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For those who have been following the course of events surrounding pro-Palestinian demonstrations and how tent camps were established on American campuses and then spread to other parts of the world, it will not come as a surprise that such demonstrations have now reached Sweden. A tent camp was set up in Lundagård on Tuesday morning (14 May) and similar camps have been established around other hi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tent-camp-lundagard - 2026-10-20
A computational science hub, COSHE, has been established at Lund University. The aim is to become a creative hub for computational science with a focus on interdisciplinary research in the fields of health, climate and the environment. This type of project requires a commitment to the research problems with a focus on the end result, that you familiarize yourself with experiments and data together
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/computational-science-hub-sharpen-research-environment-and-health - 2026-10-20
I took part in two interesting seminars a few weeks ago. The first was entitled “The academic book stands firm: Why a leading university needs its own Press in turbulent times”. The other seminar focused on how to apply for and obtain grants from the European Research Council (ERC). The seminar on how to write and publish academic books commendably highlighted the importance of books in the conduc
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/international-interest-also-extends-swedish-phenomena - 2026-10-20
On Saturday 4 May, Lund’s city centre was taken over by Lundaloppet. This year, there was a record number of participants, 8,179, who ran or walked in the races. Among those competing were 784 staff members from Lund University. Lund University was one of the largest employers represented in the race. Many fleet-footed LU staff members took part and we had several runners among the top finishers.A
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-did-your-colleagues-fare-years-lundaloppet - 2026-10-20
This year’s doctoral degree conferment ceremony, the University’s ceremonial highlight and the faculties’ most important academic celebration, will break the record for the number of conferees. It is time to celebrate the faculties’ doctors, honorary doctors and jubilee doctors. In a solemn ceremony at Lund Cathedral, the doctoral students who completed their doctoral studies in the past year and
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/record-number-conferees-doctoral-degree-conferment-ceremony-31-may - 2026-10-20
According to the Swedish Tax Agency’s regulations on payment of health promotion reimbursement, the reimbursement must be paid, as a rule, during the year for which the application applies. For this reason, as of 2024 Lund University will make 30 November the deadline for health promotion reimbursement applications. Please note that your case needs to be completed in Primula by 30 November. You th
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-deadline-health-promotion-reimbursement-applications - 2026-10-20
A COIL involves two different courses at two universities in different countries where students collaborate digitally during a part of the course. Each course follows its own syllabus, and the teachers grade their respective students. Virtual exchanges are a way to provide many students with international experience, as highlighted by Erik Renström in a recent blog post For several years, Lund Uni
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/do-you-want-take-opportunity-develop-coil - 2026-10-20
The faculties’ honorary doctors for 2024 have been announced. They will be honoured at the doctoral degree conferment ceremony on 31 May 2024. You can hear the talking between 29-30 May. Lund University School of Economics and Management30 May 13:00 to 14:15 | Open lecture with professor Martha Bailey and the Swedish Riksbank’s first deputy governor Anna BremanMartha Bailey, professor in Economy a
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/see-open-lectures-faculties-honorary-doctors - 2026-10-20
On 26 May, a large number of emails were sent to University employees regarding a meeting between demonstrators and the University Management. This was not an IT security breach, but legitimate way of reaching many recipients since all staff email addresses are listed on the University’s website.Our freedom of speech provides space for large numbers of different opinions to be expressed and dissem
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/emails-over-weekend-about-demonstrations - 2026-10-20
Several faculties have merged different departments or are about to do so. The Faculty of Engineering (LTH) merged two departments at the turn of the year, the Facult of Social Sciences has decided on one merger and is on the way to a second, while the Faculty of Science will make a decision after the summer. In a policy decision last year, the Faculty of Social Sciences decided that within a few
