By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 15 August 2023 An image of co-cultures with neuronal projections in purple and astrocytes in green. Image credit: Isaac Canals. One of Multipark's associated research groups has published a new study that reveals the role of astrocytes in the development of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Their findings, now in the jour

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-study-reveals-astrocytes-role-frontotemporal-dementia - 2025-04-19

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 11 July 2023 Angela Cenci Nilsson was one of the panellists in a session discussing disease mechanisms, non-dopaminergic cells involved in PD, and the latest development regarding gene and cell therapy approaches. Summer is the right period for recharging our batteries through vacations and travels. It also seems t

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/summer-greetings-multipark-world-parkinson-congress - 2025-04-19

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 24 August 2023 Illustration of a Lewy body.(Image: istock.com/Marcin Klapczynski) Lewy body disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease. A research group from Lund University has now shown that the disease can be detected before symptoms appear, using a spinal fluid test. The s

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/lewy-body-disease-can-be-detected-symptoms - 2025-04-19

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 4 September 2023 Find out how electrotherapy works without surgery in this video by Roger Olsson. Researchers at Lund and Gothenburg Universities have successfully developed temporary, organic electrodes that can be seamlessly integrated into biological systems. The method, now published in Nature Communications, opens

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/electrotherapy-without-surgery - 2025-04-19

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 19 September 2023 Brainwaves, or neural oscillations, are periodic electrical activities that occur when large groups of neurons work together. Researchers now hope that these signals will teach us more about hallucinations and psychoses. Photo: Pär Halje Researchers at Lund University have developed a technique for simultaneo

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/how-psychedelic-drugs-affect-rats-brain - 2025-04-19

Published 13 January 2022 Annika Fredén has together with Ludovic Rheault and Indridi H. Indridason co-authored the article ”Betting on the Underdog – The Influence of Social Networks on Vote Choice”, published in the journal Political Science Research and Methods. In this article, the authors investigate the relationship between local social networks and voting behavior, in the case where the vot

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/freden-influence-social-networks-vote-choice - 2025-04-19

Published 14 January 2022 Jana Wrange has published an article on the divergent interpretations of the concept of civil defence in Sweden. The article has been published in the journal European Security and is entitled ”Entangled security logics: from the decision-makers’ discourses to the decision-takers’ interpretations of civil defence”.  Read more on the journal’s website Jana Wrange’s persona

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wrange-civil-defence-sweden - 2025-04-19

Published 18 January 2022 Maiken Røed has published the article “When do political parties listen to interest groups?” in Party Politics. The article examines 88 Norwegian policy proposals and shows that parties often reuse input from interest groups. Characteristics relating to the proposals, interest groups, and parties affect parties’ propensity to listen. Read more on the journal’s website Mai

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roed-parties-propensity-listen-interest-groups - 2025-04-19

Published 20 January 2022 Sara Kalm has published the article ”The Business of Citizenship: Investment Citizenship Firms in Global Governance” in the journal Global Society. The article is concerned with the private firms that design and manage programs for selling citizenship for the governments that have chosen this policy path. It examines how these firms exert power, by a focus on their interm

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kalm-firms-sell-citizenship - 2025-04-19

Published 21 January 2022 Photo: Michael Erhardsson, Mostphotos Extreme poverty is still an urgent issue around the world. Four universities have initiated a new research school on sustainable development and poverty reduction to address the challenge. The research school will be coordinated via Lund University. The new research school, which has been granted six million SEK from the Swedish Resea

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-school-strengthens-focus-poverty-reduction - 2025-04-19

Published 25 January 2022 Rikard Bengtsson has together with Douglas Brommesson (Linnaeus University) published an article entitled "Institutional trust and emergency preparedness: Perceptions of Covid 19 crisis management in Sweden" in Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. The article analyses the Swedish public's trust in different actors involved in Covid 19 crisis management and how

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-trust-and-crisis-management - 2025-04-19

Published 28 January 2022 Thomas Hickmann has co-authored a new open access article in the journal Earth System Governance. The article presents the current state of knowledge on the relationship between democratic practices and sustainability transformations. Starting off from long-standing debates about whether democratic practices are capable of fostering timely, large-scale transformations tow

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/are-democracies-task-generating-large-scale-sustainability-transformation-and-sustain-liveable - 2025-04-19

Published 4 February 2022 Lisa Strömbom has co-authored the article "Tracing Responses to Recognition in the Oslo Peace Process and Its Aftermath - the Interlinkage between Relational and Internal Ontological Security" in the journal Conflict Resolution Quarterly (open access). The article deals with mechanisms for how formal and relatively superficial forms of recognition in peace processes can o

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-recognition-peace-processes - 2025-04-19

Published 18 February 2022 Lisa Strömbom, Isabel Bramsen and Anne Lene Stein have recently published the article "Agonistic peace agreements? Analytical tools and dilemmas" in Review of International Studies (open access). The study develops a framework for analysis of agonistic principles in peace agreements, based on the three indicators 1) spaces for interaction, 2) forms of inclusion, and 3) t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-bramsen-and-stein-how-analyze-and-understand-agonistic-principles-peace-agreements - 2025-04-19

Published 4 March 2022 Sara Kalm has written a book chapter on migration and welfare together with Frida Boräng and Johannes Lindvall, both at Gothenburg University. The chapter is called ”Welfare states and migration policy: The main challenges for scholarship”, and is part of the newly published Handbook on Migration and Welfare, Edward Elgar Publishing, ed. Markus M.L. Crepaz. Link to the volum

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kalm-borang-and-lindvall-migration-and-welfare - 2025-04-19

Published 8 March 2022 Malte Breiding Hansen and Maria Jansson (Örebro University) have authored the open-access article ”Who Cares? The Neoliberal Turn and Changes in the Articulations of Women’s Relation to the Swedish Welfare State” in the journal NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. The article asks whether articulations of women’s relation to the welfare state and modes of po

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hansen-and-jansson-gender-neoliberalism-and-swedish-welfare-state - 2025-04-19

Published 10 March 2022 Elsa Hedling has co-authored the book The Everyday Making of EU Foreign and Security Policy. Practices, Socialization and the Management of Dissent published Open Access by Edward Elgar Publishing. The book confronts why despite increasing levels of contestation on CFSP issues between EU member states, EU practitioners generally perceive their working environment as fully f

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-everyday-making-eu-foreign-and-security-policy - 2025-04-19

Published 10 March 2022 Johan Matz has published an article in Intelligence and National Security. This article approaches the intelligence dimension of Sweden’s arms exports by going back to three governmental decisions, taken in 1914, 1935 and 1971 respectively, all of which have been pivotal to both the Swedish government’s involvement in arms exports and the emergence of government institution

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/johan-matz-arms-exports-and-intelligence-case-sweden - 2025-04-19

Published 11 March 2022 In a newly published article in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson analyse the appeal of far-right populist politics in the everyday and how this appeal is related to continuity and change in the global order. One of their key arguments is that while far-right populism is able to momentarily overwrite a sense of d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-catarina-kinnvall-and-ted-svensson-dynamics-everyday-populism - 2025-04-19

Published 17 March 2022 In the chapter ”The EU’s Self-Conception of Its Roles in Global Affairs” Rikard Bengtsson analyzes the EU’s own role self-conception as it appears in the EU Global Strategy from 2016 and problematizes how the changing international context in recent years yield new preconditions for the EU to act on the global stage. The chapter is part of a recently published volume entitl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-eus-role-self-conception-global-affairs - 2025-04-19