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De rapporter som chefer och medarbetare i socialtjänsten skriver vid avvikelser gällande exempelvis personer på gruppboende med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning, leder inte till bättre stöd, vilket är avsikten med rapporteringen. – Det innebär att vissa personer med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning lever i en miljö där de riskerar att utsättas för traumatiska upplevelser utan att effektiva åtg

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/avvikelserapporter-leder-inte-till-forbattring - 2025-12-05

Gatan framför Clinical Research Centre, CRC, i Malmö är uppkallad efter professor Jan Waldenström. Vem var han egentligen? I en ny biografi beskrivs hans livsgärning av professor emeritus Frank Wollheim. – Jan Waldenström var en docent i Uppsala som 1943 beskrev två blodsjukdomar uppkallade efter honom, den ena benämnd "Makroglobulinemi". Han blev 1950 den förste professorn i medicin vid Lunds uni

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/biografi-om-jan-waldenstrom-legendarisk-larare-fore-sin-tid - 2025-12-05

Det är i många fall färgen på bytesdjuren som hjälper rovfåglar att upptäcka, förfölja och fånga dem. Biologer vid Lunds universitet konstaterar i en ny studie att kaktusvråken har det bästa färgseendet av alla hittills undersökta djur – oavsett om de lever på land, i luften eller i havet. Resultaten kan bidra till att skydda hotade rovfåglar mot faror som vindkraftverk och kraftledningar. – Det ä

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fargseendet-gor-rovfaglar-till-framgangsrika-jagare - 2025-12-05

Magnus Andersson, expert på ekonomisk utveckling i Sydostasien, var frustrerad över bristen på tillförlitlig data över regionen. Ola Hall hade tillgång till ett enormt satellitsbildmaterial och var frustrerad över att inte kunna använda det konkret. Av en slump stötte de på varandra i fikarummet. Idag har de utvecklat en ny metod som ligger till grund för FNs utvecklingsanalyser. Den går ut på att

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fn-anvander-ny-lundametod-att-visa-ekonomisk-tillvaxt - 2025-12-05

Anna Berglund at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral thesis in social anthropology ”Ambiguous hopes: an ethnographic study of agricultural modernisation in a Rwandan village” on Friday 4th October. For her PhD project, Anna Berglund spent 13 months in a Rwandan village studying the consequences of agricultural modernization policies. The Rwandan government has since 2006 tried to tra

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anna-berglund-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2025-12-05

Crafting positive customer experiences has become increasingly crucial for retailers and third-party logistics providers, with delivery playing a pivotal role. Deliveries play a big part in this. With more people buying things online, there are more packages to deliver. This puts a lot of pressure on the companies that deliver these packages, and it's a challenge for both online retailers and thir

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/customer-experience-key-world-class-delivery - 2025-12-05

Last week the new batch of LUMES students had their first field day for the course Earth Systems Science in Lund’s botanical garden. We took the opportunity to talk to three of them about the course and their impressions of the LUMES programme, so far. Earth Systems Science is one of the first courses of the LUMES programme. The course focuses on the physical, chemical, and biological aspects of t

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/field-day-earth-systems-science-course - 2025-12-05

The Department of Sociology, which includes the divisions of Gender Studies, Social Anthropology and Sociology, has elected a new head. Sandra Jönsson assumed the role on 15 November. We asked Sandra a few questions to introduce herself. Can you tell us a little about your background?I earned my PhD in work and organisational psychology at Lund University in 2005. After that, I spent many rewardin

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/meet-new-head-department-sociologiy - 2025-12-05

This semester, ISK welcomes 46 new master's students from 18 different countries to Campus Helsingborg. The students, who come from Sweden, Iceland, Germany, Spain, Italy, China, Indonesia, Zimbabwe and Nigeria, among other countries, start their two-year education on the international Master's programme in Strategic Communication this week. This edition of the programme had 574 applicants from al

