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CASE PhD student Christina Heller just had her Mid-way review: "Simulation models as a tool to compare housing policies for a population aging in place". Housing policies can be instrumental in addressing several major public health issues. - Thus, there is an urgent need to develop sustainable housing policies to accommodate the growing number of seniors in accessible home environments. In order
During the 8th - 11 th August 2022, the Development Research School held its first doctoral course in Methodology and Field Studies. It took place in Sogakope, Ghana. The doctoral course was organised by the Institute of Statistical, Economic and Social Research (ISSER), in collaboration with the School of Graduate Studies, University of Ghana, universities of Lund, Gothenburg and Uppsala for doct
https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/successful-completion-our-first-course-ghana - 2025-11-05
On 15 April this year, digital degree certificates were introduced at the University and a considerable improvement has already been noted. It has become faster, more secure and more efficient, which has meant a reduced workload for many staff members and shorter waiting times for students. Up to and including 15 April, all degree certificates were sent out in a printed version and there was only
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/digital-degree-certificates-save-time - 2025-11-06
Mobile Heights, LU Experience, IVA Syd, utbildningsnämnden, få utbildningsplatser, nya styrelseledamöter, Lärosäten Syd och Foodbest är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. Nya styrelseledamöter. Vid val genomfört 4 april 2013 har universitetskollegiet utsett följande lärarrepresentanter i Lunds universitets styrelse under perioden 2013-05-01-2016-04-30: docent Ann-Katrin Bäcklund, dekan för Sa
https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-15-april - 2025-11-06
Toxins and chemicals are a major threat to our environment. The "third crisis" - the chemical crisis - is often forgotten when we talk about the climate and endangered species. Ahead of Biodiversity Day on 22 May, Maria Hansson, a researcher at Lund University, offers tips on how to create a non-toxic environment in your own garden, benefiting all its inhabitants, big and small. Synthetically prod
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/five-ways-create-toxin-free-garden - 2025-11-05
A new collaborative research project led by researchers Torsten Krause and Barbara Schröter will investigate the global value chains of cattle (meat / leather), gold, tin and palm oil - commodities that are all imported to the European market, and originally produced in Brazil, Colombia and Indonesia. What is the project about? The project EPICC: Environmental Policy Instruments across Commodity C
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/global-value-chains-meat-gold-tin-and-palm-oil-spotlight-new-research-project - 2025-11-05
Peace-building, mediation and justice issues have always been on the agenda. But the researcher path was not the obvious choice for Karin Aggestam, who has now been appointed to the prestigious Pufendorf chair. She is both the first woman and the first political scientist to obtain it – and she hopes to pave the way for an international Master’s programme in diplomacy. Karin Aggestam will be insta
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/peace-and-justice-always-agenda-new-pufendorf-professor - 2025-11-05
Ny version av Scifree Journal Search Söktjänsten för tidskrifter som ingår i open access-avtal, Scifree Journal Search, har blivit uppdaterad med en ny version. Den nya versionen är framförallt snabbare och mer stabil än sin föregångare. URLen har ändrats till https://search.scifree.se/lu, så alla som eventuellt länkar till tjänsten genom sina webbsidor måste byta länk. Den gamla URLen kommer släc
https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-oktober-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation-3 - 2025-11-05
Neuroforskare i Lund har utvecklat en ny högteknologisk process för att skräddarsy virushöljen, för transport av genmedicin som ska nå exakt den celltyp i kroppen som behöver behandlas. Forskarna menar att den nya teknologin kan liknas vid att de dramatiskt snabbar upp evolutionen från miljontals år till veckor. Flera av de nya revolutionerande behandlingarna som nått kliniken de senaste åren för
https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-process-skraddarsyr-paketering-av-genmedicin - 2025-11-06
Neuroforskare i Lund har utvecklat en ny högteknologisk process för att skräddarsy virushöljen, för transport av genmedicin som ska nå exakt den celltyp i kroppen som behöver behandlas. Forskarna menar att den nya teknologin kan liknas vid att de dramatiskt snabbar upp evolutionen från miljontals år till veckor. Flera av de nya revolutionerande behandlingarna som nått kliniken de senaste åren för
