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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Niklas Altermark has penned the article "The ideology of neuroscience and intellectual disability: reconstituting the ‘disordered’ brain", which has recently been published in Disability & Society. Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/reconstituting-disordered-brain - 2026-05-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Uppsala university announces 3 PhD student positions in peace and conflict research with focus on international water cooperation. Apply by November 3. Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/phd-positions-uppsala - 2026-05-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Mi Lennhag lectures on the EU, bureaucracy, transparency and anti-corruption work, as part of the Swedish Institute’s Summer Academy for Young Professionals (aimed at post-Soviet country residents). Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lecture-eu-bureaucracy-transparency-and-anti-corruption-work - 2026-05-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Jens Bartelson discusses David Armitages’s book "Foundations of Modern International Thought", in a special review article in "Contemporary Political Theory". Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/review-foundations-modern-international-thought - 2026-05-09
Bachelor's programme · 3 years · 180 credits. Language of studies: English. Autumn term. The interdisciplinary Bachelor's programme in Development Studies (BIDS) focuses on economic, social, and political processes linked to development. The programme works through a collaboration between several different departments. Terms 3 and 6 can be studied at the Department of Political Science. Developmen
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/education/programmes-and-courses/bachelors-programme-development-studies-bids - 2026-05-09
Allhelgona Kyrkogata 14, Lund
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/contact/how-find-us - 2026-05-09
How did state-making affect the international system in the 19th century and beyond? Funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation [Riksbankens Jubileumsfond] Three research themes build the core of this 6-year research program: How did the different dimensions of state-making, including internal and external sovereignty, revenue extraction, professionalization of the bureaucracy and the de
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Fariborz Zelli organises a side event at the UN climate change conference in Lima (December 4). Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/zellis-event-beside-climate-change-conference - 2026-05-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. STUDENT NEWS: EU External Action welcomes application for international internships in 2015. Apply no later than December 5. Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/international-internships - 2026-05-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström has written the chapter Leader, Bridge-builder or ‘Hobbled Giant’? Perceptions of the EU in Climate-Change Negotiations that is included in the recently published anthology Communicating Europe in Time of Crisis: External Perceptions of the European Union (Palgrave). Learn more..
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/leader-bridge-builder-or-hobbled-giant - 2026-05-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Tobias Nielsen was recently included in an international group of researchers that prepared a report for the Nordic Council of Ministers working group for global climate negotiations ahead of the current COP20 UN negotiations. Tobias Nielsen
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/preparing-report-global-climate-negotiations - 2026-05-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Tobias Nielsen talks about Ecuador’s Socio Bosque and Peru’s Programa Bosque as Role Models? at a UN climate conference side-event (Dec. 4). REDD and Beyond: International and Indigenous Strategies in Forest ProtectionREDD is one a series of incentive-based mechanisms for reducing greenhouse gas
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nielsen-talks-about-south-american-role-models - 2026-05-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Carlo Knotz and Johannes Lindvall have co-authored the article Coalitions and Compensation. The Case of Unemployment Benefit Duration which has recently been published in Comparative Political Studies. Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knotz-and-lindvall-comparative-political-studies - 2026-05-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Varieties of Democracy Institute (University of Gothenburg) announces a call for postdocs and research fellows. Apply by January 23. Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/announced-position-gothenburg - 2026-05-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: International Politics of Recognition, a book co-edited by Erik Ringmar, is the subject of a book symposium in the latest issue of the Global Discourse journal Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ringmars-book-discussed-global-discourse-journal - 2026-05-09
...showing that competitors in the Vasaloppet cross-country ski race run a lower risk of suffering from anxiety than the general population. Your results have been reported by the New York Times, CNN and many other international news outlets. Published in September last year, the article Physical Activity Is Associated With Lower Long-Term Incidence of Anxiety in a Population-Based, Large-Scale St
Immune Thrombocytopenia, ITP, is an autoimmune bleeding disorder that is still treated with immunosuppressive drugs that cause serious side effects. Professor John Semple’s laboratory studies the pathophysiological mechanisms behind this disease and together with Dr. Drew Provan, London, UK, has recently published the newest ideas on pathological mechanisms and therapies for the treatment and mana
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-therapies-itp - 2026-05-09
Researchers in Lund have discovered an antitoxin mechanism that seems to be able to neutralise hundreds of different toxins and may protect bacteria against virus attacks. The mechanism has been named Panacea, after the Greek goddess of medicine whose name has become synonymous with universal cure. The understanding of bacterial toxin and antitoxin mechanisms will be crucial for the future success
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-multipurpose-switch-inhibiting-bacterial-growth - 2026-05-09
What we are doing within the centre will not remain solely within the centre. We strive to play an active role in the public debate and contribute to the making the medical humanities visible locally, nationally and internationally. We are planning several events and will gather them all here. Kunskapskrogen Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities hosts the popular Kunskapskrogen, conversati
In recent years, great advances have been made in the development of new successful immunotherapies to treat cancer. CAR T-cell therapy and antibody treatments are two types of targeted immunotherapies that have revolutionised areas of cancer care. However, there are still significant challenges in the identification of cancer cell surface proteins as targets for immunotherapies. A research group
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-precision-technology-immunotherapy - 2026-05-09
