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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have used a neuropeptide to successfully reduce seizure-like activity in tissue from patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. One challenge facing researchers who study brain diseases is that for understandable reasons it is difficult to obtain human brain tissue for experiments.

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/peptide-reduced-epileptic-seizures-human-brain-tissue - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have used a neuropeptide to successfully reduce seizure-like activity in tissue from patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. One challenge facing researchers who study brain diseases is that for understandable reasons it is difficult to obtain human brain tissue for experiments.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/peptide-reduced-epileptic-seizures-human-brain-tissue - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A complex web of legislation, a lack of awareness about the benefits of seagrass meadows, and powerful interests all combine to make the governance, protection and maintainance of seagrass meadows difficult according to new research from LUCSUS. Meanwhile segrasses have a hugely important ecological and economic role

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/segrasses-have-hugely-important-ecological-and-economic-role-new-research-publication - 2026-06-11

Nair Ferreira Barbosa da Costa, kindly called Voinha in the family, was married off at 14. She gave birth to thirteen children, had to leave her first four children behind, fled 1500 miles to escape an abusive marriage and later became a single mother. "I had the guts. If I decided to do something, I would just do it." Now, Agenda 2030 PhD student Iury Salustiano Trojaborg's interviews with her gr

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/exploring-voinhas-life-journey-forced-marriage-feminist-empowerment - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How did the education system develop? Why did some countries choose to secularise schools completely, while others gave state support to private religious schools? Johannes Lindvall has conducted a survey of how Western schooling developed and had his article published in the world’s most prestigious political science

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/article-development-school-system-published-prestigious-journal - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 lau

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/activism-and-academia-go-together - 2026-06-11

There is a great deal of interest at the University in welcoming researchers from Afghanistan. The University Management and all the faculties consulted are prepared to contribute what is needed to receive these researchers. At the International Office of LU’s External Relations Division, Pär Svensson is in charge of coordinating work with vulnerable researchers at LU within the framework of ‟Scho

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/interest-welcoming-researchers-afghanistan - 2026-06-12

Ice sheets, snow and the ocean as far as the eye can see. No shipping vessels or people in sight, and only polar bears for company. The icebreaker Oden sails between Svalbard and Greenland, and this spring, doctoral student Lovisa Nilsson joined the ship to study the transition from winter to summer in the Arctic, and how soot affects the melting of sea ice. For six weeks, the spaces onboard Oden

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/polar-bears-company - 2026-06-12

In the Colombian rainforest, cattle ranching is spreading and leading to forest fires and deforestation. This threatens the environment, climate and indigenous people in the Amazon. More efficient use of existing pastures and alternative livelihoods are some of the factors needed to protect the rainforest, according to a new thesis by Jesica López. Colombia's rainforest is part of the Amazon and i

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/new-thesis-highlights-sustainable-solutions-protect-amazon-rainforest - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Must greater prosperity necessarily lead to a greater carbon footprint and increased greenhouse gas emissions? “In theory, no, but in practice this seems to be the case”, says researcher Max Koch from Lund University in Sweden. His study of 138 countries is the first ever to take a global approach to the connections b

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/economic-development-does-mean-greater-carbon-footprint-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions - 2026-06-11

The Research Panorama Day is an annual relay seminar presenting ongoing research at the Sociology of Law Department for new students. It is an opportunity for students to get an overview of the production of science at their current department and deepen their understanding of the subject. The 2024 iteration of the Research Panorama Day featured presentations of several new research projects. One

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-projects-presented-sociology-law-departments-research-panorama-day - 2026-06-11

CMES researcher Sara Brogaard has been interviewed in a Radio Sweden program about sandstorms in Iraq. The episode on sandstorms in Iraq is part of Radio Sweden's program "Vetenskapsradion Klotet". Klotet (The Globe) is an environmental program from the science department of Radio Sweden. The episode aired on 22 June 2023. In the episode, Sara speaks about her research on sand- and dust-storms. Th

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/devastating-sandstorms-iraq - 2026-06-11

The University’s new contracted travel agency, BCD Travel Sweden AB, offers a short training course on the new self-service booking system, Cytric, for those booking trips for themselves or others. The aim of the training sessions is for travellers and bookers to be able to make booking for trips and accommodation themselves in the new Cytric system. When you book online there is a lower booking f

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/1-february-all-trips-will-be-booked-new-travel-agency-learn-use-new-self-service-booking-system - 2026-06-12

Application is now open for a tenure track position as assistant professor (called associate senior lecturer in the Swedish system) in Contemporary Korean Society. The Centre for East and South-East Asia is excited to expand its staff with an expert on contemporary Korea. The new colleague will be part of a vibrant community of scholars focusing on China, Japan, Cambodia, Myanmar and Indonesia in

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tenure-track-position-contemporary-korean-society - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A group of engineering students at Lund University in Sweden noticed that there were no vegan cake mixes available on the Swedish market. They set to work and came up with a dry mix that only requires the addition of oil and water. The final product contained no eggs or wheat flour, making it vegan as well as gluten-f

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-students-develop-vegan-gluten-free-mud-cake-mix - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Goran Basic has published an article on the ideal victim and competition for victimhood in the stories after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The article is in Serbian. ”Idealna žrtva i nadmetanje za dobijanje statusa žrtve u pričama preživjelih rata u Bosni i Hercegovini”. Temida, 18(2), 2015: 7-30.See article on l

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/competition-victimhood - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Over 30 people were nominated or applied for the post of deputy vice-chancellor of Lund University, starting on 1 January 2021. Of these, the Recruitment Committee selected nine people for the first round of interviews. The candidates called to a first interview are:Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, professor Lund University

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/great-interest-deputy-vice-chancellor-post-nine-go-next-stage - 2026-06-11

What is climate-related loss and when can it be considered disproportionate? This question is at the heart of Kelly Dorkenoo’s thesis which explores loss associated with land in smallholder farming communities in Cambodia. Her motivation was to deepen our understanding of – and to find ways to mitigate – loss arising from climate change impacts, focusing on communities whose livelihoods are closel

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-thesis-advances-understanding-disproportionate-climate-related-loss-focus-land-cambodia - 2026-06-11

Now, a second call for applications is being launched for projects with postdoctoral and associate senior lectureship positions. Deadline for pre-registration is 16th of September. Lund University is allocating up to SEK 100 million to a university-wide initiative for excellence at Lund University focusing on Agenda 2030 and sustainable development. One part of this sum has been used for a new inv

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/interdisciplinary-projects-focusing-agenda-2030-and-sustainable-development - 2026-06-12

“My stay here has not only given me practical access to sources and libraries. Being in a different academic environment has also given me new ideas and perspectives on what we do in Lund.” These are the words of historian Marie Cronqvist, who moved to Berlin with her husband and children last summer. Now it will soon be time to go home, but before that LUM had time to meet them and find out about

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/finding-new-inspiration-berlin - 2026-06-11