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Narcissism, psychopathy and machiavellianism are personality traits that often lead to major social problems in the workplace. Magnus Lindén has researched “the dark triad” – dark personality traits that can nevertheless lead to success and management positions. Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson “People with dark traits often cause major relationship problems in the workplace. It’s arsehole-like beha

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dark-personalities-how-handle-arsehole-work - 2026-07-21

The packing crates are emptied, new furniture is in place, the art is hung, and the tech is working. The Offices of the Vice-Chancellor and staff have moved into the King’s House. The new entrance opens onto the University Square and the fountain. Behind the doors of the University’s oldest building, there’s a definite air of new and modern. You are greeted first by an exhibition about the buildin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-beginning-kings-house - 2026-07-22

Charlotte Solberg, Head of Finance at the Department of Physics, has been named one of the recipients of the Lund University Administration Prize 2025. The prize is awarded annually to recognise exceptional administrative efforts that promote development, service and efficiency. Tributes to Charlotte SolbergCharlotte Solberg's work at the Department of Physics has been widely recognised. Professor

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/charlotte-solberg-honoured-her-leadership-and-commitment-department-physics - 2026-07-21

Numerous studies have suggested that eating a healthy diet may reduce a person’s risk of dementia. A new study from one of MultiPark's research groups, published in Neurology, sheds new light on the impact of having a Mediterranean diet. The Mediterranean diet includes a high intake of vegetables, legumes, fruits, fish and healthy fats such as olive oil, and a low intake of dairy products, meats a

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/does-mediterranean-diet-really-decrease-your-risk-dementia - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lina Ejlertsson, a doctoral student in Public Health at Lund University, believes that there is a classic approach to working with and measuring health in workplaces through sick leave rates, productivity and efficiency. – Most often, rehabilitative measures or preventative work are only undertaken after employees bec

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/integrated-recovery-during-work-day-does-it-make-difference - 2026-07-21

The University wants to improve its ability to recruit research talent from other countries. A working group has identified existing gaps and developed proposals to address them in order to increase recruitment. Other Swedish higher education institutions are more successful in nominating, recruiting and obtaining funding for international research talent in relation to Wallenberg Academy Fellows,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/promise-employment-attract-foreign-research-talent - 2026-07-22

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Trafikolyckor står för fler än 1,3 miljoner dödsfall i världen varje år. För att bidra till att minska denna siffra ger Lunds universitet internationella kurser inom trafiksäkerhet. Den senaste gick av stapeln i augusti i år och deltagarna kom från Botswana, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi och Sydafrika. Lunds universitet ha

https://www.lu.se/artikel/uppdragsutbildning-fran-lunds-universitet-ska-bidra-till-att-minska-antalet-dodsfall-i-trafiken - 2026-07-21

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. – Varför är produkter tänkta för äldre ofta så trista? Visst är funktionen viktig, men sakerna kan ju gärna få vara snygga också! Det menar docent Britt Östlund, som forskar och undervisar om äldre och design. Britt Östlund visar hur ett trygghetslarm skulle kunna se ut. Foto: Gunnar Menander Som exempel tar hon try

https://www.lu.se/artikel/varfor-sa-trista-prylar-aldre - 2026-07-21

Måndagen den 13 januari är det Arrival Day – dagen då Lunds universitet välkomnar vårterminens nya internationella studenter. Totalt har 767 studenter antagits till universitetets utbildningar under vårterminen 2025. De nya internationella studenterna kommer från 64 olika länder och representerar en mångfald av kulturer och bakgrunder. De största grupperna kommer från Nordamerika, Australien och E

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitet-valkomnar-767-nya-internationella-studenter - 2026-07-22

