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Lund University has collected the top research of the university's twelve strategic reseach environments in a new book. MERGE is one of these environments. In 2008, the Swedish Government designated 20 ‘Strategic Research Areas’ (SRAs) in its research-policy bill. Within these 20 areas, 43 research environments were chosen for specific funding in a special evaluation in 2009. They were all conduct
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/todays-great-explorers - 2026-07-01
In June 2022, LUCSUS will co-organise a 5-day intensive PhD course focusing on climate change mitigation and the politics of 'Net Zero' and carbon removal. As the climate crisis intensifies, the scientific and political conversation on climate change mitigation is taking novel forms, giving rise to a range of possible new climate futures. An increasingly important aspect of this is the ambition, a
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-phd-course-politics-net-zero-and-carbon-removal - 2026-07-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. People with type 2 diabetes have epigenetic changes on their DNA that healthy individuals do not have. This has been shown in a major study by researchers at Lund University. The researchers also found epigenetic changes of a large number of genes that contribute to reduced insulin production. “This shows that the ris
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/epigenetic-changes-could-explain-type-2-diabetes - 2026-07-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Associate Senior Lecturer Isabel Schoultz and project assistant Heraclitos Muhire at the Sociology of Law Department lead the endeavour they hope will help improve labour market policies and practices, bettering the conditions for immigrated labourers. In a report published in 2019, the European Union Agency for Funda
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociologists-law-investigating-migrant-worker-exploitation-nordics - 2026-07-01
Social media provides a new environment that makes it possible to carefully edit the image you want to project of yourself. A study from Lund University in Sweden suggests that many people are prepared to pay to ”filter out” unfavorable information. Economists Håkan Holm and Margaret Samahita have investigated how we curate our social image on the web using game theory. Previous studies have been
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/people-are-willing-pay-curate-their-online-social-image - 2026-07-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Artisanal interpretation of ceramics from the Bronze Age shows that a nine-year-old child could be a highly skilled artisan. This was one of the discoveries presented in a new thesis from Lund University. The thesis explores how an artisanal perspective can contribute to archaeology by providing new insights into arch
Three out of Lund University’s four most cited scientists are research leaders at MultiPark, according to Clarivate’s report for this year. The highly anticipated annual list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. Their names are drawn from the publications that ra
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/majority-most-cited-researchers-lund-university-belong-multipark - 2026-07-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The most common form of childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in cooperation with Karolinska Institutet, SciLifeLab and the University of Cambridge, have now carried out the most extensive analysis to date of ALL at the protein level, by studying the activit
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/first-major-study-proteins-patients-acute-lymphoblastic-leukaemia - 2026-07-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The traditional understanding in neuroscience is that tactile sensations from the skin are only assembled to form a complete experience in the cerebral cortex, the most advanced part of the brain. However, this is challenged by new research findings from Lund University in Sweden that suggest both that other levels in
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-findings-how-brain-handles-tactile-sensations - 2026-07-01
Photo: Damian Zaleski on Unsplash Canvas has a new Rich Content Editor which aims to make your life a bit easier when it comes to editing and formatting text, adding images and working with embedding different type of files. You can find the Editor almost anywhere you have the option to write such as in Announcements, Discussions, Pages, Assignments and Quizzes. The new Editor - an overview The w
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/new-rich-content-editor-here - 2026-07-01
For the tenth consecutive year, Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University welcomed high school students from across Skåne for UniStem Day 2025, a hands-on celebration of stem cell research and regenerative medicine. Held on Friday, March 14, this year’s milestone event offered students a unique opportunity to step into the world of science, learning from leading researchers, experimenting in state-
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/unistem-day-2025-decade-inspiring-future-scientists-lund - 2026-07-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A lot of research on human behaviour is based entirely on words: researchers read, ask questions, send out questionnaires and write reports. But this means they miss a lot of elements concerning sound, sights and people’s interaction with their physical surroundings. Devrim Umut Aslan wants to study consumers’ attitud
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/consumers-attitudes-captured-film - 2026-07-01
Sowdambika is currently enrolled on our one-year international Master's Programme in Information Systems. Having completed her first three months, we asked her a few questions about her experience so far. Why did you choose Lund?“Lund University stood out to me not only because of its stellar academic reputation but also because of its strong commitment to sustainability and innovation. As one of
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/msc-student-portrait-sowdambika-baskaran - 2026-07-01
International text theft is difficult to deal with, especially for individual researchers. The University should take the lead, and find out how plagiarism issues are dealt with in different countries and what authorities exist there. So says Haro de Grauw, the doctoral student ombudsman. “The University could have such a resource, and gather knowledge on how such issues are handled in different c
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-knowledge-needed-about-plagiarism - 2026-07-02
Linguist Sara Farshchi's research was plagiarised by three Ukrainian researchers who published it as their own. Five months have passed since Professor Carita Paradis discovered that parts of her former doctoral student Sara Farshchi's five-year-old thesis had been plagiarised by three Ukrainian researchers and that the plagiarism had been published by international publishers Springer, among othe
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/her-research-was-plagiarised - 2026-07-02
Abdulhakim Abdi, a researcher at Lund University, has produced new maps of the dominant tree species in southern Sweden using satellite data and machine learning. These have now been published and are available to everyone. The maps – available on the website treespecies.se – provide new insights into Sweden’s forests and can be used to track how they change over time, and how both long-term clima
https://www.science.lu.se/article/researcher-have-developed-unique-map-tree-species - 2026-07-01
This year our students have been collaborating with the client companies Eurolink, Nordic Waterproofing, Repligen, Sydvatten, and Systembolaget to quickly develop well-founded analyses actionable recommendations. The projects were conducted as part of a course on sustainability consultancy, and intense but rewarding course at the end of the first year of the programme. Our students from the master
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/masters-students-deliver-valuable-sustainability-insights-client-companies - 2026-07-01
One of the honorary awards in this year’s “Future Innovations Award 2025” went to NanoLundian Mattias Borg. He is awarded for his, Johannes Svensson's, and Johan Lundgren’s major climate impact project “Detecting greenhouse gas leaks with room-temperature camera sensor”. Since its launch in 2017, the Future Innovations Award has recognised ideas that can “change our world for the better”. This yea
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mattias-borg-awarded-low-cost-monitoring-methane-emissions - 2026-07-01
