Usually Annie Lindberg works all alone in the secret warehouse. Photo:Kennet Ruona Lund University has a world-class art collection worth hundreds of millions of Swedish crowns. But many of the less valuable paintings are currently hidden in attics and cellar storage rooms. “With the initiative entitled ‘When collections come to life’ and a new open warehouse, we want to highlight the art collecti

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/art-treasures-taken-out-hiding - 2025-09-11

Anette Agardh, who led a research-based project on sexual harassment at LU. Photo: Jenny Loftrup There is nothing to indicate that sexual harassment is more common at the University than in other workplaces. However, different relationships of a dependent nature complicate the situation, such as that between doctoral student and supervisor. Few people choose to report harassment. "One of the reaso

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/power-hierarchies-make-it-more-difficult-curb-sexual-harassment - 2025-09-11

The students are not satisfied with the University's system for quality assurance of education. "It does not maintain the high and even quality that we would like", says Ella Sjöbeck, vice president of LUS. The students are not satisfied with the University's system for quality assurance of education. "It does not maintain the high and even quality that we would like", says Ella Sjöbeck, vice pres

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/students-criticise-quality-assurance-education - 2025-09-11

Feiner and her research team will travel to six locations in the Mediterranean region and collect wall lizards to study. Photo:Johan Joelsson Using fishing-rods laced with dental floss and the Nobel-prize winning Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technology, Nathalie Feiner wants to reveal some of the deepest mysteries of evolution. At the root of it all: a heartfelt love of lizards. Lying on a thin branch

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lizards-key-evolutionary-mysteries - 2025-09-11

Daniel Göransson, one of the digital heroes, ensures the technology functions between the external assessors, Pro vice-chancellor Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen (far bottom left of the screen) and Vice-Chancellor Torbjörn von Schantz (top right) Photo: M Lindh So say Mats Benner and Freddy Ståhlberg after having reviewed both self-evaluations and assessor reports. The RQ20 Research Quality Evaluation P

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rq20-research-still-evaluated-despite-pandemic-obstacles - 2025-09-11

“Replication studies are not seen as valuable, but researchers and society need to know which studies hold up”, says Burak Tunca. Photo: erol ahmed, evan smogor och hans reniers/unsplash Science should be able to be reproduced, but in reality this is a step that is often overlooked. Researcher Burak Tunca at the School of Economics and Management sees several possible measures that could make rese

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/do-it-again-and-do-it-right - 2025-09-11

Philip Warkander is Sweden's first ever PhD graduate in fashion studies. Photo: Kennet Ruona Workhorse Philip Warkander became Sweden’s first PhD graduate in Fashion Studies. He describes research in a new subject as continuously doubting – an approach he also applies to the academic community’s focus on hard work. Moving around as a researcher, he noticed one day that he had fallen into the class

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/doubting-fashion-pioneer - 2025-09-11

Rasmus Eltén at his first road accident on the E6 north of Helsingborg. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter “Suicide threat. Young woman with self-harming behaviour who has taken an overdose of pills”. This is one of the emergency calls that come in during Rasmus Eltén’s ten-hour shift at the ambulance station in Helsingborg. He is in his first week of internship on the specialist nursing programme in pre-hospi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/emergency-call - 2025-09-11

The vice-chancellor has decided to give the Sustainability Forum a broader remit with resources increased to SEK 4 million per year as of 2021, from the previous SEK 2 million annually. The Sustainability Forum will also be a permanent fixture, as sustainability issues are long-term. The most significant change in the remit of the Sustainability Forum is the investment in increased sustainability

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainability-forum-broadens-its-remit-include-students-and-education - 2025-09-11

With a new sustainability plan, Lund University management wants to increase the level of ambition and develop sustainability work within the organisation. Education and research are to increase their positive impact, while the University is to halve its contribution to climate change by 2023. In autumn 2019 a strategy for sustainable development was adopted. Now the sustainability plan sets goals

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainability-plan-approved - 2025-09-11