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/masters-programme-strategic-communication-attracts-students-all-over-world-campus-helsingborg - 2025-12-05

Did you know about the possibility of creating quizzes in videos in your Studio library? By now, you almost certainly have experienced the advantages of using video in your teaching. Incorporating quizzes in your videos adds an extra pedagogical dimension. Photo: John Schnobrich on Unsplash.com Research shows that adding interactivity to a pre-recorded video for the students to watch themselves (a

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/quiz-video - 2025-12-05

As soon as the guns fall silent in Syria, the people will begin to rebuild their country and their lives – this is the strong conviction of Tareq Emtairah, a reader at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE). For that reason, he and his colleagues are starting visionary workshops in which exiled researchers and Lund University researchers will sketch out an outli

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researchers-exile-meet-visionary-workshops - 2025-12-05

Lund University represents one of the most attractive locations within structural biology in entire Northern Europe, says Pontus Gourdon, who has been awarded a Wallenberg Academy Fellows prolongation grant 2020 from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. It was the initial grant that once brought him to Lund. Wallenberg Academy Fellows is a long-term program that addresses young researchers in med

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/adopting-long-term-research-approach-thanks-prolongation-grant - 2025-12-05

What is happening to the climate and what role does climate research play in society? The strategic research areas MERGE and BECC, the Bolin Centre for Climate Research and SMHI are together arranging a climate symposium in Norrköping on 16-18 May 2022, the Swedish Climate Symposium. The conference means that Sweden's largest players in climate research gather for the first time for a major sympos

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/national-symposium-norrkoping-focuses-climate-research - 2025-12-05

COP29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, has just started in Baku, Azerbaijan. Running from 11th to 22nd November, a key priority for this year's climate conference is to secure a new goal on climate finance, ensuring every country has the means to take much stronger climate action, slashing greenhouse gas emissions and building resilient communities. Professor Emily Boyd at Lund Unive

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/professor-emily-boyds-expectations-cop29 - 2025-12-05

Efforts to strengthen leadership and protect academic freedom are underway, including new leadership programmes and a management forum. A project for academic leadership has also been established. Efforts to strengthen leadershipSome years ago, we completed a study on the leadership of the future at Lund University. The study gave rise to a number of recommendations, resulting in the introduction

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/strengthening-leadership-and-redoubling-efforts-academic-freedom - 2025-12-06

A sun drenched day in the allies of Västra Hamnen. A whirlwind of black and white tails, snouts and barks are on duty at the townhouse door. Dog dad, Professor of Immunology Tomas Leanderson, hushes, admonishes, welcomes into the kitchen table and coffee. In a few days, this rare specimen of the old kind of professor at the Faculty of Medicine will be a free man, after a life-long love affair with

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/one-last-ones-out-old-school-professors - 2025-12-05

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/two-lund-university-biologists-awarded-erc-starting-grants - 2025-12-05

How can images show that the world we live in is being subjected to ongoing climate change? This is the research question being considered by Adam Brenthel, a doctoral student in art history. He has studied researchers’ attempts to translate their findings into images to better communicate them to the general public. He thinks polar bears, the animal most often used to symbolise climate change, ar

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/polar-bear-hackneyed-image-climate-change - 2025-12-05

In this series, we continue our reporting on the timeline of surgical treatment of late stage osteoarthritis. Today we meet Sven, who has had problems with pain and limited mobility in one of his knees for several years. After visiting his primary care health center, Sven received physical therapy and has been doing exercises at home, carefully following instructions. He has also received several

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/reportage-first-meeting-sven - 2025-12-05

During the Covid-19 pandemic, there was an unexpected increase in the number of cases of type 1 diabetes in Sweden, particularly among children under five and young adult men. The infection accelerated the onset of diabetes among children between the ages of five and nine. The researchers looked at data from a 17-year period on the incidence of type 1 diabetes among all people under the age of 30

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/type-1-diabetes-increased-among-young-people-during-pandemic - 2025-12-05