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Lund alumni reform schools

The children are poor, the problems are extensive and school resources are minimal. However, in the midst of the poverty, there is pride and a strong sense that it is possible to change the situation for these schoolchildren. LUM has met alumni in South Africa and Malawi from the Sida programme ‘Child Rights, Classroom and School Management’. Headmistress Amelia Nthokgoane Mofokeng changed her who

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-alumni-reform-schools - 2025-08-27

Could virtual nature make elderly people healthier?

With VR goggles and a manual control, Elisabeth Dalholm Hornyánszky is wandering on a summer beach and in a flowering garden. She takes a boat trip on a calming expanse of water and meets butterflies on a rolling field. “Goodness, how close that butterfly is! Can I open the gate?” Her spontaneous outbursts and observations make us share her experiences even though we are not really part of them. U

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/could-virtual-nature-make-elderly-people-healthier - 2025-08-27

The Arab Spring - ten years after

Photo: Maria Malmström Several researchers at the Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies were doing field work during the Arab Spring. It has left deep traces in them - but also resulted in new research projects. The Arab Spring is a term describing the uprisings that started in several countries in North Africa and the Middle East in 2011. The first one took place in Tunisia and was then foll

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arab-spring-ten-years-after - 2025-08-27

Much anticipated centre takes shape – Johan Bergström will be director of LUPREP

Lund University is taking an important step to strengthen research on total defence and preparedness through the establishment of LUPREP at Campus Helsingborg.  “This is not to be a narrow-minded centre where everyone thinks the same. It will be a place for critical dialogue,” says Johan Bergström, who will take up the position of director on 1 August. The aim of the Lund University Centre for  Pr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/much-anticipated-centre-takes-shape-johan-bergstrom-will-be-director-luprep - 2025-08-28

CMES in Almedalen 2024

LU i Almedalen On June 26, CMES organised two panels in Almedalen on global water resources and the Israel Palestine conflict. Israel Palestine - an unsolvable conflict?June 26, 2024 Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson What are the long-term consequences of the war? How can destructive spirals of violence be prevented in the future? What are the opportunities and obligations of the international commun

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-almedalen-2024 - 2025-08-27

Forest governance to meet global challenges

Different aspects of forest governance were presented as well as landscape approaches to achieve multiple goals were discussed and exemplified. Different aspects of forest governance were presented in the morning by three invited speakers, Erik Sollander from the Swedish Forest Agency, Carina Keskitalo from Umeå University and Marie Appelstrand from Lund University. In the afternoon, landscape app

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/forest-governance-meet-global-challenges - 2025-08-27

Sandblom Prize: Expanding creativity in clinical worlds through narrative medicine

Rita Charon, M.D. PhD, Professor and Executive Director of Columbia Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. Narrative medicine provides tools for clinicians to read patients better. 2022 Sandblom Prize Lecture will be given by pioneering Professor Rita Charon of Columbia University on the discipline that uses the arts to improve understanding. Clinicians trained in narrative medicine are more a

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/sandblom-prize-expanding-creativity-clinical-worlds-through-narrative-medicine - 2025-08-27

New tool for researchers to take part in the public debate

Andreas Bergh, Louise Bringselius, Niklas Altermark and Cecilia Cassinger. You have to respect the fact that collaboration takes time and is not always so easy to achieve, according to Louise Bringselius, who recently started the Institute for Public Affairs together with researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences and the School of Economics and Management. During her years as a research lead

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-tool-researchers-take-part-public-debate - 2025-08-27

Cheating and interdisciplinary fun

There is time for both serious talk about the latest research as well as play when ­Anders Wittrup and Vinay Swaminathan meet up in the playground with their kids. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter 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 ea

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cheating-and-interdisciplinary-fun - 2025-08-28

The Nobel Prize in Physics to Lund University!

Photo of Anne L'Huillier. Photographer: Magnus Bergström/Wallenbergstiftelserna. Anne L'Huillier is one of the winners of the Nobel prize 2023. Anne L'Huillier is Professor at Atomic Physics at the Faculty of Engineering, Lund University. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 to L'Huillier, Lund University, Sweden, Pierre Agostini, The Ohio Stat

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nobel-prize-physics-lund-university - 2025-08-28

Almost a million readers in The Conversation so far this year

Labubu, the main figure in one of Ming Gao's most-read articles in The Conversation, shows how China's soft power can emerge spontaneously. Photo: Unsplash Geopolitical issues, medical breakthroughs and cultural history topics have dominated the first eight months of the year. Researchers such as Ming Gao, Tabita Rosendal, Martin L Olsson and Jill Storry are behind some of the most read articles o

