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How long does it take to comfort someone? Does an egg need to be fried rather than boiled? LUM invited home care researchers from the School of Social Work and the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) for a conversation. They are meeting for the first time; their discussions cover stress, responsibility and participation. Their common goal is better home care, but they approach the issue from different pe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/one-persons-workplace-anothers-home - 2025-10-04

David Gisselsson Nord and Tony Ingesson both love spy novels and have a nerdy interest in history. Their shared curiosity resulted in an interdisciplinary collaboration about how it might be possible to inspire smarter cancer treatment with the help of methods from espionage and intelligence analysis. Tony Ingesson finds it fairly easy to show a bit of attitude in front of the camera. David Gissel

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cancer-researcher-and-intelligence-expert - 2025-10-04

Sexual harassment, mental health issues, racism and non-European doctoral students engaged in uphill struggles with the Swedish Migration Agency to be allowed to remain in Sweden. These are examples of the sorts of things that Haro de Grauw has been faced with since becoming doctoral student ombudsman in Lund almost two years ago. Most often, however, it is another factor that makes doctoral stude

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ombudsman-rescue - 2025-10-04

Twenty years ago, Anne L’Huillier was supervisor to doctoral student Per Eng-Johnsson. Today he is a professor of atomic, molecular and optical physics, director of the Lund Laser Centre and one of the Nobel Laureate’s closest collaborators. “She makes everyone feel involved. She sees and includes everyone and is completely unpretentious,” he says. When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announ

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/colleagues-around-world-are-genuinely-happy - 2025-10-04

The excitement has been palpable in recent weeks following the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Anne L’Huillier, a researcher at Lund. This is the first time a researcher at Lund University has received a Nobel Prize, and atomic physicist Anne L’Huillier is only the fifth woman ever to be awarded the prize in Physics. By now it is widely known where atomic physicist Anne L’Huillier was when

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-received-lunds-first-nobel-prize - 2025-10-04

Now you can apply for seed money to develop new courses and programs in collaboration with foreign universities, before 1 February 2024. To ensure that the educational offer at the University is of high quality and meets the needs of the future, the university management wishes to stimulate the development of new courses and programmes and at the same time set demands for elements of international

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/apply-seed-money-course-and-programme-development - 2025-10-04

Recent geopolitical changes have increased the interest for, but also challenged, academic freedom. It is generally considered that academic freedom in the Nordic countries is high. But is this really the case? In this seminar, Prof. Terence Karran will present his study on academic freedom in Scandinavia and discuss if the Nordic model has survived. Speaker: Terence Karran, Emeritus Professor, Un

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/academic-freedom-scandinavia-has-nordic-model-survived - 2025-10-04

Eager to explore digital educational collaborations with partners from around the world? Join us at our upcoming workshop! On 29 November, between 9:00-15:00, Casey Dinger and Leslie Alvarez from the University of Denver will be hosting a workshop on Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). COIL is a digital collaboration between educational institutions in at least two different countr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/explore-global-digital-educational-collaborations - 2025-10-04

Sustainability Week is an annual event focusing on sustainable development, organised as a joint venture by Lund University and Lund municipality. The program offers discussions and actions, exploring both societal challenges of today and hopeful visions for the future. In April 8-13 2024, the Sustainability Week will be held for the eighth time, and you now have the chance to contribute!In 2023,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainability-week-returns-2024 - 2025-10-04

Since 2018, Lund University has had a special focus on integrating the arts and culture in teaching, research and external engagement through the “Strategy for Cultural Collaboration”. Is LU a culture university? Can everyone utilise the arts and culture in their activities? We will examine these questions at LU’s first major Culture Meeting on 24 November.” One of the goals of the Strategy is to

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tinder-cultural-collaboration-lus-first-major-culture-meeting - 2025-10-04

All the faculties have now concluded their elections of new deans and faculty boards. At some faculties the present dean will continue, but in most cases new people will take up the posts. See the list below of the new faculty managements for the next term of office 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2026. School of Economics and Management Joakim Gullstrand, new dean Andreas Inghammar, new deputy dean

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-deans-faculties - 2025-10-04

