Heiko Herwald, vicedekan vid Medicinska fakulteten. Foto: Kennet Ruona. Orpheus är ett europeiskt nätverk som har åtagit sig att utveckla och sprida bästa praxis samt främja harmonisering inom forskarutbildning inom biomedicin och hälsovetenskap. Nätverket genomför utvärderingar för att säkerställa kvaliteten inom forskarutbildningar. Hittills har 10 europeiska medicinska fakulteter blivit ackredi

https://www.lu.se/artikel/medicinska-fakultetens-forskarutbildning-ackrediterad - 2025-08-29

Det gröna områden i zebrafiskens hjärna, visar att nervcellerna börjar skicka elektriska signaler, när den implanterade elektroden vidarebefordrar externa stimuli. Av den karakteristiska formen framgår att stimuleringen är framgångsrik. Forskare vid Lunds och Göteborgs universitet, har framgångsrikt utvecklat temporära, organiska elektroder som smidigt kan integreras i biologiska system. Metoden,

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/elektroterapi-utan-kirurgi - 2025-08-29

God utbildning är en demokratisk rättighet; att skapa ett fritt och tillgängligt universitet borde ligga i allas intresse, skriver Henrietta Flodell, lundastudent och ny ordförande för Akademikerförbundet SSR:s Studentråd. Henrietta Flodell Precis som allas lika rätt till vård, skola och jobb, är det fria universitetet en grundpelare i den svenska demokratin. Det är ett påstående som ingen höjer p

https://www.lu.se/artikel/gasttyckaren-om-undervisningskvalitet-som-forsvinner-i-ett-asiktsvakuum - 2025-08-29

Plastavfall är ett enormt problem idag, inte minst hamnar stora mängder mikro- och nanoplast i våra jordar. Foto: Flockine/Pixabay. Genom att använda mikrodesignade jordmodeller har forskare vid Lunds universitet undersökt hur pyttesmå partiklar av polystyren påverkar bakterier och svampar. Trots att denna nanoplast minskade både bakterie- och svamptillväxten lyckades svampen faktiskt ”städa upp”

https://www.lu.se/artikel/dammsugareffekt-hos-svampar-kan-halla-nanoplastpartiklar-i-schack - 2025-08-30

Bevarade pigmentorganeller (melanosomer – till höger i figuren) från ’ögat’ (till vänster i figuren). Foton: Johan Lindgren och Peter Sjövall Kan man säga något om de ursprungliga färgerna hos djur som varit utdöda i flera tiotals miljoner år, som dinosaurierna? Vilka problem kan man stöta på när man försöker tolka färger i det fossila arkivet? Enligt forskare från bland annat Lunds universitet ka

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fler-metoder-kravs-att-bestamma-forntida-djurs-farger - 2025-08-30

Resa till Taiwan, myndighetsdialog, konferens i Alexandria, Ukrainabesök, SIO-konferens och kungabesök är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. Pers resa till Taiwan. Förra veckan var Per och en delegation i Taiwan för att besöka universitet och företag i syfte att undersöka möjligheter till framtida samarbeten. Redan i dag har LU studentutbytesavtal med National Taiwan University i Taipei, men

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-2-april - 2025-08-30

The placement of the position is to be divided between the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies and the Division of Human Rights. The candidate needs to have written a Ph.D. thesis with a focus on some aspect of Human Rights in East and South-East Asia. Very good and documented knowledge of English is required as well as relevant knowledge in an Asian language, depending on the research pr

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/applications-open-two-year-appointment-postdoc-human-rights-east-and-south-east-asia - 2025-08-29

Funded by the Swedish Energy Agency, the IIIEE at Lund University in collaboration with researchers at Linköping University are launching a new project called Massive Urban Missions (MUM) on advancing and delivering climate neutral cities. Associate Professor Kes McCormick and Professor Jenny Palm are the researchers at the IIIEE leading the activities. Two doctoral researchers will be appointed a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-launches-new-project-massive-urban-missions - 2025-08-29

The annual SASNET Best South Asia Thesis Award is granted Dianne Kok for her Master thesis on household energy transition in metropolitan and rural Nepal. Since 2022, SASNET annualy grants a Lund University student the Best South Asia Thesis Award for an excellent Bachelor or Master thesis in the humanities or social sciences. The thesis must have been submitted and defended by a student at Lund U

