By jayeon [dot] lindellee [at] soch [dot] lu [dot] se (Jayeon Lindellee) - published 25 October 2019 Roberto Scaramuzzino and Håkan Johansson participated in the yearly conference on civil society arranged by the Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society (MUCF). The main theme this year was on elitism in civil society. On the 22nd of October, civil society researchers, politicians, civil servants

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/elitism-swedish-civil-society - 2025-07-27

By jayeon [dot] lindellee [at] soch [dot] lu [dot] se (Jayeon Lindellee) - published 25 October 2019 Professor Carlo Ruzza, University of Trento. The growing populist movements in many European countries affect not only the EU's institutional actors but also EU-based civil society organizations. Professor Carlo Ruzza, a prominent scholar in political sociology based at the University of Trento, ha

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/guest-professor-carlo-ruzza-populist-turn-and-its-impact-eu-and-civil-society - 2025-07-27

By jayeon [dot] lindellee [at] soch [dot] lu [dot] se (Jayeon Lindellee) - published 4 September 2020 A new thematic issue on Civil Society Elites is published in Politics and Governance. A new thematic issue on Civil Society Elites, edited by Håkan Johansson and Anders Uhlin and published by an open access journal Politics & Governance is now available. Several researchers in the project as well

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/new-thematic-issue-civil-society-elites - 2025-07-27

By jayeon [dot] lindellee [at] soch [dot] lu [dot] se (Jayeon Lindellee) - published 12 November 2020 The inter-disciplinary research program Civil Society Elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, interaction and contestation in European civil societies cordially invites researchers working on civil society studies to Lund University, Sweden, for a mini conference 15-16th of April 2020.

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/conference-civil-society-studies-2020-postponed-january-2021 - 2025-07-27

Published 27 March 2018 Håkan Johansson spoke to a full venue with members of the public, civil society organsiaitons and academics at a breakfast seminar hosted by Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan, a local adult education association in Lund. The filmed lecture is avalaible here (in Swedish.)

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/hakan-johansson-spoke-breakfast-seminar - 2025-07-27

Published 20 February 2015 DPP-4 inhibitors are a group of drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes that lower high blood sugar levels by stimulating insulin production in the body. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now discovered that DPP-4 inhibitors are also effective against low blood sugar levels. The study, which was carried out on mice, has been published in the journal Diabetologia.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/diabetes-drug-could-protect-against-low-blood-sugar - 2025-07-27

Published 23 February 2015 A group of Lund University students are behind a ’universal remote control’ called Unified Remote, an app that enables you to control your computer with your smart phone. After millions of downloads, they’re now looking at breaking into the the gaming world - by turning your phone into a joystick. WATCH VIDEO STORYTwo Swedish students who say they were ”too lazy to get o

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-students-behind-successful-remote-control-app-eye-gaming - 2025-07-27

Published 24 February 2015 Niels-Bjarne Woods Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a previously unknown effect of vitamin A in human embryonic development. Their findings show that vitamin A affects the formation of blood cells. The signal molecule, retinoic acid, is a product of vitamin A which helps to instruct how different types of tissue are to be formed in the growing emb

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/previously-unknown-effect-vitamin-identified - 2025-07-27

Published 24 February 2015 A new research study has shed light on the underground interaction between tree roots and fungi. In order to understand how this important symbiosis came about, an international team of researchers have sequenced the genomes of different fungi that live underground. The study shows that in the course of evolution, the symbiotic fungi have lost many genes present in their

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lost-genes-make-fungi-dependent-trees - 2025-07-27

Published 26 February 2015 Åke Lernmark New research shows that it is possible to predict the development of type 1 diabetes. By measuring the presence of autoantibodies in the blood, it is possible to detect whether the immune system has begun to break down the body’s own insulin cells. “In the TEDDY study we have found that autoantibodies often appear during the first few years of life”, said Pr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/early-signs-young-children-predict-type-1-diabetes - 2025-07-27