On 26 October, Times Higher Education (THE) published its Rankings by Subject. Lund University does very well in comparison to higher education institutions around the world. We are ranked best in Sweden in THE’s subject areas Law, Business and Economics, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities. Regarding Law, we are ranked 38th in the world.Our ranking improved in seven of the eleven subjects an

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-best-sweden-four-subjects-according-times-higher-education-2024 - 2025-10-04

Last year Max Liljefors, professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, applied for seed money to develop an idea for a course with colleagues from one of the EUGLOH universities. The course, entitled “Arts and Creative Health and Wellbeing”, focuses on how the arts can be used in healthcare and how the arts affect our health. “When I saw that it was

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/idea-course-development-help-seed-money - 2025-10-04

Listen to Gloria (11 November) and the Lund University Academic Choir’s 75th anniversary concert (18 November). Odeum, the University’s music centre, invites you to two major autumn concerts in November. On 11 November, as part of Odeum’s Spirituality theme, musicians and singers from the academic and ecclesiastical spheres meet again for a concert in which the Lund University Academic Orchestra a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/listen-gloria-and-lund-university-academic-choirs-75th-anniversary-concert - 2025-10-04

På världskongressen i ultraljud i obstetrik och gynekologi i Berlin söndag 13 oktober tar Lil Valentin emot Ian Donald Gold Medal. Utmärkelsen delas ut årligen av The International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG). Ian Donald Gold Medal går till en person som har gett ett enastående vetenskapligt bidrag till hur ultraljud praktiseras inom obstetrik och gynekologi genom fo

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/lil-valentin-far-utmarkelse-vetenskapliga-bidrag-inom-obstetrik-och-gynekologi - 2025-10-04

Var femte elev har svårt att lära sig läsa och skriva. – Den siffran innefattar elever som har svårt för att lära sig läsa och skriva utan att för den delen vara i närheten av en diagnos, förtydligar Johan Mårtensson, neuropsykolog och forskare vid Lunds universitet. Nu får Johan Mårtensson LMK-stiftelsens medicinpris på 600 000 kronor för sin unika forskning som kombinerar språkvetenskap och peda

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/pris-till-forskning-som-mater-sprakinlarning-i-hjarnan - 2025-10-04

Tre forskare från Lunds universitet finns med bland de 47 forskarna från tolv olika länder som har utnämnts till Honary Skou-professorer. Som adjungerande Skou-professorer vid Århus universitet bidrar Maria Gomez, Cecilia Lundberg och Lisa Rydén på olika sätt till internationalisering inom forskning på området medicin och hälsa. Tre forskare från Lunds universitet finns med bland de 47 forskarna f

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/tre-forskare-fran-lunds-universitet-bland-nyinstallerade-skou-professorer - 2025-10-04

Forskare vid Lunds universitet som under lång tid studerat funktionen för de olika receptorer som finns på betacellernas yta, har funnit att en restprodukt från kroppens kolesterolmetabolism kan slå på insulinfrisättning. Fynden har publicerats i Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. Studien är ett samarbete mellan Albert Salehi vid Lunds universitet och Jalal Taneera vid universitetet i Sharjah,

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ny-mekanism-bakom-insulinproduktion-funnen - 2025-10-04

Martin Söderholm får Sparbanken Skånes Forskningspris 2019 för sin forskning kring riskfaktorer vid en allvarlig form av stroke, så kallad subaraknoidalblödning (SAB). Priset delas ut den 29 oktober på Strokedagen i Lund – en dag med populärvetenskapliga föreläsningar om stroke för allmänheten. – Att få det här priset var en överraskning och stor uppmuntran att fortsätta med forskningen. Det känns

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/strokeforskare-prisas - 2025-10-04

Den 18 oktober är det dags för professorsinstallation då 28 nya professorer installeras och 15 av dem finns vid Medicinska fakulteten. Installationen sker i Universitetshusets aula kl. 16.00 med efterföljande mingel i Pelarsalen. Installationen är öppen för alla och ingen föranmälan krävs. Universitetets nya professorer installeras av rektor Torbjörn von Schantz. Helena Jernström vid Medicinska fa

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/professorsinstallation-18-oktober - 2025-10-04