Av johanna [dot] erlandson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna Erlandson) - publicerad 23 maj 2025 Foto: Kennet Ruona. Nu är det dags att nominera fakultetens hedersdoktorer 2026. Hedersdoktorer som utsetts på andra fakulteter på senare år är nobelpristagaren Jon Fosse, musikern Timbuktu och skådespelaren Pernilla August. Vi på Medicinska fakulteten vill nu hitta fler av våra egna ”stjärnor” och k

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/har-du-en-lysande-hedersdoktor-i-byraladan-nominera - 2025-07-23

Av katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - publicerad 21 maj 2025 I lokalprojektet har projektgruppen sett över användningen av våra byggnader och tomma lokaler för att hitta besparingar och skapa bra samarbetsmiljöer. Nu presenterar de sin slutrapport. Inom medicinska fakulteten har det tillsatts en arbetsgrupp med uppdrag att föreslå målbild och handlingsplan för dimension

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/valkommen-pa-informationsmote-om-lokalprojektet-slutrapport-56 - 2025-07-23

Av agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - publicerad 21 maj 2025 Doktorspromotionen 2024. Foto Jonas Andersson. Varma gratulationer till vår fakultets nya doktorer: 101 stycken, varav två hedersdoktorer. Dessutom kreeras 14 lärde till jubeldoktorer. Stolt firande och salut i Lundagård & digitalt. Läs allt om doktorspromotionen den 23 maj härMedicinska fakultetens do

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/pa-fredag-smaller-det-i-lundagard-fakultetens-101-nya-doktorer - 2025-07-23

Av katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - publicerad 23 maj 2025 Missa inte Marie Leijon från Malmö universitet som delar insikter och konkreta exempel på hur vi kan skapa mer inkluderande digitala lärmiljöer, särskilt i blandade och hybrida format. Marie Leijon är fil. doktor och docent i pedagogik samt lektor i högskolepedagogisk utveckling. Hon forskar bland annat om vux

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/webinarium-hur-tillgangliga-ar-vara-digitala-larmiljoer-och-vem-275 - 2025-07-23

Published 18 February 2022 New CMES Newsletter about recent research activities and publications. The CMES Newsletter provides an up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research, activities and events at Lund University and beyond. The Newsletter includes a message from the director, latest research news, upcoming events and recent publications by CMES scholars. Read the latest issue of the Newslet

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-25 - 2025-07-23

Published 21 February 2022 Together with Isabel Bramsen (LU) and Anne Lene Stein (LU), CMES scholar Lisa Strömbom has authored the article "Agonistic peace agreements? Analytical tools and dilemmas", published in the Review of International Studies (open access). Later years have seen the growth of a vibrant theoretical discussion on agonistic peace and the importance of creating space for contest

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/oslo-accords-and-agonistic-peace - 2025-07-23

Published 28 February 2022 CMES Scholar Lina Eklund is a contributing author of the 6th IPCC assessment report released today. Today the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its 6th assessment report: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. CMES researcher Dr. Lina Eklund has contributed sections on migration and mobility to the report’s fourth chapter on W

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-scholar-lina-eklund-contributing-author-new-ipcc-report - 2025-07-23

Published 1 March 2022 CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "A Combination of Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms and Machine Learning Methods Improves the Prediction of Groundwater Level" together with Zahra Kayhomayoon (Payame Noor University), Faezeh Babaian (Islamic Azad University Tehran), Sami Ghordoyee Milan (University of Tehran) and Naser Arya Azar (Universi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/predicting-groundwater-levels-iran - 2025-07-23

Published 3 March 2022 CMES Doctoral Researcher Laleh Foroughanfar has co-authored the article "Migration, place-making and the rescaling of urban space" together with Mattias Kärrholm (LU), Tina Gudrun Jensen (Malmö University) and Rebecka Söderberg (Malmö University). The article is available in the journal European Planning Studies. The purpose of this article is to contribute to a refined pers

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/migrants-and-re-scaling-nordic-urban-space - 2025-07-23

Published 7 March 2022 Ukraine (Wikimedia Commons) CMES Director participates in a public panel to discuss the wider repercussions in the Middle East. The Russian invasion has ended the post-Cold War era in Europe bringing war and death, civilian casualties, and refugees to Ukraine. The panel of Lund University experts will consider: Why history matters to the invasion and conflict? What does the

