For many years there has been an on-going discussion about how academic freedom is being challenged in many parts of the world, including Sweden. And when even some of the strongest academic bastions in the world such as Harvard are now fighting for their independence against the American federal administration’s political directives, it is clear that academia has not been crying wolf. Academic fr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/storm-clouds-gather-usa-institutional-freedom-and-independent-academia-are-essential - 2025-09-10

Intensive work is underway to build up the new Research Data Office. The unit is starting to take shape and much of the work from the project “Building the e-Infrastructure Unit” has been transformed into a permanent and long-term plan for how we will work with research data management in the future. Intensive work is underway to build up the new Research Data Office. The unit is starting to take

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-research-data-office-takes-shape - 2025-09-10

Project managers Lena Christensen and Rachel Forsyth have focused on ways to make evaluating teaching in academic career progression easier. Photo: Minna Wallén-Widung 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 fac

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-initiative-raise-status-teaching - 2025-09-10

The seminars with LU give the students in Ukraina well needed respite and inspiration. The on-screen lecture looks like any other digital seminar. But this is no normal session. The audience lives in the university town of Zhytomyr in Ukraine, and they are taking part in a series of online seminars organised by around ten researchers and teaching staff from Lund. One of the organisers of the knowl

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/respite-ukrainian-students-through-collaboration-lund - 2025-09-10

Hösten 1968 kom det första numret av LUM ut. Från att ha varit ett rent informationsblad utvecklades LUM under 70-talet till en journalistisk tidning som var tidigt ute med att anställa vetenskapsjournalister. I takt med att internet vann mark glesades utgivningen ut, fast LUM har enligt läsarundersökningar ändå haft sin relevans. Men nu läggs tidningen ner och vi ser tillbaka på åren som gått. Fö

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/lum-en-tidsspegel-sedan-1968 - 2025-09-10

Fredrik Tersmeden är hemmastadd bland de välfyllda hyllorna i ­Universitetsarkivet. Foto; Kennet Ruona Intresset för universitetets allmänna handlingar ökar. Att kunna begära ut myndighetshandlingar är en viktig del av demokratin. Baksidan är att handläggningen kan vara resurskrävande och i vissa fall ta flera veckor. De senaste åren har mejlen till Universitetsarkivet med frågor om allmänna handl

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/allt-fler-begar-ut-allmanna-handlingar - 2025-09-10

Much of the world's infrastructure is made of concrete, which presents a challenge when it cracks and needs repair. Traditional repair methods involve cutting away a large amount of material. Now researchers at Lund University are investigating an innovative solution: using fungi to mend concrete. This groundbreaking research got off the ground with a Sustainable Idea Exploration grant and support

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/sustainable-construction-how-fungi-research-lund-university-could-revolutionise-infrastructure - 2025-09-09

With SEK 36 million in funding, stakeholders in Skåne are joining forces to develop and commercialise breakthrough ATMP research – Advanced Therapy Medical Products. The aim is to accelerate the next generation of these therapies so that more potentially life-saving ATMP treatments reach patients who currently lack effective treatment options Through the ATMP Path2Patient project, stakeholders wil

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/major-investment-accelerates-advanced-therapies-research-patient - 2025-09-09

Experimental scientist Ilknur Özen and Niklas Marklund, professor at Lund University and neurosurgical consultant at Skåne University hospital have in collaboration with Uppsala investigated brain tissue from 15 patients. Photo: Tove Smeds A study at Lund University reveals that traumatic brain injury alters the small vessels in the brain, resulting in an accumulation of amyloid beta — a hallmark

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/cracking-alzheimers-code-how-brain-trauma-triggers-disease - 2025-09-09

Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Researchers at Lund University have developed a new method to determine how the composition of proteins in blood changes in response to disease or organ damage. This could provide a deeper understanding of how diseases affect the body and be used to discover new biomarkers in the blood to aid in diagnosing complex medical conditions. Our organs consist of a variety of specifi

