Published 10 June 2013 “The state sold us for 49 years.” These are the words of one of the farmers that doctoral student Mine Islar has interviewed in Turkey. Her recently completed thesis is about the conflicts that have arisen when the government gives private companies the right to the water in several Turkish rivers. Mine Islar. “The rivers are ‘leased’ to the companies for 49 years. However,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/local-community-protests-against-leasing-rivers - 2025-04-27

Published 10 June 2013 Cross-disciplinary collaborations, the development of new technology and investment in a technical laboratory are key success factors, according to Professor Susanne Åkesson, coordinator of CAnMove, which is now preparing for its mid-way evaluation. The research in CAnMove was awarded a Linnaeus grant in 2008. Susanne Åkesson, the programme coordinator, is pleased with how t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cross-disciplinary-approach-factor-canmoves-success - 2025-04-27

Published 10 June 2013 Two full-time technicians help biology researchers to realise new ingenious ways of gathering data on how animals move. Thanks to computer chips, wireless communication and nanotechnology, the researchers can achieve groundbreaking results. Johan Bäckman and Arne Andersson sort out the technology for CAnMove projects.Photo: Lena Björk Blixt We walk along one of the corridors

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-facilitators - 2025-04-27

Published 10 June 2013 For a mathematician, the waves of the sea are related to differential equations, and particularly complex ones at that. Mathematical research can help to improve understanding of how waves form and move – which could be useful, for example, in the work to predict dangerous monster waves. The sunlight glistens on the rippling waves. The calm expanse of the sea is spread out b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/monster-waves-mathematical-challenge - 2025-04-27

Published 10 June 2013 All over the world, thousands of experts are sitting entering information about their home countries into a huge democracy database. Soon, three quarters of the world’s countries will have been entered. “In my megalomaniac moments, I usually compare the database to the CERN particle accelerator. It will be as important a tool for political scientists as CERN is for physicist

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/gigantic-database-stores-information-about-democracy-worldwide - 2025-04-27

Published 10 June 2013 Infant mortality in Malawi is among the highest in the world. In a new EU-funded project, researchers from Lund, Cork and Oxford will develop new mobile technology to help health care staff in the country diagnose and treat serious diseases earlier and more effectively. In rural Malawi, aid organisations’ health care staff use a disease manual called IMCI, developed by the W

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mobile-will-save-childrens-lives-malawi - 2025-04-27

Published 26 June 2013 Using harmless viruses to insert genes that produce healthy, healing substances into the brain... transplanting cells, possibly from the patient’s own skin... or, most sci-fi of all, controlling special treated nerve cells with light signals in the brain. These are three different paths to a possible treatment for epilepsy that are being tested by a research group in Lund. T

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-paths-treatment-epilepsy - 2025-04-27

Published 22 August 2013 Lund University is welcoming this autumn’s new international students. Around 2 000 students from around the world will be arriving in Lund to study for a semester or longer.   Students from over 85 countries are expected on Arrival Day. The highest numbers of exchange students come from Germany, the US, France, the Netherlands and Spain. The highest numbers of students ad

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-welcomes-students-around-world - 2025-04-27

Published 19 September 2013 She is a new ‘Hedda’ professor, but has a long career behind her. Biologist Ellen van Donk now hopes that she can serve as a role model for female students who dream of a future career in research. Biologist Ellen van Donk is a new professor in Hedda Andersson’s name. LUM meets ecology researcher Ellen van Donk on a beautiful summer’s day. She comes from the Netherlands

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-professor-wants-be-role-model-female-students - 2025-04-27

Published 19 September 2013 For the next four years, Lund University will coordinate a new exchange programme with India. Over 100 Indian scholarship recipients will get the chance to study or do research in Europe. Lund University hopes that many of them will choose Lund as their destination. “We are pleased that the European Commission has put its trust in us again. We can now further develop th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-coordinate-new-eu-exchange-india - 2025-04-27

Published 20 September 2013 Entry phones can cause problems. For elderly people with a visual impairment or reduced mobility, getting into one’s flat can suddenly become a challenge. However, researchers can also experience problems. One person who knows is occupational therapist Elina Taurina, who has mapped environmental obstacles for elderly people in Latvia together with researchers from Lund

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/swedish-elderly-research-exported-latvia - 2025-04-27

