By anna [dot] lothman [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Löthman) - published 11 July 2025 The World Economic History Congress (WEHC) is an international and interdisciplinary event, taking place every third year, and this year, it’s being held in Lund. With the congress fast approaching, we naturally wanted to learn more — and who better to ask than Professor Mats Olsson serving as host on behalf o

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/curious-about-world-economic-history-congress-three-quick-questions - 2025-07-22

By anna [dot] lothman [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Löthman) - published 16 July 2025 Bulgaria is on its way to adopting the euro. Joakim Zander, Senior Lecturer in Business Law at LUSEM, explains what this means. What does it mean for a country to switch to the euro? In a recent interview with Swedish Radio (Sveriges Radio), Joakim Zander, Senior Lecturer in Business Law at LUSEM, discussed Bu

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lev-euro-what-happens-when-bulgaria-changes-currency - 2025-07-22

By louise [dot] larsson [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Larsson) - published 18 December 2023 Emma Samsioe and Carys Egan-Wyer highlight three retail megatrends, in their new anthology: Technology, sustainability, and consumer well-being. Photo: Louise Larsson The research areas remain the same, but our perspective on them has changed. This is how consumption researchers Carys Egan-Wyer and Emm

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/uncertainty-new-normal-retailers-and-consumption-researchers - 2025-07-22

By louise [dot] larsson [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Larsson) - published 19 December 2023 Kids playing in the backyard of newly built houses in Johanneshov, Stockholm, 1943. Photo: Johansson (SvD). Stadsmuseet i Stockholm/Stockholmskällan. The new research project, “Socioeconomic Segregation - The Impact of Neighborhoods, Schools and Policy Across the Life Course”, aims to establish a resea

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/new-project-explores-socioeconomic-segregation-then-and-now - 2025-07-22

By carla [dot] bohme [at] ics [dot] lu [dot] se (Carla Böhme) - published 22 November 2023 Photo: Madelaine Hallerdal, WithSecure WithSecure visited the Department of Informatics on their European Cyber Tour, allowing students on our Bachelor's programme to get hands-on experience with the handling of cyber threats in a simulated environment. On October 30th, 2023, students taking the course IS an

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/cybertruck-cyber-security-simulation - 2025-07-22

By carla [dot] bohme [at] ics [dot] lu [dot] se (Carla Böhme) - published 12 October 2023 Markus Lahtinen. Photo: Johan Persson Markus Lahtinen, researcher and lecturer at the Department of Informatics, Lund University, has been interviewed by both Dagens Nyheter (DN) and Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) for expert insights on the use of AI for crime-fighting purposes. The articles in DN and SvD report on

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/markus-lahtinen-speaks-ai-and-camera-surveillance - 2025-07-22

By carla [dot] bohme [at] ics [dot] lu [dot] se (Carla Böhme) - published 12 September 2023 The Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies. Photo: Kennet Ruona Associate professor at the Department of Informatics, Miranda Kajtazi, is currently involved in a mix of internal and external grants. At the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Miranda Kajtazi is leading an Advanced Study Group on "Hum

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/ai-human-rights-and-digital-welfare-miranda-kajtazi-takes-lead - 2025-07-22

By carla [dot] bohme [at] ics [dot] lu [dot] se (Carla Böhme) - published 8 June 2023 The Department of Informatics uses Microsoft Azure as a cloud solution for students attending the Bachelor’s Programme in Design of Information Systems. It allows us to have complete BYOD-solutions in our computer rooms, which attracts students to campus while also saving energy and money. Informatic’s director o

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/cloud-solution-azure-bjorn-svensson-interviewed-microsoft - 2025-07-22

By carla [dot] bohme [at] ics [dot] lu [dot] se (Carla Böhme) - published 23 February 2023 Informatics lecturer Markus Lahtinen shares benefits, examples, and lessons learnt from using LinkedIn in the Wellness Weeks seminar. Photo: Carla Böhme Are you looking to enhance your professional network and learn from industry experts in your field and beyond? Discover how LinkedIn can bring unexpected op

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/learn-more-about-linkedin-markus-lahtinen - 2025-07-22

By carla [dot] bohme [at] ics [dot] lu [dot] se (Carla Böhme) - published 27 January 2023 Viswanath Venkatesh. Photo: Carla Böhme Dr. Viswanath Venkatesh attracted a large crowd to his seminar "Let's Get Ready to Contextualize", where he spoke about the importance of contextualization in research. Dr. Venkatesh shared some of his latest research on contextualization, including discussions on: Prob

