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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Engagement with alternative health theories and a scepticism towards authorities, politicians and pharmaceutical companies seem to unite the heterogeneous group of vaccine sceptics. “Many of them are not afraid of becoming infected with infectious diseases because they are convinced it will not happen”, says ethnologi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-vaccine-sceptics-think - 2026-10-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Recruitment is an area on which the University needs to continue working. "We can certainly become even better in this area", says Freddy Ståhlberg, one of the project managers in the RQ20 research evaluation. The reports from the transverse panels were completed by the start of the new year. There are five such panel
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-evaluation-rq20-calls-better-international-recruitment - 2026-10-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Getting important information out fast to the right target group has been a challenge for the crisis management group, which has now entered a calmer phase after an intensive spring. “Now it is mostly a question of coordination and we are also considering opening the group up to representatives of education and resear
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-successful-quick-digital-restart - 2026-10-17
Lund University has a world-class art collection worth hundreds of millions of Swedish crowns. But many of the less valuable paintings are currently hidden in attics and cellar storage rooms. “With the initiative entitled ‘When collections come to life’ and a new open warehouse, we want to highlight the art collection and make it more accessible”, says Annie Lindberg, archivist and acting director
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/art-treasures-taken-out-hiding - 2026-10-17
After graduating from International Strategic Management at LUSEM, Sofie Bjerling has built a career combining business strategy with sustainability. Today, she helps companies turn sustainability data and frameworks into meaningful business action. Editor's note: this interview is from 2024.Sofie, tell us about what you do today!I'm working with sustainability data and encourage companies to meas
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/sofie-combines-business-strategy-and-sustainability-drive-change - 2026-10-17
When researchers are working in the field, they may be faced with challenging and sometimes dangerous situations. How does Lund University prepare its doctoral students and researchers for fieldwork? When LUM asks about the faculties’ procedures, it becomes clear that the departments are primarily responsible. Dealing with dangerous situations in the field once they have arisen is not enough – the
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/safe-fieldwork-who-responsible-security - 2026-10-18
One of the biggest perks of teaching at university? Supervising students and seeing them grow into their role. That is at least according to senior lecturers Olof Hallonsten and Anna Jonsson. Detectives with magnifying glasses and catching and preparing a fish. Those are two of the metaphors that Anna Jonsson and Olof Hallonsten use to explain the relationship between supervisor and student, the v
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/comic-strips-and-metaphors-help-students-reflect - 2026-10-18
The packing crates are emptied, new furniture is in place, the art is hung, and the tech is working. The Offices of the Vice-Chancellor and staff have moved into the King’s House. The new entrance opens onto the University Square and the fountain. Behind the doors of the University’s oldest building, there’s a definite air of new and modern. You are greeted first by an exhibition about the buildin
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-beginning-kings-house - 2026-10-18
Local currencies may arise when there is a clear need for certain products and services in a local area and where the competences to produce them exist but the lack of traditional money puts obstacles in the way. The lack of money might be the result of pandemics, war, natural disasters, financial crises or poverty. Ester Barinaga, professor of entrepreneurship at the School of Economics and Manag
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/local-currencies-solution-times-crisis - 2026-10-18
Protein researcher Mikael Akke has been showered with grants recently: a total in excess of SEK 130 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the European Research Council. But who is the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) professor whose research is so hot right now? Since childhood, Mikael Akke has been driven by a desire to understand how things work in nature. Biology and chemistry w
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/protein-researcher-receives-major-grants - 2026-10-18
David Gisselsson Nord and Tony Ingesson both love spy novels and have a nerdy interest in history. Their shared curiosity resulted in an interdisciplinary collaboration about how it might be possible to inspire smarter cancer treatment with the help of methods from espionage and intelligence analysis. Tony Ingesson finds it fairly easy to show a bit of attitude in front of the camera. David Gissel
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cancer-researcher-and-intelligence-expert - 2026-10-18
What does it mean to be Vice-Chancellor of Lund University? Work is now underway to recruit a Vice-Chancellor who will take up the position in January 2027. But what does the role actually entail and why is it important who is Vice-Chancellor? The University’s highest academic leaderThe Vice-Chancellor works on behalf of the University Board and is the University’s highest leader för academic acti
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-does-vice-chancellor-actually-do - 2026-10-18
Tolibjon Mustafoev, PhD candidate at Lund University For the last few decades, Uzbekistan has been a popular research destination for many scholars studying authoritarian regimes. Indeed, the first president of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, had been in power from the first days of independence in 1991 until September 2016. Karimov was known for his policies on closed economy, high bureaucracy, centra
Det sex år långa CASE-koordinerade forskningsprogrammet UserAge, med en rad intressenter och 26 forskare från fyra lärosäten, har nått sitt slut. Resultaten presenteras i ett 25-tal vetenskapliga originalartiklar, fyra doktorsavhandlingar, en licentiatavhandling, en antologi, en populärvetenskaplig rapport, ett flertal populärvetenskapliga artiklar och reportage samt vetenskapliga konferensbidrag.