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/almost-million-readers-conversation-so-far-year - 2025-08-28

Kamala och Trump, valet och ekonomin

Donald Trump vill införa drastiskt höjda tullar och en omfattande deportationspolitik och Kamala Harris fokuserar inrikespolitiskt på att stabilisera inflationen och stärka medelklassen. Vad kommer hända med ekonomin i USA och världen när en av dem blir president? Maria Persson, docent i Nationalekonomi, tittar närmare på USA:s nästa president ur ett ekonomiperspektiv. I valkampanjen har den tidig

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/kamala-och-trump-valet-och-ekonomin - 2025-08-27

Rektorsbrev 17 mars

Vårbudgeten, åtaganden för Max IV och ESS, samarbete med Nottingham, uppehållstillstånd för utländska forskare, Max IV-utmärkelse och Futuralkarnevelj är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. Vårbudget. I dag är Per i Stockholm för att besöka Utbildningsdepartementet för att få reda på vad som kan förväntas i den kommande vårpropositionen. Vi hoppas att regeringen hörsammar vårt stora behov av 2

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-17-mars - 2025-08-28

Panel 6. Youthful modernities: negotiating with the past, the present and the future

SCHEDULE & ABSTRACTS Four sessions:1. Tuesday 20 Sept, 14.30–16.302. Wednesday 21 Sept, 10.00–12.003. Wednesday 21 Sept, 15.30–17.304. Thursday 22 Sept, 09.00-11.00VENUE: Konsertsalen, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, LundChairs: Ravinder Kaur, Rajni Palriwala & Sonalde DesaiScheduleDay 1   20 September (Session 1)   Time: 14.30 – 16.30 pmChair – Rajni Palriwala (University of Delhi)Presen

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-6-youthful-modernities-negotiating-past-present-and-future - 2025-08-27

Is the world becoming a better place? Checkpoint Sweden

Is the world becoming a better place? This question will be asked by researchers when the first science week of the 350th anniversary celebration takes place in March. Debatt i Lund panellists will start off the week by approaching the question from different angles, followed by five days of discussions and lectures on the standard of living, human rights, war, terrorism, climate change, and more.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/world-becoming-better-place-checkpoint-sweden - 2025-08-27

Strategic collaboration with the Olle Engkvist Foundation: 100 MSEK for Nanolab Science Village

The new collaboration with the Olle Engkvist Foundation is of strategic importance to Lund University’s expansion in Science Village, says Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström. NanoLund at Lund University has established a long-term strategic collaboration with the Olle Engkvist Foundation, which intends to support the purchase of equipment for Nanolab Science Village to the tune of SEK 100 million over

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/strategic-collaboration-olle-engkvist-foundation-100-msek-nanolab-science-village - 2025-08-27

NanoLund involved in Vinnova’s new competence centers

Eleven new competence centers in Sweden get funding from Vinnova – four of them reside in Lund and two of the new ones are directly connected to NanoLund. Foto: Kennet Ruona Sweden’s Innovation Agency, Vinnova, will invest in 11 new competence centers starting in January 2024. Among the new ones, two are directly connected to NanoLund – adding up to the already existing center C3NiT. New research

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-involved-vinnovas-new-competence-centers - 2025-08-27

South Asia at the Göteborg Book Fair 2017

Göteborg Book Fair 2013 as seen from the second floor. In this year's Göteborg Book Fair there will be two seminars with a South Asian theme. One is a dialogue on contemporary literature in Bangladesh and the other is a talk with Arundhati Roy on her new book, which deals with modern Indian history. SASNET director Andreas Johansson will also be at the fair talking about the camera's role in acade

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asia-goteborg-book-fair-2017 - 2025-08-27

Thank you all!

IIIEE staff, board members, former board members, students and alumni. After nine years, I have decided to leave my assignment as Director at the IIIEE. Together with you I have had the privilege to further develop the Institute in being an innovative and creative arena for interdisciplinary education and research within Lund University. It has been a time of engagement and joy in providing and sh

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/thank-you-all - 2025-08-27

Safe fieldwork: Important to plan thoroughly

Researcher Jesica López flew over a fire-ravaged Amazon during fieldwork in Colombia. The fires are a consequence of climate change and expanding cattle breeding. Photo: Private Colombia is the world’s most dangerous country for those fighting to protect the rain forest and the environment. Last year, 79 people were killed for that reason, three times as many as in the second most dangerous countr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/safe-fieldwork-important-plan-thoroughly - 2025-08-28