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A heated discussion under the hashtag Swedengate erupted on social media last spring. Swedes were accused of being strange as they did not invite their children’s friends to eat with them when the family was having dinner. The phenomenon was upsetting and ethnologist Håkan Jönsson was quickly inundated with questions. Are Swedes stingy? Swedengate came about when someone on the news and discussion

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/swedengate-disrespect-or-being-stingy - 2026-10-20

A meeting at the kitchen table, with lots of coffee and snus. And a donation of SEK 250 million. That’s what happened when Ingvar Kamprad met LTH’s dean in 1998 to talk about the future of industrial design education at the University. The kitchen table belonged to the then dean of LTH Thomas Johannesson, who had invited the founder of IKEA to his house to discuss a collaboration between the desig

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ingvar-kamprad-design-center-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary - 2026-10-20

The ground floor of the University Library will be refurbished and preparations will start in the summer. During the renovation, the public section will be emptied and the number of study places will be more than halved. If all goes according to plan, the University Library interior will be both better and more beautiful when all is complete in time for the start of the autumn semester 2024. There

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/renovating-university-library-will-take-year - 2026-10-20

It can take a long time between words and action at the University, sometimes a little too long. This is one of the reasons the University management has developed a platform for strategic work. It speaks to what is most important to the University right now and will help it to act much faster as the world changes. Pandemic, war in Europe, fake news, increased polarisation at home and abroad and,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/changing-world-requires-agile-university - 2026-10-20

The quest to control the remarkable phenomena of quantum physics is ongoing around the world. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is making the subject even hotter. Lund University is also involved in exploring the unknown – and at times mind-boggling – perspectives of quantum states. Mathieu Gisselbrecht, senior lecturer in Physics, leads the way down the basement corridor of the Laser Centre at F

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researching-another-reality - 2026-10-20

Five years after the opening of the prestigious Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, nothing has turned out as planned. The “tandem pairs” that were supposed to develop research together are now cheating on each other with other researchers. Private and work life have become intertwined and families often barbecue together. It’s a cold Sunday afternoon and the ground is covered in a thin laye

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cheating-and-interdisciplinary-fun - 2026-10-20

The Sten K. Johnson Centre for Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce that Professor Thomas M. Cooney from Technological University Dublin, Ireland, has been awarded the European Entrepreneurship Education Award (EEEA) for 2026. The EEEA award is conferred annually by the Sten K. Johnson Centre for Entrepreneurship to acknowledge individuals or organizations that have significantly advanced entre

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/winner-european-entrepreneurship-education-award-2026 - 2026-10-20

Lund University is strengthening its position as one of Europe’s leading universities and ranks highest among all universities in the Nordic region. This is shown in the results of the QS World University Rankings: Europe 2026, published today.Lund University is placed joint 12th in Europe, an improvement of one position compared with last year. This year’s ranking includes more than 950 universit

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranked-highest-nordic-region - 2026-10-20

We are proud to share that Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) is hosting four Visiting Professors within the Lund University Programme for Global Excellence – the University’s largest international recruitment initiative to date. "Lund University’s Programme for Global Excellence lets us bring world-leading scholars into the daily life of LUSEM. They add fresh momentum to o

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/visiting-professors-lusem - 2026-10-20

Is the Greenland crisis over? What did President Trump actually say in his speech in Davos, and how does it affect NATO, the EU, Denmark, and Sweden? Trade law researcher Joakim Zander and economists Maria Persson and Fredrik NG Andersson discuss and try to explain the latest developments. The American tone toward Denmark and Greenland prompted reactions from several allies as well as the EU. Trum

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/greenland-trade-bazooka-and-2026 - 2026-10-20

How can philosophy help us make sense of the technologies shaping our everyday lives? A brand new doctoral course explores these ideas and other intersections between philosophy and technology. The doctoral course Introduction to Philosophy of Technology, a collaboration between the Department of Informatics at Lund University (LU) School of Economics and Management and the Division of Informatics

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/philosophy-technology-course-receives-praise-doctoral-students - 2026-10-20

