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Around the world, coastal communities are exposed to the impacts of climate change, for example sea level rise and coastal erosion. But local governments are often politically and economically constrained in their abilities to implement timely and needed adaptation measures. These constraints can restrict adaptation options to practices that are too little and too late, or even result in measures

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-story-connecting-theory-and-practice-overcome-barriers-adaptation - 2025-12-22

Niels Grarup, Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen, will recieve the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research. In his research, he has shown, among other things, that there is a genetic explanation for the increase in type 2 diabetes in Greenland. The prize, worth SEK 100 000, is sponsored by the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordis

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/award-research-gene-increases-risk-type-2-diabetes-greenland - 2025-12-21

On May 11, it is time for the first of a total of six workshops concerning the strategic research areas’ (SRA) work on sustainable development. Sustainability is more than climate and environmental issues. Goal number 3 of the UN global sustainability goals focuses on “good health and well-being”. The workshop series are arranged by the SRA Collegium and Sustainability forum. Within the health-rel

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/workshop-series-sustainability-effect-research - 2025-12-21

Changes in land use have been highlighted as one of the main reasons for the global decline of insects. New research from Lund University, which examined three common Swedish grassland butterflies, shows that changes in land use not only reduce insect numbers. The loss of habitat can also lead to increased inbreeding, especially among specialised species that find it increasingly difficult to move

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/changes-land-use-leads-increased-inbreeding-swedish-butterflies - 2025-12-21

With around 350 million patients worldwide, diabetes is one of the world’s major public health problems. This year’s Fernström Foundation Nordic Prize, with prize money of SEK 1 million, goes to the internationally renowned diabetes researcher Leif Groop from Lund University in Sweden. Leif Groop’s speciality has been referred to as ‘gene fishing’. It involves fishing up the genes that contribute

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/major-prize-lu-diabetes-researcher - 2025-12-21

Early diagnosis is key to receiving proper care and advancing research on future therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and dementia with Lewy bodies. New research from Skåne University Hospital and Lund University shows that combining a simple smell test with advanced spinal fluid analysis can predict these diseases with high accuracy, while sparing nearly half of patients f

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/smell-test-cuts-need-invasive-parkinsons-screening - 2025-12-21

The proposal for a renewed Campus Plan will soon be subject to a consultation round. It is an update of the current Campus Plan which will soon expire. For two years, the Campus Development Office has been drawing up the Campus Plan in collaboration with consultants and on behalf the Campus Development Council. The Campus Plan covers a lot of space – Lund University has around 540,000 square metre

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-campus-plan-be-decided-autumn - 2025-12-22

Lately Ulf Johansson, professor in Marketing at LUSEM, has been quoted in the media on a weekly basis on issues relating to Coop’s survival, ICA’s gaining market shares, the depletion of commerce in city centres and e-commerce to name but a few. We spoke with Ulf Johansson, Professor of Marketing at LUSEM, about key retail trends and what lies ahead in the near future.“One thing is definitively th

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/what-about-retail-and-consumption-ulf - 2025-12-21

Social anthropologist Petra Östergren’s research rethinks prostitution policies and receives international response and praise. Her chapter "From zero-tolerance to full integration. Rethinking prostitution policies" has now been published in The Sage Handbook of Global Sexuality. According to professor Hendrik Wagenaar at Kings College in London it is a "seminal typology of prostitution policies"

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/governing-sex-work-new-way-categorizing-prostitution-policy-may-be-standard-years-come - 2025-12-21

A new method that slowly releases drugs locally in the brain has been developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. The drug is encapsulated in nanoparticles and delivered to the brain tissue via flexible electrodes. The method has been tested on mice and published in the Journal of Nanobiotechnology among others – and was recently presented in a doctoral thesis. The brain is both our mos

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanoparticles-deliver-drugs-brain - 2025-12-21

The need for learning support is growing. To make support more effective, the Unit for Educational Services has started a two-year project that will focus on professional development initiatives, common guidelines and a new advisory entity to ensure a unified strategy for accessible and inclusive teaching. We know that the need for learning support is increasing. At Lund University, the number of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/strong-focus-accessible-and-inclusive-teaching - 2025-12-22

A workshop was organized September 30th in order to start a bioinformatics network at Lund University. Notes from the bioinformatics network meeting 30th   Summary: The workshop to start a bioinformatics network at Lund University took place at Segerfalkssalen, the 30th of September 2020. It was organized by the department of Laboratory medicine and the coordinator for bioinformatics at the facult

https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/workshop-start-lubi - 2025-12-21

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/100-million-sek-personalized-medicine-diabetes - 2025-12-22

Deputy vice-chancellor Sylvia Schwaag Serger sees an opportunity in the future to start a university-wide AI graduate school, similar to the one for Agenda 2030. “The discussions have started, but they are at a very early stage.” Developments in AI are happening very rapidly. There are many benefits, but complex social challenges arise alongside the technological breakthroughs. Deputy vice-chancel

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/importance-lu-interdisciplinary-ai-initiative - 2025-12-21

More than SEK 56 million in research grants for the years 2025-2028. This is how much researchers at the Department of Physics will receive in the Swedish Research Council's major call within natural and engineering sciences in 2024. With a total of 50 grants awarded, Lund University maintains its strong position in the field of natural and engineering sciences in the national competition between

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/lund-physicists-receive-56-million-swedish-research-council - 2025-12-21

Small passerine birds, such as blue and great tits, avoid breeding in urban areas where there are many non-native trees. Chicks also weigh less the more non-native trees there are in the vicinity of the nest. This is shown in a long-term study from Lund University, Sweden. City trees contribute to several important ecosystem services such as lowering local temperature and purifying air but are als

https://www.science.lu.se/article/urban-birds-prefer-native-trees - 2025-12-21

From January 2024 LUSEM will have a new Dean, Joakim Gullstrand. How does he feel about his new role? And why does he want to become the Dean of LUSEM? Keep reading! In Joakim's office, in the Alfa 1 building, there is an abundance of books (with titles such as International Trade, Regional Integration and The Global Food Chain) and papers, yet the office looks organised and is pleasant to enter.

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/meet-our-future-dean-joakim-gullstrand - 2025-12-21

Johannes Rousk is one of the world’s most cited and influential researchers, according to the analytics company Clarivate. If you ask him, the road to success was marked by luck, opportunity and fantastic people. Luck is a concept that researchers don’t use very often, but Johannes Rousk does. For him, it is not about finding the answer to the holy grail through divine intervention, which in the w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-luck-strategy-behind-most-cited-research - 2025-12-22

The Centre for European Studies has awarded Olivia Rachwol the 2021 honorary mention for her Master of Cultural Sciences thesis on Conspiracy Theories in Polish Daily newspapers. Olivia Rachwol’s study is called “Conspiracy Theories and the Polarized Polish Press: Systemic and Event Conspiracy Narratives in Polish Daily newspapers during the Presidential Election Campaign in 2020.” She was granted

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/rachwols-masters-thesis-receives-honourable-mention - 2025-12-21

Jiao Dong defended her Ph.D. thesis on the 8th of February 2023. Inspired by the memory of patients she met during her time as a student studying oral surgery in China, she has spent the past four years researching a regenerative medicine strategy that can be used to repair the function of the salivary gland. In this interview, we learn more about her innovative research efforts, the inspiration b

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/bioengineering-and-cell-derived-strategies-salivary-gland-regeneration-phd-interview-jiao-dong - 2025-12-21