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/russian-invasion-ukraine-why-history-matters-and-what-will-be-impact - 2025-07-23

Published 8 March 2022 CMES scholars Seyed Amir Naghibi, Behshid Khodaei and Hossein Hashemi have authored the article "An integrated InSAR-machine learning approach for ground deformation rate modeling in arid areas", available in the Journal of Hydrology. Land subsidence is an increasing human-induced disaster that not only damages building and transportation structures but also diminishes the w

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/measuring-groundwater-induced-land-subsidence-iran - 2025-07-23

Published 10 March 2022 Cover: Transnational Press CMES scholar Sarah Anne Rennick has edited the volume "Reassessing Activism and Engagement Among Arab Youth", published by Transnational Press London (2022). This collective volume contributes to the conceptual understanding of Arab youth and their relationship to politics by making explicit how civic engagement in seemingly ‘apolitical’ fields ca

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/reassessing-activism-and-engagement-among-arab-youth - 2025-07-23

Published 21 March 2022 New CMES Newsletter about upcoming events and recent research activities and publications. The CMES Newsletter provides an up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research, activities and events at Lund University and beyond. The Newsletter includes a message from the director, latest research news, upcoming events and recent publications by CMES scholars. Read the latest iss

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-26 - 2025-07-23

Published 22 March 2022 Photo: Ahmed Akacha on Pexels CMES scholars Pinar Dinc and Lina Eklund have co-authored an annotated bibliography about the Syrian climate-migration-conflict nexus, together with Gianna Angermayr (Lund University). The bibliography is available to read online. The scientific debate about the Syrian civil war being linked to climate change that manifested through a prolonged

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrian-climate-migration-conflict-nexus - 2025-07-23

Published 29 March 2022 Source: Arya Azar et al. 2022 CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "A hybrid approach based on simulation, optimization, and estimation of conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater resources" together with Naser Arya Azar (University of Tabriz), Zahra Kayhomayoon (Payame Noor University), Sami Ghordoyee Milan (University of Tehran), Hamed

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/estimating-sustainable-groundwater-use-iran-through-machine-learning - 2025-07-23

Published 1 April 2022 Demonstrators during the Iraqi October Revolution. Photo: Mondalawy on Wikimedia Commons Sarah Anne Rennick has co-authored the paper "National Ambition, Divergent Vision: Consensus and Fracture Among Iraqi Youth Activists of the Tishreen Movement" together with Adel Bakawan. Since October 2019, Iraq has been witnessing a mass protest movement, heavily though not exclusively

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/consensus-and-fracture-among-iraqi-youth-activists - 2025-07-23

Published 5 April 2022 CMES scholar Pinar Dinc has authored "Environmental Racism and Resistance in Kurdistan", available online (open access) in The Commentaries. Environmental degradation is identified as a key factor that threatens the future of life on Earth, but such generalised reading entails that conceal the uneven effects of environmental degradation. When environmental degradation takes

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/environmental-racism-and-resistance-kurdistan - 2025-07-23

Published 6 April 2022 CMES scholar Lina Eklund has co-authored the article "Societal drought vulnerability and the Syrian climate-conflict nexus are better explained by agriculture than meteorology” together with Ole Magnus Theisen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Matthias Baumann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Andreas Forø Tollefsen (Peace Research Institute Oslo), Tobias Kue

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/effects-drought-agriculture-pre-war-syria - 2025-07-23

Published 11 April 2022 The Pufendorf Institute at Lund University has produced a short video about the the research theme "Hydrosolidarity 2.0: Ethics and Conflict Resolution in International Water Governance." Participating from CMES are Researcher Dalia Abdel Hady, Director Karin Aggestam and Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson.

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/want-learn-more-about-hydrosolidarity-and-conflict-resolution-middle-east - 2025-07-23

Published 12 April 2022 CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Urban Flood-Risk Assessment: Integration of Decision-Making and Machine Learning" together with Fereshteh Taromideh (Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University), Ramin Fazloula (Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University), Bahram Choubin (West Azarbaijan Agricultural and Nat

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/urban-flood-risk-assessment-through-machine-learning-iran - 2025-07-23