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This winter SWEAH PhD student, Isabelle von Saenger, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, visited the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University, USA. Thanks to a travel grant from SWEAH she could share her research and learn from other researchers.– I learned more about the impact of sleep on the health of the older adults, that there are specific guidel

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/traveling-and-changing-perspectives-best-energy-boost - 2026-06-25

Insects have difficulties handling the higher temperatures brought on by climate change, and might risk overheating. The ability to reproduce is also strongly affected by rising temperatures, even in northern areas of the world, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. Insects cannot regulate their own body temperature, which is instead strongly influenced by the temperature in the

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/high-temperatures-threaten-survival-insects - 2026-06-25

The international news platform The Conversation is an alternative way for researchers to reach out in the media. We'll tell you how. The Conversation is a politically independent, non-profit international news site with readership on par with The Guardian and The New York Times (140 million reads in 2022). Lund University is a member of the platform, which gives researchers here a chance to inter

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/5-reasons-researchers-publish-conversation-workshops-94-25 - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Many patients seeking treatment for chronic hip and groin pain are referred to an orthopaedic surgeon. Physiotherapist Anders Pålsson’s doctoral thesis from Lund University shows that these patients perceive a low quality of life and have low physical functioning. If their pain can be pinpointed and diagnosed at an ea

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/earlier-diagnosis-shortens-queues-orthopaedics - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-06-25

Hello there, Björn Ekman and Jesper Sundewall! You’re both researchers in social medicine and global health at Lund University, and now you’ve been granted SEK 600,000 from the Expert Group for Aid Studies to study the effects of global health development aid. What are you going to do within the context of your research project? – We will analyse global development assistance in the area of sexual

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/research-projects-will-examine-effects-development-assistance-sexual-and-reproductive-health-and - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Graduate School together with CMES offers courses in Modern Standard Arabic and Persian, which are open to all Graduate School students. The courses are not credit bearing but you do receive a certificate at the end of each voluntary course.Courses in Modern Standard ArabicArabic is a sematic language and it is one of

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/language-courses-arabic-and-persian - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Infant mortality in Malawi is among the highest in the world. In a new EU-funded project, researchers from Lund, Cork and Oxford will develop new mobile technology to help health care staff in the country diagnose and treat serious diseases earlier and more effectively. In rural Malawi, aid organisations’ health care

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mobile-will-save-childrens-lives-malawi - 2026-06-25

Magdalena Götz, a professor of physiology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, held the prestigious Segerfalk lecture last year. The discovery she made as a young researcher started the new field of direct reprogramming to replace degenerated neurons. Magdalena Götz was about to start her lab and was in the process of conducting a control experiment. What she observed was unexpected. Rather

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/control-experiment-transformed-entire-research-field - 2026-06-25

Professorn i socialt arbete Mimi Abramovitz samt professorn i politisk psykologi Leonie Huddy har utsetts till hedersdoktorer vid Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten vid Lunds universitet. Den 26 maj promoveras de i Lunds domkyrka. Mimi Abramovitz innehar idag Bertha Capen Reynolds professur i Socialt arbete vid Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, vid City University of New York. Hennes

https://www.lu.se/artikel/en-expert-pa-amerikansk-patriotism-och-en-valfardsforskare-utses-till-hedersdoktorer - 2026-06-26

Professorn i socialt arbete Mimi Abramovitz samt professorn i politisk psykologi Leonie Huddy har utsetts till hedersdoktorer vid Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten vid Lunds universitet. Den 26 maj promoveras de i Lunds domkyrka. Mimi Abramovitz är idag verksam vid City University of New York. Hennes akademiska arbete har enligt Samhällsvetenskapliga fakultetens motivering fått ett stort genomslag

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/en-expert-pa-amerikansk-patriotism-och-en-valfardsforskare-utses-till-hedersdoktorer - 2026-06-25

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Färre antal läkarbesök, lägre andel personer som kommer till akutmottagningen ”i onödan” och mindre hjälp av anhöriga i hemmet. Det är resultatet av ett forskningsprojekt vid Lunds universitet där sjuksköterskan och doktoranden Magnus Sandberg, har undersökt effekterna av en modell, så kallad Case management, för sk

https://www.lu.se/artikel/samordnad-vard-ger-farre-lakarbesok - 2026-06-26

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 - 2026-06-25

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Diabetessjukdomarna har haft många namn. Från de som fanns innan insulinbehandling introducerades, sjukdomen beskrevs då som en mild form, en svårartad och en farlig till dagens mångfald av olika diabetessjukdomar. Den alltmer brokiga bilden är ett resultat av de växande insikterna om orsaken till sjukdomen och om v

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/en-allt-mer-komplex-karta-av-diabetesformer - 2026-06-25

Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift recently published a special issue on the Middle East after twenty years of the war on terror with contributions from CMES researchers Lina Eklund, Isabell Schierenbeck, Karin Aggestam, Linda Eitrem Holmgren, and Lisa Strömbom. The special issue was edited by Anders Persson and includes the following articles written (in Swedish) by CMES researchers and affiliated resea

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-and-20-years-war-terror - 2026-06-25

Varför gör människor motstånd mot åtgärder som ska skydda dem mot klimatrisker? Denna fråga utforskas i en studie från Lunds universitet som kartlägger var, och i vilka sammanhang, olika grupper motsätter sig klimatanpassningar. – Klimatanpassning ses alltmer som något nödvändigt och bra, där brist på pengar eller kapacitet är det enda hindret för framgångsrika lösningar. Människor som inte vill m

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/global-kartlaggning-av-motstand-mot-klimatanpassning - 2026-06-25

This spring, LU is launching a joint faculty initiative to further train already established research supervisors. They constitute a hitherto forgotten group when it comes to professional development according to Maria Stanfors, vice chair of the Research Programmes Board (Swedish abbreviation FUN) and the person leading the project. “Over the years, there has been a lot of focus on doctoral stude

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/overlooked-supervisors-receive-further-training - 2026-06-26

Since 24 February, nothing has been the same for Ukrainian researchers. In this urgent situation, MultiPark has offered some of them a sanctuary. They are eager to share their thoughts about how we may all contribute to this period to be as constructive as possible, despite the threatening circumstances. It is impossible not to be touched by the horrible situation for the Ukrainian people. As a re

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/multipark-provides-safe-places-ukrainian-researchers - 2026-06-25

A large-scale faeces and blood sample study indicates strong associations between gut bacteria and metabolites in the blood. Among other findings, the research team behind the study has identified new associations between a common type 2 diabetes drug and the gut microbiome. The study was led by researchers at Uppsala University and Lund University. The role of the gut microbiome in disease and he

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/gut-microbiome-research-indicates-new-bacteria-and-metformin-associations - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. By analysing the growth rings from trees that are several thousand years old, preserved in peat bogs, geologist Johannes Edvardsson is creating a unique timeline of Sweden’s historical climate. The buried time capsules also hold clues that could help us to better understand how our forests will be affected by future c

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chainsaw-geologist-studies-historical-climate-change-growth-rings - 2026-06-25