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Veterinarian in charge Anders Forslid is retiring after 30 years working to improve the welfare of research animals at Lund University. He has witnessed a paradigm shift in animal health and animal experiments, and the way animal testing and humans’ obligations are viewed has changed. When Anders Forslid started out as a laboratory animal veterinarian at Lund University, he received a fairly cool

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/if-we-are-going-have-animal-testing-then-we-have-do-it-well - 2026-05-06

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. I samband med publikation av nya boken talar Abdulhadi Khalaf, Senior universitetslektor i sociologi på Sociologen i Lund, på seminariet "Transit States: Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf" på SOAS, University of London, Department of Development Studies den 13 januari 2015. Seminariet ingår i serien Deve

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/khalaf-talar-i-london-om-transit-states - 2026-05-05

Choosing what to study is not always easy. Mohamad, a student on the Swedish Bachelor’s Programme in Business and Economics (Ekonomie kandidatprogrammet) at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), recommends exploring the subjects included in the programme and the opportunities to specialise in the areas you find most interesting. Mohamad became interested in business administr

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/natural-science-business-administration-mohamad-found-his-path-lusem - 2026-05-06

When planning for food in times of crisis – what foodstuffs do we imagine? Many think of tin cans and freeze-dried food, but the fact is that if a crisis occurs, it is not stockpiled cans that will save us. Food preparedness is a subject being taken up by researchers from the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at Almedalen Week, one of their reflections being  how local growing of crops that do not need

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/preparedness-more-stockpiling-pantry-provisions - 2026-05-06

Read the director’s message, explore the latest research news, discover upcoming events, and browse our recent publications. Read CMES newsletter here.CMES is pleased to announce a new Call for Project Proposals. We will fund 1–2 new research projects running from 2026 to 2029.  This is an exciting opportunity to develop innovative research within Middle Eastern studies in a dynamic, interdiscipli

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-56 - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. OUTREACH: Today, 26th April, Niklas Altermark will participate in the parliamentary hearing on personal assistance. Also participating are representatives of the disability movement, other researchers from a variety of disciplines and a number of people heavily involved when personal assistance was introduced. The pur

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/altermark-parliamentary-seminar-personal-assistance - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What do human remains really have to do with a museum? When Lund University closed the Department of Anatomy of 1995, its collection of human remains was transferred to the Historical Museum. Now, the museum wants to conduct a proper review of the collection in order to communicate more about it. Human remains in a mu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/they-want-shine-light-dark-chapter - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Eva Nordmark was 62 when she received her Alzheimer’s diagnosis. But rather than life ending, it gave her the chance to reclaim parts of her life that she had not previously had time for. It is a sunny autumn day at the Humlamaden rehab centre outside Veberöd, and the stable is full of life and activity. The 32-year-o

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/when-memory-fails - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Åsa Petersén will give several talks on HD and genetic testing at HD Education Day on November 26. The Education Day is an online event, sponsored by the National Board of Health and Welfare in Sweden. This day will be followed by a session two weeks later, where Åsa Petersén, Håkan Widner, Carina Hvalstedt and Katari

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-several-talks-hd - 2026-05-05

For the first time, researchers have been able to show how a cell closes the door to free radicals – small oxygen molecules that are sometimes needed, but that can also damage our cells. The study is published in Nature Communications and was led from Lund University. For our cells to function, they need to maintain a careful balance between beneficial and harmful oxygen molecules known as free ra

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/capturing-moment-cell-shuts-door-free-radicals - 2026-05-05

For the first time, researchers have been able to show how a cell closes the door to free radicals – small oxygen molecules that are sometimes needed, but that can also damage our cells. The study is published in Nature Communications and was led from Lund University. For our cells to function, they need to maintain a careful balance between beneficial and harmful oxygen molecules known as free ra

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/capturing-moment-cell-shuts-door-free-radicals - 2026-05-05

The aim of this workshop is to provide an overview of research-based policy briefs, including formatting and writing conventions, identifying and disseminating to an audience, and evaluating their impact. The workshop is a joint collaboration with the LU Agenda 2030 Graduate School and the Pufendorf Institute Advanced Study Group "Wildfires in the Anthropocene". Researchers are increasingly encour

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/workshop-writing-policy-briefs - 2026-05-05

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/sverre-spoelstra-how-researchers-reach-global-audience-conversation - 2026-05-05

The record-breaking 2025 recruitment drive resulted in leading researchers from around the world choosing Lund University. The University is now launching a new initiative and seeking a total of 14 international researchers in fields such as sustainability. The positions will be distributed across 8 of the University’s 9 faculties. The recruitment is part of the Lund University Programme for Globa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-recruit-more-leading-international-researchers - 2026-05-06

The call for applications from young Swedish economists to attend the 8th Lindau meeting of the laureates of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is now open. This information is from the KVA website.8th Lindau meeting in Economic Sciences – kva.seDuring five days Laureates and about 400 highly talented young scientists will be invited to join a unique week of

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/8th-lindau-meeting-economic-sciences - 2026-05-05

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculties-honorary-doctors-2023 - 2026-05-06

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Anette Agardh, professor of global health, has been appointed to lead a project to develop a knowledge platform and a plan for strengthening efforts to counteract sexual harassment at the University. She considers that sexual harassment is a complex issue. “Many aspects can be related to the occurrence of sexual haras

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/three-year-research-project-casts-light-sexual-harassment - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How do you talk about a horrible and life-threatening condition in such a way as to make your audience aware of its existence, but without scaring them so much that they turn a deaf ear? And how do you get money for research into something that most people have barely heard about – or only know of under an old and par

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/spreading-awareness-about-sepsis-common-life-threatening-condition - 2026-05-05

Alumni Clara Mosconi current with exhibition and publication launch Paralingual Score. Opening Thursday 24 October 17:00-20:00, with a Performance at 18.00 at BLADR in Copenhagen.In the exhibition A Paralingual Score, the public is invited into a space, where the invisible and underheard dimensions of language come to the fore. The installation presents a paralinguistic polyphony, composed of the

https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/alumni-exhibition-and-publication-launch-clara-mosconi - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Swarming bats at mine entrance Photo:Jens Rydell During the day they are not visible. But at dusk, brown long-eared bats, pond bats and greater mouse-eared bats spread their wings and start hunting. LUM accompanied researcher and bat expert Jens Rydell to Hovdala castle for a bat inventory. The bat detector crackles a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/kings-night-take-over-hovdala-castle - 2026-05-05