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Production for the textile and fashion industry can, for many countries, represent a first step out of poverty. But what does this mean for those who work in the sector, and what happens when even poorer countries begin to compete by paying even lower wages for the seamstresses in the factories? Linn Ternsjö has studied the clothing manufacturing industry in Mauritius from a sustainability perspec
Climate research in the Arctic is being hit hard as collaboration with Russian researchers is put on ice. “It’s impossible to get an overall picture of the Arctic without looking at Russia. If this becomes permanent, we will be thrown back 20 years,” says Margareta Johansson, who leads the unique research project INTERACT, which incorporates researchers from all eight Arctic countries. Margareta J
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/negative-impact-arctic-research-russia-excluded - 2026-06-12
Committed, curious and eager to take action. The students who apply to Lund University's master's programs in sustainability are distinguished by their genuine drive to change the world. Pioneers and forerunners: this is how the master's programmes EMP (Master's Programme in Environmental Management and Policy) and LUMES (Master's Programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science) can
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-lunds-international-sustainability-master-programmes-shape-change-leaders-future - 2026-06-12
Choosing what to study is not always easy. Mohamad, a student on the Swedish Bachelor’s Programme in Business and Economics (Ekonomie kandidatprogrammet) at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), recommends exploring the subjects included in the programme and the opportunities to specialise in the areas you find most interesting. Mohamad became interested in business administr
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/natural-science-business-administration-mohamad-found-his-path-lusem - 2026-06-12
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The repeated sniffing by presidential candidate Donald Trump in the first presidential debate on 25th September 2016, lead to a Twitter-storm and intensive media interest regarding his health. Lisa Flower, PhD candidate in sociology at the Department of Sociology at Lund University, however provides an alternative exp
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/what-donald-trump-really-revealing-trumpsniffles - 2026-06-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The archaeology team gets up with the sun at five o’clock each morning. They then work for seven hours under the burning sun in the middle of nowhere in Egypt’s desert landscape among venomous scorpions and lizards. They only stop work for lunch and a typical Egyptian chai tea break. “The most common danger is sunstro
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leading-archaeological-super-team-banks-nile - 2026-06-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. He began by renting out his sofa, then gave his blessing to a military tent on the LTH campus and later made it possible to transport and erect prefabricated housing from China. Vice-Chancellor Per Eriksson has done a lot to highlight the shortage of student accommodation, and last year ended in a triumph for housing
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellors-perseverance-pays-student-housing - 2026-06-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The first time she came to Lund, Rafah Barhoum only stayed for a couple of months. It was 2011 and she was an Erasmus Mundus scholar and taught Arabic. She returned home to Syria, but the war soon drove her back. Now Rafah Barhoum has come to Lund to stay. Rafah Barhoum is happy in Lund, where she teaches Arabic, but
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/i-hold-syria-my-heart - 2026-06-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lisa graduated from the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy this summer. Now she's a PhD student at the IIIEE, doing research on circular business model innovation and its implementation in the Swedish manufacturing industry. Hej Lisa! Tell us something about yourself and what you’re working with
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-our-new-phd-student-lisa-heldt - 2026-06-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Kidney exchange, refugee placements and choosing schools. Separate things but with the common denominator that, with digitalisation's new tools, it is possible to save both time and money – and to save lives. "I don't like it when I see things that are wrong which research could solve. Then it is up to me to take my
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/algorithm-maker-saving-lives - 2026-06-11
The Pufendorf institute celebrates 15 years as an Institute for Advanced Study and many interdisciplinary groups have been at here and experienced the value of thinking and working together across disciplinary boundaries. We are happy to see that Pufendorf collaborations have continued and that several have received external funding for large interdisciplinary projects based on the work done here
https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/our-alumni-are-golden-and-deserve-bonus - 2026-06-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Join us for a digital seminar on the occasion of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's 100th anniversary, post-colonial leader and the founder of Bangladesh. Register here to attend the Zoom Webinar.The speakers will also present Anisur Rahman's book Jag är Sheikh Mujib. Bengali-Swedish author Rahman's epic monologue I
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/upcoming-seminar-sheikh-mujib-icon-postcolonial-liberation - 2026-06-11
Professor Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi (University of Oslo) visited CMES for a research seminar on Iran's mothers of "martyrs". What does mothering and grieving mean to those who mother not just on the margins but to those who are pressured, forced and/or assumed to speak and embrace the language of martyrdom in times of sorrow? On March 10, during a CMES Research Seminar, Professor Kristin Soray
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-research-seminar-irans-mothers-martyrs-public-dissent-times-sorrow - 2026-06-11
NanoLund researchers Björn Annby-Andersson and Peter Samuelsson have developed a “master equation” that will help engineers understand feedback at the quantum scale. Many everyday technologies make use of feedback control routinely in order to manage operations of devices and processes. But physicists do not yet have an equivalent understanding of feedback control at the quantum level. Annby-Ande
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/master-equation-boost-quantum-technologies - 2026-06-11
