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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Opinion by Matthias Lehner, postdoc at the IIIEE. Airbnb is a hugely successful American company that has managed to make us invite strangers into our own private homes. I visited New Zealand last winter and stayed with an old lady in her private home outside Nelson, and it was an exciting experience where I got to kn

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/challenge-sharing-sustainably - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SCHEDULE & ABSTRACTS Chairs: Staffan Lindberg and Neil Webster 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: NYA FESTSALEN, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, LundFormat: Each author is given 15 minutes for pr

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-5-transformation-caste - 2026-06-27

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Forsknings- och innovationspropositionen, QS-rankingen, myndighetskapitalet, iranska studenter i kläm, toppbetyg för juristutbildningar, Innovation in Mind, professorsinstallationen, dekanresan och Styrgruppen med anledning av varslen på SONY:s arbete är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. Forsknings- och innova

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-17-september - 2026-06-27

Davide Schirone, a researcher at the Division of Physical Chemistry, is interested in how vegan proteins work. He recently completed a study on how pea proteins are broken down in the body. Schirone and his international research team conducted the experiments at MAX IV in Lund. Why is it important to study the breakdown of vegan proteins in the stomach?“The way we produce food today in wealthy co

https://www.physchem.lu.se/article/chemist-studied-peas-x-rays-max-iv - 2026-06-27

There are many options for managers and leaders to develop at Lund University. In order to pinpoint and more clearly define what Lund University is to offer in terms of leadership development, I tasked Maria Flores and Andreas Bryngelsson at the start of the year with carrying out the investigation, Leadership in the Future. The aim of the investigation was to draw up proposals for the content, st

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-offers-many-leadership-development-options-managers - 2026-06-28

Thank you for your lovely Valentine's greetings to colleagues, contagious kindness and hearty cake at the office. The social committee at Kansli M invited to heartwarming coffee with heart sprinkled cake and red heart-shaped balloons in connection with this year's Valentine's Day. "I think it's so cozy and nice that the social committee organises this activity. It reminds us that we should be nice

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/valentines-faculty-medicine-contagious-kindness - 2026-06-27

A long-term programme of change is under way in the Central Administration. We are committed to simplifying our processes and ways of working, with the aim of reducing the administrative burden on researchers, teaching staff and other employees. An important part of this is called the perspective-based approach, which started after the review of the organisation and working methods in 2023 (as I p

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/change-perspective-organisation-user-needs - 2026-06-28

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new app will make it easier for people on sick leave due to anxiety and depression to get back to work. In the project mWorks, Professor Ulrika Bejerholm and her research colleagues focus on what strengths, abilities and new strategies can help people on sick leave successfully transition back to working life. The r

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-app-help-people-return-work-following-sick-leave-due-mental-illness - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Mikael Lund is a chemist who doesn’t wear a lab coat. Instead, his research involves computer models of atoms and molecules. Being named a Future Research Leader means both freedom and new challenges. “Using computer models, we can zoom in on molecular details to gain insights that are difficult to achieve with classi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-funding-provides-valuable-freedom - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Threats against researchers are increasing, according to acting chief security officer Håkan Jönsson, who received 16 reports of threats last year. The rise is in online threats, whereas the number of disruptive or violent people on campus is dropping – probably thanks to more locked doors. “But the hidden figures are

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/online-threats-against-researchers-are-rise - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Russia has its own right-wing populist movement: the Parental Movement. While the US equivalent is protesting stricter gun control, the Russians are raging against the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. “Western lifestyle is considered a major threat to Russian traditions and normal family life”, says social an

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/russian-parental-movement-counteracting-childrens-rights - 2026-06-27

Obesity is commonly diagnosed using BMI, but this approach has several limitations. Researchers at Lund University and AstraZeneca show that integrating measurements such as body fat percentage and waist circumference captures disease risks missed by BMI alone.   In recent years, research has shown that there are several limitations with BMI alone when it comes to assessing adiposity quantity, dis

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-bmi-alone-does-not-fully-capture-health-risks-linked-obesity - 2026-06-27

A new policy brief offers suggestions of what is needed to report and eventually address loss and damage from climate change in Bangladesh. It is produced within the project, Recasting the Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change Extremes (DICE) - which focuses on non-economic loss and damage caused by climate change, and who it affects, how, why and at what scale. The Government of Bangladesh h

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/policy-recommendations-report-and-address-loss-and-damage-climate-change-bangladesh - 2026-06-27

What does your work consist of? As a coordinator, I have an overarching perspective since I work with all the faculty’s programmes. My job is partly to coordinating all written exams in the QPS system, and optimise the processes around this, and partly to provide training and support to the faculty's teachers and administrators. Currently I am focused on the written exams, but further on I will wo

https://www.qps.education.lu.se/en/article/frida-reisdal-exam-coordinator-faculty-medicine - 2026-06-27

Lund University is creating a national and international platform for interdisciplinary research in strategic communication and defence. Three researchers at the Department of Communication lead the new research environment. The research environment Communication, Defense Willingness and Democratic Resilience is located at Campus Helsingborg with funding of SEK 3 million over three years. The init

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/research-initiative-explores-defence-willingness-and-democratic-resilience - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At LUCSUS, we have two articles released today, 25th September 2017, in Nature Climate Change.LUCSUS Director Professor Emily Boyd and Dr. Rachel James (ECI, Oxford University) and Dr. Richard Jones (UK Met Office) with colleagues Otto (Oxford) and Young (Reading) present the first academic empirical study of expert o

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/two-articles-nature-climate-change-social-scientists-prof-emily-boyd-and-visiting-prof-dana-fisher - 2026-06-27

Kajsa Brolin explores how our genes and environment affect the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. March 27, she defends her Ph.D. project partly based on MultiPark’s biobank sample collection. Here, she tells about the newly discovered genetic risk factor that might be specific to people in the southern part of Sweden. And is coffee really protective? Tell us about your research! “My research

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/genes-and-environment-pd-phd-interview-kajsa-brolin - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The archaeology team gets up with the sun at five o’clock each morning. They then work for seven hours under the burning sun in the middle of nowhere in Egypt’s desert landscape among venomous scorpions and lizards. They only stop work for lunch and a typical Egyptian chai tea break. “The most common danger is sunstro

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leading-archaeological-super-team-banks-nile - 2026-06-27

Summer, sun and annual leave! Read through the tips below, so that you will be able to wind down properly during your time off. In good time before your annual leaveAnnual leave: Apply for annual leave in good time before your holiday, in accordance with the procedure at your workplace. It is important to register the application for annual leave in Primula in good time, so that you receive the ri

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-bear-mind-summer-0 - 2026-06-28

On 13th of February, a transplant of stem cell-derived nerve cells was administered to a person with Parkinson’s at Skåne University Hospital, Sweden. The product has been developed by Lund Stem Cell Center researchers at Lund University and it is now being tested in patients for the first time. The transplantation product is generated from embryonic stem cells and functions to replace the dopamin

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/first-patient-receives-milestone-stem-cell-based-transplant-parkinsons-disease - 2026-06-27