Published 19 September 2017 Fabio Cristiano, Lund University, and Emilio Distretti, London Metropolitan University, have co-authored the article “Along the Lines of the Occupation: Playing at Diminished Reality in East Jerusalem” for the journal Conflict and Society. Abstract:Augmented reality enables video game experiences that are increasingly immersive. For its focus on walking and exploration,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/article-explores-pokemon-go-imaginary-east-jerusalem - 2025-08-01

Published 22 September 2017 Ivan Gusic posted his thesis at the wall in Eden accompanied by collegues. In the background: Deputy Head of Department Björn Badersten. The notification of the date of the defence and "posting" of Ivan Gusics thesis "War, peace & the city: urban conflict over peace(s) in the postwar cities of Belfast, Mitrovica, and Mostar." was held on Thursday, September 21, at 3:15

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ivan-gusics-doctoral-thesis-posted - 2025-08-01

Published 22 September 2017 Hanna Bäck, professor of political science, has published the article "Veto player theory and reform making in Western Europe" in European Journal of Political Research. The article focuses on governments' capacity to implement policy reforms, and builds on a new comparative data set on about 5,600 important economic reform measures undertaken in 13 Western European cou

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-governments-capacity-implement-reform - 2025-08-01

Published 26 September 2017 Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt have authored the chapter “Political Science Perspectives” (in Swedish) in a new textbook for middle- and junior high school teacher students, published by Gleerups. Read a sample of the book here at the Gleerup web siteHanna Bäck's personal web page.Roxanna Sjöstedt's personal web page.  Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-textbook-social-sciences-teachers-grade-4-9 - 2025-08-01

Published 29 September 2017 Hanna Bäck has co-authored the chapter "No More Political Insiders? Ministerial Selection in Sweden During the Post-WWII period" which was published recently in a book on technocratic ministers in the European countries. The chapter investigates Swedish ministers' background and shows that most ministers have had a solid political background, and that the share of "tech

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/most-swedish-ministers-have-had-solid-political-background - 2025-08-01

Published 6 October 2017 The Department of Political Science is co-hosting the 2017 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance held at Lucsus in October. The conference is part of the global series organised by the Earth System Governance Project. The conference theme Allocation and access in a warming and increasingly unequal world will be addressed in five thematic streams: Environmental justice

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/full-programme-esg-conference-announced-fariborz-zelli-reflects-importance-conference - 2025-08-01

Published 16 October 2017 Carlo Knotz, who defended his dissertation "Getting Tough on Unemployment" at the Department of Political Science in Lund in December 2016, has been awarded the 2017 Research Prize by the Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds. He shares the prize with Patrik Vulkan at the University of Gothenburg.The prize sum of 75 000 SEK is shared equally between the prize

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knotz-awarded-research-prize - 2025-08-01

Published 19 October 2017 Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have recently published an article entitled 'Ontological Security and the Limits to a Common World: Subaltern Pasts and the Inner-Worldliness of the Tablighi Jama'at' in Postcolonial Studies. The article attends to the contested notions of transnationalism, globality and ontological security that the Islamic revivalist movement Tablighi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-svensson-transnationalism-and-ontological-security - 2025-08-01

Published 24 October 2017 Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) has granted 35,1 million SEK to the 6 year research programme "Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies". The programme is led by professor Håkan Johansson at the School of Social Work at LU. Participants from the Department of Political Science are Niklas Alter

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-programme-civil-society-elites - 2025-08-01

Published 24 October 2017 Between Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 October, The Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) will be hosting Sweden’s very first international conference in Critical Animal Studies. As co-founders of LUCASN, Jana Canavan and Kurtis Boyer from the Political Science Department are co-organisers of the conference. The conference will take place at the Pufendorf I

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedens-first-international-critical-animal-studies-conference-lund - 2025-08-01

Published 24 October 2017 Jakob Skovgaard has published the article “The Role of Finance Ministries in Environmental Policy Making: The case of European Union Emissions Trading System reform in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands” in the journal “Environmental Policy and Governance”. The article concerns the role of finance ministries on the Danish, Dutch and German government positions on the re

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-finance-ministries-and-environmental-policy-making - 2025-08-01

