Publicerad 3 mars 2025 Professor Ian Manners har fått ett sabbatsstipendium från Riksbankens Jubileumsfond för att tillbringa 2025 med att arbeta vid University of Bristol med att färdigställa en bok om The European Union's Normative Power in Planetary Politics. I forskningsboken analyseras EU:s relationer med resten av planeten från slutet av det kalla kriget 1990 till slutet av sabbatsåret 2025.

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/professor-manners-far-riksbankens-jubileumsfond-sabbatsar-att-skriva-bok-om-european-unions - 2025-04-13

Publicerad 5 mars 2025 Tidskriften Global Intellectual History har nyligen publicerat ett forum om Jens Bartelsons senaste bok Becoming International (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Forumet har redigerats av Kimberly Hutchings och Jaakko Heiskanen, och innehåller bidrag från Quentin Bruneau, Regan Burles, Or Rosenboim, and Ayşe Zarakol. Nedan finner ni introduktionen:https://www.tandfonline.co

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/forum-om-jens-bartelsons-bok-becoming-international-i-global-intellectual-history - 2025-04-13

Publicerad 10 mars 2025 Denna antologi undersöker kritiskt kvinnors kunskap om krig och utforskar kvinnors epistemiska handlingsförmåga. Kvinnor påverkas djupt av krig, deltar i krig och motsätter sig krig. Samtidigt tenderar kunskapsproduktionen att ignorera och marginalisera kvinnors erfarenheter och könade sätt att förstå krig. Från Colombia till Israel och Palestina, Liberia, Mali, Myanmar, Ne

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/ny-bok-av-annika-bjorkdahl-och-johanna-mannergren-production-gendered-knowledge-war-women-and - 2025-04-13

Publicerad 20 mars 2025 I den här boken undersöks hur kvinnor i samhällen som plågas av etnonationella konflikter kan bidra till att skapa fred och jämställdhet, även på platser där djupa motsättningar har funnits i generationer. Boken använder sig av en metod som kallas transversal politik för att analysera hur kvinnor från olika grupper i Nordirland arbetar tillsammans över en etnisk-nationell k

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By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 22 December 2022 Johan Flygare and Aurélie Baudet, stem cell researchers at Lund University. Photo: Johan Persson. Stem cells programmed to produce insulin in people with type 1 diabetes or to repair the heart muscle after a heart attack. Gene and cell therapies that improve cancer treatments. These new and innovative therapie

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/advanced-treatments-future-are-soon-here - 2025-04-13

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 22 December 2022 At the end of October 2022, the Swedish Medical Products Agency gave the go-ahead for a clinical trial of the stem cell-based therapy STEM-PD for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. The cells, generated from embryonic stem cells, have been in development for several years and will now be transplanted into pa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nerve-cells-could-transform-treatment-parkinsons - 2025-04-13

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 22 December 2022 Dolly the sheep determined Filipe Pereira’s future career. The choice was between becoming an architect or a scientist, when one of the world’s most extreme examples of cellular programming sparked his curiosity about the human body. Photo: Johan Persson. By reprogramming tumour cells to become the body’s defe

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/reprogramming-cancer-cells-immune-defenders - 2025-04-13

By ellen [dot] albertsdottir [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Ellen Albertsdóttir) - published 22 December 2022 Jessica Almqvist, professor of International Law and Human Rights. Photo Kennet Ruona. New advanced therapies can alleviate or cure chronic diseases. But medical progress raises the question of how rights should be protected and balanced, according to Jessica Almqvist, professor in internatio

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gene-therapies-raise-difficult-legal-and-ethical-questions - 2025-04-13

By evelina [dot] linden [at] luhm [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 22 December 2022 Nanotubes act like a Velcro strip to which the blood stem cell sticks. Photo: Martin Hjort. Stem cells from umbilical cords in Skåne are improved with nanotubes. By cross-pollinating nanotechnology with stem cell biology, researchers are creating gentle methods to ensure that more cells perform better

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/kind-methods-mean-happy-cells - 2025-04-13

