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ALL MY RELATIONS 2 is a 3-days transdisciplinary workshop that explores the ecological potential of performance, performativity and eco-pedagogy. Extended deadline to apply, 9 august. For the second time we now arrange this three-day workshop in Gylleboverket, a center for ecological art located in the Skåne countryside. The purpose of this event is to study the possibilities and limitations of
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/all-my-relations-2 - 2025-11-05
Appropriate buildings, leading research infrastructure, good logistics and attractive outdoor environments are the conditions for being able to conduct world-leading research, provide the best conceivable teaching and pursue successful external engagement. Our campus is important. However, we are not the only ones who decide how our campus is to develop. The University does not own its buildings,
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-are-working-even-better-campus-2050-horizon - 2025-11-06
LUND SPRING SYMPOSIUM – When Katherine A. High began working with gene therapy, the field was new, promising – and riddled with uncertainty. Three decades later, she is a visiting professor at The Rockefeller University, CEO of RhyGaze AG, and former President and Head of R&D at Spark Therapeutics. Her research has led to life-changing treatments for patients with inherited diseases. But the road
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/rewriting-genetic-fate-katherine-high-and-rise-gene-therapy - 2025-11-05
As a PhD student he made a significant discovery when he identified ghrelin cells in the pancreatic islands. Four hormone-producing cells were already known to exist in the islands, including the insulin cell. The ghrelin cell became the fifth such cell. “In the scientific world, the discovery of a new type of cell in a human organ is a big deal. So naturally this was an important find. Especially
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/flying-start-fifth-cell - 2025-11-05
Are you a university lecturer, teacher, student teacher, or researcher in educational science? Or just generally interested in school issues and higher education? You are warmly welcome to this fall’s Higher Seminars in Educational Science. At four different sessions, you’ll have the opportunity to delve into topics such as emotional challenges in teaching, the role of the teacher in knowledge tra
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/discover-falls-seminars-educational-science - 2025-11-06
On 15 March, 24 notifications of interest had been submitted. These submissions have now been evaluated by me, in collaboration with the deans. The assessment was based on Lund University’s criteria for the profile areas. During the late autumn and winter, all researchers at the University were invited to submit notifications of interest in becoming profile areas. The criteria concern the research
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/first-selection-profile-areas-completed-11-applications-be-summoned-interview - 2025-11-06
Insects have difficulties handling the higher temperatures brought on by climate change, and might risk overheating. The ability to reproduce is also strongly affected by rising temperatures, even in northern areas of the world, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. Insects cannot regulate their own body temperature, which is instead strongly influenced by the temperature in the
https://www.science.lu.se/article/high-temperatures-threaten-survival-insects - 2025-11-05
The Board of the Faculty of Medicine (MFS) has held a meeting. The meeting began with the Dean informing about the research bill and how it affects us at the university and the faculty and how we are now working with this. She also informed about the ongoing work on the new strategic direction for the faculty, which will be decided at a coming meeting, and the continued implementation of the decis
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/report-faculty-board-meeting-5-february-2025 - 2025-11-05
There is every reason to keep an eye on Körcentrum Syd during "Future Week" 2020 as they let three different choirs interpret the theme of the week: forces in motion. Körcentrum Syd participates for the second year in Future Week and the idea for this year's project has been to let three choirs choose a composer each to interpret the theme Forces in motion. The new choral music will be performed a
https://www.mhm.lu.se/en/article/korcentrum-syd-let-choirs-interpret-theme-future-week-2020 - 2025-11-05
The Institute announces yearly calls for application to Themes and Advanced Study Groups. Researchers/teaching staff (with PhD or equiv.) employed by Lund University are now invited to apply for Themes and Advanced Study Groups, starting in 2025. The Pufendorf IAS stimulates interdisciplinary research within Lund University. The Institute supports researchers working together across disciplinary b
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/call-applications-pufendorf-institute-advanced-studies - 2025-11-06