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/concern-when-departments-are-merged - 2026-10-20
Around 100 select astronomy books dating from 1545 to 1799 have been relocated from the Astronomy Library to the University Library. LUM was there as the books were packed away, and again, several months later, after they had been quarantined and it was time to catalogue, encapsulate and put them in storage. Next year, the rarest volumes will be digitalised and perhaps even be displayed. Outside A
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/star-studded-tomes-astronomy-library-move-new-home - 2026-10-20
What happens when people meet? How do they interact? How do they react? Annika Nyman, lecturer at Malmö Theatre Academy, regards helping students to understand these things as the most important aspect of her teaching duties. Inside the Malmö Theatre Academy’s premises on Bergsgatan in Malmö, a group of acting students are busy rehearsing their degree project, a production that will be staged at B
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/flair-dramatic - 2026-10-20
At the School of Aviation in Ljungbyhed, any direct consequences of Russia’s war in Ukraine are yet to be felt. However, Head of Department Johan Bergström says that it may only be a matter of time. He mentions Ukrainian interests who wish to train instructors who will in turn be active in Ukraine, training drone pilots on location.“This is the kind of thing we monitor, and are prepared for. If we
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/higher-level-drone-pilot-training - 2026-10-20
When planning for food in times of crisis – what foodstuffs do we imagine? Many think of tin cans and freeze-dried food, but the fact is that if a crisis occurs, it is not stockpiled cans that will save us. Food preparedness is a subject being taken up by researchers from the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at Almedalen Week, one of their reflections being how local growing of crops that do not need
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/preparedness-more-stockpiling-pantry-provisions - 2026-10-20
In an ideal world, perhaps the Psychological Defence Research Institute in Helsingborg would not even exist. But the global situation has brought attention, increased research funding and significant interest in collaboration from wider society. “The entire research institute is built around the idea that the world is troubled. We could be ten times the size we are, there is such an enormous amoun
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/psychological-defence-research-institute-we-could-be-ten-times-size-we-are - 2026-10-20
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Svenska Läkaresällskapet belönar Lisa Rydén för hennes långsiktiga och värdefulla studier kring prognostiska och prediktiva markörer vid bröstcancer, samt för hennes insatser för kvalitetsförbättring av bröstcancerkirurgin i Sverige. Lisa Rydén, professor – den första kvinnliga professorn i kirurgi vid Lunds unive
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/reuterskiolds-pris-2019-till-lisa-ryden - 2026-10-20
Studier av fettceller kan öka kunskapen om hur olika viktminskningsbehandlingar påverkar individer med obesitas. Men fettceller är svåra att studera eftersom de är sköra och lätt går sönder. Karin Stenkula får nu ett anslag för ett projekt som kommer att använda sig av ny teknik för att studera hur fettceller påverkas vid viktminskning. Diabetesforskaren Karin Stenkula leder en forskargrupp som st
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/forskning-om-fettceller-far-stod-av-hjelt-diabetes-foundation - 2026-10-20
Högutbildade föräldrar får nästan 30 procent mer personlig assistans till sina barn med funktionsnedsättning, än lågutbildade föräldrar. Skillnaderna kan bero på att lågutbildade föräldrar har svårare att navigera i systemet och driva igenom sina ärenden, vilket kan leda till ökade skillnader i hälsa och livskvalitet. Under det senaste decenniet har förändringar i regelverket inom LSS (lagen om st
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/barn-till-hogutbildade-far-mer-personlig-assistans - 2026-10-20
En första klinisk studie, ledd från Lund, visar att stamcellsbaserade dopaminceller kan transplanteras till – och överleva i – hjärnan hos personer med Parkinsons sjukdom. Åtta patienter fick transplantatet och inga allvarliga biverkningar kopplade till de transplanterade cellerna observerades under första årets uppföljning. Resultaten publiceras i Nature Medicine. Vid Parkinsons sjukdom förloras
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/transplanterade-stamceller-overlever-i-hjarnan-vid-parkinsons - 2026-10-20
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Kerstin Nilsson, forskare i folkhälsovetenskap, har precis slutfört underlagsrapporten till Delegationen för senior arbetskraft. Delegationen har av regeringen fått i uppdrag att hitta möjligheter för att bättre ta tillvara äldres erfarenhet och kompetens, så att de som vill och kan ska kunna fortsätta arbeta efter
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/stanna-eller-ga - 2026-10-20