https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/sex-ar-lang-forskning-om-och-med-intressenter-nu-lanseras-intressentpoolen - 2026-10-17
Studiecentrum, samlat bibliotek, studentkafé och kansli med fakultetsledning. Lägg dessutom till en skyhög tummelplats för event. Projektledaren och bibliotekschefen Kristina Holmin Verdozzi har stora visioner för astronomihuset som under tre år ska genomgå en total metamorfos. Den som besöker Sölvegatan 27 en septemberdag 2028 kommer inte att känna igen sig. På gräsmattorna utanför den röda tegel
https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/internt/artikel/hon-vill-skapa-ett-andningshal-naturvetenskaplig-nyfikenhet - 2026-10-17
Kan mode någonsin bli hållbart? Hur ställer vi om till miljösmart e-handel? Och vilken roll ska universiteten ha i framtidens samhälle? Det är några av de ämnen som diskuteras under forskningsfestivalen Our Future City den 7-10 juni på Campus Helsingborg. Evenemanget görs tillsammans med Helsingborgs Dagblad och FoU Helsingborg och sker under den stora stadsmässan H22. Our Future City kan enklast
https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/hallbara-stader-och-samhallen-i-fokus-pa-ny-forskningsfestival - 2026-10-17
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Flera biodrivmedel, inte minst biometanol och biodiesel gjort av tallolja, är mycket kostnadseffektiva sätt att minska klimatpåverkan. Detta enligt ett nytt exjobb som ur ett livscykelperspektiv jämfört kostnader för elbilar och ett antal vanliga biodrivmedel, efter att skatter och subventioner skalats bort. Men i s
https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-undersokning-vilka-fossilfria-drivmedel-ar-kostnadseffektivast-0 - 2026-10-18
Som en av fyra unga forskare vid Lunds universitet får Ingrid van Dijk, verksam vid Centrum för ekonomisk demografi och Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen vid Ekonomihögskolan, ta emot ett ERC Starting Grant. Hennes projekt heter ”Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations”. Hon är den första forskaren någonsin från Ekonomihögskolan att få
https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/ekonomihistorikern-ingrid-van-dijk-far-prestigefullt-eu-anslag-projekt-om-halsa - 2026-10-17
Årets mottagare av Leif C. Groop-priset kartlägger mekanismer i fettväven, vilket har ökat förståelsen kring varför vissa med fetma får typ 2-diabetes. Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm vid Sahlgrenska akademin, Göteborgs universitet, är forskaren som blir sporrad att hitta nya svar när iakttagelserna i labbet inte stämmer överens med gängse uppfattningar. Prismotivering ”Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm vid S
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ingrid-wernstedt-asterholm-far-leif-c-groop-priset-forskning-om-fettvaven - 2026-10-18