Handelsrättsprofessorn på Ekonomihögskolan som väckt medial uppmärksamhet i frågor om spelberoende och dessutom gjort betydande insatser inom undervisning och forskning om EU-rätt – Jörgen Hettne – lämnar nu vår skola för att tillträda som domare vid EU-tribunalen i Luxemburg. Jörgen Hettne förklarar att tribunalen är en del av samma institution som EU-domstolen och är belägen i samma byggnad i Lu

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/professor-i-handelsratt-blir-domare-vid-eu-tribunalen - 2026-07-21

The proposal for a renewed Campus Plan will soon be subject to a consultation round. It is an update of the current Campus Plan which will soon expire. For two years, the Campus Development Office has been drawing up the Campus Plan in collaboration with consultants and on behalf the Campus Development Council. The Campus Plan covers a lot of space – Lund University has around 540,000 square metre

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-campus-plan-be-decided-autumn - 2026-07-22

Gabriel Börner preferred playing pinball to studying at upper secondary school and therefore failed to get into a medical programme. Today, he is a senior consultant in surgery at Helsingborg Hospital and a researcher at Lund University. He has invented a “sewing machine” to suture patient’s wounds after abdominal surgery. Although the journey there was longer than he could ever have imagined, he

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/needlework-surgery - 2026-07-21

How do birds avoid collision when flying in dense foliage and other cramped environments with many obstacles? And what does flying in such complex environments entail for the birds? These were the questions Per Henningsson of Lund University in Sweden pondered before engaging the help of the family’s own pet budgie to get some answers. His study has now been published in Royal Society Open Science

https://www.science.lu.se/article/pandemic-restrictions-enabled-unique-bird-study - 2026-07-21

How do birds avoid collision when flying in dense foliage and other cramped environments with many obstacles? And what does flying in such complex environments entail for the birds? These were the questions Per Henningsson of Lund University in Sweden pondered before engaging the help of the family’s own pet budgie to get some answers. His study has now been published in Royal Society Open Science

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/pandemic-restrictions-enabled-unique-bird-study - 2026-07-21

At the foot of the mountains, among more than 200 vineyards, lies Stellenbosch University, that Lund University collaborates with. Daniella Rylander Ottosson and Göran Karlsson, Senior lecturers at Lund University's Stem Cell Center, are currently on sabbatical here. During fall they have been affiliated with STIAS (Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study), an interdisciplinary research institut

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/lund-south-africa-science-everyday-life-and-vineyards - 2026-07-21

The machines have started rolling in at Norunda and are cutting down trees, one by one. Norunda is Sweden’s oldest measuring station for greenhouse gases and it is unique. Following several decades of being surrounded by a hundred-year-old forest, it will instead be surrounded by a clear-cut. - We expect a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions, says professor Natascha Kljun at CEC. The

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/clear-cut-forest-provides-essential-information-climate-research - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 agricu

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anna-berglund-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2026-07-21

Have you spent the Christmas break skiing or jogging? Perhaps you have tried a new health-promoting activity that you would like to continue? Did you keep last year’s New Year’s resolution about devoting time to your health? Or are you going to give it another try this year? Whatever your situation, the New Year means that you are entitled to a new health promotion benefit. Here is a reminder abou

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/take-care-yourself-utilise-health-promotion-benefit - 2026-07-22

Guides are now available to help you create archive-quality PDF files (PDF/A). There are also several new ways to encrypt a Teams meeting, the Microsoft 365 A1 Plus licence is being discontinued and there is a course on optimising websites for AI search. PDF/A guidesWith PDF/A, you can create documents that are suitable for archiving, as set out in the Records Management Plan. But how do you creat

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-news-pdfa-guides-and-encrypted-teams-meetings - 2026-07-22

Bling is associated with expensive, ostentatious accessories and “bad taste”. This contrasts with the prevailing aesthetic values of the design world. But what happens when bling and design are brought together? A new thesis in industrial design from the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), Lund University in Sweden, shows that provocations – such as breaking convention with the help of the bling subcult

https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/challenging-design-conventions-key-more-vibrant-design - 2026-07-21