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/viswanath-venkatesh-holds-seminar-informatics - 2025-07-22

By carla [dot] bohme [at] ics [dot] lu [dot] se (Carla Böhme) - published 17 January 2023 Vincenzo Corvello. Photo: Carla Böhme Associate Professor Vincenzo Corvello, joining us from the University of Messina, is an established business and innovation scholar as well as the Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Innovation Management. Hosted by lecturer Markus Lahtinen, Vincenzo Corvello start

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/informatics-welcomes-vincenzo-corvello-meet-and-greet-fika - 2025-07-22

By carla [dot] bohme [at] ics [dot] lu [dot] se (Carla Böhme) - published 16 January 2023 Photo: Johan Persson Since its release in November 2022, ChatGPT has made international headlines. While concerns have been raised that ChatGPT and generative AI may be used as a tool for cheating, department lecturers Markus Lahtinen and Björn Svensson challenge this fear by actively incorporating the chatbo

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/informatics-starts-integrating-chatgpt-its-educational-programme - 2025-07-22

Published 6 February 2015 A Dutch pilot, a safety manager from Australia, an average-adjuster from Denmark and twelve others who work with safety in high-risk industries came together a week before Christmas in Lund to hone their critical thinking skills. They are all studying the distance-learning MSc in Human Factors and System Safety, and it was now time to meet in real life. Participants on th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/scattered-risk-students-gather-lund - 2025-07-21

Published 6 February 2015 Lund University’s MOOCs have now started. First to launch was the Faculty of Law course in European Business Law, closely followed by Greening the Economy from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), and later in the spring the Faculty of Medicine’s course in sexual health will take place. The number of people registered for the courses

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mooc-launch-celebrated-fizz-and-folk-dance - 2025-07-21

Published 6 February 2015 … CEO of Lund University’s student consulting company Lunicore, which increased its turnover by 45 per cent last year. As a result, it is now probably the largest student-run consulting company in Scandinavia. Why should students work as consultants during their studies? “Because they get the chance to put their theoretical knowledge into practice while they’re still stud

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meet-emil-erikssonabout-students-consultants - 2025-07-21

Published 6 February 2015 The students, wider society and the path to academic success were important points in Torbjörn von Schantz’s inauguration speech on the University’s foundation day, 28 January. After the usual pomp and ceremony, and with the vice-chancellor’s chain hanging splendidly round his neck, he expressed his thanks for the appointment, which he sees as a great honour. Vice-chancel

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-vice-chancellor-safeguard-student-influence - 2025-07-21

Published 9 February 2015 Economist and researcher Andreas Bergh is closely involved in public debate. Few things make him really angry. One of them is stupidity. Like when the city of Malmö fails to create simple entry-level jobs because of unreasonable demands on people who want to start mobile food trucks. “That is how the sluggish Swedish labour market works. If we dared to shake up the regula

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/advocating-capitalist-welfare-state - 2025-07-21

Published 6 March 2015 From Jordan to Lund: Sahar Al-Rabadi and Marwa Al-Khalidi have got off to a good start as PhD students in architecture at LU. They are the result of a revitalised agreement with Yarmouk University. PhD students in architecture Sahar Al-Rabadi and Marwa Al-Khalidi outside LUX, a building they find architecturally interesting. “I love following rules and here there are rules e

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jordanian-doctoral-students-appreciate-swedish-order - 2025-07-21

Published 6 March 2015 David Gisselsson is a researcher on a roll. In the autumn, he was awarded Lund’s ‘local Fernström Prize’, which goes to a promising young researcher in medicine, and he has recently had an article published in one of the most prestigious journals in the field, Nature Communications. David Gisselsson with two of his research tools – the microscope and the computer. David Giss

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/attention-new-findings-childhood-cancer - 2025-07-21

Published 6 March 2015 Doctoral students living on relatively low external scholarships should get terms of employment that are more equal to those on doctoral studentships. This is the hope of the University’s Education Board, which has approved the faculties topping up the income of doctoral students on scholarships. However, the Faculty of Law and the University’s employment lawyers have regist

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/better-conditions-horizon-scholarship-holders - 2025-07-21