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LUCSUS Professor Christine Wamsler recently visited Australia to give the prestigious Dean’s lecture at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD). She was also invited to meet with researchers, practitioners and policy-makers in order to stimulate their work and open up a wider debate on urban adaptation and resilience. - Supporting sustainability and resilience is one of the three focus areas of the U

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/christine-wamsler-giving-deans-lecture-australia-and-creating-wider-debate-urban-adaptation-and - 2025-11-01

– Sanitation is a major challenge in India. It is partly to do with the high population density, there are more people sharing the same space, and a historically higher cultural and religious acceptance of poor sanitation, says Sara Gabrielsson from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS. Her research focus is on sanitation, health and sustainability. She is currently in India,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sanitation-more-toilets-informal-settlements-india-need-community-based-ownership-and-state-action - 2025-11-01

"Small-scale solar electricity in buildings - power for change in energy systems and everyday life" Prof. Jenny Palm at the IIIEE has reported the results from the project “Small-scale solar electricity in buildings – power for change in energy systems and everyday life” The research was done in collaboration with Uppsala University and Linköping University and it was funded by the Swedish Energy

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/results-finalized-research-project-solar-electricity-buildings - 2025-11-02

På Campus Helsingborg pågår ett projekt för att utreda vilka möjligheter det finns att utveckla nuvarande lokaler så att de i högre grad motsvarar framtidens behov av attraktiva arbets-och lärandemiljöer. Ambitionen är även att skapa bättre förutsättningar för samverkan mellan olika verksamheter samt att utnyttja lokalerna effektivare. På denna sida publicerar vi samlad information och uppdatering

https://www.ch.lu.se/internt/artikel/campusutveckling-helsingborg - 2025-11-01

Hani Alsafadi defended his Ph.D. thesis on the 13th of February, 2023. With a longstanding interest in biomedical research and a passion for better understanding one of the least regenerative organs in the body, the lung, he has spent the past four years helping to uncover some of the mechanisms that may drive a lung disease currently without a cure, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. In this intervie

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/exploring-role-yap-and-taz-lung-epithelium-phd-interview-hani-alsafadi - 2025-11-01

ESS, internationella studenter, delårsrapport, Debatt i Lund, hälsningsgille, LUX och MOOC:s är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. ESS. I morgon är det äntligen dags att sätta spaden i jorden för att inleda bygget av ESS. Det sker vid en ceremoni där utbildningsminister Jan Björklund samt hans danska kollega Sofie Carsten Nielsen, minister i den danska regeringen för utbildning och forskninge

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-1-september - 2025-11-02

Medicon Village, Brasilienresa, Horizon 2020, LERU, MAX IV, IVA, SUHF och luPOD är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. Medicon Village. Den 19 november har Medicon Village öppet hus. Drygt 200 cancerforskare vid Lunds universitet har flyttat in på Medicon Village under sommaren. Alla medarbetare vid Lunds universitet och Medicon Village är välkomna att komma och träffa forskargrupper och se lo

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-1-november-0 - 2025-11-02

During her thesis project, Nadja Gustavsson has characterized structural changes inside neurons of a new mouse model for mixed neurogenerative disorders. On the 21st of October, she is defending her thesis supervised by Oxana Klementieva. In this interview, Nadja shares her ups and downs during her time as a Ph.D. student in MultiPark. Tell us about your Ph.D. research! Our lab utilizes a novel ap

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-nadja-gustavsson - 2025-11-01

Myndighetsdialog, fler sökande till färre platser, Botaniska trädgården, SUHF:s förbundssamling, ESS och Debatt i Lund är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. Fler sökande till färre platser är ett allvarligt problem som vi återkommande har tagit upp. Denna bild bekräftas nu av UHR (Universitets- och högskolerådet) som i en analys konstaterar att intresset för högskolestudier fortsätter att öka

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-1-april - 2025-11-02

Corn starch, with elements of heavy metals, powdered brick, amphetamines, ink, wall paint or furniture polish. This is what can be found in falsified medicines, a market currently considered more profitable than that of drug crime. Professor of Ethnology Susanne Lundin. Photo: Kennet Ruona Some defective medicines were authentic to begin with, but have been wrongly stored or have expired. If they

