Published 20 November 2014 … Professor of Functional Zoology and Cancer Cell Biology, who is helping to develop a world-class cell culture laboratory in Bolivia. It is part of a SIDA-funded project to study how medicinal plants can influence cancer cells. What is your collaboration with Bolivia like? “This is the third in a line of SIDA-funded projects which I have now joined as a cancer researche

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meet-stina-oredssonabout-collaboration-bolivia - 2025-07-13

Published 21 November 2014 “Really good research is often interdisciplinary”, said Kerstin Sahlin from the Swedish Research Council (VR) at a seminar in Lund on how the land lies for research funding. She wanted to debunk the myth that VR is not good at encouraging interdisciplinary projects. Quite the opposite – a working group has recently been appointed specifically for this type of application

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tips-funding-bodies - 2025-07-13

Published 18 December 2014 How creative are research studies? What can be done to make them more creative? LUM has met Samuel West, who is not only a doctoral student, but who actually does research on creativity. Samuel West had worked as a psychologist for many years when he decided four years ago to do a PhD. Now he is looking back on his research studies, which will soon be finished, and doesn

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/he-searching-creativity-outside-academy - 2025-07-13

Published 18 December 2014 What is the effect on doctoral students’ creativity when they are forced into the academic straightjacket of research studies? What obstacles do they have to cross in order to reach their full potential? According to creativity researcher Eva Brodin, there are many examples of research environments where doctoral students do not have an opportunity to be really creative

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-creative-are-research-studies - 2025-07-13

Published 18 December 2014 Sweden has got its first seven Tesla MRI scanner. The 40 ton scanner had to be lowered into place at the Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC) at Skåne University Hospital. Until now, the most powerful MRI scanners in Sweden that are used on humans have had a magnetic field of three Tesla. The weather was kind when the over 40 ton MRI scanner was lifted into the hospi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-host-strongest-mri-scanner-sweden - 2025-07-13

Published 17 December 2014 What are you used to? This was the question that twenty five eager course participants seized on when they gathered to investigate cultural differences in order to better meet the various needs of international students. The course in intercultural communication aimed to increase awareness of intercultural encounters and the misunderstandings that can arise. Every year,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/better-student-reception-aim-course-cultural-differences - 2025-07-13

Published 17 December 2014 The Inter Arts Centre (IAC) in Malmö provides a forum enabling all parts of the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts to conduct research together and create joint projects. Its objective is to find new approaches and to achieve collective results which are greater than the sum of their parts. An example of the Centre’s work is one of the largest symposia ever to be held i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/experimental-art-across-boundaries - 2025-07-13

Published 18 December 2014 Meet Per Ödling, Professor of Telecommunication at LTH, who recently gave a lecture for the Hjärntrusten network in Lund entitled “The new digital society is already here”. You expect to become redundant as a teacher within the foreseeable future? “Yes, that’s correct.” And whose fault is that? “It is mine and all those who have contributed to technical and digital devel

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-digital-society-already-here - 2025-07-13

Published 18 December 2014 Wandering among the amaryllises and other seasonal blooms of the “Christmas in the orangery” exhibition in Lund’s Botanical Garden is one very satisfied director. Bente Eriksen came from Gothenburg University to her new job in Lund a couple of months ago and has now learnt that the municipality of Lund will support the garden to the tune of SEK 2 million per year. The ne

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-director-botan-prepares-two-anniversaries - 2025-07-13

Published 18 December 2014 He is checking out at the same fighting weight as when he checked in, and does the same number of push-ups (40!) now as he did then. He has been through several tough rounds and had to fight to defend his convictions and his views on the University’s development. Per Eriksson summarises his time as vice-chancellor as “six years of incredibly great joy, development, press

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eriksson-you-have-dare-take-risks-sometimes-if-you-want-make-things-happen - 2025-07-13

Published 6 February 2015 His ambition is to awaken our longing for a life which doesn’t revolve around wage labour. “If I had a citizen’s salary, I would do the same things I do now – read, write and have an occasional go with a scrubbing-brush, to make life more real. Others might play computer games, which would of course be perfectly OK”, says sociologist Roland Paulsen, who has become a bit o

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/igniting-debate-shorter-working-hours - 2025-07-13

