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On Friday, 21 October, Oriana Quaglietta Bernal successfully defended her doctoral thesis, "In Her Words: Women's Accounts of Managing Drug-related Risk, Pleasure, and Stigma in Sweden". For the past five years, Oriana Quaglietta Bernal studied why women in Sweden start, continue, and sometimes stop using drugs. Her thesis explores female drug experiences and what they mean to the users; how users

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/oriana-quaglietta-bernal-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2025-11-29

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/three-doctoral-thesis-defences-1-week - 2025-11-29

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/driving-sustainability-change-times-restriction - 2025-11-29

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/copenhagen-adi-conference-2017 - 2025-11-29

Future Week has become Future Days. It will continue to showcase innovative research with focus on the big questions of the future. The popular science programme will now be formed around the pioneering visions of researchers and teaching staff from all the University’s faculties. For the past three years, Lund University’s Future Week has presented ground-breaking research; research that has its

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/future-days-2022-future-week-new-guise - 2025-11-30

Take part with your colleagues in the Lundaloppet fun run. As usual, Lund University will pay the registration fee on behalf of employees. You can choose between the regular Lundaloppet, which takes place on 4 May, or the Gold Package. Lundaloppet, Skåne’s biggest fun run, brings together people of all ages to run or walk. You can choose between three distances: 2.5km, 5km or 10km.“It is great tha

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/take-part-lundaloppet-fun-run-4-may - 2025-11-30

Ethnologist Susanne Lundin’s research is ultimately about life and death and how people relate to the inevitable. What are people willing to do to delay the end briefly? Is there a limit beyond which someone ceases to be human? Susanne Lundin is a professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences and has conducted interdisciplinary research with medics for 30 years. Today, she is a sought-

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/her-research-concerns-our-deepest-fears - 2025-11-30

Somewhere in an abandoned chalk quarry in northeastern Skåne lurks the skeleton of an 84 million-year-old dinosaur. A group of geologists is convinced of it. Now that a number of teeth have been found, the treasure hunt has intensified. The September sun blazes over the extensive chalk quarry outside the Skåne village of Vinslöv. On a little ledge near a bright blue pond stand two geology research

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hunt-missing-dinosaur - 2025-11-30

The EAT-Lancet diet is a framework designed to promote environmental sustainability while also preventing common diseases such as type 2 diabetes. How do we know if the diet actually works? An international research team studied seven dietary scores and found that two of them were particularly good at evaluating adherence to the diet. Reliable diet scores are important when developing sustainable

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/research-paves-way-sustainable-dietary-recommendations - 2025-11-29

Lund researchers have every reason to be proud regarding competition for EU grants. LU is the best in Sweden in terms of total funding and in the top three with the Karolinska Institute (KI) and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) regarding the number of participations in different projects.  “We have the most ERC grants in Sweden, and within the humanities and social sciences there are special ef

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-top-eu-league-best-sweden-obtaining-grants - 2025-11-29

Fifty per cent of all pregnant women in need of a C-section are unable to get one. Most people around the world still do not have access to safe surgery, resulting in millions of deaths and disabilities each year. As a paediatric surgeon, Lars Hagander wanted to find ways to help, and has travelled the world to perform surgery. But, of course, this is not enough. A major change is needed. Seibatu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lack-surgeons-threat-global-health - 2025-11-29

Här är en lista över forskare från Lunds universitet som kan svara på många olika slags frågor som kan bli aktuella under de stundande helgerna, från A till Ö. God jul! önskar Lunds universitet AAdvent, jul och trettondag: historia, teologi och praktikStephan Borgehammar, professor i praktisk teologi, kan svara på frågor om uppkomsten och innebörden av det kristna jul- och trettondagsfirandet, adv

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-julexperter-2016 - 2025-11-30

Corn starch, with elements of heavy metals, powdered brick, amphetamines, ink, wall paint or furniture polish. This is what can be found in falsified medicines, a market currently considered more profitable than that of drug crime. Professor of Ethnology Susanne Lundin. Photo: Kennet Ruona Some defective medicines were authentic to begin with, but have been wrongly stored or have expired. If they

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/industry-worth-billions-puts-lives-risk - 2025-11-29

The digital platform Child Rights Online has now been launched in 14 countries and will provide teachers and aspiring teachers with a better understanding of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to offer children and young people a more inclusive and equal schooling. In recent years, the Child Rights Institute at Lund University has worked with the international digital platform Global Child

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/better-knowledge-child-rights-when-14-countries-contribute-digital-platform - 2025-11-29

CMES Deputy Director has co-authored an article on agricultural water in Iran published in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Large discrepancy between future demand and supply of agricultural water in northwestern Iran; evidence from WEAP-MODFLOW-machine learning under the CMIP6 scenario" together with Mostafa Rahimi Jamnan

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/agricultural-water-iran-0 - 2025-11-29

Having a workforce with the right skills is crucial for companies and society to tackle current and future challenges successfully. In our rapidly changing world, the ability to develop and adapt skills is more critical than ever, especially in today's knowledge-driven society. This is particularly true for the retail sector, which employs about one in ten workers in Sweden. Ongoing digital and st

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/workforce-right-skills - 2025-11-29

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is awarding SEK 700 million to 23 innovative basic research projects at Swedish universities. Four of them are based in Lund – and two are connected to NanoLund. Sara Linse will study disease-preventing proteins – and Mathieu Gisselbrecht will study the quantum mechanical phenomenon entanglement. This year, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is awardi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/disease-preventing-proteins-and-more-temperature-resistant-quantum-computers - 2025-11-29

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/strategies-socially-and-environmentally-sustainable-futures-urgent-challenges-and-emerging - 2025-11-29

A new study may have uncovered why wall lizards have become the most successful reptile in the Mediterranean region. The results reveal how drastic changes in sea levels and climate 6 million years ago affected species formation in the area. The researchers believe they can now explain why the lizards became so diverse and widespread, something that has puzzled biologists since the 19th century. T

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/new-species-formed-when-mediterranean-dried - 2025-11-29

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/alumni-johnny-hoglund - 2025-11-29