Av erika [dot] svantesson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Erika Svantesson) - publicerad 20 maj 2025 Andreas Edsfeldt, hjärtläkare vid Skånes universitetssjukhus och docent i kardiologi vid Lunds universitets diabetescentrum, tar emot Bundy Academys stora pris på tre miljoner kronor. Foto: Kennet Ruona Andreas Edsfeldt, docent i experimentell kardiologi vid Lunds universitet, får Bundy Academys stora

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/andreas-edsfeldt-far-bundy-academys-stora-pris - 2025-06-07

Av tord [dot] ajanki [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tord Ajanki) - publicerad 14 juni 2017 En stor kartläggning i Danmark och Norge visar att barn som ammas har en kraftigt minskad risk för att senare i livet insjukna i typ 1 diabetes. Resultaten visar att barn som aldrig hade ammats löpte en fördubblad risk att insjukna. Det är känt att det finns en genetisk sårbarhet för att utveckla typ 1 diabetes

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/brostmjolk-skyddar-mot-typ-1-diabetes - 2025-06-07

Publicerad 14 juni 2017 Tidigare studier har väckt frågan om att metformin på längre sikt påverkar kognitiva förmågor negativt, kanske även utvecklandet av demens. Nu kan en stor undersökning skriva av farhågorna – metformin har inga negativa bieffekter på intellektet. Olika studier har testat om diabetesmedelet medlet minskar risken för att insjukna i typ 2 diabetes för personer i riskzonen. Livs

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/diabetesmedlet-metformin-paverkar-inte-kognitiv-formaga - 2025-06-07

Publicerad 14 juni 2017 Nu presenteras en nyupptäckt mekanism bakom den minskade insulinproduktionen vid diabetes typ 2. I en artikel i Nature Communications beskriver forskare vid Sahlgrenska akademin hur insulinproducerande celler backar i sin utveckling, blir omogna, och inte fungerar som de ska. Ett fynd som öppnar för nya kliniska behandlingar. – Om man kan påverka på cellnivå, och återställa

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/nyupptackt-sjukdomsmekanism-typ-2-diabetes - 2025-06-07

Av sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - publicerad 14 juni 2017 Mona Landin-Olsson, professor vid Lund universitet och diabetesläkare vid Skånes universitetssjukhus, har utsetts till hedersledamot för Svensk Förening för Diabetologi, SFD. Under åtta år har hon som ordförande i samma förening framgångsrikt arbetat med att utveckla svensk diabetesvård och gjort stora insa

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/en-stark-diabetesrost-i-samhallet - 2025-06-07

Av tord [dot] ajanki [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tord Ajanki) - publicerad 14 juni 2017 Albert Salehi. Det har inte funnits något känt samband mellan diabetes och vitamin A. Inte förrän nu. Den fråga forskarna ställde sig var varför de insulinbildande betacellerna har så rikligt med en nyupptäckt mottagare för A-vitamin? Deras svar är att vitamin A spelar en viktig roll både för betacellens utveck

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/vitaminets-roll-vid-diabetes - 2025-06-07

Published 16 September 2024 This chapter explores feminist activism during and after the so-called Arab Spring, a transformative event that brought new challenges and a new political environment for feminist activists. At first, the overthrow of old regimes raised hopes for a more open and liberated society, but these hopes did not last long. Feminist organizations in countries such as Egypt and T

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/abdelmoez-digital-feminist-practice-during-and-after-arab-spring - 2025-06-07

Published 20 September 2024 Barbara Magalhães Teixeira on her dissertation and external reviewer Professor Jan Selby, University of Leeds. Barbara Magalhães Teixeira has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'The Nature of Peace and the Continuum of Violence in Environmental Conflicts'. Congratulations! AbstractIn this dissertation, I aim to explore the links between nature, conflict, and peac

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/barbara-magalhaes-teixeira-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-06-07

Published 26 September 2024 Isabel Bramsen has published a new chapter on the role of emotions and emotional energy in conflict, repression and violence in The Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations. AbstractEmotions play a significant role in shaping human interaction, not least in the context of conflict and violence. This chapter delves into the intricate interplay between emoti

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-role-emotions-and-emotional-energy-conflict-repression-and-violence - 2025-06-07

Published 30 September 2024 Professor Annika Björkdahl, Department of Political Science, Lund University. The book “Peace and the Politics of Memory”, Manchester University Press, co-authored with Johanna Mannergren, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Stefanie Kappler and Timothy Williams provides new understandings of how the politics of memory impacts peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. I

