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Come work at LUCSUS! We are delighted to announce two new PhD positions and one post-doctoral fellow position in Sustainability Science! They are under research projects examining the intersection of climate and biodiversity. Research project: Environmental Human Rights Defenders – Change Agents at the Crossroads of Climate change, Biodiversity and Cultural Conservation   1 PhD position in Sustain

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-positions-lucsus-two-phd-positions-and-one-post-doc-position-under-projects-intersection-climate - 2025-12-01

A lack of professional project management, unclear decision-making processes and shortcomings in communication underpin delays in the beamline programme at MAX IV. A new plan of measures will prioritise tackling these problems. Ian McNulty is the acting director at MAX IV. “We must get more beamlines ready faster, and that requires increased efficiency in the organisation”, says Ian McNulty, who w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/better-project-management-get-max-iv-back-track - 2025-12-01

“Vinzent is an independent and creative researcher who shows exceptional ability in combining large historical data sets with modern quantitative methods and theoretical modelling.” This is how the researcher who wrote the best thesis of the year at LUSEM is described in the prize nomination. Congratulations, Vinzent Ostermeyer! In his doctoral thesis, titled “Why Firms Grow: The Roles of Institut

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/vinzent-ostermeyer-wrote-best-doctoral-thesis-lusem-2023 - 2025-12-01

Lund University is strengthening its work in retail and logistics at Campus Helsingborg under the name REAL - Centre for Retail and Logistics. The centre will focus on sustainability, digitalisation and changes in working life - the major challenges facing retail and logistics. Lund University and the City of Helsingborg are each contributing SEK 4 million to the centre's start-up Retailing and lo

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/investing-future-retail-and-logistics - 2025-12-01

How important is collaboration for the sustainability crises? Kajsa M Paulsson, leader of the Faculty's working group Active collaboration for solving sustainability-related societal challenges, discusses the issue. Kajsa M Paulsson and the working group she leads are currently working with the Hanseatic Science Cloud (HSC), one of the work packages in Hanseatic Life Science Research Infrastructur

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/collaboration-necessary-solving-sustainability-problems - 2025-12-01

Sahana Subramanian recently completed her master’s degree at Lund University. Her thesis “Expanding Freedoms and Improving Commons through Labour”, studies Kerala’s Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme and, for this, she received this year’s SASNET Best South Asia Thesis Award.  Sahana Subramanian, recently admitted as a doctoral student at LUCSUS, was introduced to the concept of ‘urban em

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sahana-subramanian-urban-india-facing-twin-crisis - 2025-12-01

A Swedish consortium will help building a new international research network – New Roots International – with the aim of promoting research, development and policies for a perennial revolution in agriculture. The consortium will be one of six institutional pillars, coordinated by The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, USA. When the idea of radically reinventing agriculture by developing new perenni

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/towards-perennial-revolution-agriculture - 2025-12-01

PhD student Carmen Margiotta will explore how diverse cosmological worldviews influence individuals' connections with glaciers, as part of the project NaturICE. Her specific focus revolves around the intersection of environmental and epistemic justice, emphasizing the subjective experiences of climate change. Read more about her research focus and her background in this short interview. What do yo

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-carmen-margiotta-studies-how-individuals-worldviews-influcence-connections-glaciers - 2025-12-01

To create a functional urban environment for people, the environment and biodiversity, cities need to make careful considerations. Urban densification can be positive, for example in terms of reducing car traffic and providing better services to more people. At the same time, it can be at the expense of green spaces and human health. Johanna Alkan Olsson is a senior lecturer at CEC and has been re

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/five-challenges-and-tips-creating-functional-urban-environment-when-densifying-cities - 2025-12-01

Arctic climate change research relies on field measurements and samples that are too scarce, and patchy at best. The researchers in the BECC action group looked at thousands of scientific studies, and found that around 30% of cited studies were clustered around only two research stations in the vast Arctic region. A paper in Nature Ecology & Evoloution was one of the result from the action group "

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/agpatchy-field-sampling-biases-understanding-climate-change-impacts-across-arctic - 2025-12-01

The study coordinator is part of the graduate school's management team and convenes the graduate school's pedagogical working group. Cecilia Petterson is an assistant senior lecturer at one of the partner universities - Örebro University. She will work as a study coordinator within the framework of her employment there, on behalf of SWEAH. - It is very nice that we are now getting a study coordina

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/cecilia-petterson-sweahs-new-study-coordinator - 2025-12-01

Maria Messing receives a grant from Future Research Leaders, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. Nano Design meets Organic Chemistry for Greener Catalysts is the name of the research program led by Maria Messing, funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. This is the summary of the project:   One of the seventeen sustainable development goals is concerned with sustainable cons

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolundian-gets-grant-greener-catalysts - 2025-12-01

She wants to shed new light on the dark matter that has long baffled the world of research. Now, researcher in particle physics Caterina Doglioni is receiving 2 million euro from the European Research Council (ERC). Caterina Doglioni, assistant senior lecturer in particle physics, is receiving around 2 million euro to build up a research team over five years to look for new particles that could of

https://www.science.lu.se/article/prestigious-grant-particle-physicist - 2025-12-01

On the position of filmmaker as feminist, this article investigates the documentarian’s strategies of dealing with the cruelty in activism and the cruelty suffered by women in Chinese context. On the position of filmmaker as feminist, this article investigates the documentarian’s strategies of dealing with the cruelty in activism and the cruelty suffered by women in Chinese context. It analyses th

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-research-filmmaker-feminist-jinyan-zeng - 2025-12-01

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researchers-virtual-public-event-history-epr - 2025-12-01

The Faculty of Social Sciences is now planning a new course for those who teach social science research methods and want to explore new ways to develop their pedagogy and strengthen students' learning. The course "Teaching and Learning Research Methods in Social Sciences" will be both practically and theoretically grounded in order to provide the conditions for reflecting together on challenges an

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/do-you-want-develop-your-skills-teacher-research-methods - 2025-12-01

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/social-sciences-climb-rankings - 2025-12-01

A Nobel laureate and a pioneer have been appointed honorary doctors 2023 at our faculty. On May 24, they offer their insights into the sensitivities of body and mind in an open lecture. In this lecture you will hear the 2023 honorary doctors of the Faculty of Medicine, Nobel laureate professor David Julius and professor Rita Charon each talk about their research and what it has taught them about t

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/understanding-sensitivities-body-and-mind-open-lecture-2023-honorary-doctors-faculty-medicine - 2025-12-01

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-has-been-appointed-new-director-centre-middle-eastern-studies - 2025-12-01

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/contested-global-governance - 2025-12-01