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Join this year’s teaching and learning conference with a presentation on November 17! Join this year’s teaching and learning conference with a presentation! This year’s conference theme is Lifelong Learning and Higher Education: New (and Old) Perspectives. Share your pedagogical experiences and take your chance to learn from colleagues at Lund University. LUTL is a forum for dialogue, inspiration,
From this year onwards, the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) will award an annual Best South Asia Thesis Award for an excellent Bachelor or Master thesis in the humanities or social sciences (broadly conceived), which has been submitted and defended by a student at Lund University. - With the prize, we both hope to build on Lund University's long history of promoting and disseminating
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/best-south-asia-thesis-award-20212022 - 2026-07-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. STEM Gender Equality Congress, 8th - 9th June 2017, Berlin, GermanyThe STEM Gender Equality congress aims to bring together researchers, scientists, academics, policy makers and NGO's along with representatives from industry, funding agencies and research councils for two days of debate and analysis on improving gende
https://www.wings.lu.se/article/stem-gender-equality-conference - 2026-07-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What do muffins and space travel have in common? Answer: They affect our genes through altered DNA methylation patterns. Two researchers who studied this recently met at the public defence of a doctoral thesis at Lund University. Andrew Feinberg from Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA, has
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/big-data-muffins-and-space-travel - 2026-07-23
On 18 November, a news item was released that went beyond our wildest dreams: Lund University ranked first in the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability. We have been ranked as not just the best in Sweden, or even Europe – we are number one in the entire world! This is most likely the first time that a Swedish or Nordic university has been ranked best in the world in one of the major ranking
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-are-ranked-best-world-sustainability-according-qs-i-am-speechless - 2026-07-24
The Department of Communication is spread across three locations: Helsingborg, Lund, and Malmö. During the summer, the employees previously based at SOL/Center for Languages and Literature will move into the building Gamla Polikliniken. Starting August 19, the employees will be welcomed into their new office. The move not only means new workplaces but also creates better conditions for collaborati
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-colleagues-campus-paradis - 2026-07-23
The region is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth and its polar bears and melting glaciers have become key symbols of climate change. But the Arctic, it seems, is not as well researched as we think it is. Since the Arctic covers some 14.5 million square kilometers, and conducting research in remote locations is very expensive, time consuming and often dangerous, the result is an extremely u
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/environmental-change-arctic - 2026-07-23
As a part of ACCESS effort to have a deeper approach on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with a particular focus on the goals 3, 11, 14 and 15, we are happy to announce that three courses for PhD-students on different aspects related to the mentioned SDGs will be open to PhD-students from all ACCESS-universities. The courses are open to PhD-students from all disciplines and from a
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/apply-access-courses-phd-students - 2026-07-23
Swedish writer and journalist Göran Rosenberg visited CMES for a public talk on the future of Israel. On Wednesday 21 May, CMES hosted a public talk in Lund titled Whither Israel?, featuring Swedish writer and journalist Göran Rosenberg. The well-attended event took place in the Eden Auditorium at the Department of Political Science.Göran Rosenberg is the author of several acclaimed works, includi
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-public-talk-goran-rosenberg-whither-israel - 2026-07-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An article on HBTQ in Bhutan entitled "The silence is broken- Passang Dorji is the first public gay in Bhutan", written by Elina Vidarsson from SASNET, has today been published in the Swedish online magazine Sydasien (South Asia). Read the article (in Swedish). Sydasien (South Asia) is the only Swedish online magazin
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-hbtq-bhutan - 2026-07-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York is currently seeking a C-MAP fellow specializing in Asian art, with a focus on Indian and South Asian art. Application deadline is June 1, 2017. In 2009, The Museum of Modern Art launched Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP), a global research initiative. The pro
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-c-map-fellow-asian-art - 2026-07-23
The year 2024 was a record year for Lund University in terms of the number of articles published in The Conversation. Fifty-five articles by 50 researchers amassed a total of 1.6 million reads. Mikael Roll, a researcher at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, topped the list with an article about the brain and reading. The Conversation is an international news website that gives researc
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-breaks-record-conversation-2024 - 2026-07-24
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET's new researcher Maria Tonini talks about her research in "Sydasien". Read the article (in Swedish). Read Maria Tonini's dissertation "The Ambiguities of Recognition Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India" as pdf. Sydasien (South Asia) is the only Swedish online magazine that reports culturally and polit
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/maria-tonini-talks-about-her-research-sydasien - 2026-07-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Architect student Ludvig Hofsten wanted to address the issues of rising sea levels and plastic waste in the ocean. He designed Villa Nemo, a project that sees the potential of living on water in the future; with both lifestyle and environmental benefits. ”Our cities are becoming fairly dense, and there’s less space t
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/instead-floating-plastic-floating-houses - 2026-07-23
Last year, we had several opportunities to engage with Amanda Sjögren’s work during her time as a PhD student at the Unit for Clinical Epidemiology in Orthopedics at Lund University. For those who need a reminder of what Amanda does, the previous parts can be read here, or by scrolling to the bottom of the page. In short, Amanda focuses on knee osteoarthritis at the molecular level during her PhD.
https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/two-years-exciting-oa-research-phd-student-amanda-sjogren - 2026-07-23
When Crafoord Prize laureate Veerabhadran Ramanathan visited Lund on 18 May, he combined personal reflections with a powerful scientific message: understanding aerosols and greenhouse gases is key to tackling climate chang, but solving the crisis will require new approaches, broad collaboration, and urgent public engagement. On Monday, May 18, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Distinguished Professor (Emer
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/understanding-warming-world-insights-crafoord-laureate-veerabhadran-ramanathan - 2026-07-23
When Crafoord Prize laureate Veerabhadran Ramanathan visited Lund on 18 May, he combined personal reflections with a powerful scientific message: understanding aerosols and greenhouse gases is key to tackling climate chang, but solving the crisis will require new approaches, broad collaboration, and urgent public engagement. On Monday, May 18, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Distinguished Professor (Emer
https://www.mgeo.lu.se/en/article/understanding-warming-world-insights-crafoord-laureate-veerabhadran-ramanathan - 2026-07-23
Tell us, why Tunisia? As a PhD student in political science with a focus on comparative politics in the Middle East, I investigate feminist activism and gender politics in the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular focus on Tunisia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. What interests me is largely that feminism is usually seen as a European or Western "product" that is exported to the rest of the worl
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hi-there-joel-w-abdelmoez-just-back-fieldwork-tunisia - 2026-07-23
