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... PhD Student at INES, who visited the Forum for Research Communication on Science Festival in Gothenburg some time ago. How was the forum for science communication?It was really inspiring! There were different types of research communication, ranging from discussion groups, quick presentations, tips on different ways to communicate and also fun to meet people from all sorts of institutions and
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/hi-ylva-persson - 2025-11-29
Margareta Johansson, researcher at the department, has been elected as the new Chair of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' National Committee for Global Environmental Change. Here she answers some questions regarding this. What's the purpose of the the Academy's National Committee for Global Environmental Change?– Our mission is to ensure that Swedish scientists find out what is happening on t
Ricardo Guillén, IT technician at the department, has been awarded The Science Student Union honorary prize. The honorary prize is awarded to an employee or a group of employees at the Faculty of Science that has made the studies easier for students or works to strengthen the student voice.The prize is partly motivated by the following: "Ricardo consistently provides IT support to all students and
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ricardo-guillen-awarded-luna-honorary-prize - 2025-11-29
Markku Rummukainen was interviewed in Sydsvenskan, Helsingborgs Dagblad, Aftonbladet and Svenska Dagbladet during July and August. In July, Markku was featured in Swedish newspapers Sydsvenskan, Helsingborgs Dagblad and Aftonbladet, discussing climate change, and how global warming can be mitigated.He was also interviewed about the environmental impact of air travel in Svenska Dagbladet the 4th o
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/markku-rummukainen-interviewed-swedish-newspapers - 2025-11-29
Ylva van Meeningen will enter the stage in a tough competition to show her skills. Forskar Grand Prix is a competition in presenting science in the most catching way, in few minutes. The audience in Lund will be hundreds of students at Polhemsskolan in Lund, on October 7th.There will also be an expert jury of three people.Ylva will present her research on BVOC: the communication of plants and its
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ylva-van-meeningen-researcher-grand-prix - 2025-11-29
Margareta Johansson, research coordinator at our department, will receive 10 million euros of EU framework program Horisont 2020. The money is for the infrastructure project INTERACT. INTERACT aims to make available data from around 75 research stations in the Arctic.The project will run for four years. It is coordinated by Margareta Johansson and began October 1.For more information about the pro
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/margareta-johansson-granted-millions-new-project - 2025-11-29
The teeth of herbivorous mammals provide a detailed account of the climate in which the animals live and of local climate change. Professor Janne Rinne at the Faculty of Science at Lund University, together with his colleagues at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm and the University of Helsinki among others, has studied herbivores in 13 different national parks in Kenya. By adding
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/teeth-give-away-climate-history - 2025-11-29
Ben Smith, professor at the department, was interviewed on SVT Nyheter about new research showing that the world’s plants have increased their uptake of carbon dioxide. This increase in carbon uptake has contributed to slowing the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere between 2002 and 2014.Read more"Växter hjälper till i koldioxidkrisen" (Article in Swedish)Ben Smith staff page
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/earths-plants-absorb-more-carbon-dioxide - 2025-11-29
Christofer Edling has, together with Jens Rydgren, edited a special issue on social mechanisms for American Behavioral Scientist. Apart from the editors introductory article, the issue contains six articles that applies the social mechanism approach to explain different social phenomena. The authors include Mary Brinton (Harvard), Kate Stovel (U Washington), and P-O Wikström (Cambridge).The specia
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/edling-social-mechanisms-empirical-sociology - 2025-11-29
What do scholars in the different human sciences assume with regard to human interests? How can we bridge the disciplinary divide between different human science approaches? These and more questions are addressed in Mikael Klintman’s new book “Human Sciences and Human Interests. Integrating the Social, Economic, and Evolutionary Sciences”. About the book:Within the disciplines of social, economic,
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/klintman-human-sciences-and-human-interests - 2025-11-29
The repeated sniffing by presidential candidate Donald Trump in the first presidential debate on 25th September 2016, lead to a Twitter-storm and intensive media interest regarding his health. Lisa Flower, PhD candidate in sociology at the Department of Sociology at Lund University, however provides an alternative explanation:- My research shows that sniffing can be a way of marking a switch by th
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/what-donald-trump-really-revealing-trumpsniffles - 2025-11-29
Three of our projects got funding from FORTE of almost 10,5 million Swedish kronor (SEK). Henriette Esholdt, with a project as junior researcher on “The appeal of violence-promoting Islamic extremism. An investigation of masculinity and femininity”Shai Mulinari, with a project on “What can be learnt from the new pharmaceutical industry payment disclosures? A network and policy analysis of ties bet
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/almost-105-million-sek-funding - 2025-11-29
Lisa Flower’s article ”The (Un)emotional Law Student” which discusses the ”emotional sniff” received media attention in Sweden following Donald Trump’s sniffing in the first presidential candidate debate and has now been used by Forbes Magazine to analyse the second debate. Forbes Magazine concludes that Trump’s sniffing was noticeable when he threatened presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/flower-usa-media - 2025-11-29
Carl-Göran Heidegren has just received a substantial research grant from ”The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences” (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond) for his comparative project on philosophy in Nordic welfare societies. From our Department, also Klas Gustavsson will be working on the project.Learn more on anslag.rj.seCarl-Göran Heidegren’s personal pageKlas Gustavsson’s personal page
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/research-money-project-nordic-welfare-societies - 2025-11-29
How do media in different countries discuss climate change? Christofer Edling is part of a large international research network who analyse this question in the recently published article “Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse”. Abstract: Reducing global emissions will require a global cosmopolitan culture built from detailed attention to conflicting national clima
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/climate-change-media-discourse-17-countries - 2025-11-29
Malin Åkerström received, together with Katarina Jacobsson, a research grant from the Swedish Research Council with their project “An administrative Eigendynamik in the interaction of meetings and documents”. The project will run for three years. Abstract:An increasing proportion of people's working hours are devoted to administrative tasks, in which meetings and documents are particularly accentu
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/3-millon-sek-research-project - 2025-11-29
The primarily biomedical definition of ADHD has been questioned and criticized in various ways. Mattias Nilsson Sjöberg adopts the Baradian perspective of agential realism in his article ”(Un)becoming dysfunctional: ADHD and how matter comes to matter” in International Journal of Inclusive Education. Abstract:Various neuropsychiatric disorders are a common feature today, not least in educational c
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/nilsson-sjoberg-adhd-perspective-agential-realism - 2025-11-29
What are the feeling rules, and how do they emerge, regarding victim offender mediation? Anna Rypi investigates this “emotion culture” in her recent article “The feeling rules of victim offender mediation” in the journal International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion. Abstract:This paper is based on an ethnographic study conducted in Sweden and focuses on the emotional aspect, both its rhe
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/rypi-about-feeling-rules-victim-offender-mediation - 2025-11-29
Antoinette Hetzler is invited as one of the main speakers to the third International Symposium on Bullying that will be held in Tokyo Japan, December 4, 2016. Antoinette Hetzler will, together with Mitsuru Taki (NIER), discuss issues of bullying in less violent crime societies.Results are from a longitudinal comparative survey (2013-2015) between Sweden and Japan. Both countries are described as c
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hetzler-one-main-speakers-symposium-bullying - 2025-11-29
How is theatre used for social integration? Hanna Wittrock has in her recent article ”Integration of culture, culture as integration. The praxis and politics of multicultural theatre and drama” looked at multicultural theatre projects in Sweden. Abstract:Theatre is one of the artistic tools most often employed in Sweden to promote social integration. The aim of this article is to illustrate recurr
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/wittrock-praxis-and-politics-multicultural-theatre-and-drama - 2025-11-29