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ny-process-skraddarsyr-paketering-av-genmedicin - 2025-11-06
...Markus Holdo! You just came back from Italy where you've done fieldwork, tell me, what have you done and how did it go? – Yes, it was very exciting! I'm gathering material for a study on how people in rural areas think about politics and development. It became particularly clear after Brexit that there's a lot we don't understand. For example, it's interesting, and some might say paradoxical,
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hello-there - 2025-11-05
The logopedics study programme at the Faculty of Medicine celebrated its 50th anniversary this year. Professor Birgitta Sahlén and Programme Director and Associate Professor Kristina Hansson look back to when it all began, talk about the current study programme – and look to the future. The logopedics study programme in Lund was the second one to begin in Sweden, and it is estimated that around 80
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/logopedics-study-programme-celebrates-anniversary - 2025-11-05
Var femte hockeydam på elitnivå upplever symtom på utmattning. Många, både kvinnliga och manliga hockeyspelare, uppger att de konsumerar alkohol på en risknivå. Men det starkaste sambandet i en ny studie om psykisk hälsa bland svenska elithockeyspelare såg forskarna vid upprepade hjärnskakningar – med tydlig påverkan på måendet, oavsett kön. I en studie har forskare vid Lunds universitet utgått fr
Var femte hockeydam på elitnivå upplever symtom på utmattning. Många, både kvinnliga och manliga hockeyspelare, uppger att de konsumerar alkohol på en risknivå. Men det starkaste sambandet i en ny studie om psykisk hälsa bland svenska elithockeyspelare såg forskarna vid upprepade hjärnskakningar – med tydlig påverkan på måendet, oavsett kön. I en studie har forskare vid Lunds universitet utgått fr
https://www.lu.se/artikel/svensk-elithockey-vanligare-med-depressiva-symtom-och-utmattning-efter-hjarnskakningar - 2025-11-06
Chair: Henrik Chetan Aspengren and J R Jishnu VENUE: Sångsalen, AF Borgen, Sandgatan 2, Lund Schedule panel 8. DAY 1: 20 September (Tuesday)Slot 1 Time: 14.30 – 16.30Venue: SångsalenChair: Henrik Chetan Aspengren Public Spheres and Private Lives30 min./paper including discussion. Mohammad Tareq Hasan, University of Bergen:“Becoming Garment Workers: Social Reproduction in Neoliberal Labour Regim
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-8-open-panel - 2025-11-05
For almost 30 years, NMT days has invited upper-secondary students and teachers to a week filled with popular-science lectures and inspiring demonstrations in science, medicine, and technology. The aim is to spark curiosity, show how exciting and useful these subjects can be, and inspire future studies.Sofie Ceberg, Senior Lecturer in Medical Radiation Physics, has been part of NMT days for more t
https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/five-reasons-participate-lecturer-during-nmt-days - 2025-11-05
A new instrument on the four-metre VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile has recently captured its first starlight. This marks the beginning of a new era in astronomy, as researchers prepare to map the sky in unprecedented detail. The instrument does not take ordinary images of the night sky. Instead, 4MOST – the Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope – collects spectra, that
https://www.astro.lu.se/article/new-eye-universe-opens-chile - 2025-11-05
On Friday, December 3, Mikael Lundholm’s eight-year doctoral education ended with a successful defence of his thesis “The Social Contingency of Law: Studies of Social Control during Foreclosure in Sweden”. Mikael Lundholm’s thesis defence was the Sociology of Law Department’s first on-campus since social restrictions were prescribed at Lund University in the spring of 2019 to mitigate the spread o
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/now-it-doctor-mikael-lundholm - 2025-11-05
Whose Museum x Krets: Max Ockborn WHOSE MUSEUM x KRETS 2019 AN EXHIBITION IN FIVE CHAPTERS OPENING SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 5–8 PM Consider for a moment that a museum is a living organism, their collections forming a body whose relationships compel them to move and to act. Who will they become?In 2019, KRETS will be run by the art collective Whose Museum, who will present a year-long exhibition proj
https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/alumni-max-ockborn-1 - 2025-11-05
Several researchers at the Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies were doing field work during the Arab Spring. It has left deep traces in them - but also resulted in new research projects. The Arab Spring is a term describing the uprisings that started in several countries in North Africa and the Middle East in 2011. The first one took place in Tunisia and was then followed by unrest in Egypt
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arab-spring-ten-years-after - 2025-11-05
