Search results

Cold weather, dry air, an overactive immune system or our modern lifestyle. The causes may vary, but an increasing number of people are suffering from atopic eczema. In particular, children from higher socioeconomic backgrounds are at higher risk of developing the condition. However, there is help available and it is important to apply treatment early says Laura von Kobyletzki, a researcher at Lun

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/atopic-eczema-widespread-disease - 2026-06-11

The participants in the MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice have started their independent Work in the Field projects this Spring. The eight participants have partnered up with performing arts venues and will conduct artistic investigations, involving different communities and organizations in Malmö, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Prague, and the small island of Møn. They will be sharing their researc

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/work-field-students-ma-performing-arts-critical-practice - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The 24th European Conference on South Asian Studies – ECSAS 2016 was successfully held at the University of Warsaw, Poland from 27 to 30 July 2016. The biannual conference, organised by the European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS) was hosted by the Faculty of Oriental Studies at University of Warsaw. The c

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lars-eklund-reports-24th-european-conference-south-asian-studies-warsaw - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Today’s governance of Swedish higher education institutions is short-sighted, poorly coordinated and much too general and competitive. The separation of direct government funding between education and research has created unnatural boundaries and promoted a culture within academia that underestimates education in rela

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/combine-government-funding-research-and-education - 2026-06-11

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. The World Turned Upside Down: art and ethics in the rise of the Stone Age South During the spring semester 2017 the course The World Turned Upside Down: art and ethics in the rise of the Stone Age South initiated by professor Sarat Maharaj will take place at Malmö Art Academy.The start-up for the project is a recons

https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/kursstart-world-turned-upside-down - 2026-06-11

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Forsknings- och innovationspropositionen i sin helhet, Universitetsstyrelsen, tillfälliga studieplatser, Lund University Experience, Japanresa, LERU-möte, professorsinstallation, ett rosa Universitetshus, SUHF:s årskonferens och förbundsförsamling och KA Wallenbergs huvudmannaråds möte är några av punkterna i detta

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-15-oktober - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On Tuesday 21 February 2017, 15.30-17.00 Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi will hold a lecture entitled: "Breaking The Cycle of Hate" in the seminar room at the Center for Middle Eastern studies (Finngatan 16). The lecture is jointly organized by The Center for Middle Eastern studies and SASNET. We live in an increasingly polarise

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetcmes-lecture-counter-extremism-pakistan - 2026-06-11

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Institutionens Maja Sager öppnade en workshop arrangerad av Marburg universitet, den 23- 25 maj med titeln: Blurring boundaries? Re-articulations of anti/feminism in the context of right wing mobilizations in Europe. Under workshopen diskuterades den aktuella situationen i Sverige, Grekland, Tyskland, Turkiet, Polen

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/sager-om-mobiliserandet-av-anti-gender-kampanjer-i-europa - 2026-06-11

What are your thoughts on death? How would you like to spend your last days? These kinds of existential questions are explored at so-called death cafés - gatherings that Jamie Woodworth began organising before she was 25, as a way of dealing with her anxiety about climate change. Now she has been awarded an honourable mention for her doctoral thesis on end-of-life care in the Swedish welfare state

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/when-care-becomes-luxury-jamie-woodworth-end-life-care-swedish-welfare-state - 2026-06-11

Researchers at Lund University have discovered how a hidden piece of DNA, known as a transposable element, disrupts normal gene function in a disease called X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism (XDP). Published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, their findings uncover the epigenetic processes that lead to changes in gene expression linked to XDP, offering new insights into how this rare genetic

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/how-hidden-genetic-elements-trigger-rare-disorder - 2026-06-11

Sustainability Week is an annual event where Lund University and the Lund Municipality invite you to participate in sustainability activities. It is a week full of discussions and lectures, serious issues and hopeful visions for the future. Here you can find all the events of the week with participants from the Centre for Environment and Climate Science. Monday 8 April - Friday 12 AprilSearching f

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/our-events-sustainability-week-lund-2024 - 2026-06-11

Armin Tavakoli, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Physics at Lund University and researcher at the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology (WACQT), has been appointed associate editor for Physical Review Letters (PRL) – one of the world’s most prestigious journals in physics. 'It’s an honour to take on this role,' says Tavakoli. “PRL holds a unique position in the physics community,

https://www.science.lu.se/article/lund-physicist-appointed-associate-editor-physical-review-letters - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Karin Steen, researcher at LUCSUS, has been appointed as the new Director of Studies for LUMES (International Master Programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science). What will your role as Director of Studies for LUMES entail?I am responsible for leading the work with the master programme both in everyd

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/meet-new-director-studies-lumes-karin-steen - 2026-06-11

Change brings development and is a part of life. Sara Novakov has guided LUSEM through changes while maintaining continuity since 2007, but this fall, she will be retiring. Sara joined LUSEM in 2007, having already been employed at the university since 1994, including working as an internal auditor. Coming to a faculty full of economists as an economist herself has worked well, she says with a smi

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lusems-very-own-head-finance-retiring-what-happens-now - 2026-06-11

Armin Tavakoli, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Physics at Lund University and researcher at the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology (WACQT), has been appointed associate editor for Physical Review Letters (PRL) – one of the world’s most prestigious journals in physics. 'It’s an honour to take on this role,' says Tavakoli. “PRL holds a unique position in the physics community,

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/lund-physicist-appointed-associate-editor-physical-review-letters - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Centre for Chinese and South East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in collaboration with Banaras Hindu University (BHU) is holding an International Conference on Changing World Order: India and China in Contemporary Times 14-15 April 2017. Conference Venue: JNU, New Delhi, India. The aim of the two day

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/international-conference-india-and-china-contemporary-times - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. "The following include some of the most innovative approaches to Islamic State to date, and promise a wave of fresh voices on one of the most important challenges to global order." Daesh media production is complex, multifaceted, and is arguably a representational microcosm of the organization as a whole. Claiming uni

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/where-media-meets-statecraft-daesh-promotion-governmental-competence-through-its-media-new-essay - 2026-06-11

Biologists Michael Bok and Cecilia Nilsson have been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant to further study how not to disrupt animal flight and the evolution of eyesight. Michael Bok, researcher, Lund Vision GroupCan you describe your research?I study the evolution of eyes and visual systems. This new grant attempts to discover how advanced visual abilities like colour and polarisation v

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/lund-university-researchers-awarded-major-eu-grant - 2026-06-11

Moonlight determines when the red-necked nightjar feeds, migrates and raises its young. A groundbreaking long-term study from Lund University shows how the migratory bird’s entire annual cycle follows the moon’s rhythm. … the lovely, melancholy moonlight, which makes the birds dream in the trees…The French poet Paul Verlaine was seemingly wrong in his famous poem Clair de Lune. Moonlight does not

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/nocturnal-migratory-birds-follow-rhythm-moon - 2026-06-11

Ice sheets, snow and the ocean as far as the eye can see. No shipping vessels or people in sight, and only polar bears for company. The icebreaker Oden sails between Svalbard and Greenland, and this spring, doctoral student Lovisa Nilsson joined the ship to study the transition from winter to summer in the Arctic, and how soot affects the melting of sea ice. For six weeks, the spaces onboard Oden

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/polar-bears-company - 2026-06-12