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Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Sedan 80-talet har de gamla klassiska professionerna – läkare, jurister, ingenjörer, professorer – tappat mark. Deras inflytande i samhället har minskat och på deras arbetsplatser styr managementexperter och ekonomer. Hur har det blivit så? Professorn i sociologi Thomas Brante har studerat professionernas utveckling
https://www.lu.se/artikel/vilka-ska-styra-proffsen - 2026-05-05
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Det luktar ljuvligt från köket i lägenheten hemma hos Louise Brunkwall, som forskar på tarmbakterier och är näringsfysiolog. Idag blir det pasta och grönsakssås till lunch. Städningen inför intervjun med LUM har gjort att hon inte längre hittar i köksskåpen: – I vanliga fall är det alltid någon form av kaos här! säg
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/hjalp-kroppen-overlista-reptilhjarnan - 2026-05-05
No 49, 27 November 2025 In this newsletter we have an introduction to our Alvis system and an intermediate Linux course. We start advertising the first events for the new your featuring Awk and Singularity/Apptainer. The last Zoom-in of the year is scheduled for 11th December. The Swedish AI factory Mimer is offering their first training events. We also list a University training event and an
https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter-3 - 2026-05-05
On January 13th, London-based designers Guillaume Couche & Richard Shackleton held a guest lecture at the Department of Informatics. The guest lecture was delivered to students enrolled in the course Human-Computer Interaction - Design, part of the Master's Programme in Information Systems. The industry experts were invited by Lecturer and Course director Markus Lahtinen.Guillaume, who first visit
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/industry-experts-inspire-students-interface-design - 2026-05-06
It is halftime for Vice-chancellor Erik Renström and his team. Three years of his term of office have passed, and three remain. Here in LUM, he sums up the first-half performance, looks ahead and explains how he approaches a job in which everyone wants a bit of his time. Word is that he is always on time to meetings, but almost never arrives early. Heading up the stairs to his office on the second
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/halftime-vice-chancellor-erik-renstrom - 2026-05-06
The Arthritis Portal strives to write about osteoarthritis in all the different joints of the body as much as possible. However, since the amount of research articles varies in different areas, this can be difficult. We have now had the opportunity to interview three experts on OA in the joints of the hand. Through this, we have received help in answering some of the questions we commonly receive
https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/osteoarthritis-wrist-and-fingers - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The first time she came to Lund, Rafah Barhoum only stayed for a couple of months. It was 2011 and she was an Erasmus Mundus scholar and taught Arabic. She returned home to Syria, but the war soon drove her back. Now Rafah Barhoum has come to Lund to stay. Rafah Barhoum is happy in Lund, where she teaches Arabic, but
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/i-hold-syria-my-heart - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. One of the main purposes of Mohammadhassan Safavi’s PhD thesis is to leverage machine learning algorithms to predict where users activities should be done to incur minimum cost. Cost could be energy consumption, service quality degradation, service delay and so on. The thesis also covers many other aspects from reduci
https://www.ai.lu.se/article/how-use-machine-learning-decide-where-do-what-edge-networks-0 - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. By changing from action-based to result-based environmental payment, farmers are financially encouraged to implement conservation measures, such as buffer strips and organic farming, where they are most beneficial for the environment and not, as today, where they least disrupt the production. This according to William
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Summer days bring relaxing breaks in parks for many city dwellers. But how often do you look up from your picnic blanket and reflect on the surrounding wildlife and on how it would affect you if the birds went silent for good? Johan K. Jensen’s doctoral studies compares the wellbeing of some of our most common small b
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/how-life-urban-birds - 2026-05-05
A lot has happened in coagulation medicine since Jan Astermark first started his research in the 1980s. The most recent progress is in gene therapy and the first patients with severe haemophilia who were treated in Malmö last year. “It is fantastically exciting to work in a research field where so much is happening. The research and the progress in treatment that have taken place in recent decades
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/promising-results-new-gene-therapy-method - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Bladder cancer is as common as malignant melanoma. However, in the past three decades, the death rate has remained high and the treatment has been the same since the 1970s. Yet only a very small part of research funding goes to bladder cancer. Through a unique collaboration, researchers now want to transfer new resear
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/forgotten-cancer - 2026-05-05
At the end of October Laura Duran Lozano successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Motivated by the idea of helping patients and families impacted by cancer, and as part of the EU CanFaster Program, she has spent the past four years working to identify predisposing genes for a type of bone marrow cancer known as Multiple Myeloma. In this interview, we learn how her collaborative research efforts hav
The risk of exposure to covid-19 virus particles increases the closer you are to a patient, the higher virus levels of the patient, and if ventilation is inadequate. Measurements of viruses in the hospital air by researchers at Lund University provide new knowledge on how best to adapt care to reduce the risk of infection. The international guidelines that currently exist in healthcare need revisi
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-knowledge-virus-particles-air-can-reduce-spread-infection-hospitals - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Success with grant applications leads to problems of an unexpected although pleasant kind. If your research team is almost doubled in size, where are all your colleagues supposed to work? And how are they to get access to laboratory equipment which is already fully booked? Johan Jakobsson in an unusually empty lab (th
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/practical-problems-following-grant-success - 2026-05-05
On the first of January, Professor Angela Cenci Nilsson took on as the new coordinator for MultiPark. Now she tells us about her visions for our network and about being a senior researcher in the environment. About the role as the new coordinator I will do my best to foster collaborative projects with high scientific and/or translational potential. What does being appointed to the new coordina
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/interview-angela-cenci-nilsson-about-being-new-coordinator-multipark - 2026-05-05
The invitation applies to current and prospective 1st year PhD students studying Bioinformatics We have decided that MedBioInfo, the Swedish National Graduate School in Medical Bioinformatics, will take applications for an incoming class in 2026. The deadline is 28 February, 2026.MedBioInfo was established in 2017, with the support of 42 Bioinformatics faculty, to provide advanced training in bio
https://www.compile.lu.se/article/call-applications-national-graduate-school-medical-bioinformatics-medbioinfo-2026 - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. When Anders Ackfeldt and 22 other researchers criticised the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency’s (MSB) research report “The Muslim Brotherhood in Sweden” for adding fuel to an overly conspiracy theory-tinged image of Islam, it provoked a deluge of threatening emails the following day. “My children were mentioned in t
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/islamologist-nuanced-picture-islam-provocative - 2026-05-05
In the autumn, Sara Törnros from Batch 17, returned to the the LUMES programme – this time as a lecturer at the Resilience and Sustainable Development course. We took the opportunity to talk to her about her job as a climate change and resilience advisor at Plan International - and her best memories from the LUMES programme. Tell us more about your job, what do you do as a climate change and resil
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The number of managers at the University who have consulted the Occupational Health Service for preventive purposes has risen during the pandemic. "It is easy to feel that you are losing control when things change quickly and you don't know exactly how your employees are coping at home", says Anne Link, head of the Oc
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-people-need-help-cope-working-home - 2026-05-05
