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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have recently published an article entitled 'Ontological Security and the Limits to a Common World: Subaltern Pasts and the Inner-Worldliness of the Tablighi Jama'at' in Postcolonial Studies. The article attends to the contested notions of transnationalism, globality and ontological

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-svensson-transnationalism-and-ontological-security - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) has granted 35,1 million SEK to the 6 year research programme "Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies". The programme is led by professor Håkan Johansson at the School of Social Work at LU. Participants fr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-programme-civil-society-elites - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Between Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 October, The Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) will be hosting Sweden’s very first international conference in Critical Animal Studies. As co-founders of LUCASN, Jana Canavan and Kurtis Boyer from the Political Science Department are co-organisers of the confer

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedens-first-international-critical-animal-studies-conference-lund - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Jakob Skovgaard has published the article “The Role of Finance Ministries in Environmental Policy Making: The case of European Union Emissions Trading System reform in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands” in the journal “Environmental Policy and Governance”. The article concerns the role of finance ministries on the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-finance-ministries-and-environmental-policy-making - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Department of Political science researchers Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren, Niklas Altermark and Linda Nyberg all awarded grants from Forte. Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren has, together with Patrik Hall, Mats Fred and Kettil Nordesjö from Malmö University, been awarded 6 million for the project "Acquiring practical knowledge: social

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/three-grants-departments-research-group-public-administration - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annika Bergman Rosamond and Annica Kronsell have co-authored the journal article "Cosmopolitan militaries and dialogic peacekeeping: Danish and Swedish women soldiers in Afghanistan" in International Femininist Journal of Politics, October 2017. Read full article at Taylor & Francis Online Annika Bergman Rosamonds per

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-female-soldiers-and-dialogic-peacekeeping - 2026-07-13

What does your work consist of? As a coordinator, I have an overarching perspective since I work with all the faculty’s programmes. My job is partly to coordinating all written exams in the QPS system, and optimise the processes around this, and partly to provide training and support to the faculty's teachers and administrators. Currently I am focused on the written exams, but further on I will wo

https://www.qps.education.lu.se/en/article/frida-reisdal-exam-coordinator-faculty-medicine - 2026-07-13

Understanding the very first pathological events at the molecular level is key to developing treatments preventing neurodegenerative diseases. With a novel microspectroscopy approach combining optical and photothermal imaging, MultiPark researchers can follow early alterations of proteins involved in Alzheimer’s disease, before neurons degenerate. Their discoveries are published in the Journal of

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-imaging-approach-visualizes-early-structural-changes-amyloids-living-brain-tissue-0 - 2026-07-13

Every year, the patient organization Parkinson Skåne organizes a half-day of themed lectures on Parkinson's disease. The strategic research area, MultiPark, usually sponsors the moderator costs and contributes with research talks. In addition, the researchers arrange four times a year the well-attended popular science seminar evenings MultiPark café for members of the patient organization. This co

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/extended-cooperation-between-multipark-and-patient-organization-parkinson-skane - 2026-07-13

January 2024 is the start of a new electoral term for MultiPark’s management. While Angela Cenci Nilsson will remain the coordinator, Oskar Hansson will be replaced for the next three years. The vice coordinator's mission will be shared between a health scientist and a clinician. Maria H. Nilsson and Per Odin explain how they will contribute to leading MultiPark. According to MultiPark’s steering

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/double-multipark-gets-two-new-vice-coordinators - 2026-07-13

Intensive efforts are being made in medical research to discover the genomic causes of undiagnosed hereditary diseases. Persistent work and new technology are providing answers to several previously unsolved, enigmatic neurological disorders. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 4 was one of these, but now a research team in Lund, Sweden, have identified the gene that is responsible. Almost half a million

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/researchers-have-found-genetic-cause-type-hereditary-ataxia-sca4-long-unresolved-conundrum - 2026-07-13

To stimulate the international recruitment of excellent young researchers, Lund University has launched a call for positions as associate senior lecturers (biträdande universitetslektor) reserved for candidates with postdoctoral research experience in institutes outside of Sweden (and not having held a position of scholarship in Sweden after February 15, 2020). The candidates should be academicall

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/lund-university-launches-international-recruitment-programme-young-researchers - 2026-07-13

Researchers have succeeded in restoring lost brain function in mouse models of stroke using small molecules that in the future could potentially be developed into a stroke therapy. “Communication between nerve cells in large parts of the brain changes after a stroke and we show that it can be partially restored with the treatment", says Tadeusz Wieloch, senior professor at Lund University who led

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-study-lost-brain-function-restored-after-stroke - 2026-07-13

MultiPark researchers have discovered a new promising pharmacological approach stimulating recovery after stroke. Professor Tadeusz Wieloch tells about how the MultiPark Innovation Office supported the first steps in converting their academic research findings into something with commercial potential that may finally benefit the patients. Around 80% of people who suffer a stroke permanently lose s

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/turning-academic-discoveries-therapies-how-multipark-innovation-office-helps - 2026-07-13

Raquel Garza Gómez is a Ph.D. student at Lund University, who will be defending her thesis on January 19, 2024. With a background in computational biology, Raquel's research focuses on studying the role of transposable elements in the human brain. Transposable elements refer to DNA sequences capable of moving from one part of the genome to another. Her research aims to provide a better understandi

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/transposable-elements-healthy-and-diseased-human-brain-phd-interview-raquel-garza-gomez - 2026-07-13

The United Neuroscience Campus (UNC) is a partnership between MultiPark and the Centre for Transdisciplinary Neurosciences Rostock (CTNR) at the University Medical Centre Rostock, which started by a signed agreement (“Memorandum of understanding”) in May 2022. The UNC is a virtual campus beyond the Lund and Rostock locations on key neuroscience topics. It aims to increase the cooperation and mobil

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/united-neuroscience-campus-lund-rostock-unc - 2026-07-13

MultiPark is proud to co-fund and support World Parkinson's Day in Lund - 11 April 2024. World Parkinson's Day (WPD) is a global healthcare event celebrated on the 11th of April every year. It brings together all of us who care about Parkinson´s disease, in different capacities, around the world. To celebrate WPD, MultiPark and Parkinson Skåne have co-organised a symposium where frontline overview

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/world-parkinsons-day-lund - 2026-07-13

Future Faculty is proud to present the 2024 Minerva Award to Dr Laura Wisse, Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology at the Department of Clinical Sciences in Lund. Future Faculty is proud to present the 2024 Minerva Award to Dr Laura Wisse, Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology at the Department of Clinical Sciences in Lund.The Minerva award selection committee’s motivation for the choi

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/minerva-leadership-award-winner-2024 - 2026-07-13

The Jay Van Andel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Parkinson’s Disease Research was established in 2012 in memory of Van Andel Institute founder Jay Van Andel, who battled Parkinson’s disease for a decade before his death in 2004. The award is given to scientists who have made outstanding contributions to Parkinson’s disease research and who have positively impacted human health. Yesterday, on

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/anders-bjorklund-honoured-jay-van-andel-award-outstanding-achievements-parkinsons-disease-research - 2026-07-13

Future Faculty has awarded the 2024 Minerva Award to Laura Wisse, Associate Professor. Congrats to the Minerva Leadership Award, Laura Wisse, Associate Professor and PI!"Thank you, I feel very honored to receive the award as a relatively young PI and will try my best to live up to this prize in the future,  to honor good academic leadership."What do you think is a good leader?"In my opinion, a goo

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/2024-minerva-leadership-award-good-academic-leadership-will-increase-future-success - 2026-07-13