Published 22 December 2022 Mimi Abramovitz and Leonie Huddy have been awarded honorary doctorates by the Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund University. Professor of Social Work Mimi Abramovitz and Professor of Political Psychology Leonie Huddy have been awarded honorary doctorates by the Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund University. They will receive their honorary doctorates at the doctoral degr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/expert-american-patriotism-and-welfare-researcher-awarded-honorary-doctorates - 2025-04-13

Published 9 January 2023 Monday 9 January is Arrival Day. The new students are checked in at the Ingvar Kamprad Design Center by staff and international mentors. Arrival Day aims to welcome the international students to Lund University, provide them with information and ensure that they are settled in before the start of the semester. On Arrival Day staff from Lund University welcome the students

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-welcomes-700-new-international-students-studies-during-spring-2023 - 2025-04-13

Published 11 January 2023 Paul Bourgine (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Researchers at Lund University have generated human mini bones in the lab which mirror the composition and function of human bone. The results published in Science Translational Medicine detail this step toward the future development of patient-tailored, personalized models of bone cancers and tumors. On average, the adult body consists

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/toward-personalized-approach-study-and-treatment-bone-cancers - 2025-04-13

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 January 2023 Europe have a long history of forced migration. That means that the refugees that have lived in an area for a long time have much in common with those arriving today. Photo: iStockphoto Throughout history and across the globe, individuals have been forced to flee conflicts, natural disasters and political oppre

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/digital-tools-building-bridges-between-local-communities-and-forced-migrants - 2025-04-13

Published 13 January 2023 Christoffer Johansson with the robotic wing (Photo: Anders Örtegren) Birds fly more efficiently by folding their wings during the upstroke, according to a recent study led by Lund University in Sweden. The results could mean that wing-folding is the next step in increasing the propulsive and aerodynamic efficiency of flapping drones. Even the precursors to birds – extinct

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/feathered-robotic-wing-paves-way-flapping-drones - 2025-04-13

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 25 January 2023 Nurse Anna Hellman measures the blood pressure of a participant in a treatment study where researchers are investigating how the hormone vasopressin is affected by how much water we drink. Foto: Kennet Ruona How much water do we need to drink to stay healthy? How do different diets affect our metabolism? St

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/learning-more-about-endocrine-system-could-lead-fewer-cases-type-2-diabetes-and-obesity - 2025-04-13

Published 20 January 2023 Photo: Mostphotos For e-commerce companies, it is cheaper to throw away returned items rather than selling them again. In a new study, researchers at Lund University in Sweden interviewed members of the textile and electronics industries in Europe, hoping to better understand a problem that is snowballing, yet has been the subject of little research. Internet shopping is

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/where-do-your-online-shopping-returns-end-bin-new-research-finds - 2025-04-13

Published 24 January 2023 Photo: Jörgen Wiklund Only males among the fish species crucian carp have developed a strategy to protect themselves from hungry predators, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. The explanation could lie in that the surrounding environment affects the stress system in males and females differently. Some animals have evolved the ability to swiftly change

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/stress-may-trigger-male-defence-against-predators - 2025-04-13

Published 25 January 2023 Filipe Pereira and Charlotte Ling Two innovation-driven research projects at Lund University have been awarded a Proof of Concept Grant by the European Research Council, ERC. They relate to biomarkers for predicting who benefits from metformin in the treatment of type 2 diabetes and new technology to enable powerful and focused therapies for the treatment of solid tumours

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-grants-research-diabetes-and-immunotherapy - 2025-04-13

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 26 January 2023 Riksteatern Crea's technical know-how offers many possibilities for the avatar to be projected anywhere on the stage, approaching from the side or appearing behind the actor's shoulder. With enormous eyes, a huge mouth and defined, prominent eyebrows, an avatar in the form of a ghost using sign langua

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/avatar-provides-live-signing-stage-unique-project - 2025-04-13

Published 26 January 2023 Adding "mini-meadows", seen here in Malmö, Sweden, is one way of helping pollinators (Photo: Private/Lund University) Have you made adjustments to your garden to make it more welcoming for pollinators? If so, you have probably made a valuable contribution, according to a new study from Lund University. The researchers evaluated the national ‘Operation: Save the Bees’ camp

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/what-you-do-your-garden-help-pollinators-works - 2025-04-13