The Conversation is a unique collaboration between academics and journalists that has become the world's leading publisher of research-based news and analysis. Pär Halje recently published an article and reached about thirty media platforms. Here's how he did it. Why did you want to publish on The Conversation? “It started with me being invited to write a blog post for "Behind the Paper," which is
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/conversation-how-researcher-par-halje-reached-around-30-global-media-platforms - 2025-11-05
Smokers have a lower risk of developing prostate cancer, but a higher risk of dying from the disease, according to a large population study led by Lund University in Sweden. The researchers followed more than 350 000 people over several decades, and the results are now published in European Urology. It is well known that smokers have an increased risk of developing various cancers, but there have
https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/smoking-worsens-prognosis-men-prostate-cancer - 2025-11-05
In recently published studies, researchers at Lund University and Skåne University Hospital in Sweden have produced new prediction models for improved personalised treatment of lymph nodes in breast cancer patients. The latest results that have now been published in Clinical Cancer Research and BMC Cancer show that up to one in every three operations could be avoided. Photo: Mostphotos Breast canc
https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/fewer-lymph-node-operations-breast-cancer-patients-new-prediction-models - 2025-11-05
On Friday 23 May, the university's major ceremony, the doctoral conferment, took place. During the ceremony in Lund Cathedral, the 239 doctors who have completed their doctoral studies and defended a doctoral thesis at Lund University over the past year, including some from the Department of Service Studies, were awarded their doctorates. At Friday's ceremony, the newly awarded doctorates marched
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/festive-and-solemn-universitys-doctoral-conferment - 2025-11-05
The mountainsides are on fire. In the village below, activities are in full swing: women and men working in the fields, fishing in the river, and herding cattle along the grassy wetlands. The painting took four days to produce during fieldwork in Tanzania. Emma Johansson Li, a researcher in physical geography, has dedicated her research to land grabbing. During her most recent fieldwork in Tanzani
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/physical-geographer-uses-art-her-research - 2025-11-05
Smittor sprids på flera olika sätt och extra svårt kan det vara att skydda sig mot de som är luftburna. Vinterkräksjukan som orsakas av noroviruset är ett sådant. Carl-Johan Fraenkel, infektionsläkare och vårdhygienläkare, disputerar nu med en avhandling vid Lunds universitet som undersöker olika aspekter kring hur denna vinterkräksjuka sprids på sjukhus. Alla vill undvika vinterkräksjukan, men ka
https://www.lu.se/artikel/forskare-sparar-vinterkraksjukans-spridning-pa-sjukhus - 2025-11-06
Vad driver fram innovationer? Vilken betydelse har finansiering? Varför ser vi fler svenska innovationer under vissa tidsperioder? Det är några av frågorna som Lundaforskarna bakom databasen Swinno nu kommer att gå till djupet med i ett fortsättningsprojekt finansierat av Vinnova med 20 miljoner kronor över fem års tid. – Vår forskning syftar till att förstå omvandlingar, som sådana som vi befinne
https://www.lu.se/artikel/20-miljoner-att-fordjupa-kunskapen-om-svenska-innovationer - 2025-11-06
Smittor sprids på flera olika sätt och extra svårt kan det vara att skydda sig mot de som är luftburna. Vinterkräksjukan som orsakas av noroviruset är ett sådant. Carl-Johan Fraenkel, infektionsläkare och vårdhygienläkare, disputerar nu med en avhandling vid Lunds universitet som undersöker olika aspekter kring hur denna vinterkräksjuka sprids på sjukhus. Alla vill undvika vinterkräksjukan, men ka
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/forskare-sparar-vinterkraksjukans-spridning-pa-sjukhus - 2025-11-06
Fanny Esquivel Jiménez from Mexico is currently studying the Master's Programme with specialisation Culture and Creativity. We asked her what she thinks about her studies. What is the best thing about your programme? What I like the most about the Master in Service Management is the community of professors and colleagues around me, as well as the reading list and the seminars. I was looking forwar
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/what-i-most-about-masters-programme-community-professors-and-colleagues-around-me - 2025-11-05
PhD student Nicola Guzzi will be defending his thesis titled “Post-transcriptional control of stem and cancer cell fate - new roles for an old RNA modification” on Thursday 24th of September 2020. In this interview, Nicola tells us about his PhD journey within the RNA and Stem Cell Biology research group at Lund Stem Cell Center. What have you been working with during your PhD?During my PhD in the
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-nicola-guzzi - 2025-11-06
