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NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Roxanna Sjöstedt has published the article "Securitization and Foreign Policy Analysis", in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Sjöstedt describes and reviews in this article the central assumptions of securitization theory in order to capture its applicability to the study of foreign policy. AbstractSince it was launched in the mid-1990s, the concept of securitizat

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-securitization-and-foreign-policy-analysis - 2025-12-01

On 2 April, the faculty's dean made the decision to co-locate the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC), the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES), and the Department of Geology at the Geocentre.Co-locating these organisations is a long-term strategic choice for the development of the Faculty of Science's activities in environmental science, climate, geology, p

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/decision-co-location-organisations-geocentre - 2025-12-01

Colourful illustrations shone in Forum Medicum's foyer when WCMM inaugurated Fusion 2025 – an exhibition format where art and science meet. Last autumn, WCMM announced a competition in which researchers at WCMM units around Sweden were invited to contribute their best scientific illustrations. 21 entries were submitted and on Friday it was time for the opening in Forum Medicum's foyer. In addition

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/marvel-forum-medicum-art-meets-science-wcmm-fusion-2025-exibit - 2025-12-01

Focusing on policy instruments for energy efficiency. Sofie Sandin started her PhD studies at the IIIEE in 2016 with her research agenda set on policy instruments for energy efficiency. Sofie has a background in environmental science and is a true environmental enthusiast who like to spend time outdoors, be it in the city, on the sea, in the nearby forest or far away on a mountain. Here are five q

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-phd-candidate-sofie-sandin - 2025-12-02

In conjunction with the tragic school shooting in Örebro, a reminder about the safety measures in place at Lund University is in order. How are the University’s preventative security measures organised? The University has surveillance in place in all areas of the campus. Lund University works systematically on work environment issues, and the various organisational units are responsible for preven

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/account-shooting-orebro - 2025-12-02

Global warming is causing rapid changes in vegetation in the Arctic. A major study in Nature with researchers from BECC-members at the University of Gothenburg shows large local differences in which species are favoured, and which are outcompeted due to climate change. Rapid climate change is upending plant life in the Arctic. A new scientific study in Nature shows how one of the most fragile ecos

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/major-changes-biodiversity-arctic - 2025-12-01

Prof. Mary Higby Schweitzer is without doubt the foremost scientist in the field of molecular palaeobiology. Over the last two decades, she has developed detailed protocols to extract, recover and characterize ancient proteinaceous matter. Additionally, she has been able to demonstrate that collagenous sequences obtained from Late Cretaceous dinosaurs closely match those of extant birds, and as su

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/prof-mary-h-schweitzer-nominated-honorary-doctor-lund-university - 2025-12-01

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/translating-all-cause-mortality-rate-ratios-or-hazard-ratios-age-longevity-and-probability-based - 2025-12-01

Sindre Gade Viksand has published an article in the Review of International Studies. The article analyzes how peripheral actors in imperial structures are able to acquire external assistance for their independence struggles. This article builds a framework to better understand how these extra-imperial ties are translated into peripheral positional power. This framework is constructed on the basis

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/contentious-colonies-positional-power-imperial-peripheries - 2025-12-01

Ina Möller has defended her doctoral thesis "The Emergent Politics of Geoengineering" today at 10:00 in Eden auditorium. Discussant was Associate Professor Robert Falkner, The London School of Economics and Political Science. Her thesis studies the appearance of ‘geoengineering’ in the political discussion on climate change. The term describes a set of ideas on how to stabilize global temperature

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ina-moller-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-12-01

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/russian-images-european-union - 2025-12-01

LUBI will start organizing a seminar series this spring. The seminars will focus on methods in bioinformatics. The focus of these seminar series are methods: how-to apply bioinformatics in a study or in one´s research, described at a level that can attract researchers at many different stages The first seminar will take place on March 3rd, at 13-14, where Ulrich Pfisterer and Per Brattås from CTG

https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/start-lubi-seminar-series - 2025-12-01

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/policy-experimentation-what-extent-can-use-social-norms-promote-low-carbon-mobility-options - 2025-12-01

Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True have edited the book “Feminist Foreign Policy Analysis: A New Subfield” (Bristol University Press). How can feminist scholarship advance the field of foreign policy analysis to better understand contemporary foreign policy actions and challenges? This groundbreaking book provides the state-of-the-art in the study of gender, feminisms and foreign policy. Bringing toge

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-karin-aggestam-and-jacqui-true-feminist-foreign-policy-analysis - 2025-12-01

SOAS, University of London has announced one Michael Palin scholarship for an UK-EU post-graduate student taking the two-year MA in Intensive South Asian Studies at the university on a full-time basis. The scholarship is valued at £47,625 and will cover the full cost of tuition fees for both years of the programme. The remaining amount will go towards living costs for both the duration of the prog

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/michael-palin-scholarship-announced-ma-south-asia-studies-soas - 2025-12-01

CMES scholars Pinar Dinc and Lina Eklund have co-authored an annotated bibliography about the Syrian climate-migration-conflict nexus, together with Gianna Angermayr (Lund University). The bibliography is available to read online. The scientific debate about the Syrian civil war being linked to climate change that manifested through a prolonged drought took off in 2014. This annotated bibliography

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrian-climate-migration-conflict-nexus - 2025-12-02

Martin Lavička wrote a chapter in the new edited volume China under Xi Jinping: An Interdisciplinary Assessment, just published by Brill. his chapter discusses how the official religious policies stipulated in the so-called Document 19 issued by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in 1982 have transformed into the current religious laws and policies under Xi Jinping. The post-Mao

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-opium-people-religious-politics-xi-jinping-era - 2025-12-01

SASNET announces two travel grants for Lund University students to the Centre for Research & Education for Social Transformation (CREST) in Kerala, India. These grants are dedicated for students on BA, MA or PhD level who are planning to do fieldwork in South Asia during 2017. The field work can be conducted elsewhere in the South Asia region, but the students should have CREST as their base and s

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/travel-grants-lund-university-students-crest-kerala - 2025-12-01

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lund-university-research-agenda-innovation-and-sustainability - 2025-12-02

One result of climate change is that spring is arriving earlier. However, migratory birds are not keeping up with these developments and arrive too late for the peak in food availability when it is time for breeding. By getting the birds to fly a little further north, researchers in Lund, Sweden, and the Netherlands have observed that these birds can give their chicks a better start in life. Globa

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/migratory-birds-can-be-taught-adjust-climate-change - 2025-12-01