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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Urban sharing of assets, spaces and skills has emerged as a promising future solution to sustainability challenges faced by cities. It is also the subject of a new project by Oksana Mont, professor in sustainable consumption and production at IIIEE, who recently received the Swedish Foundations’ Starting Grant – a new

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/urban-sharing-promising-future-solution-sustainability-challenges-cities - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Karin Stenkula, Emily Sonestedt and Sebastian Kalamajski have received grants from the The Bo and Kerstin Hjelt Diabetes Foundation. Read about their research projects here. Karin Stenkula, Lund University Diabetes Centre:EHD2: a novel candidate essential for lipid transport and overall glucose homeostasisObesity is o

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/hjelt-foundations-grant-holders-2020 - 2026-05-27

Laura Elo at University of Turku is awarded the Leif C. Groop Award for outstanding research on type 1 diabetes. The mathematician from Finland has developed methods which have helped increase the understanding of how type 1 diabetes develops at molecular level. She hopes her research will help prevent and delay the progression of the disease and individualise the treatment of type 1 diabetes. Jus

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/laura-elo-awarded-leif-c-groop-award-outstanding-research-type-1-diabetes - 2026-05-27

When the late summer sun falls over Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains, the slopes turn purple with blooming heather. Honeybees are moved to the heathlands for the sought-after heather honey, but their presence affects wild bumblebees. An Irish-Swedish research team has shown in a new study that wild bumblebees change their behaviour and are smaller in size when the number of beehives increases. The rese

https://www.science.lu.se/article/honeybees-crowd-out-bumblebees-even-flower-rich-heathlands - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has announced 29 new Wallenberg Academy Fellows. Jan Marcus Dahlström from Lund University is one of them. The Wallenberg Academy Fellowship is a five-year grant that provides the young researchers with opportunities to make important scientific breakthroughs by providing long-

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/jan-marcus-dahlstrom-becomes-wallenberg-academy-fellow - 2026-05-27

Immune Thrombocytopenia, ITP, is an autoimmune bleeding disorder that is still treated with immunosuppressive drugs that cause serious side effects. Professor John Semple’s laboratory studies the pathophysiological mechanisms behind this disease and together with Dr. Drew Provan, London, UK, has recently published the newest ideas on pathological mechanisms and therapies for the treatment and mana

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-therapies-itp - 2026-05-27

CMES director Ronny Berndtsson at the Division of Water Resources Engineering has cowritten a publication on Salinity–Chloride Interaction Effects on Novel Citrus Combinations Under Various Field Conditions. Read the article here (external link).Citrus production is increasingly constrained worldwide by rising soil salinity, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. In Tunisia, the expansion of

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/salinity-chloride-interaction-effects - 2026-05-27

In a study, researchers have investigated whether pain neuroscience education in combination with neuromuscular exercise gives better effect than pain neuroscience education alone for people with chronic pain after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) surgeries. On several occasions, the Arthritis Portal has written about both knee prosthesis surgeries and other treatment options for those affected by os

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/chronic-pain-after-total-knee-arthroplasty - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Governing the sharing economy: Towards a comprehensive analytical framework of municipal governance Sharing and the City researcher Associate Professor Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and Principal investigator of Urban Sharing project Professor Oksana Mont, together with the IIIEE aluma Simo Sulkakoski, have recently publishe

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-article-yuliya-voytenko-palgan-and-oksana-mont - 2026-05-27

The Campus Development Office is working to produce the University’s Campus Plan through external monitoring, meetings and workshops with the organisation. The fundamental aim of work on the Campus Plan is to identify the University’s interests and the important things to provide. All the faculties have had representatives at the workshops. So far, three thematic workshops have been organised, foc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/work-campus-plan-continues - 2026-05-28

Last year Max Liljefors, professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, applied for seed money to develop an idea for a course with colleagues from one of the EUGLOH universities. The course, entitled “Arts and Creative Health and Wellbeing”, focuses on how the arts can be used in healthcare and how the arts affect our health. “When I saw that it was

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/idea-course-development-help-seed-money - 2026-05-28

The vegetation in Europe has not always looked like it does today. Just as the ice sheet retreated in northern Europe and the population increased, man began to affect the landscape to a greater extent by deforestation. At first on a small scale to facilitate hunting, for example, and then more systematically to make way for agriculture. A new study shows that one of the consequences was changes i

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/deforestation-changed-climate-europe-during-bronze-age - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. It could have been a Friday the 13th disaster, but Henrik Möller managed to dodge all bad luck and successfully defended his doctoral thesis ”SPECTRAL MATTER: Materiality, Economy, and Culture of Burmese Jade in Contemporary China” on December 13. Henrik Möller states that his research project “examines intersections

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/henrik-moller-defends-his-doctoral-thesis - 2026-05-27

The Master's programme in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management (MESPOM) is delivered in cooperation with 3 European and 2 North American universities, enabling the students to study different aspects of sustainability in different cultural and academic contexts. MESPOM applications for the 2025-2027 study period are open. Since 2005, MESPOM has prepared its students for solving complex en

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mespom-applications-year-2025-2027-are-open-now - 2026-05-27

CMES scholar Rola El-Husseini Dean has received a sabbatical grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Rola will use the sabbatical to complete her book manuscript Performing Gender Equality: Arab State Feminism and the Sectarian Exception. In this book, she argues that most Arab governments instrumentalize women’s rights to show the West their adoption of gender-equality norms. She studies the link b

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/rola-el-husseini-dean-receives-sabbatical-grant - 2026-05-27

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/nocturnal-pollinators-just-important-their-daytime-colleagues - 2026-05-27

Award winners 2022 - Mats Lundqvist and Karen Williams Middleton at Chalmers University in Sweden This year the award goes to Professor Mats Lundqvist and Associate Professor Karen Williams Middleton at Chalmers University in Sweden.The award committee’s citationProfessor Mats Lundqvist and Associate Professor Karen Williams Middleton at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden are both key act

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/european-entrepreneurship-education-award-2022 - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Erika Andersson Cederholm at the Department of Service Management and Service Studies has just published the book "Hidden Attractions of Administration: The Peculiar Appeal of Meetings and Documents" together with Malin Åkerström, Katarina Jacobsson och David Wästerfors. The book is a study of how meetings, documentat

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-book-about-hidden-attractions-administration - 2026-05-27

Isabel Bramsen has published a new chapter on the role of emotions and emotional energy in conflict, repression and violence in The Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations. AbstractEmotions play a significant role in shaping human interaction, not least in the context of conflict and violence. This chapter delves into the intricate interplay between emotional energy, protest, repres

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-role-emotions-and-emotional-energy-conflict-repression-and-violence - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The 45th Annual Madison Conference on South Asia was held 20–23 October 2016. This year's theme was DECAY. The conference, sponsored by the Center for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this year attracted over 750 scholars and specialists on South Asia, coming from countries all over the world and muc

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lars-eklund-reports-45th-madison-south-asian-studies-conference - 2026-05-27