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37 studenter med skilda utbildnings- och yrkesbakgrunder välkomnades till Campus Helsingborg när Lunds universitet invigde det nya magisterprogrammet i totalförsvar och civil beredskap. Invigningen samlade såväl universitetsledning som företrädare för myndigheter, kommuner och näringsliv, med ett gemensamt budskap: samhället har ett växande behov av kompetens inom totalförsvar och civil beredskap

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/invigning-av-nytt-magisterprogram-inom-totalforsvar-och-civil-beredskap - 2026-09-09

Turism kan bidra till utveckling, minska stigma och skapa nya sätt att förstå det som kallas utsatta områden. I forskningsprojektet "Utkantens attraktivitet – en studie om besöksnäringens förutsättningar i utsatta områden" lyfts den potential besöksnäring har för att utveckla marginaliserade områden och hur arbetet kan gå till. Nu berättar forskarna om sin forskning i en masterclass för BFUF. Proj

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/mojligheterna-utsatta-omraden-som-turistdestination - 2026-09-09

The Sociology of Law Department receives 50,000 SEK (€4,300) in faculty mobility funds to invite Sergio Jarillo de la Torre, a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Geography, University of Melbourne. His background is in social anthropology, law, and art history, and he has spent over ten years doing fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, the Marshall  Islands and Mozambique.During his two-week s

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/department-granted-funds-invite-researcher-university-melbourne - 2026-09-09

Ana Maria Vargas Falla was Lund University's only representative at COP29 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. She has researched public resistance and acceptance of climate legislation and contributed to the "10 new insights in climate science" presented during the climate summit. These are her impressions of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. I was initially very sceptical about having

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/ana-maria-vargas-falla-reflects-cop29 - 2026-09-09

Michael Molavi and Isabel Schoultz have received a major research grant from the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Programme. Together with newly hired post-doctoral researcher, Elin Jönsson, they will study how ongoing de-democratisation processes affect protest cultures and how these effects comparatively vary across Europe. Europe is experiencing a steady democratic decline. The trend is dis

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/eu-funds-research-about-democratic-decline-and-protest-culture - 2026-09-09

Climate change is a reality for communities globally, forcing governments and international agencies to propose climate adaptation measures. For many people, these top-down approaches don't always align with their needs, values or legal rights. Ana Maria Vargas is one of the researchers in the project "Everyday forms of resistance to state adaptation regulation: An ethnographic study of responses

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/the-justice-in-resisting-climate-change-policies - 2026-09-09

In October last year, the Sociology of Law Department's researcher and senior lecturer Patrik Olsson was invited to a conference in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent to contribute with expertise on the country's social and political development. On October 24, 2024, an international conference on the topic "Development of Free Civil Society and Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organizations" was held in Ta

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/patrik-olsson-invited-uzbekistan-expert-civil-society-and-non-profit-development - 2026-09-09

Ida Nafstad and Heraclitos Muhire each had an article among the five most downloaded from the journal Justice, Power and Resistance last year. Both articles have been accessed more than 2000 times since their publication. Ida Nafstad wrote the article "Police abolition and transformative justice in the footsteps of Thomas Mathiesen's penal abolition", outlining Thomas Mathiesen's penal abolition t

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/two-articles-department-among-jprs-most-downloaded - 2026-09-09

Anna Lundberg has received funding for two projects investigating how and why public employees and trade unions respectively mobilise against the government's Informers Act. The law makes it mandatory for staff in certain public organisations to report undocumented migrants to the border police. In the "Human Rights Mobilization of Welfare Professionals Against the Informers Act – Arguments, Strat

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/anna-lundberg-leads-two-new-projects-studying-informer-act - 2026-09-09

A PhD programme exploring law and governance in authoritarian regimes across Central Asia has received nearly €4.7 million in funding from the European Commission, with an additional €800,000 contributed by the Swiss Secretariat for Research, Education and Innovation. The initiative aims to provide critical insights into legal and societal structures in authoritarian states. Titled "Sociology of A

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-leads-eu55m-eu-funded-research-authoritarian-law-and-legality-central-asia - 2026-09-09

