are making a documentary about the economic battle for the world’s international students. Tell us about your film project on higher education? “We are making a 90 minute documentary on where higher education is headed. Higher education is constantly linked to the country’s economic system, and we

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meet-french-film-makers - 2025-05-11

Published 15 June 2015 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 more than six years –, and Mia Rönnmar, newly appointed dea

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leru-collaboration-opens-new-doors-eu - 2025-05-11

Published 15 June 2015 The artist performs, the audience listens and applaud to show their appreciation. These are the given roles during a concert. But what happens if we dissolve these roles and the audience acts in a way that is completely unexpected. Does this change the song? The sound? The communication? This is what an interdisciplinary group at the Pufendorf Institute has studied during th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/musical-experiment-subject-research - 2025-05-11

Published 15 June 2015 We tend to favour ourselves and our own group. We also underestimate future risks. So says evolutionary biologist Jessica Abbott about human ability – and inability – to deal with global challenges. Evolutionary biologist Jessica Abbott. “Compared to other anthropoids, such as chimpanzees and gorillas, we are skilled at resolving conflict. We can put our own personal interes

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainability-must-not-be-too-taxing - 2025-05-11

Published 15 June 2015 “Solar energy has great potential in Sweden. The fact that we use solar energy to a lesser extent than many other European countries is not due to lack of sun, but due to lack of knowledge”, says architect Jouri Kanters who has mapped what politicians, urban planners, builders and architects should be better at in order for Sweden to use more solar energy. A far too rare sig

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lack-knowledge-explains-low-utilisation-solar-energy - 2025-05-11

Published 15 June 2015 Exporting the Swedish welfare model is not a good idea. At least not as a recipe for achieving a more sustainable society, says Professor Max Koch, manager of a research team that links the climate crisis with welfare. Sweden’s relatively low carbon emissions, despite a high gross domestic product, are partly due to the use of hydropower – a competitive advantage that cannot

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/measuring-success-terms-economic-growth-devastating-our-climate - 2025-05-11

Published 25 August 2015 An antibody that did not fulfil its purpose against the disease multiple sclerosis, MS, instead made its big break in cancer research and is now starring in southern Sweden’s largest licensing agreement in Life Science history. The “father” of the antibody is Professor Carl Borrebaeck. Carl Borrebaeck. Photo: Gunnar Menander It is one of the windiest days in late summer, a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/successful-antibody-behind-billion-crown-life-science-deal - 2025-05-11

Published 11 September 2015 The mountainsides are on fire. In the village below, activities are in full swing: women and men working in the fields, fishing in the river, and herding cattle along the grassy wetlands. The painting took four days to produce during fieldwork in Tanzania. Emma Johansson Li, a researcher in physical geography, has dedicated her research to land grabbing. During her most

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/physical-geographer-uses-art-her-research - 2025-05-11

Published 11 September 2015 What’s the point of having lots of higher education credits if you don’t use them to make the world a little better? Activism and academia go together, according to student Johannes Witkowsky-Bengtsson. Johannes Witkowsky-Bengtsson. “As a child, I dreamed of fighting side by side with the Apache indians”, Johannes laughs. Now he is studying theology and sociology, and h

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/activism-and-academia-go-together - 2025-05-11