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-annika-bjorkdahl-et-al-peace-and-politics-memory - 2025-06-07

Published 4 October 2024 Visiting political scientists from the University of Denver discuss the upcoming U.S. election with students in a packed auditorium at Eden, moderated by Professor Jonathan Polk. On Thursday, the Eden auditorium was filled with students when the Department of Political Science was visited by researchers from the University of Denver to analyze and discuss the political sit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/full-house-when-visiting-political-scientists-denver-discussed-upcoming-us-election - 2025-06-07

Published 10 October 2024 To what extent does moderation in ideological positioning by social democratic parties affect their short- and long-term electoral fortunes? This chapter builds on our prior work to further probe whether there is a link between moderation and individual voters’ shifts from social democratic parties at a later point, by considering a larger number of cases and by different

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/polk-and-karreth-new-study-voter-responses-social-democratic-party-ideological-moderation - 2025-06-07

Published 11 October 2024 Guest lecture with Jason Diakité for peace and conflict students in the Eden auditorium. Brilliant guest lecture with Jason Diakité for peace and conflict students and an insightful and thought-provoking research seminar with Jason and Madubuko Diakité on popular culture, racism, world peace, democracy, agency, space and "exercising citizenship"! Thanks! Jason Diakité och

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jason-diakite-lu-honorary-doctor-and-madubuko-diakite-lu-raoul-wallenberg-institute-visited-eden-and - 2025-06-07

Published 17 October 2024 Karin Aggestam and Tim Dunne have co-authored the chapter “The failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria”, in Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (3d edition), eds S. Smith, A. Hadfield, and T. Dunne, Oxford: Oxford University Press. AbstractThis chapter argues that the international community’s response to the Syrian civil war was a failure of resolute diplomacy.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-and-time-dunne-failure-diplomacy-and-protection-syria - 2025-06-07

Published 25 October 2024 Hello Ian Manners! Lund University has recently committed itself to student-centred education to improve the quality of learning and teaching on campus. Could you tell us more about the motivation behind this focus? – Certainly! Lund University aims to create a learning environment where students are at the heart of the educational process, and a crucial part of that is t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-ian-manners-active-learning-social-science - 2025-06-07

Published 4 November 2024 Lisa Strömbom, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Political Science. Photo: Johan Persson. Lisa Strömbom, together with Gustav Agneman (LU and Trondheim University) and Angelica Rettberg (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá), has published the article “Do Apologies Promote the Reintegration of former combatants? Lessons from a Video Experiment in Colombia” in Journa

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-agneman-och-rettberg-journal-peace-research-apologies-and-reintegration-former-combatants - 2025-06-07

Published 8 November 2024 Associate Professors Isabel Bramsen and Lisa Strömbom, Department of Political Science, Lund University. Isabel Bramsen, Lisa Strömbom, and Kasia Jezierska have received funding for the project "The United Nations as a Platform Enabling Agonistic Contestation and Engagement? (UNPEACE)" to analyse the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly meetings about Israel-P

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/isabel-bramsen-lisa-strombom-and-kasia-jezierska-have-been-granted-funding-swedish-research-council - 2025-06-07

Published 21 November 2024 This article explores legitimation attempts by global multistakeholder partnerships that seek to support implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda. This generation of global partnerships faces strong expectations on obtaining synergies between policy fields and between the actors involved. We examine self-legitimation in a comparative study o

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-legitimacy-challenges-multistakeholder-partnerships-2030-agenda - 2025-06-07

Published 25 November 2024 Congratulations to Professor Jonathan Polk, who has secured a prestigious grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) for his project, "Political Party Competition and the Transnational Cleavage in Europe." This groundbreaking work aims to shed light on the evolving political landscape and its implications for Europe’s future. SummaryPolitical Party Competition and the Tra

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/major-research-grant-awarded-professor-jonathan-polk-exploring-political-party-dynamics-europe - 2025-06-07

Published 29 November 2024 Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True have edited the book “Feminist Foreign Policy Analysis: A New Subfield” (Bristol University Press). How can feminist scholarship advance the field of foreign policy analysis to better understand contemporary foreign policy actions and challenges? This groundbreaking book provides the state-of-the-art in the study of gender, feminisms and fo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-karin-aggestam-and-jacqui-true-feminist-foreign-policy-analysis - 2025-06-07