The project "ProTest: Protest as a Democracy Test. Protest Culture under Transformation and as a Transformative Power" was launched with a two-day kick-off meeting on 7–8 April at Corvinus University of Budapest. The project gathers a multidisciplinary consortium of nine European academic and research institutions to examine the evolving role of protest in democratic societies. The April meeting i

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/researchers-studying-protest-culture-gathered-budapest-project-kick - 2026-09-09

A €1.8 million EU grant will fund new research into the challenges of promoting good governance and the rule of law in non-Western societies. In May, the European Commission's HORIZON Programme confirmed the funding for Rustamjon Urinboyev's research and training program "The Political Economy of Legal and Governance Reform in Non-Western Societies: Insights from Central Asia". The project starts

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-grant-backs-research-alternative-non-western-legal-and-governance-institutions - 2026-09-09

The search is on for 25 researchers from around the world in Lund University’s largest ever international recruitment drive. Welcome to join a world-class university dedicated to understanding, explaining, and improving our world and the human condition. As an Assistant Professor, you develop your qualifications over four years. You can then be promoted to permanent employment as a senior lecturer

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-hiring-assistant-professor-law-rights-and-social-movements - 2026-09-09

The ostrich is genetically wired to adapt to rising or falling temperatures. However, when the temperature fluctuates more often, as it does with climate change, the flightless bird with a 40-gram brain finds it much more difficult. A research team at Lund University has shown that the ostrich is very sensitive to fluctuating temperatures in terms of whether it reproduces. If the temperature rises

https://www.science.lu.se/article/ostriches-can-adapt-heat-or-cold-not-both - 2026-09-09

When you take a dip in a Swedish lake, it is not unusual to find you cannot see the lake bottom. Lake water coloured brown by organic material can be an inconvenience for swimming tourists, but mainly causes problems for the ecosystem and drinking water. Focusing on Lake Bolmen, researchers, public authorities and local organisations are now joining forces in a research project to find methods tha

https://www.science.lu.se/article/many-reasons-take-care-lake-water - 2026-09-09

By analyzing DNA with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), an international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has developed a method that can accurately date up to ten-thousand year-old human remains. Accurately dating ancient humans is key when mapping how people migrated during world history. The standard dating method since the 1950s has been radiocarbon dating. The method, wh

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-develop-first-ai-based-method-dating-archaeological-remains - 2026-09-09

The most common analytical method within population genetics is deeply flawed, according to a new study from Lund University. This may have led to incorrect results and misconceptions about ethnicity and genetic relationships. The method has been used in hundreds of thousands of studies, affecting results within medical genetics and even commercial ancestry tests. The study is published in Scienti

https://www.science.lu.se/article/study-reveals-flaws-popular-genetic-method - 2026-09-09

Solitary bees that ingested the pesticide clothianidin when foraging from rapeseed flowers became slower. In addition, the strawberries pollinated by these bees were smaller. This is shown by a new study from Lund University in Sweden. Strawberries are known to become bigger if bees have visited their flowers, but how strawberry growth is affected if the bees have been exposed to neonicotinoid ins

https://www.science.lu.se/article/strawberries-were-smaller-when-bees-ingested-pesticides - 2026-09-09

Using data from the Gaia space telescope, a team led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden has shown that large parts of the Milky Way's outer disk vibrate. The ripples are caused by a dwarf galaxy, now seen in the constellation Sagittarius, that shook our galaxy as it passed by hundreds of millions of years ago. Our cosmic home, the Milky Way, contains between 100 and 400 billion stars. Ast

https://www.science.lu.se/article/mysterious-ripples-milky-way-were-caused-passing-dwarf-galaxy - 2026-09-09

A new study led by Lund University in Sweden shows that cities negatively affect the diversity of birds. There are significantly fewer bird species in urban forests compared with forests in the countryside - even if the forest areas are of the same quality. The researchers examined 459 natural woodlands located in or near 32 cities in southern Sweden. They counted the occurrence of different bird

https://www.science.lu.se/article/less-bird-diversity-city-forests - 2026-09-09