Published 13 March 2015 Rouzbeh Parsi Lund University Iran expert Rouzbeh Parsi on the importance of a nuclear deal with Iran: WATCH INTERVIEWQ: Why is this the right time for a deal?A: The Obama administration understands, especially after the election of President Rouhani in June 2013, that there is a negotiation partner who is credible and sincere in trying to solve this issue.            Iran

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/time-us-iran-deal-now-says-iran-scholar - 2025-07-27

Published 18 March 2015 Our opinions are affected by what our eyes are focusing on in the same instant we make moral decisions. Researchers at Lund University and other institutions have managed to influence people’s responses to questions such as “is murder defensible?” by tracking their eye movements. When the participants had looked at a randomly pre-selected response long enough, they were ask

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/moral-decisions-can-be-influenced-eye-tracking - 2025-07-27

Published 9 April 2014 Using magnetically controlled nanoparticles to force tumour cells to ‘self-destruct’ sounds like science fiction, but could be a future part of cancer treatment, according to research from Lund University in Sweden. Watch on YouTube: How rotating nanoparticles target cancer cells  “The clever thing about the technique is that we can target selected cells without harming surr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nanoparticles-cause-cancer-cells-self-destruct - 2025-07-27

Published 30 March 2015 Every year since 1999, the Master’s students in Industrial Design at Lund University have done what most design students around the world can only dream of – go to NASA in Houston, Texas, USA and study at the Johnson Space Center. There they design products for an extreme environment – namely, space. “The missions to Mars that the students from Lund have been studying will

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-students-collaborate-nasa - 2025-07-27

Published 1 April 2015 Taye Balcha A new tuberculosis diagnostic method tailored for low-income countries could save lives, detecting nearly 50% more TB cases among HIV-infected people, according to a new study from Lund University. Tuberculosis (TB) is the most common cause of death among HIV positive individuals, even if antiretroviral treatment  (ART) is available. Low-income countries have the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/improved-test-method-tuberculosis-could-save-lives-among-hiv-infected-people-africa - 2025-07-27

Published 2 April 2015 Miriam Preis/imagebank.sweden.se Consumption of high-fat yoghurt and cheese are linked to a reduction in the risk of type 2 diabetes by as much as a fifth, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. High meat consumption, on the other hand, is linked to a higher risk. The findings, which have been published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, are in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/high-fat-dairy-products-linked-reduced-type-2-diabetes-risk - 2025-07-27

Published 8 April 2015 Morten Kjaerum Morten Kjaerum is the new director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, having taken over the reins of the Institute on 1 April 2015. Kjaerum most recently was the director of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in Vienna. During his seven years at the agency, he is credited for having brought FRA into the foreground o

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-director-raoul-wallenberg-institute-human-rights - 2025-07-27

Published 9 April 2015 Five Lund University students have been declared to be some of the world's brightest business minds, landing a top six position in the prestigious Hult Prize competition in London. Five university friends from different backgrounds, nationalities and study programmes came together in a cold December to crack a fairly hard nut – solving one of the planet's biggest challenges

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-students-make-top-six-hult-prize-competition - 2025-07-27

Published 17 April 2015 Tobias Cronberg (Photo: Roger Lundholm) Half of all patients who survive a cardiac arrest experience problems with cognitive functions such as memory and attention. This has been shown by a major international study led from Lund University. Surprisingly, however, a control group comprising heart attack patients had largely the same level of problems. This suggests that it

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cognitive-problems-are-common-after-cardiac-arrest - 2025-07-27

Published 17 April 2015 NASA/JPL-Caltech Researchers can now explain how asteroids are formed. According to a new study led by Lund University in Sweden, our own planet also has its origins in the same process, a cosmic ocean of millimetre-sized particles that orbited the young sun. WATCH VIDEO STORYFragments of asteroids regularly land on Earth as meteorites. If you examine such a find, you can s

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-millimetre-sized-stones-formed-our-planet - 2025-07-27