A podcast conversation on how social entrepreneuring can be “crafted” in response to gender-based violence. Daniel Hjorth, Ulf G. Lindén Professor and Director of the Centre for Aesthetics and Business Creativity at Lund University, appears on the Entrepreneurship & Regional Development Podcast following his co-authored paper with Mollie Painter (Hjorth, D., & Painter, M. (2026). Crafting social e

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/centre-director-daniel-hjorth-guests-erd-journal-podcast - 2026-10-20

Trump’s intervention in Venezuela was physical, concrete, and armed. What is happening now is decisive for the country’s future, but it also affects the entire region, according to Andrés Palacio, researcher at LUSEM. Historically, the United States has on several occasions asserted Central America, the Caribbean, and South America as its sphere of interest. Since the end of the Second World War,

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/venezuela-after-maduro - 2026-10-20

Among the newly elected members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is Tommy Andersson, professor of Economics at LUSEM From the outset, the Academy’s aim was “to cultivate and disseminate knowledge in Sweden in mathematics, natural sciences, economics, commerce, and the useful arts and manufactures.” It was founded in 1739 and is today best known for selecting the Nobel laureates in chemistr

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-professor-economics-elected-royal-swedish-academy-sciences - 2026-10-20

Congratulations on the defense of the dissertation "Entrepreneurial ethics: A behavioral approach to ethical dilemmas in entrepreneurship", at the department of Business Administration. After studying in Germany and the USA, and working in the UK, Marina has just completed her doctoral studies here at LUSEM.Her thesis lies at the intersection of entrepreneurship, applied ethics, and psychology. "A

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/new-thesis-three-questions-marina-vorholzer - 2026-10-20

En ny internationell studie, ledd från Lunds universitet och Nagoya University, visar att förändringar som förekommer vid Alzheimers sjukdom kan påverka hur snabbt ALS utvecklas. Resultaten kan på sikt bidra till säkrare individuella prognoser och bättre utformade kliniska prövningar. Amyotrofisk lateralskleros, ALS, är en allvarlig neurodegenerativ sjukdom där nervceller som styr kroppens muskler

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/alzheimerrelaterade-forandringar-i-hjarnan-kan-paverka-prognosen-vid-als - 2026-10-21

A new international study, led by Lund University and Nagoya University, Japan, shows that changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease may affect how rapidly ALS progresses. In time, the findings may contribute to more reliable individual prognoses and better-designed clinical trials. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a serious neurodegenerative disease in which the nerve cells that control t

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/alzheimer-related-changes-brain-may-affect-prognosis-als - 2026-10-21

Alzheimerrelaterade förändringar i hjärnan kan påverka prognosen vid ALSEn ny internationell studie, ledd från Lunds universitet och Nagoya University, visar att förändringar som förekommer vid Alzheimers sjukdom kan påverka hur snabbt ALS utvecklas. Resultaten kan på sikt bidra till säkrare individuella prognoser och bättre utformade kliniska prövningar. Amyotrofisk lateralskleros, ALS, är en all

https://www.lu.se/artikel/alzheimerrelaterade-forandringar-i-hjarnan-kan-paverka-prognosen-vid-als - 2026-10-21

Turism i utsatta områden kan bidra till nya möten och ge en mer nyanserad bild av platser som länge förknippats med kriminalitet och sociala problem. Men om turismen ska bidra med något positivt måste invånarna vara med och bestämma. Det visar forskning från Lunds universitet. Internationellt har fenomenet slumturism länge diskuterats. Sådan kan i sämsta fall leda till att de boende betraktas som

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/turism-positivt-utsatta-omraden - 2026-10-21

LU Accommodation generally raises rents once a year, and the increases from January 2027 have now been published. Every year, LU Accommodation increases rents to adjust for increasing prices from building owners and service providers.The latest increases, scheduled from January 2027, have now been published.All tenants have received an e-mail with their new monthly rent rate, and housing applicant

https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/rental-increase-2027-published - 2026-10-21