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LUCSUS research tackles complex sustainability challenges, from the local to the global scale. Last year, in 2025, our researchers participated in many events and forums to present their work, including in conferences, panel debates and meetings – often in collaboration with actors outside of academia. LUCSUS outreach work aims to contribute to policy and drive social change. Global Health Symposi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/creating-impact-across-globe-2025 - 2026-06-11

A research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered a certain type of cells – foam cells – in patients with the aggressive brain tumour glioblastoma. It has been shown how these cells accelerate the cancer’s growth and that this can be successfully inhibited using a drug developed for arteriosclerosis. Glioblastoma affects around 500 Swedes every year and is the most common and most aggres

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/foam-cells-brain-tumours - 2026-06-11

Twenty years ago, Anne L’Huillier was supervisor to doctoral student Per Eng-Johnsson. Today he is a professor of atomic, molecular and optical physics, director of the Lund Laser Centre and one of the Nobel Laureate’s closest collaborators. “She makes everyone feel involved. She sees and includes everyone and is completely unpretentious,” he says. When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announ

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/colleagues-around-world-are-genuinely-happy - 2026-06-12

Trump’s intervention in Venezuela was physical, concrete, and armed. What is happening now is decisive for the country’s future, but it also affects the entire region, according to Andrés Palacio, researcher at LUSEM. Historically, the United States has on several occasions asserted Central America, the Caribbean, and South America as its sphere of interest. Since the end of the Second World War,

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/venezuela-after-maduro - 2026-06-12

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. George Neville works as a post-doctoral researcher within the Misty project, with a special focus on migration and the SDGs. In this interview, he tells us about what sustainability challenge he finds most interesting, what drives him as a researcher, and about what he did before he came to LUCSUS. What do you do at L

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-interview-george-neville-researches-migration-transformation-and-sustainability - 2026-06-11

During the course “Service Development and Entrepreneurship” the Master’s students of the Culture and Creativity management specialisation worked on a project together with the City of Helsingborg. With the project, the students explore the conditions, challenges, and opportunities for cultural and creative entrepreneurship in Helsingborg. Helsingborg is a multifaceted city with a vision of a stro

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/students-exploring-cultural-and-creative-entrepreneurship-helsingborg - 2026-06-11

On 5–6 March 2026, the CARE consortium gathered in Helsingborg, Sweden, for its General Project Meeting. Bringing together partners from across Europe, the meeting marked an important mid-term milestone – a moment to reflect on progress, exchange experiences and shape the next phase of implementation. Hosted and organised by Lund University, the two-day meeting combined interactive workshops, stra

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/reflecting-learning-and-moving-forward-care-partners-meet-helsingborg - 2026-06-11

The School of Social Work and the Department of Sociology have nominated Professor Jaber F. Gubrium for an honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University. ”I am very pleased to receive this honour. It not only reflects the significance of the research on which it is based, but also the important contributions of the many prominent social science scholars at Lund and througho

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/professor-jaber-f-gubrium-awarded-honorary-doctorate - 2026-06-11

To further strengthen its strategic profile area Nature-based Future Solutions, Lund University is now announcing a new position as Associate Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, a position that will be based at the newly formed Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. The investment supports cutting-edge research to help tackle environmental and societal challenges. Nature-based Solut

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/strategic-investment-sustainable-development-and-nature-based-solutions-lund-university-recruits-new - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “Rwanda, the land of a thousand hills, depends on its forests and trees that protect soil fertility, preserve biodiversity, help to cope with climate change and provide fuel for cooking. But the forests used to be much vaster.” Eric Mirindi Dusenge, BECC researcher at University of Gothenburg, is part of a project to

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/tropical-montane-forests-warming-world - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Attitudes to the EU are divided and uncertainty is great concerning the number of people who will vote in the EU parliamentary elections on 25 May. For Lund University, however, Sweden’s membership in the EU has brought substantial benefits. Lund is one of the Swedish universities that rake in most millions for resear

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/18-000-eu-scholarships-have-promoted-exchange - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As a young man, when Mats Bohgard was working at a chemical factory during a leave from studies, he was urged to “Come back and fix the work environment to make it fit for human beings!”. Mats Bohgard. “Even though they said it half-jokingly, the truth is that they were experiencing every conceivable work environment

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/work-environment-champion - 2026-06-11

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 - 2026-06-11

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 - 2026-06-12

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 - 2026-06-12

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The eminent London universities UCL and Imperial College, as well as the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris and Chalmers in Sweden, have all concentrated their focus on areas of research excellence and global challenges. Lund University should draw inspiration from their example, in the view of Pro Vice-Chance

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-must-concentrate-focus-strong-areas-research - 2026-06-11

New construction is a time-consuming process. It always is, even when building a private house. And if you are building premises for a complex future organisation, it takes even longer. The University has been working on establishing operations in Science Village for many years and is still only on step 2 of the 9 steps in the building process. (The building process at Lund University is described

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/year-we-are-developing-premises-programme-science-village-0 - 2026-06-12

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Data gathering for European climate research goes on around the clock at the University’s Hyltemossa research station. The tallest of its two masts reaches as high as 150 metres straight up into the sky. Every other week, the station’s staff must climb to the top of the mast to clean two sensors. Recently, intensive w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/top-research-gathers-high-level-climate-data - 2026-06-11

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 - 2026-06-11

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 - 2026-06-11