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The year 2024 was a record year for Lund University in terms of the number of articles published in The Conversation. Fifty-five articles by 50 researchers amassed a total of 1.6 million reads. Mikael Roll, a researcher at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, topped the list with an article about the brain and reading. The Conversation is an international news website that gives researc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-breaks-record-conversation-2024 - 2025-10-16

Sixty-six million years ago, a gigantic celestial body crashed to Earth on the Yucatán peninsula, forming a crater 200 kilometres across. The impact plunged Earth into darkness and killed off the dinosaurs. Now, researchers from Lund University in Sweden, among others, are analysing drill cores from the crater to reconstruct in detail what happened on Earth directly after the impact. The Chicxulub

https://www.science.lu.se/article/drill-cores-mexican-crater-provide-new-knowledge-about-dinosaurs-extinction - 2025-10-15

From the Vice-chancellor blog: Free and creative thoughts that can be turned into words or other expressions are the basis of a democratic society. Free and creative thoughts are also the preconditions for renewal. These are my words from a previous blog and after last week’s dark events, when Russia invaded Ukraine, it has become even more important to stress this. We now have an ongoing war in E

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ukraines-cause-ours-freedom-and-democracy-are-fragile - 2025-10-15

Goran Basic has published an article on the ideal victim and competition for victimhood in the stories after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The article is in Serbian. ”Idealna žrtva i nadmetanje za dobijanje statusa žrtve u pričama preživjelih rata u Bosni i Hercegovini”. Temida, 18(2), 2015: 7-30.See article on lup.lub.lu.seGoran Basic's personal page here on the departments website. Abstract

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/competition-victimhood - 2025-10-15

The Libraries at Lund University are launching a new search tool. LUBcat and LUBsearch will close on 1 October, and the new search tool Finn will replace them. With the shift to a single search system, the libraries aim to make it easier for students, staff, and other users. Finn helps you find all the books, journals, articles, and databases at Lund University. You can make requests and manage yo

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/searching-becomes-easier-finn - 2025-10-15

Long life is common among bird parents that get help with childcare. This finding comes from researchers at the universities of Lund and Oxford who reviewed data from more than 9,000 studies. Being a parent can be tough. In general, animals that care for many offspring die young, at least in species where parents are not helped by others. However, in some species things are different and parents r

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/bird-parents-receive-help-live-longer - 2025-10-15

On Wednesday 15 February 2017, 13.15-14.45 Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas held a lecture entitled: "Is ‘global’ English compatible with local language ecologies and principles of language rights, or a neoimperialist project?" at the Centre for Languages and Literature (SOL, room H339). The lecture was jointly organised by the Centre for Languages and Literature and SASNET at Lund Unive

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/watch-lecture-tove-skutnabb-kangas-and-robert-philipson - 2025-10-15

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 - 2025-10-16

CMES researcher Nina Gren has been interviewed in Sydsvenskan about the Palestinian ambivalence towards war with Israel. The article "De flesta palestinier känner en djup ambivalens inför kriget" (English translation: "Most Palestinians feel a deep ambivalence about the war") was written by Albert Capuder and published in Sydsvenskan on 10 October, 2023. The article discusses Palestinian demonstra

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/most-palestinians-feel-deep-ambivalence-about-war - 2025-10-15

Marion von Osten, who recieved her doctorate with 'In The Making: Traversing the project exhibition In the Desert of Modernity. Colonial Planning and After' at Malmö Art Academy 2018, tragically died of cancer last weekend. Her colleagues in the doctoral student group and her supervisors have written a few words of remembrance for Marion. Read below: With deep sadness we mourn the passing of our d

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/remembering-marion-von-osten - 2025-10-15

A drug has shown great promise in the treatment of neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of childhood cancer. The study was led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden, and is published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Every year, about 800 children in the US are diagnosed with neuroblastoma, an aggressive cancer of the nervous system that most frequently arises in the adrenal glands

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/promising-treatment-aggressive-childhood-cancer - 2025-10-15

Climate change can be stopped - with the right policy instruments. But to be effective, these policies must be accepted by both citizens and businesses. In a new research project, Thomas Sterner, Professor of Environmental Economics at the School of Business, Economics and Law in Gothenburg and a member of BECC, will get a better knowledge of how these policies should be designed. Policy instrumen

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/more-efficient-policy-instruments-can-save-climate - 2025-10-15

In January 2020, the National Library of Sweden, the University Library and four other university libraries in Sweden (Uppsala, Gothenburg, Stockholm and Umeå) reached an agreement to jointly digitalise and make available all Swedish printed materials. Swedish periodicals from 1850 to 1900 are the first to be made available. For the considerable benefit of research and higher education, Sweden’s p

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/digitalisation-swedish-printed-materials-takes - 2025-10-15

The spread of respiratory infections (Covid-19, RS and influenza) in society is now increasing considerably. The Public Health Agency of Sweden had issued a reminder that when you are ill, it is important to stay at home and to avoid close contact with others. We all have a shared responsibility for reducing the spread of infection. At present, it is important that those who are ill with symptoms

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/stay-home-if-you-are-ill - 2025-10-16

Last autumn, the Swedish Agency for Government Employers negotiated on changes to our general agreements on pay and benefits (Villkorsavtal) agreements with all three employee organisations Saco-S, OFR/S and Seko at national level. The changes apply from 1 January 2024. Broadly, these changes mean:Holiday pay guarantee is increased to SEK 1600 per day.A new form of paid leave is introduced, for at

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/changes-our-central-collective-agreements-1-january - 2025-10-16

Yulia Vakulenko grew up in a small Russian town north of the Arctic Circle, today she works at Lund University. When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, her world was turned upside down. The first thing Yulia Vakulenko says when she meets me on the staircase of her workplace at the Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre, IKDC, is that her sorrow is nothing compared to what the people of Ukraine are being

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/yulia-russia-helps-refugees-ukraine - 2025-10-16

On 5-7 November 2024, Lund University will host the ninth edition of the Nordic Retail and Wholesale Conference (NRWC). The conference is organised at Campus Helsingborg and brings together international researchers in retail and logistics to discuss current research issues. This year's conference theme is ‘Retail Imagination’ and highlights the ability of retail to shape future consumption.The co

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/international-retail-research-conference-campus-helsingborg-november - 2025-10-15

The first offers for the second autumn application have been sent. Log in to your housing account to see if you have received an offer. The deadline to respond is Sunday, 29 June. Today we sent out offers for all remaining available housing from 1 August. All applicants who have received an offer will have received an e-mail informing them that they have received an offer and are urged to log in t

https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/second-autumn-application-offers-sent - 2025-10-15

Nearly 40 Nordic researchers and academics from 15 universities in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland have so far registered to participate in the Networking Day on South Asian Studies, that SASNET organizes in Lund on Monday 25 April 2016. They are all working on South Asia-related issues, and have been invited to discuss ways to expand collaboration on education and researchs. The meeting will

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/networking-day-nordic-south-asian-studies - 2025-10-15

The University has adopted a policy for academic leadership at Lund University. The aim of the policy is to set out what expertise characterises a successful and well-developed academic leadership at the University. The policy is to be used as support in developing, inspiring and recruiting new leaders. With the concept of academic leadership, Lund University wants to reinforce and protect what is

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/policy-academic-leadership-lund-university - 2025-10-16