Published 23 September 2013 Meet Jean-Pierre Filiu, Professor in Middle East Studies at Sciences Po., who visited Lund last week during the conference “Everyday Life in the Middle East”, hosted by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University. He is a former diplomat with long experience from the Middle East. This summer he visited Syria to see how the revolution affected people’s everyda

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/syria-waiting-enough-enough - 2025-04-27

Av kristina [dot] lindgarde [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde) - publicerad 19 september 2018 Bild: Mostphotos Empati är överskattat, nobelpristagaren Daniel Kahneman har missförståtts rejält och vi tycks ha blivit mer rädda för att konfrontera uppfattningar vi inte delar. Sociologen Mikael Klintman uttolkar vår politiska samtid utifrån ny kunskap inom neurovetenskap, sociologi och ps

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/manniskor-som-fordomsfulla-flockvarelser - 2025-04-27

Publicerad 12 september 2018 Gökhan Kaya har försvarat sin avhandling i ämnet sociologi med avhandlingen "Aspirations, capital and identity: four studies on the determinants of life chances for young Swedes with an immigrant background" 12 September klockan 14:00 i Stora Algatans hörsal in Lund. Fakultetsopponent var Docent Susanne Urban, Institutet för Bostads- och urbanforskning, Uppsala.Huvudha

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/gokhan-kaya-har-disputerat - 2025-04-27

Publicerad 24 september 2018 Erik Hannerz vid Sociologiska institutionen och Peter Bengtsen vid avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier deltog nyligen i den årliga konferensen för gatukonst och urbankreativitet (Street Art & Urban Creativity Conference) i Lissabon, Portual. Här presenterade de sina planer för ett kommande tema om urban kreativitet. Pufendorfinstitutet vid Lunds universi

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/urban-kreativitet-borjar-med-en-presentation-i-lissabon - 2025-04-27

Publicerad 28 september 2018 Anders Hylmö har försvarat sin avhandling i ämnet sociologi med avhandlingen "Disciplined Reasoning. The mainstream-heterodoxy divide and styles of reasoning in Swedish economics" idag, 28 September klockan 10:00 i Edens hörsal in Lund. Fakultetsopponent var Docent Elizabeth Popp Berman, Sociologiska institutionen, University at Albany.Ordförande vid disputationen var

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/anders-hylmo-har-disputerat - 2025-04-27

Publicerad 28 september 2018 Sociologiprofessor Antoinette Hetzler svarar på frågor om gymnasiebehörighet i svt. I gårdagens Lokala Nyheter Skåne förklarade Hetzler hur statistik över behörighet till gymnasiet ska tolkas. Professor Antoinette Hetzler svarar på frågor om gymnasiebehörighet i svt. Var sjätte elev i Sverige har inte behörighet till gymnasiet. I Tomelilla saknar mer än var tredje elev

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/gymnasiebehorighet-hanger-inte-bara-pa-foraldrarnas-utbildning-eller-klass-tillhorighet - 2025-04-27

Publicerad 9 oktober 2018 Inkomstförsäkring och tjänstepension. Viktiga för att klara ekonomin vid arbetslöshet och slippa bli fattigpensionär. Anställda på arbetsplatser utan kollektivavtal riskerar att bli utan tjänstepension och medlemmarna i fackförbundet IF Metall saknar inkomstförsäkring. Sociologiprofessor Anders Kjellberg kommenterar dessa två frågor i Expressen och Dagens Arbete. Expresse

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/manga-riskerar-att-bli-fattigpensionarer - 2025-04-27

Publicerad 16 oktober 2018 Domare är människor, inte robotar och känslor är oundvikligen en del av deras dagliga liv. Lisa Flower kommenterar i The Conversation varför den amerikanska domaren Brett Kavanaugh anses olämplig som domare. Lisa Flower, programkoordinator på kriminologiprogrammet, tror bland annat att många lockas av samarbetet mellan ämnena sociologi och rättssociologi. Lisa Flower, do

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/varfor-vill-vi-inte-ha-arga-domare - 2025-04-27

Publicerad 25 oktober 2018 Anna Sarri Krantz har försvarat sin avhandling i ämnet socialantropologi med avhandlingen "Tredje generationens överlevande – en socialantropologisk studie om minne, antisemitism och identitet i spåret av Förintelsen" idag, 25 oktober klockan 10:00 i Stora Algatans hörsal in Lund. Opponent var professor Bodil Liljefors Persson, religionsvetenskap vid Malmö universitet.Be

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/anna-sarri-krantz-har-disputerat - 2025-04-27