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/dianne-kok-granted-best-south-asia-thesis-award-20232024 - 2025-08-29

REAL (Centre for Retail and Logistics) is a research center at Lund University and a long-term initiative aimed at establishing a strong, interdisciplinary, and dynamic environment. Its goal is to generate relevant knowledge and expertise of strategic importance for the future of sustainable retail and logistics. “Through collaboration in education, research, and innovation, we aim to redefine the

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/one-year-real - 2025-08-29

The total sick leave among government employees increased to 4.1 per cent last year, reports the ST trade union’s magazine, Publikt*. Lund University has the lowest sick leave among the ten largest government employers with 2.6 per cent. “It’s naturally very pleasing to see that our sick leave is low compared with other large public authorities. However, we know that generally higher education ins

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/national-comparison-shows-lund-university-has-lowest-sick-leave - 2025-08-30

An innovative project has received support from the Swedish Institute under its “support for cooperation with academics from Turkey” scheme. “Turkey Beyond Borders: Critical Voices, New Perspectives” aims to foster collaboration between academics in Sweden and scholars from Turkey whose academic freedoms are implicitly or explicitly curtailed and violated. The website is now launched, with 2 vodca

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/seminar-and-vodcast-series-draws-attention-infringements-academic-freedom-turkey-and-provides-forum - 2025-08-29

Roger Hildingsson will defend his dissertation Governing Decarbonisation. The State and the New Politics of Climate Change December 5 i the Eden main auditorium (faculty opponent: professor James Meadowcroft). AbstractThis dissertation examines the “new climate politics of decarbonisation” and the role of the state as a site for progressive climate action. This new politics concerns transformative

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roger-hildingssons-dissertation-finished - 2025-08-29

Roger Hildingsson defended his dissertation "Governing Decarbonisation. The State and the New Politics of Climate Change" yesterday in Edens Hörsal, The Department of Political Science, Lund. Roger HildingssonDiscussant: Professor James Meadowcroft.AbstractThis dissertation examines the “new climate politics of decarbonisation” and the role of the state as a site for progressive climate action. Th

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roger-hildingsson-defended-his-thesis - 2025-08-29

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-applications-two-ssrc-fellowships - 2025-08-29

The book "Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War" edited by Amarnath Amarasingam and Daniel Bass was recently published. The paperback is now available from Hurst in the UK and Oxford University Press in the US. Even though Sri Lanka’s protracted civil war came to a bloody conclusion in May 2009, prospects for a sustainable peace remain uncertain. The Sri Lankan army is no longe

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-book-post-war-sri-lanka - 2025-08-29

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences goes in this fifteenth edition to Anne L’Huillier and her companions in the pioneering field of “attophysics”, Paul Corkum and Ferenc Krausz. Photo: Kennet Ruona For her pioneering work in attosecond physics, Anne L’Huillier is one of the three new laureates of the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in basic science, a prize from the BBV

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-new-frontiers-knowledge-awardee - 2025-08-29

Elsa Trolle Önnerfors, from the Faculty of Law. Photo:Jenny Loftrup The first phase was filled with creativity and collective effort. Elsa Trolle Önnerfors was surprised by how smooth the transition to distance education was. However, now the focus is more on how students are feeling and on perseverance – for how long is unknown "I used a year's worth of creativity in the first few weeks, and lear

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-phase-requires-stamina-and-consideration - 2025-08-29

Under avslutningsceremonin den 8 juni delas varje år ut en rad olika stipendier till de bästa examensatsarbetena i olika kategorier. I år delades det ut totalt 6 stipendier för bästa examensarbeten inom Service management och logistik samt ett hedersomnämnande inom jämställdhet. Visita/Tyra och Agnar Meurlings stiftelses stipendier på 8 000 kronor Till bästa examensarbete för kandidatexamen inom S

https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/stipendiater-2016 - 2025-08-29

Meet Per Ödling, Professor of Telecommunication at LTH, who recently gave a lecture for the Hjärntrusten network in Lund entitled “The new digital society is already here”. You expect to become redundant as a teacher within the foreseeable future? “Yes, that’s correct.” And whose fault is that? “It is mine and all those who have contributed to technical and digital developments in society.” What a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-digital-society-already-here - 2025-08-29