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Collaboration, networking, career development, and wellbeing. Those are four examples of needs that the newly formed young MultiParkers working group will address. After organizing their first event, they are eager to start preparing for more events. During the pandemic, there has been an upbuild of need for social gathering and exchange of ideas and experiences. Especially young researchers who r

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/young-multiparkers-working-group-takes-shape - 2026-05-19

Receiving grants from the Swedish Research Council is viewed as a quality mark and one of the critical steps for young scientists to establish an independent research group. Last week, nine of MultiPark’s research leaders were awarded 31.6 million SEK for their projects. This year’s support from the Swedish Research Council encouraged MultiPark’s ambition to be a multidisciplinary research area. P

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/nine-multipark-scientists-granted-support-swedish-research-council - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jan Teorell has published a paper explaining election fraud historically in the case of Sweden, drawing on original data from second-instance election petitions filed in 1719–1908, "Partisanship and Unreformed Bureaucracy: The Drivers of Election Fraud in Sweden, 1719-1908". These petitions r

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-eighteenth-century-election-fraud-sweden - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Roxanna Sjöstedt has published the article "Securitization and Foreign Policy Analysis", in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Sjöstedt describes and reviews in this article the central assumptions of securitization theory in order to capture its applicability to the study of foreign p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-securitization-and-foreign-policy-analysis - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The notification of the date of the defence and "posting" of Per Andersson's thesis "Essays on the Politics of Taxation" was held today, Friday 5th May, at 3:15 pm in Eden's lobby.  The academic tradition of nailing ones thesis to a board ("spikning" in Swedish) means that the thesis is made available to the public, w

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anderssons-doctoral-thesis-posted - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Nina Wilén has written the article "The World Turned Away From Burundi, but Its Crisis Is Getting Worse” in World Politics Review. Learn more on worldpoliticsreview.comNina Wilén is a peace and conflict researcher who focuses on gender, security architecture and military intervention in Afric

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/world-turns-away-burundi-crisis-worsens - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Government investigations rely on unsubstantiated evidence in reports on extensive cheating in welfare systems for people with disabilities. Both current and former governments have based their assistance policies on public commissions that lack scientific basis. This is shown in a new report

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-report-unreliable-evidence-behind-accusations-cheating-personal-assistance - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. OUTREACH: Karin Aggestam gave a talk on gender and peace negotiations at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday 10th May. "Monash Gender, Peace & Security is a group of policy and community engaged scholars whose research is focused in the field of gender, peace and security. We seek to use our research

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-gender-and-peace-negotiations-monash-university-0 - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jan Teorell has published the article "Institutional stepping stones for democracy: how and why multipartyism enhances democratic change" which presents evidence in support of a more positive understanding of multipartyism and democracy. AbstractScholars of electoral authoritarianism and comp

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-even-fake-elections-can-hasten-democratic-change - 2026-05-19

Emil Ygland Rödström is defending his thesis on the 20th of November. His research is about clinical, genetical, and biochemical biomarkers for the prognosis of Parkinson’s disease patients. Here, he tells us more about the discoveries and his time as a Ph.D. student in the Clinical Neurogenetics group at MultiPark. What is your research about? My thesis work consists of two different parts. In th

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-emil-ygland - 2026-05-19

Presently many of Sweden’s 20,000 Parkinson’s patients are not receiving the treatment they need, and many of the most seriously ill receive incorrect or inappropriate therapy. With the new Manage PD tool and the PD Pal study, Per Odin, professor at Lund University and senior attending physician at Skåne University Hospital in Lund, hopes to be able to improve the care of Parkinson’s patients. Eve

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/faster-and-better-treatment-parkinsons-disease-manage-pd-tool - 2026-05-19

Three out of Lund University’s four most cited scientists are research leaders at MultiPark, according to Clarivate’s report for this year. The highly anticipated annual list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. Their names are drawn from the publications that ra

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/majority-most-cited-researchers-lund-university-belong-multipark - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jakob Skovgaard has published the article "The devil lies in the definition: competing approaches to fossil fuel subsidies at the IMF and the OECD” in the journal “International Environmental Agreements”. The article concerns how the IMF and the OECD have addressed subsidies to fossil fuels i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skoovgard-competing-approaches-fossil-fuel-subsidies - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl has together with Stephanie Kappler published the book Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation. Peace, Space and Place with Routledge. The book investigates peacebuilding in post-conflict scenarios by analyzing the links between peacebuilding agency, space and place. It focu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-investigates-peacebuilding-post-conflict-scenarios - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Reform Capacity argues that the view that an effective government requires a concentration of power is mistaken. Professor Johannes Lindvall recently published his new book Reform Capacity at Oxford University press.Reform Capacity argues that the view that an effective government requires a concentration of power is

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/reform-capacity-professor-johannes-lindvall - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Catarina Kinnvall, professor in Political Science and Political Psychology, has published the article "Racism and the Role of Imaginary Others in Europe" in Nature Human Behaviour. From Nature Human Behavior:Europe has witnessed an increase in covert cultural racism that is reflected in recent political turmoil in its

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-racism-and-imaginary-others - 2026-05-19

UNESCO has added the unique archive of 500 in-depth interviews with Holocaust survivors to the Memory of the World Register. It recognises the Ravensbrück Archive as an example of a cultural heritage of great value to humanity. The University Library manages this documentary heritage and keeps the archive protected and digitally accessible to all. On 10 April, UNESCO decided to add the Ravensbrück

https://www.ub.lu.se/en/article/ravensbruck-archive-receives-memory-world-status - 2026-05-19

The building that houses the University Library has been named the most beautiful in Lund and Sweden several times. After the renovation, we hope you feel that the inside of the building harmonises with the outside. See a glimpse of how it turned out here. The University Library boasts a stunning exterior. But the inside may not have been as impressive as the outside. We addressed this in the reno

https://www.ub.lu.se/en/article/renovated-library-awaits-you-autumn - 2026-05-19

The University Library is releasing a new search system for digitised card catalogues. Are you looking for royal decrees, occasional poetry, school books, or older newspapers? Then the search system will help you find them. We will digitise more card catalogues and add them as soon as we are ready. You can now use the Digitised card catalogues search system to find and request material. Feel free

https://www.ub.lu.se/en/article/new-search-system-card-catalogues - 2026-05-19

The libraries at Lund University are launching a new search system, making searching easier. LUBcat and LUBsearch will close on 1 October, and the new search tool Finn will replace them. With the shift to a single search system, the libraries aim to make it easier for students, staff, and other users.Finn helps you find all the books, journals, articles, and databases at Lund University. You can m

https://www.ub.lu.se/en/article/searching-becomes-easier-finn - 2026-05-19