Published 6 February 2015 Professor of Spanish Inger Enkvist has written a large number of books about education and teaching. She sees it as her obligation to take part in the debate on education, but she also participates in the public debate in other areas. Most recently, she wrote in Språktidningen about the Catalonian independence movement. Last year she was awarded the Instituto Cervantes in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/obligation-participate-education-debate - 2025-07-13

Published 6 February 2015 Vinnova is investing SEK 500 million in collaboration on non-communicable diseases over the next ten years. A call for proposals for collaborative projects is currently open. “Researchers who collaborate with either the business sector or the health service, or both, have a chance of obtaining a grant”, says Peter Nordström, who is coordinating the national initiative fro

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/strategic-innovation-area-coordinated-lund - 2025-07-13

Published 6 February 2015 The University is now a member of Scholars at Risk (SAR), an international network that helps vulnerable and persecuted academics. Professor Shirin Zubair visited Lund University and spoke about her situation as a persecuted academic. “This is in line with our core values as a university, which include defending and supporting academic freedom”, says Pär Svensson at Exter

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-joins-network-help-scholars-risk - 2025-07-13

Av stina [dot] johannesson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Stina Johannesson) - publicerad 8 december 2020 Micro-XRF-kartläggning av spårämnen i foraminifera-skalet. Foto: Ni et al., 2020 Hur kan tidigare varma perioder i havet hjälpa oss att bättre förstå de pågående klimatförändringarna? Doktoranden Sha Ni försvarar sin avhandling vid CEC den här veckan med fossila fynd som kan öka kunskapen om den

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/tidigare-havsforhallanden-ger-ledtradar-till-marina-miljoforandringar - 2025-07-13

Av stina [dot] johannesson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Stina Johannesson) - publicerad 16 december 2020 Forskning från CEC visar att skogar och skogsbruket spelar nyckelroller i minskningen av klimatpåverkan. Foto: Luca Bravo, Unsplash. Skogsutredningen som nyligen lämnades in till den svenska regeringen ger förslag på hur synergier mellan internationella och nationella åtaganden om biologisk mång

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/skogsbruket-spelar-nyckelroll-i-sveriges-minskning-av-klimatpaverkan - 2025-07-13

Av anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - publicerad 22 december 2020 CEC inleder det nya året med ett nytt namn, en ny föreståndare och en ny ledarskapsorganisation. Men det mesta är sig ändå likt – CEC fortsätter sitt arbete för en hållbar utveckling genom forskning, utbildning och samverkan, över sektorsgränser. Den nya organisationen stärker CEC genom att ordf

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/nytt-ar-nytt-namn-ny-forestandare-och-ny-organisation-cec - 2025-07-13

Av stina [dot] johannesson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Stina Johannesson) - publicerad 3 februari 2021 Markku Rummukainen, professor i klimatologi. Foto: Kennet Ruona. Markku Rummukainen har på nytt intagit en framträdande position i Aktuell Hållbarhets årliga rankning av landets "Hållbarhetsmäktigaste 2021". Den här gången hamnar han på plats 23. Markku Rummukainen är professor vid Centrum för mi

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/markku-pa-nytt-en-av-landets-mest-hallbarhetsmaktiga - 2025-07-13

Av anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - publicerad 10 februari 2021 Mark är en ändlig resurs och behövs för bostäder, mat- och energiproduktion, rekreation och mycket annat. Hur ska olika intressen vägas mot varandra? Foto: Perry Nordeng. Tillräckligt med mark för framtida produktion av mat och biomassa, bevarande av grönytor i städerna och ett skogsbruk där mer

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/de-viktigaste-utmaningarna-en-hallbar-markanvandning - 2025-07-13

Av jan [dot] olsson [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Jan Olsson) - publicerad 19 mars 2021 Jordhumla. Foto: Kennet Ruona. Många arter av humlor hotas av klimatuppvärmningen, men inte alla. Mörk jordhumla är världens vanligaste humla och så lär det förbli. Forskare från Lunds universitet har nämligen upptäckt att den gynnas av att klimatet blir allt varmare. Genom att undersöka jordhumlor som har samla

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/ett-varmare-klimat-gor-varldens-vanligaste-humla-annu-vanligare - 2025-07-13