Erik Renström Photo: Kennet Ruona The Government has appointed Erik Renström as the vice-chancellor of Lund University for the term of office 2021–2026. Renström, a physician and professor of experimental endocrinology, has extensive academic experience. He is currently the dean of Lund University’s Faculty of Medicine. “It feels very exciting and a little solemn to be entrusted with the role of v

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/erik-renstrom-be-vice-chancellor-lund-university - 2025-09-11

Henriette Frees Esholdt som nyligen disputerade i sociologi på en avhandling om skämtandet på en multietnisk arbetsplats i Danmark intervjuades (2/2) i Vetenskapsradion: Hör inslaget på sr.se

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/nyligen-disputerad-forskare-i-vetenskapsradion - 2025-09-11

Henriette Frees Esholdt försvarade sin avhandling "Når humor, leg og lyst er på spil – social interaktion på en multietnisk arbejdsplads." idag kl 10 i Edens Hörsal, Lund. Opponent var Professor Thomas Johansson från Institutionen för pedagogik, kommunikation och lärande vid Göteborgs universitet.Handledare:Professor Anders Persson från Sociologiska institutionen vid Lunds universitet och Lektor M

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/henriette-frees-esholdt-har-disputerat - 2025-09-11

Isabelle Johansson, doktorand i socialantropologi här på sociologen har fått pris av Malmö Högskola för sin masteruppsats Swedish Anti-Trafficking Policy. Official Framework and Local Practices. Läs tillkännagivandet på mah.seHitta uppsatsen på MIM Working Paper Series.Isabelle Johansson kommer att hålla en presentation på MAH senare i vår. Uppsatsen kommer även att arbetas om till en artikel fram

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/doktorand-far-pris-uppsats-om-anti-trafficking - 2025-09-11

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 Development Studies seminar series som hålls varje vecka med talare som representerar  

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/khalaf-talar-i-london-om-transit-states - 2025-09-11

Sociologiska institutionen höll sin årliga forskningsdag för doktorander fredagen den 12 december, vilket gav tillfälle för doktorander från pedagogik, socialantropologi och sociologi att presentera sina pågående avhandlingar. Totalt 13 doktorander presenterade sina arbeten som varierade från det känsloarbete och intryckshantering som används av försvarsadvokater, till intellektuellas skapande av

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/inspirerande-forskningsdag-fran-science-mapping-till-rwandiskt-jordbruk - 2025-09-11

Abdulhadi Khalaf of the Sociology Department has together with co-editors just published the book "Transit States: Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf". The states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar) form the largest destination for labour migration in the global South. In all of these states, however, the majority of the

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/ny-bok-transit-states-labour-migration-and-citizenship-gulf - 2025-09-11

8:48 5-11-2014 Sociologens Chris Mathieu m fl har genom ansökan till EU:s nya ramprogram för forskning och innovation Horizon 2020 beviljats ca 25 miljoner kronor för projektet Quality of jobs and innovation led employment outcomes (QuInnE).  Projektet som ska undersöka kopplingen mellan arbetskvalitet, innovation och sysselsättning kommer att koordineras av Chris

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/sociologer-tar-sig-tillvaxt-och-arbetskvalitet - 2025-09-11

Lotta Johansson försvarade sin avhandling "Tillblivelsens pedagogik: Om att utmana det förgivettagna. En postkvalitativ stiudie av det ännu-icke-seddas pedagogiska möjligheter" i Palaestra nedre 20 mars kl 13:15. Opponent var Nina Rossholt, Associated ProfessorLänk till avhandlingen.     

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/lotta-johansson-har-disputerat - 2025-09-11

Anders Persson, professor i sociologi har tillsammans med fyra andra forskare skrivit en artikel på SvD Brännpunkt i helgen. Artikeln baseras på en lång rad undersökningar som visar att en senareläggning av skolans starttider vore gynnsamt på många sätt. Läs inlägget i Svenska dagbladet. Tidiga skolmorgnar en fara för hälsanLäs även nyheten på lu.se 

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/tidiga-skolmorgnar-en-fara-halsan - 2025-09-11