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/protein-changes-reveal-diseases - 2025-09-09

Martha Bailey (to the left) and Anna Breman will both attend the doctoral ceremony in Lund on 31 May 2024. (Photo sources: UCLA and Riksbanken/Sandra Birgersdotter Ek). Professor Martha Bailey and the Swedish Riksbank’s First Deputy Governor Anna Breman have been appointed 2024 honorary doctors at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM). American economist and economic historian

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/leading-us-economist-and-first-deputy-governor-riksbank-new-honorary-doctors - 2025-09-09

Heiner Linke Photo:Kennet Rhona The time has now run out for applications for the vice-chancellor position and it is time for the recruitment group to select suitable candidates for interviews. This work will take place throughout the spring.  LUM has talked to staff at different levels within several faculties about how they view the role of vice-chancellor, how important the vice-chancellor is t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-wishlist-research-leader - 2025-09-09

Tobias Uller and Emma Kritzberg hope the decision inspires catering companies to focus more on vegetarian alternatives. The hope is also that other parts of the University will follow suit. Photo:Inger Ekström Vegetarian to become the standard, meat a special dietary request. That is the result of the Department of Biology and the Department of Psychology striking a blow for reduced meat consumpti

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/departments-choose-sustainable-food-meat-become-special-dietary-reques - 2025-09-09

The University building. Photo: Kennet Ruona The main University building is to become a hub for the organisation! That is the vision proposed by project manager Louise Pierce, who is responsible for repurposing the now almost empty building in Lundagård park. In only three years, it is to be buzzing with activity in the form of students, employees and visitors. Since early last autumn, Louise Pie

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-plan-university-building-materializes - 2025-09-09

Diana Mulinari, professor at the Department of Gender studies. Recurrent threats via telephone, email and letter – often in conjunction with being published. That is part of everyday research for gender researcher Diana Mulinari and many of her colleagues. “It is almost systematic. Those who hate and make threats are aggressively sexist and racist. Their hate ideology is based on who I am – a woma

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/gender-researcher-threats-and-hate-are-part-everyday-life - 2025-09-09

Acting chief security officer Håkan Jönsson. Photo:Jenny Loftrup Threats against researchers are increasing, according to acting chief security officer Håkan Jönsson, who received 16 reports of threats last year. The rise is in online threats, whereas the number of disruptive or violent people on campus is dropping – probably thanks to more locked doors. “But the hidden figures are high when it co

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/online-threats-against-researchers-are-rise - 2025-09-09

Photo: Jonas Andersson In brilliant sunshine, the new doctors, honorary doctors and jubilee doctors walked in procession from the main University building to the Cathedral for the most important event in the academic calendar – the doctoral degree conferment ceremony. The ceremony took place on 24 May and the flags on the roof of the main University building flapped against a clear blue sky. Peopl

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/happy-doctors-escaped-rain - 2025-09-09

"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 Occupational Health Service. Photo: Jenny Loftrup 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

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-people-need-help-cope-working-home - 2025-09-09

Stefanos Athanasopoulos, Samuel Staines and Emanuel Larsson collaborated on the project to develop future beamlines at the ESS research facility. Photo: Noomi Egan Using a torch, a camera, a water bottle and pieces of Lego, Emanuel Larsson built a scanner now used as a prototype to develop future beamlines at ESS. It was late on a Friday evening in December three years ago that Emanuel Larsson, a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/home-built-scanner-helps-construct-beamline-ess - 2025-09-09

Pär Svensson. Foto: Gabriella Gut There is a great deal of interest at the University in welcoming researchers from Afghanistan. The University Management and all the faculties consulted are prepared to contribute what is needed to receive these researchers. At the International Office of LU’s External Relations Division, Pär Svensson is in charge of coordinating work with vulnerable researchers a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/interest-welcoming-researchers-afghanistan - 2025-09-09