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Pi Day: a day to think about whipping cream?

Pi Day is celebrated on 14 March to honour the mathematical constant pi (π), which has been used in mathematics and geometry for thousands of years. Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter and is abbreviated to 3.14 but actually...

Moving on after the threat of deportation as a child

Children who have grown up with the threat of deportation carry the experience with them into later life. Researcher Jacob Lind has conducted in-depth interviews with more than 20 people in Sweden and Denmark, all young adults who have now become, to some...

Practice-based research with an international outlook

Literacy and Inclusive Teaching (LIT) was established in 2018 and is now one of the University's nine research centres. The centre is interdisciplinary in its approach and often works closely with schools and teachers. Pia Nygård Larsson is the director...

International Migration and Ethnic Relations

New knowledge can improve care for patients with serious oral and jaw problems

One in four Swedes suffers from multiple oral and jaw problems at the same time, which significantly affects their quality of life. Now, new knowledge presented in Ibrahim Oghli’s doctoral thesis can help improve care for these people.

The endangered semicolon, and why it should be celebrated

The semicolon is controversial – some find it unwieldy and unnecessary, while others believe it offers opportunities for stylistic variation. Today is Semicolon Day, so we asked Mikael Berger, a senior lecturer and linguist at Malmö University, to give us...

Urban justice the focus for new research centre

Digging down into inequality in people's living situations in relation to issues such as housing and the environment will be the focus of the Institute for Urban Research (IUR), one of Malmö University's eight research centres.

A new child poverty : housing as a cause and consequence of family poverty in a conditional welfare state

How Georgian villagers halted construction of power plants

Even if both the government and big business are behind a major infrastructure project, it is important to have the people on board. In a new thesis, PhD student Nick Baigent has studied how small villages in rural Georgia managed to stop the construction...

Caucasus Studies