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/industry-worth-billions-puts-lives-risk - 2025-11-01

“English is like a membrane between us and reality”. The quote comes from a teacher at a Swedish higher education institution and describes their experience of teaching Swedish students in English. “Today, there are often no educational reasons why a particular course in the first-cycle is taught in English,” argues Peter Svensson, senior lecturer in Business Administration at Lund University Scho

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/poorer-learning-if-teaching-anglicised - 2025-11-01

“English is like a membrane between us and reality”. The quote comes from a teacher at a Swedish higher education institution and describes their experience of teaching Swedish students in English. “Today, there are often no educational reasons why a particular course in the first-cycle is taught in English,” says Peter Svensson, senior lecturer in Business Administration at the School of Economic

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/poorer-learning-if-teaching-anglicised - 2025-11-02

"Diskussioner om värde i välfärden måste bli mer nyanserade" skriver Pernilla Danielsson och Ulrika Westrup i en nyligen publicerad artikel i tidskriften Organisation & Samhälle. I takt med förändringar i samhället har en riktning mot ökad användarorientering betonats som nödvändig inom välfärden för att kunna möta invånarnas många och komplexa behov av tjänster. Numera talas det om betydelsen av

https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/betydelsen-av-varde-i-valfarden - 2025-11-01

She has survived a brain tumour and hates empty phrases such as “seize the day” and “live in the present”. Despite this, after the tumour operation Ulrika Sandén both researched and wrote a book on what she calls “Contentment in the moment”, an approach to life that she assimilated during her years in Vesterålen in northern Norway. “The present can be terrible. It’s more a matter of affecting the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/contentment-moment-makes-life-more-enjoyable - 2025-11-01

In Chichigalpa, Nicaragua, almost half of all male deaths are attributable to a mysterious kidney disease. In El Salvador, it the second most common cause of death among men. In Sri Lanka, it is believed to have caused about 25 000 deaths over the past decade. Working in heat is a common factor, so the problem is expected to increase along with global warming. The condition in question is the myst

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/heat-exhaustion-behind-mysterious-kidney-disease - 2025-11-01

Priscyll Anctil, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Political Science, recently published a blog post about the human rights violations, especially against women, in Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power two years ago. The blog post is available below. August 15, 2023, marked two years of the Taliban takeover. And with it, everyday attacks against “all manifestations of humanity, free

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/blog-post-priscyll-anctil-taliban-takeover-two-years - 2025-11-01

Right now, everything is focused on managing the coronavirus. However, even before COVID-19, viral pandemics around the world were increasing and the ’ordinary’ influenza virus and common cold virus cost society enormous amounts of money each year. Swedish virus researchers say they could improve the world with the help of increased resources and knowledge. A new virus centre is opening in Lund. V

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/virus-war - 2025-11-01

Med anledning av dagens flyktingsituation har Lunds universitet samlat ett antal experter som kan uttala sig om olika aspekter av frågor som rör flyktingar, migration och integration. Juridik Folkrätt och asyl- och migrationsrätt Eleni Karageorgiou, doktorand. Expert på migrationslagstiftning, Eleni [dot] Karageorgiou [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (Eleni[dot]Karageorgiou[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se), 046 22

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-expertlista-flyktingar-migration-och-integration - 2025-11-02

Nya studentbostäder, Universitetsstyrelsen, utbildningsnämnden, SFO, Fyra-år-före-dagen, LERU, lokalkostnader, kritik mot utbildningsutbytet med Danmark, Skånedag i Stockholm, Lärosäten Syd, MAX IV, Urban arena och det digitala klassrummet är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. Fyra-år-före-dagen. I december 2011 tog vi ett rejält avstamp inför Lunds universitets 350-årsfirande med fem-år-före

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-15-november - 2025-11-02

A major benefit of being part of BECC is the possibility for researchers to apply for project funding. Recently, 14 new projects that will contribute to delivering world leading research on biodiversity and ecosystem services under global change were granted funding. At the end of 2022, 14 new research projects were funded by BECC. Most of them are interdisciplinary and collaborations between Lund

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/14-new-projects-funded-becc - 2025-11-01