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In its largest investment yet, Cancerfonden, the Swedish Cancer Society, has announced its 2025 funding decisions, awarding SEK 1 billion SEK to strengthen cancer research across Sweden. Lund University received SEK 144.8 million, including SEK 50 million for projects led by ten researchers affiliated with the Lund Stem Cell Center. Among this year’s awardees is Dr. Sandra Lindstedt, senior consul
For the last three years, middle-school classrooms in Lund and Staffanstorp have been getting a special visit during the autumn: scientists walk in with stories about their favorite research topic and what it is like to work in a lab. This is the Science to Schools program, an initiative that began as an idea from PhD student Abigail Altman and has now grown into a collaboration involving Lund Ste
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/bringing-science-classroom-taking-science-middle-schools-lund - 2025-12-15
Paul Bourgine, research group leader at Lund Stem Cell Center and the Wallenberg Center for Molecular Medicine at Lund University, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to investigate how the human bone marrow microenvironment can regulate the function of immune populations. The funding will support the development of advanced research models aimed at revealing previously unknown interactions
The repeated sniffing by presidential candidate Donald Trump in the first presidential debate on 25th September 2016, lead to a Twitter-storm and intensive media interest regarding his health. Lisa Flower, PhD candidate in sociology at the Department of Sociology at Lund University, however provides an alternative explanation:- My research shows that sniffing can be a way of marking a switch by th
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/what-donald-trump-really-revealing-trumpsniffles - 2025-12-15
Three of our projects got funding from FORTE of almost 10,5 million Swedish kronor (SEK). Henriette Esholdt, with a project as junior researcher on “The appeal of violence-promoting Islamic extremism. An investigation of masculinity and femininity”Shai Mulinari, with a project on “What can be learnt from the new pharmaceutical industry payment disclosures? A network and policy analysis of ties bet
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/almost-105-million-sek-funding - 2025-12-15
Lisa Flower’s article ”The (Un)emotional Law Student” which discusses the ”emotional sniff” received media attention in Sweden following Donald Trump’s sniffing in the first presidential candidate debate and has now been used by Forbes Magazine to analyse the second debate. Forbes Magazine concludes that Trump’s sniffing was noticeable when he threatened presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/flower-usa-media - 2025-12-15
Carl-Göran Heidegren has just received a substantial research grant from ”The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences” (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond) for his comparative project on philosophy in Nordic welfare societies. From our Department, also Klas Gustavsson will be working on the project.Learn more on anslag.rj.seCarl-Göran Heidegren’s personal pageKlas Gustavsson’s personal page
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/research-money-project-nordic-welfare-societies - 2025-12-15
How do media in different countries discuss climate change? Christofer Edling is part of a large international research network who analyse this question in the recently published article “Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse”. Abstract: Reducing global emissions will require a global cosmopolitan culture built from detailed attention to conflicting national clima
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/climate-change-media-discourse-17-countries - 2025-12-15
Malin Åkerström received, together with Katarina Jacobsson, a research grant from the Swedish Research Council with their project “An administrative Eigendynamik in the interaction of meetings and documents”. The project will run for three years. Abstract:An increasing proportion of people's working hours are devoted to administrative tasks, in which meetings and documents are particularly accentu
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/3-millon-sek-research-project - 2025-12-15
The primarily biomedical definition of ADHD has been questioned and criticized in various ways. Mattias Nilsson Sjöberg adopts the Baradian perspective of agential realism in his article ”(Un)becoming dysfunctional: ADHD and how matter comes to matter” in International Journal of Inclusive Education. Abstract:Various neuropsychiatric disorders are a common feature today, not least in educational c
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/nilsson-sjoberg-adhd-perspective-agential-realism - 2025-12-15
What are the feeling rules, and how do they emerge, regarding victim offender mediation? Anna Rypi investigates this “emotion culture” in her recent article “The feeling rules of victim offender mediation” in the journal International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion. Abstract:This paper is based on an ethnographic study conducted in Sweden and focuses on the emotional aspect, both its rhe
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/rypi-about-feeling-rules-victim-offender-mediation - 2025-12-15
Antoinette Hetzler is invited as one of the main speakers to the third International Symposium on Bullying that will be held in Tokyo Japan, December 4, 2016. Antoinette Hetzler will, together with Mitsuru Taki (NIER), discuss issues of bullying in less violent crime societies.Results are from a longitudinal comparative survey (2013-2015) between Sweden and Japan. Both countries are described as c
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hetzler-one-main-speakers-symposium-bullying - 2025-12-15
How is theatre used for social integration? Hanna Wittrock has in her recent article ”Integration of culture, culture as integration. The praxis and politics of multicultural theatre and drama” looked at multicultural theatre projects in Sweden. Abstract:Theatre is one of the artistic tools most often employed in Sweden to promote social integration. The aim of this article is to illustrate recurr
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/wittrock-praxis-and-politics-multicultural-theatre-and-drama - 2025-12-15
What are “failed states” and how can we conceptualize them? Olle Frödin has a chapter out on ”Failed States” in the newly updated Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Learn more on sociologyencyclopedia.comOlle Frödin’s personal page
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/frodin-failed-states-blackwell-encyclopedia-sociology - 2025-12-15
How do different societies deal with bullying and degrading behavior at schools? Antoinette Hetzler and Colm Flaherty investigate this by examining the ways in which Sweden and the US attempt to guarantee the social rights of students at school. Their article has just appeared in the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology.Abstract:Although the United States and Sweden are different i
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hetzler-and-flaherty-guaranteeing-social-rights-students-us-and-swedish-schools - 2025-12-15
How is authenticity enacted in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia? Which role do local and global (sub)cultures play in these enactments? Erik Hannerz has contributed a book chapter on “Emplacing Punk: Subcultural Boundary Work and Space in Indonesia” to the book edited by Julian Ch Lee and Marco Ferrarese. Description of book:Authenticity is much sought after; being described as inauthentic is an i
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hannerz-punks-monks-and-politics - 2025-12-15
What constitutes the subcultural? In Erik Hannerz’s recent contribution to the Journal Educare (no. 2, 2016), he refines subcultural theory by drawing on examples from the Indonesian and Swedish punk scene. Abstract:Arguing against the previous research’s presump on that the subcultural constitutes a single set of meaning, this article addresses the simple question of what constitutes the subcultu
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hannerz-two-articles-subcultural-and-using-instagram-researching-graffiti - 2025-12-15
Why did Trump win? Or more precisely, how did Hillary lose? Why were so many experts so wrong about Trump’s support? How will Trump’s victory affect the lives of ordinary Americans? Steven Sampson discusses this in his recent piece “Angry white males as suffering subjects” published in Focaal blog.Learn more on focaalblog.comSteven Sampson’s personal page
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sampson-angry-white-males - 2025-12-15
Priscilla Solano defended her dissertation ”Assisting in the Shadows. Humanitarianism, Shelters and Transit Migration Politics” today at 10:15 in Kulturens Hörsal, Lund. External reviewer: Professor Julia O'Connell Davidson, University of BristolAssisting in the Shadows: Humanitarianism, Shelters and Transit Migration PoliticsPriscilla Solano's personal page
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/priscilla-solano-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-12-15
How is population control embedded in bio-political rationales that affect women’s social, physical, and psychological wellbeing? Lisa Eklund, together with Navtej Purewal, investigates these complex dynamics in the article “The Bio-Politics of Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India”, Feminism and Psychology. Read the article at journals.sagepub.comAbstract: China and Ind
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lisa-eklund-bio-politics-population-control - 2025-12-15
