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She is a new ‘Hedda’ professor, but has a long career behind her. Biologist Ellen van Donk now hopes that she can serve as a role model for female students who dream of a future career in research. Biologist Ellen van Donk is a new professor in Hedda Andersson’s name. LUM meets ecology researcher Ellen van Donk on a beautiful summer’s day. She comes from the Netherlands and is in excellent spirits

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-professor-wants-be-role-model-female-students - 2025-12-19

Many people in Sweden do not know that they are entitled legal help through their household insurance. Doctor Isabel Schoultz reviews legal aid in Sweden in a chapter for the book Legal aid in the Nordic countries, edited by Olaf Halvorsen Rønning and Ole Hammerslev, available online as an open-access source. Today, Sweden has a combination of public and private cover for legal expenses in civil c

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/many-unaware-their-right-legal-help - 2025-12-19

On 19-21 April 2017, the British Association of South Asian Studies (BASAS) will hold its annual conference in Nottingham. The conference is hosted by Nottingham University’s Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies (IAPS) and Nottingham Trent University’s Postcolonial Studies Centre. The keynote speaker is Urvashi Butalia, sponsored by IAPS. Panel and paper submissions are now invited. This year the

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/basas-annual-conference-2017-nottingham - 2025-12-19

European complementologists have joined forces and created CORVOS. A highly coordinated and innovative research and training program for early stage researchers in immunology and infectious diseases. Lund University is a part of the initiative. The major aims of CORVOS are the discovery of therapeutic ways to support or inhibit the action of complement and to interfere with its abuse by pathogens

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/corvos-european-joint-doctorate-programme-immunology - 2025-12-19

Marion von Osten, who recieved her doctorate with 'In The Making: Traversing the project exhibition In the Desert of Modernity. Colonial Planning and After' at Malmö Art Academy 2018, tragically died of cancer last weekend. Her colleagues in the doctoral student group and her supervisors have written a few words of remembrance for Marion. Read below: With deep sadness we mourn the passing of our d

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/remembering-marion-von-osten - 2025-12-19

Last year he was teacher of the year at LUSEM and now Björn Svensson is recognized by the university as a whole, alongside Per Carlsson at the department of Biology “Honestly I didn’t even know about the nomination until the day before the announcement that I would receive the prize. It’s a pretty big surprise and I am very happy and honored. I mean it’s always nice when you get recognition for yo

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-teacher-awarded-lund-students-prize-excellence-teaching-2025 - 2025-12-20

Olof Skoog, EU Special Representative for Human Rights, has been named the 2024 annual Anna Lindh speaker. On 19 November, he will present “Strategy of Human Rights” Time and place: 19 November 2024, at 18:00, University Auditorium, Main University Building, Paradisgatan 2, LundThe lecture is open to the public and will be held in English. No registration is required.Read more in the calender: Ann

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/anna-lindh-lecture-olof-skoog-strategy-human-rights - 2025-12-20

A growing movement is fighting to protect the winter pasturelands of indigenous Sámi reindeer herders. At the same time there is an intense debate on trade-offs within forestry. Sustainability scientist David Harnesk is studying social and political movements surrounding reindeer husbandry and how these are affected by economy, ecology, and climate change. The Sámi are a diverse and indigenous peo

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/historical-perspectives-and-mobilization-important-future-reindeer-winter-pastures - 2025-12-19

There is growing evidence that Western welfare standards are not generalizable to the rest of the planet if environmental concerns, such as resource depletion or climate change, are considered. A new interdisciplinary anthology by researchers from Lund University raises the question of what is required to make welfare societies ecologically sustainable. Oksana Mont, professor at The International

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-reach-ecologically-sustainable-welfare-societies - 2025-12-20

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hello-there - 2025-12-19

A groundbreaking study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the Australian Bogong moth uses the stars and the Milky Way as a compass during its annual 1,000-kilometre journey to cool inland caves. It also reveals that the Earth’s magnetic field plays an important role in the enigmatic moth’s navigation. It is absolutely amazing considering the length of the journey. It’s the equivalent of a h

https://www.science.lu.se/article/moths-use-stars-and-earths-magnetic-field-compass - 2025-12-19

Shafqat Ahmad is one of the recipients of the Rising Star Award during the European diabetes conference EASD in Barcelona starting next week. In his work he hopes to identify if dietary meat intake associates with type 2 diabetes risk. - If yes, then we will try to find the dietary meat associated causal biomarkers for type 2 diabetes risk, which hopefully will be used in clinic for type 2 diabete

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/easd-does-dietary-red-and-processed-meat-intake-associate-type-2-diabetes-risk - 2025-12-19

Electrotherapy using injectable nanoparticles delivered directly into the tumour could pave the way for new treatment options for glioblastoma, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. Glioblastoma is the most common and most aggressive form of brain tumour among adults. Even with intensive treatment, the average survival period is 15 months. The tumour has a high genetic variation

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/electrotherapy-offers-hope-glioblastoma-treatment - 2025-12-19

The annual report for 2023 has now been finalised and submitted to the Government. It reports that the University continues to develop positively, with lots of reasons to be cheerful. The annual report summarises the University's activities with a complete set of figures and reports on the remit and achievement of objectives. The year 2023 saw the University receive its first Nobel Prize through A

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/annual-report-2023-now-complete - 2025-12-20

The North East India Studies Programme at Jawaharlal Nehru University, will hold a conference 1-2 February 2018 in New Delhi, India. The conference theme is: "Between Empires: The making and unmaking of borders, 19th- 20th centuries". The last date of abstract submission is 15 July, 2017. The idea of frontiers, borders and borderlands have historically constituted important elements of state-makin

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-making-and-unmaking-borders - 2025-12-19

The 14th of October Micol Mieli defended her doctorate dissertation, Smartphoned Tourists in the Phygital Tourist Experience. The thesis explores the smartphones role in the tourist experience, how the experience become phygital (both physical and digital) and the concept of planned serendipity. About the thesis The thesis aim is to explore the smartphones role in the tourist experience, in partic

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-thesis-regarding-phygital-tourist-experience - 2025-12-19

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/developing-swedish-national-strategy-disaster-risk-reduction-new-lucsus-research-project - 2025-12-19

We are very happy to announce that Prof. Martin L Olsson and the Transfusion Medicine research group have joined Lund Stem Cell Center. Martin L Olsson is Professor of Transfusion Medicine at the Division of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine at Lund University, a Consultant at the Department of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, and Medical Director for the Nordic Reference Laboratory

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/professor-martin-l-olsson-joins-lund-stem-cell-center - 2025-12-19

Increasing digitalisation and computerisation can lead to socio-legal governance problems and a dominating artificial intelligence. The Research Handbook on the Sociology of Law is here. Thirty-five authors have contributed to the book’s 30 chapters, covering historical, theoretical and methodological aspects of the socio-legal field. One of them is the Sociology of Law Department’s Professor Emer

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/we-need-sociology-algorithms - 2025-12-19

Last year he was teacher of the year at LUSEM and now Björn Svensson is recognized by the university as a whole, alongside Per Carlsson at the department of Biology “Honestly I didn’t even know about the nomination until the day before the announcement that I would receive the prize. It’s a pretty big surprise and I am very happy and honored. I mean it’s always nice when you get recognition for yo

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lusem-teacher-awarded-lund-students-prize-excellence-teaching-2025 - 2025-12-19