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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) invites you to a seminar on democracy in conflict and post-conflict countries. This seminar will take stock of the challenges to democracy facing Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, two South Asian countries that have or are currently experiencing internal conflict and civil

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/challenges-democracy-south-asia - 2026-07-15

Lund University and the local employee organisations have signed a new collective agreement on working hours for researchers and associate researchers (excluding MAX IV), which will take effect on January 1, 2026. What the agreement means:Researchers will now be covered by annual working hours under the new agreementFor full-time, full-year employment this corresponds to 1,700–1,756 hours per year

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/new-working-hours-agreement-researchers-1-january-2026 - 2026-07-15

When the Swedish Research Council announced funding for so-called "centres of excellence" almost three years ago, a total of 15 new initiatives were approved across Sweden. Only one of them was awarded to Lund: COMMONS – Commonalities in biomembrane and biomolecular interactions.A year has now passed since COMMONS was inaugurated with a ceremony at the Department of Chemistry. What has happened si

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/commons-centre-excellence-focus-common-ground - 2026-07-15

In today's scientific world, microscopic images have become a powerful resource for research. With access to advanced microscopes, researchers can now create unique images of structures and objects. Beautiful and captivating images that can also convey complex context to a wider audience. Microscopic images offer a clear advantage over purely quantitative measurements: they allow us to see the str

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/making-invisible-visible-magic-microscopic-images - 2026-07-15

Hur kan forskningsresultat kommuniceras bortom den akademiska texten? Genusvetarna Elin Lundell och Mia Liinason har valt ett nytt sätt: att översätta sin forskning till en animerad film. Teoretisk utgångspunktArtikeln som ligger till grund för filmen analyserar hur gränser mellan religion och sekularitet konstrueras och upprätthålls i samtida Sverige. Studien tar sin utgångspunkt i feministisk te

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/forskning-blir-animerad-film-teori-och-metod-i-rorlig-bild - 2026-07-15

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Nu är det bevisat igen. Med en bättre livsstil går det att mota typ 2 diabetes även för dem som har högst risk att insjukna. Den finska undersökningen Diabetes Prevention Study bekräftar resultaten från flera andra undersökningar. I undersökningen Diabetes Prevention Study (DPS) delades slumpmässigt 522 överviktiga,

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/battre-livsstil-forebygger-typ-2-diabetes - 2026-07-15

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Effektiva men ännu okända mekanismer neutraliserar den höga ärftliga risk för typ 2 diabetes som bärare av många riskgener har förutsatt att de har hög insulinkänslighet. En möjlig förklaring är att riskgenerna bara slår igenom när insulincellerna stressas av motsatsen, insulinresistens. Den ärftliga komponenten för

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/insulinkansliga-skyddas-mot-riskgenernas-skadliga-verkan - 2026-07-15

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/baldo-receives-150-000-sek-grant-orexin-project - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. When then medical student Jonatan Wistrand met a patient who was seriously ill with cancer a few years ago he was extremely moved. On November 29 he defended his doctoral thesis at Lund University with his thesis “The doctor as the patient – documentary and literary statements during the 20th and 21st century”. “I did

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/situation-conflict-when-doctor-becomes-patient - 2026-07-15

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/double-success-multipark-research-groups-prestigious-eu-grant-round - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Diabetes is currently treated using incretin hormones to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and other medical issues that the illness can trigger. Now researchers from Lund University in Sweden have noted new links between these hormones and arteriosclerosis, and believe their discovery could be significant for

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/incretin-hormone-levels-linked-arteriosclerosis - 2026-07-15

I kölvattnet av klimatförändringar och ett allt varmare och torrare klimat blir skogsbränder allt vanligare. I Ukraina ökar kriget risken ytterligare. Redan i mars i år bröt bränder ut runt Tjernobyl. Forskaren Lina Eklund befarar att en torr sommar kan leda till ytterligare bränder med katastrofala humanitära och miljömässiga konsekvenser. Naturgeografen Lina Eklund, som under de senaste åren stu

https://www.lu.se/artikel/forskare-varnar-okad-brandrisk-i-krigets-ukraina - 2026-07-16

Lund University and SRA EpiHealth has decided to support six projects with seeding funding that will cover salary costs for preparation of a project application and a research plan targeting national funding bodies.  Lena Sandin Wranker, one of the recipients of the funding, is a research assistant, PhD, and a specialist physician in pain rehabilitation, at the Department of Clinical Sciences Malm

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/six-projects-epidemiology-will-get-seed-funding - 2026-07-15

Funding opportunity for members of the Faculty of Science PurposeFunding for a researcher at the Faculty of Science to develop her/his interdisciplinary research. This could be to attend a conference, meeting or course which is expected to have a strong impact on the researcher’s interdisciplinarity.    Who can apply?Any employee of the Faculty of Science  BackgroundThe Faculty of Science has prov

https://www.compile.lu.se/article/call-supporting-interdisciplinarity-researchers-computational-science-2025 - 2026-07-15

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasa-travel-grants-two-journalism-students - 2026-07-15

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/magalhaes-teixeira-rethinking-way-peace-and-violence-are-understood-global-south - 2026-07-15

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-agneman-och-rettberg-journal-peace-research-apologies-and-reintegration-former-combatants - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Mikael Klintman has written a chapter looking at political consumerism in the toy sector in The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism. The chapter looks at political consumerism in the toy sector, offering a brief history of consumer concerns and distinguishing among four strands of political consumerist research i

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/challenges-making-toy-dreams-come-true - 2026-07-15

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/collective-intoxication-can-give-religious-experience-and-more-solidarity - 2026-07-15

On September 28, the official launch of SciLifeLab Lund will take place in Forum Medicum. Lund is one of the four new sites that were established in 2022. The sites in Gothenburg, Linköping, Umeå and Lund are part of a major governmental investment in national research infrastructure. The vision is for Sweden to be a world-leading research nation in molecular life sciences. Site coordinator Esther

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/kick-scilifelab-lund - 2026-07-15