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As the holiday season approaches, we would like to extend our warmest wishes to you all. After last year’s restrictive situation we are so happy to have been able to meet in person during 2022. Even so there are lessons to be learned and we are therefore staying partly with digital formats that work well. Here are some highlights from the past year: AI related Degree Project fairs both in Helsi
https://www.ai.lu.se/article/season-greetings-ai-lund - 2026-09-19
The first call for applications, Sustainable Idea Exploration, within the University’s Sustainability Fund opened during the autumn. The aim is to explore the innovative potential of sustainability-related research projects at an early stage. Four projects have now been granted funding. One of the projekts addresses text mining for environmental science and was applied for by Sonja Aits, Departmen
https://www.ai.lu.se/article/project-text-mining-environmental-science-gets-funding-universitys-sustainability-fund - 2026-09-19
Patients are often asked to rate their feelings using a rating scale, when talking to psychologists or doctors about their mental health. This is currently how depression and anxiety are diagnosed. However, a new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that allowing patients to describe their experience using their own words - is potentially viewed as more precise and preferred by the patients.
https://www.ai.lu.se/article/luse-ai-could-improve-mental-health-care - 2026-09-19
Första steget för att göra hela det svenska trycket från 1400-talet fram till idag digitalt tillgängligt är taget! Universitetsbiblioteket i Lund har tillsammans med Kungliga biblioteket och universitetsbiblioteken i Göteborg, Stockholm, Umeå och Uppsala kommit överens om att med gemensamma insatser digitalisera och tillgängliggöra det samlade svenska trycket. Riksbibliotekarien, biträdande riksbi
https://www.ub.lu.se/artikel/600-ar-av-svenskt-tryck-ska-digitaliseras - 2026-09-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Supervisors who do not have time for their doctoral students, or research which is used without giving the doctoral student credit as an author…. Aleksandra Popovic hopes that the newly established Research Programmes Board will result in increased initiative when it comes to dealing with the doctoral students’ proble
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/some-doctoral-students-find-their-supervisors-unreliable - 2026-09-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In the autumn, Lund University will be introducing a major educational initiative on e-learning and blended learning. It is intended for teaching staff who are curious about testing digital tools in their teaching activities. “For the University, integrating digital technology in physical teaching is a matter of survi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/teaching-staff-learn-more-about-blended-learning - 2026-09-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Forum Medicum – the new major construction of the Faculty of Medicine at the top of Sölvegatan – will become a reality. For a while, things looked bad, but by making small adjustments here and there, the project can now be pursued to begin construction in the winter of 2018/2019. The idea of Forum Medicum is to establ
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/after-slimming-down-construction-plans-forum-medicum-now-underway - 2026-09-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At a pub in Yokohama, history of religions scholar Andreas Johansson by chance came in contact with the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza. For two weeks, he was hanging out with the mafia, and will soon publish a book on the tattoos of the Yakuza and what they symbolise. It requires over 200 hours of painful pricks by hand,
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researcher-intrigued-mafia-tattoos-japanese-mafia-photographed-lund-researcher - 2026-09-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Is it OK for a manager to email employees in the evenings and on weekends? More employers should have explicit rules about emailing outside working hours, according to Mikael Ottosson, who is researching the work environment within a project entitled “Going home already? Fluid working hours means freedom to some peopl
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/should-employees-be-reachable-email-during-their-leisure-time - 2026-09-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Ravensbrück archive at the University Library is unique in the world. Nowhere else is there a collection of 500 testimonies from concentration camp survivors, recorded so soon after their terrible ordeal. Now, their stories from Ravensbrück will be made available in digital form, so that anyone can search the arch
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/important-testimonies-digitised - 2026-09-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 82 years after his death, limnology superstar and the first professor in this field in Lund and the world, Einar Naumann, may have helped solve the riddle of why lakes become brown. With the help of Naumann’s and his students’ work dating back to the 1930s, senior lecturer Emma Kritzberg has created a data series that
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eighty-year-old-findings-help-solve-water-mystery - 2026-09-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Love poems, playing cards and secret notes. For half a millennium, people who have attended mass at Lund Cathedral have found ways to pass the time when the sermons felt too slow. In a few years, the Lund University Historical Museum will introduce a new cabinet of curiosities, containing notes and strange objects whi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hidden-treasures-choir-stalls-made-exhibition - 2026-09-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Is the world becoming a better place? Carlota Perez does not respond to this question. Instead, she explains how we are making it better. And hope is ignited in the eyes of the young members of the audience during Debatt i Lund. “The threat of climate change can be turned into an opportunity. Green economic growth wil
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-brings-hope-better-world - 2026-09-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. When Jonas Hafström swings his gavel at the board meeting in June, he will do so in front of an almost entirely new University Board. He himself maintains his seat, comfortable in his role as chair which he began two years ago. Jonas Hafström, chairman of the University board. When former chair Margot Wallström resign
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/donald-trump-and-brexit-affects-agenda-board - 2026-09-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A few weeks after the terrorist attack on Drottninggatan in Stockholm, researchers caution against describing reality as a black-and-white struggle between good and evil. If you want to protect society against extremism, it is important that you understand how and why it occurs. Although radicalised youth who return f
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/segregation-graver-threat-isis-returnees-long-run - 2026-09-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How does digital technology affect our work situation? Could data collected to measure our performance lead to old-fashioned micromanagement? Should higher education take after healthcare with regard to the boundary between work and spare time? These are some of the questions discussed by researchers involved in the r
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/digital-revolution-changes-work-environment - 2026-09-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How we deal with people who return from terrorist groups – not just those who have travelled to ISIS but also those who have joined right-wing groups in, for instance, Ukraine – is crucial to our own safety, says Dan-Erik Andersson, one of the people behind a new national contract education course on violent extremism
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-provides-education-against-violent-extremism - 2026-09-19
The climate cannot handle the amount of animals we eat. There needs to be a protein shift, according to researcher Karolina Östbring who is involved in the Sustainability Week. Her vision is to create a platform for research on vegetable proteins at LU. Karolina Östberg Photo: Kennet Ruona. The human population is growing, while our ecological footprint needs to become much lower in order to redu
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-need-protein-shift - 2026-09-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Why is the Stringhyllan bookshelf considered a design classic but not the Billy? And what makes the Lamino armchair into the furniture design of the century while Norrgavel’s Länstol chair isn’t even considered a classic? “I believed, rather naively, that it was quality that determined whether a piece became a Anna Wa
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-knows-what-makes-design-classic - 2026-09-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The relocation of the specialised centres to the faculties which is currently underway within LU has generated concern and discussion. “But once you know where you are moving, a calmer and more constructive phase begins”, says Bo Ahrén, chair of the University’s specialised centres. But Merle Jacob, professor of resea
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/calmer-phase-after-turbulence-centres-moving-faculties - 2026-09-19
