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Professor Martin Englund, founder of The Arthritis Portal, has recently been elected and assumed the position of President of the international organization Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI). It is the leading international organization for osteoarthritis research with members from more than 50 different countries.OARSI regularly holds conferences where research from around the
Do you have research ideas or results that you would like to discuss with politicians or specific target groups together with researchers from other disciplines? If so, we can help you organise a dialogue meeting. Since 2023, Samtal i Lund has been organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences. It is a dialogue forum where researchers and specially invited people from outside academia meet to discus
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/samtal-i-lund-get-help-network-and-create-dialogue-about-your-research - 2026-07-11
When the late summer sun falls over Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains, the slopes turn purple with blooming heather. Honeybees are moved to the heathlands for the sought-after heather honey, but their presence affects wild bumblebees. An Irish-Swedish research team has shown in a new study that wild bumblebees change their behaviour and are smaller in size when the number of beehives increases. The rese
https://www.science.lu.se/article/honeybees-crowd-out-bumblebees-even-flower-rich-heathlands - 2026-07-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Department of Strategic Communication was visited last week by various lecturers who represent components of some of the department’s courses. Last Tuesday, our Bachelor’s students received a lecture by Susanna Laurin, CEO of the company Funka, providing information on how we can create a more humane Internet. On
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/what-communication-more-humane-internet-trip-bob-hund - 2026-07-11
At the end of April, the Faculty Board decided that a new department, the Department of Communication, will be created. The establishment of the new department is part of the faculty's development towards fewer units, but the merger has also been motivated by additional reasons. The new department will be established on 1 January 2025 and the following units will be included: Department of Strateg
https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/new-department-communication-january-2025 - 2026-07-11
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Invigningstal vid utställningen ”Embracing the Future” av Patricia Piccinini, Borås konsthall, den 8 februari 2020 Tack för att ni inbjudit oss från Pufendorf-Temat CRISPRideas – Genome Editing Technologies att bidra till invigningen av Patrica Piccininis utställning. Pufendorfinstitutet är ett tvärvetenskapligt ins
https://www.pi.lu.se/artikel/crispr-i-vetenskap-och-konst - 2026-07-11
The story of the Ukrainian music scene since the Russian invasion is one of resilience. Even if it has meant playing in the underground Metro, or in cold bomb shelters with no electricity, many musicians have found ways to continue their art. Now, five classical musicians from Kharkiv, Ukraine, have been invited by Malmö Academy of Music to perform in Malmö. In many ways, the sound of Ukraine l
https://www.arts.lu.se/article/music-still-resonates-war-torn-ukraine - 2026-07-11
Ten Ukrainian medical students, ten supervisors from the Faculty, for ten weeks. Initiator and professor, David Gisselsson Nord, is happy that the pilot project in medical research is up and going. Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine has led to serious disruptions to Ukraine's medical education system. Some universities have suffered extensive destruction and have had to evacuate their campus
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/medfaks-ukrainian-summer-school-has-started-welcome-us - 2026-07-12
Locked fingers, known as trigger finger, are more common among people with diabetes than in the general population. A study led by Lund University in Sweden shows that the risk of being affected increases in the case of high blood sugar. The study has been published in Diabetes Care. Trigger finger means that one or more fingers, often the ring finger or thumb, ends up in a bent position that is d
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/hands-people-diabetes-more-often-affected-trigger-finger - 2026-07-11
As a part of the project’s outreach activities, the MOCCA project hosted a two-day MSCA Ambassador event at Lund University from December 6 to 7, 2024, welcoming 19 high-school students and four teachers from the Academic Lyceum under the University of World Economy and Diplomacy and the "Ambassador" private school in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.Students and teachers arrived in Lund on December 6 and wer
https://www.norca.lu.se/article/msca-ambassador-event-high-school-students-uzbekistan-0 - 2026-07-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Erika Bergman and Niklas Lindberg, two Masters students from the Journalism programmme at Lund University, have been awarded the SASA travel grants for the Fall 2016. The grants, covering travel expenses for applicants to do fieldwork in a South Asian country, are provided by the South Asian Students Association (SASA
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasa-travel-grants-two-journalism-students - 2026-07-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Centre for Environmental and Climate Research has employed two new professors with research focus on human impact on environmental changes. Natascha Kljun and Yann Clough are new professors at CEC with the assignment to establish two research programmes of a high international standard in environmental science. Fr
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lunds-first-professors-environmental-science - 2026-07-11
Can innovation strengthen research? Heiner Linke, professor of nanophysics and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, has done exactly that by combining research and innovation. His own attitude towards utilisation and innovation has evolved from a sense of duty to passion: "Now I think it's genuinely exciting." Do you see increasing integration of innovation within research?"Twenty year
The Judges Proposals Board has appointed Torvald Larsson, LL.D. and senior lecturer in public law, as a special member in cases concerning legality review at the Administrative Court in Malmö. The appointment is for the period from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028. Legality review is a form of appeal against municipal decisions regulated in Chapter 13 of the Local Government Act (2017:725). In a
https://www.law.lu.se/article/torvald-larsson-appointed-special-member-administrative-court-malmo - 2026-07-11
Ten years’ work has paid off – UNESCO has added the unique archive of 500 in-depth interviews with Holocaust survivors to the Memory of the World Register. This means the Ravensbrück Archive is recognised as an example of cultural heritage of great value to humanity. On 10 April, UNESCO decided to add the Ravensbrück Archive to the Memory of the World Register. “It is a great honour for the Rave
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ravensbruck-archive-lund-receives-memory-world-status - 2026-07-12
Linn Zulka´s study: "On Retirement and Cognitive Aging from a Life-Span Perspective" assessed whether retirement influences cognitive functioning and how inter- and intra-individual differences in psychological and lifestyle factors moderate the association. A secondary purpose was to evaluate whether general intelligence, as measured at age 18, and social contacts later in life may function as re
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New article in "Foreign Policy Analysis" by Hanna Bäck, Jan Teorell, Alexander Von Hagen-Jamar and Alejandro Quiroz Flores. In this study, Hanna Bäck and Jan Teorell with colleagues engage in the debate about leadership and foreign policy outcomes by focusing on the tenure of foreign ministers. They ask why some forei
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/war-performance-and-survival-foreign-ministers - 2026-07-11
The Faculty of Social Sciences and the School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) offer a course for those who are planning to apply for docent (associate professor/reader) in the near future. The course is seminar-based and designed to be inspirational, but also to provide useful knowledge about the research process and academia in general. Participants are also provided with an intensive version
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/becoming-docent-joint-course-faculty-social-sciences-and-lusem-0 - 2026-07-11