Av sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - publicerad 22 september 2020 Forskare vid Lunds universitet har fått ett anslag på 23 miljoner från den amerikanska hälsomyndigheten NIH. Tillsammans med kollegor i USA och Finland ska de analysera 20 000 avföringsprover från barn. – Målet är att identifiera ett eller flera virus som kan utlösa en eventuell infektion som leder til

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/kan-virus-ligga-bakom-utvecklingen-av-celiaki - 2025-08-01

Av sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - publicerad 15 oktober 2020 För två år sedan startade POInT-studien i Sverige som ska undersöka om oralt insulin kan förhindra ett insjuknade i typ 1-diabetes. Nu har forskarna fullt fokus på att samla in och förbereda deltagarnas prover för analys. De första resultaten väntas först om några år. – Det ska bli spännande, säger Carin

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/fullt-fokus-pa-proverna - 2025-08-01

Publicerad 17 november 2020 Viktig information till dig som ska besöka någon av våra mottagningar. Foto: Pixabay.com Med anledning av de skärpta restirktionerna vill vi informera om att våra studiemottagningar är fortsatt öppna. Vi har dock vidtagit en rad åtgärder:Medarbetare som kan arbetar hemifrånAlla som kommer in på mottagningen ska tvätta händerna vid ankomstenForskningssjuksköterskorna bär

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/med-anledning-av-covid-19 - 2025-08-01

Av magnus [dot] aspegren [at] skane [dot] se (Magnus Aspegren) - publicerad 17 november 2020 Kan glutenfri kost under de första levnadsåren förhindra att barn utvecklar celiaki? Eller kan probiotika hejda immunförsvarets reaktion mot gluten? Det försöker forskarna få svar på. Daniel Agardh, överläkare inom barnmedicin på Skånes universitetssjukhus, adjungerad professor vid Lunds universitet. Foto:

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/glutenfritt-eller-snalla-bakterier - 2025-08-01

Av sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - publicerad 28 januari 2021 Är det något du undrar över, fråga oss! Kan jag vaccinera mig mot covid-19 när jag ammar?Svar: Amning utgör inget hinder för vaccination.Det är okänt om vaccinerna går ut i bröstmjölk. Det finns det ingen anledning att tro att vaccinet skulle ge några biverkningar hos barnet som ammas.Källa: Läkemedelsve

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/fragor-svar-om-vaccin-och-d-vitamin - 2025-08-01

Publicerad 29 januari 2021 Överläkaren Daniel Agardh och hans kollegor forskar nu för att se om så kallade laktobaciller (probiotika) kan dämpa den autoimmuna inflammationen som leder till att barn drabbas av sjukdomar som typ 1-diabetes, glutenintolerans och sköldkörtelinflammation. – Det långsiktiga syftet är att vi vill hitta metoder som förhindrar uppkomsten av någon av dessa sjukdomar hos bar

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/kan-laktobaciller-forhindra-autoimmunitet - 2025-08-01

Publicerad 16 februari 2021 I kursen Reaktionsteknik ingår obligatoriska datorövningar. Vid datorövningarna används Matlab. Den pågående pandemin gjorde att datorövningar inte kunde genomföras på plats. Under datorövningarna får studenterna både hjälp med uppgifterna och det noteras vilka uppgifter som avklarats. För att kunna genomföra datorövningarna valdes att ta hjälp av Matlab Grader Foto: Il

https://www.education.lu.se/artikel/att-genomfora-datorovningar-online - 2025-08-01

Av christoffer [dot] johansson [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Christoffer Johansson) - publicerad 2 mars 2021 Photo: Markus Spiske on Unsplash The pandemic has made us test alternatives to our traditional exam methods, alternatives that work digitally and on remote. Some of these alternatives are worth keeping also when we head back to traditional, on campus, teaching. One thing we have learned the

https://www.education.lu.se/artikel/digital-open-book-exam-flexible-option - 2025-08-01

Publicerad 2 mars 2021 When using quizzes you might want to adjust the points to make them better match what the student deserve. Photo by Ben White on Unsplash Inflexibility Many of us are using the quiz function in Canvas, both for allowing students to practice and for exams. Canvas uses a rather inflexible way of automatically grading the answers in most cases – either the answers are completel

https://www.education.lu.se/artikel/using-quizzes-give-your-students-points-they-deserve - 2025-08-01