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It is always exciting to move into a new student apartment. You might think that all student apartments look pretty much the same, both in terms of layout and interior design, but that is far from the truth. At Furutorpsgatan student accommodation, Ellen Tössberg lives in a one-bedroom apartment of twenty square meters. The apartment may be small, but it has a lot of personality. When I enter Elle
https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/welcome-home-ellen - 2026-04-23
On 1 July, a pilot project for a new building supervisor organisation within the faculty started. The project, which will run until December 2025, will provide proposals for management and structure for a new building supervisor model for the faculty's departments in Lund. The background to the pilot project is a need for clarity and coordination regarding the physical work environment, fire prote
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-pilot-project-will-clarify-role-building-supervisors - 2026-04-23
Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm received the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research at the annual LUDC Diabetes Research Day. "This award allows me to to rest in the feeling that all the work I have done is good enough, at least for a short while,” said the recipient. Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm at Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg is this year’s recipient of the Leif C. Gro
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/diabetes-event-highlighted-findings-may-lead-new-treatments - 2026-04-23
How can youth movements influence and promote democratisation and social justice in the Middle East? Can researchers support and contribute to democratic reform? These are questions that political scientist Sarah Anne Rennick is working on as a researcher at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies. Sarah Anne Rennick is a familiar face among political scientists in Lund. She received her do
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sarah-anne-rennicks-research-profiled-lund-university-magazine - 2026-04-23
Anne‑Lise Viotti, researcher at the Division of Atomic Physics, has been awarded a five‑year research grant of SEK 15 million from ÅForsk. The funding will enable her group to deepen and further develop their work on ultrafast extreme ultraviolet (XUV) light, an area with significant potential for both fundamental science and future technological applications. Paving the way for new understanding
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/major-research-grant-awarded-anne-lise-viotti-ground-breaking-xuv-studies - 2026-04-23
Teaching is to be as highly valued as research when it comes to appointments and promotions. Despite this ambition, it has rarely worked that way in practice. A recently completed project provides a new framework which will help faculty managements, as well as individual teaching staff members, to evaluate and develop educational qualifications. In the ‘Pedagogisk Meritering’ project, which concer
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-initiative-raise-status-teaching - 2026-04-24
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Animal ecologist and pike researcher Anders Nilsson was the first doctor of the Millennium at Lund University. Now, 13 years later, he has just been appointed Professor of Aquatic Ecology. We caught up with him to find out what had happened since our last meeting, and had a long discussion on careers, creativity and t
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/journey-doctor-professor - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A researcher who made invisible female labour visible and had her hypotheses that efficiency thinking in healthcare is neither good nor cheap confirmed when her own husband became ill. Rosmari Eliasson-Lappalainen is a pioneer in elderly research. Photo: Gunnar Menander You could say that Rosmari Eliasson-Lappalainen
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/efficiency-mindset-inappropriate-elderly-care - 2026-04-23
At the end of March, the first cases of acute severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children were reported in the UK. Since then, the number has increased to more than 300 in around 20 countries; there are now reports of nine suspected cases in Sweden. The acute liver infection mainly affects otherwise completely healthy children under the age of 16, which puzzles researchers who are now searching
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researchers-search-answers-increase-acute-severe-hepatitis-children - 2026-04-23
In this article published in Sydsvenskan, CMES scholars Sarah Anne Rennick and Dalia Abdelhady argue that the political mobilization of Middle Eastern migrants in European states represents a unique opportunity to revitalize our own democratic practices. Read the article in Swedish in Sydsvenskan Last decade, pinpointing political mobilization in the Middle East was a straightforward affair. At pr
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-political-mobilization-opportunity-european-democracy - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For a decade now, the Rehabilitation Medicine research group’s work on spinal cord injuries (SCI’s) has had a far-reaching impact. In many areas, this is research at the global cutting edge; not least, in terms of following the same group of individuals as they live – and age – with spinal cord injuries. Research grou
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/lund-research-spinal-cord-injuries-continues-have-global-impact - 2026-04-23
With his cycling helmet perched on his head, he rushes in like a whirlwind, fires off monosyllabic replies to emails and then asks thoughtful questions during meetings while simultaneously managing to work away on his computer. For Henrik Smith, life moves at a hundred miles an hour. But he is also a lauded professor with an awful lot to do. Henrik Smith, you see, wants to save the world. Has he g
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/henrik-smith-visionary-who-never-slows-down - 2026-04-23
There is no doubt that retailing is undergoing a significant structural transformation. During the last decade or so, many stores have closed. Yet, at the same time, online retailers are opening physical stores and showrooms and many long-established retailers are investing in new and innovative store formats. This suggests that the physical store is not ‘dead’ but that its role and function is ch
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/ease-or-excitement - 2026-04-23
Editor's note: this interview is from 2024.Why did you chose Sweden and the School of Economics and Management as your study destination?I had moved to Stockholm in 2014 years to work in the British Embassy, I first heard of Lund University from a friend who studied in Lund and went on to a successful career. After eight years in the Diplomatic service, I wanted to focus my career to be more econo
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/william-dendy-alumnus-msc-economics-2017 - 2026-04-23
18 people came from Africa to Lund to learn more about innovation, transformation and resilience for sustainable development. Why come all this way? And what knowledge will they bring back? Meet Pamla, Faith, Nahed and David and learn more about their thoughts on the four weeks course. And on the LundaCarnival 😁 When Senior lecturer in Economic history Martin Andersson learned that a new course o
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/africa-lund-joining-course-lusem - 2026-04-23
The use of technologies to support teaching was essential during the pandemic. But what can they do to support education at a campus university in ‘normal’ times? Here are four reasons why the university might want to plan strategically for the use of digital learning to enhance campus experiences. Continue reading and you will find out more in this opinion piece by Rachel Forsyth. Photo: Ben Davi
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/why-bother-blended-learning - 2026-04-23
18 delegates traveled from Africa to Lund to learn more about innovation, transformation and resilience for sustainable development. Why come all this way? And what knowledge will they bring back? Meet Pamla, Faith, Nahed and David and learn more about their thoughts on the four weeks course. And on the LundaCarnival 😁 When Senior lecturer in Economic history Martin Andersson learned that a new c
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/africa-lund-joining-course-lusem - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Economist and researcher Andreas Bergh is closely involved in public debate. Few things make him really angry. One of them is stupidity. Like when the city of Malmö fails to create simple entry-level jobs because of unreasonable demands on people who want to start mobile food trucks. “That is how the sluggish Swedish
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/advocating-capitalist-welfare-state - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. It’s Friday night in Lund and soon Mikael Dolsten, acclaimed head of research and visiting professor of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine, is about to tell the incredible but true story of how, in just nine months, his company developed one of the vaccines that could save us from the pandemic. It would have take
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/our-visiting-professor-tells-astonishing-story-vaccine-can-save-world-pandemic - 2026-04-23
