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In collaboration with Lund University Commissioned Education (LUCE) the department of Service studies offers a new international education programme with start later this spring. Focus is on the region around Lake Victoria in east Africa and prefect Mattias Wengelin, responsible for the programme, hope to share knowledge about sustainable services. LUCE contacted Mattias Wengelin in his prefect ro

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/service-studies-starts-education-programme-great-lakes-region - 2025-10-13

Lund researchers have every reason to be proud regarding competition for EU grants. LU is the best in Sweden in terms of total funding and in the top three with the Karolinska Institute (KI) and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) regarding the number of participations in different projects.  “We have the most ERC grants in Sweden, and within the humanities and social sciences there are special ef

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-top-eu-league-best-sweden-obtaining-grants - 2025-10-13

In her teaching in organization and leadership at Lund University School of Economics and Management, Nadja Sörgärde works in line with what is called "blended learning". Here she talks about how she thinks about course design and use of video in teaching. Photo: Surface on Unsplash.com and Johan Bävman. My idea is that the students should be given the best possible conditions for deep learning an

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/blended-learning-practice - 2025-10-13

The Swedish Research Council’s (SRC) latest review of MAX IV, published at the end of last year, was positive. It states that the SRC’s review committee is very impressed by the scope and pace of changes that MAX IV has achieved since the previous review in November 2021. The committee also praised MAX IV’s staff for the technical and scientific performance during 2022 and changes initiated by the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/max-iv-praised-srcs-review-and-has-new-chair-board - 2025-10-14

Increased collaboration within the faculties and a general revitalisation.  This is already a clear result from the RQ20 research evaluation that was presented in March. “We have caught sight of each other” was a frequent comment heard in a round of telephone calls to the deans and research managers. Most of the faculties were encouraged to identify their strengths, combine their strengths and mak

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculties-regrouping-after-rq20 - 2025-10-13

Synchrotron radiation helps vision researcher Emily Baird create three-dimensional images of how insects see the world. In the future, this could lead to sighted drones that navigate through the air like insects, without being remote controlled from the ground. “I enjoy research more than anything, and the most fun part is that I am forced to be creative and make constant progress, says Emily Bair

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/studies-bees-can-enable-drones-see - 2025-10-13

In June, pediatric cancer experts from 16 countries gathered in Brussels for the annual meeting of the NOPHO-DB-SHIP consortium—an EU-wide collaboration working to improve outcomes for children with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). In Sweden, the trial is coordinated by Lund University and Skåne University Hospital. At the center of this collaboration is the CHIP-AML22 trial—an international phase II

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/brussels-meeting-advancing-personalised-treatment-childhood-aml-across-europe - 2025-10-13

“We aim to contribute to the broader dialogue between academia and industry, ensuring that our work remains relevant and impactful in addressing contemporary issues.” This is how Joakim Gullstrand, Professor of Economics and the new Dean of Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) describes his ideas for the near future. Professor Joakim Gullstrand’s research focuses on internati

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusems-new-dean-joakim-gullstrand-leadership-and-collaboration - 2025-10-13

More than 20 years ago, Swedish Professor Susanne Iwarsson and UK Professor Judith Phillips, started collaborating across national borders. When Susanne established the graduate school SWEAH 2017, Judith immediately sent some of their PhD students to some of the courses in Sweden. Soon around 20 SWEAH PhD students and postdocs will visit their counterparts at the University in Stirling, Scotland,

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/uk-professor-youve-got-fantastic-data-sets - 2025-10-13

At least a third of the glaciers in the Himalayan range could melt due to climate change. This will have severe consequences for almost 2 billion people, including the village communities in Nepal, since the glaciers are an important water and energy source. Researcher Mine Islar is examining the future of renewable energy through micro-hydro power in Nepal by looking at collective action to find

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-are-communities-nepal-managing-locally-produced-renewable-energy-age-climate-change - 2025-10-13

London is a top-ranked destination for shopping, offering a mix of high-street shopping, luxury stores, and independent boutiques. The city is traditionally known for being at the forefront of the latest trends in fashion and retailing. In line with this, several retail areas in London have recently undergone extensive redevelopments to offer shopping beyond the ordinary. Places such as Coal drops

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/exploring-shopping-trends-london - 2025-10-13

They become smaller as urbanisation increases. Troublesome, according to researcher Helena Hanson, because urban private gardens affect both cities’ biodiversity and human wellbeing by functioning as social green spaces. Now she strikes a blow for gardens in the urban planning. Green spaces, such as parks and allotment gardens, have a major impact on our physical and mental health and wellbeing –

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/urban-private-gardens-promote-biodiversity - 2025-10-13

Ghana’s “overall best student 2018” is studying Sociology of Law in Lund. Labiks’s story shows how far hard work and perseverance can get you. Ghana’s Inter Tertiary Excellence Award 2018 for Overall Best Student 4th Year in the academia category went to Thomas Duke Labik Amanquandor, who is studying the second semester of the Sociology of Law Master’s programme here in Lund. The Inter Tertiary Ex

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/student-our-masters-programme-earns-prestigious-award-after-years-struggle-high-school-exam - 2025-10-13

LUM asked a handful of employees this question after almost a year of working from home. Several of them spoke about putting on some extra weight, more TV and less exercise – but they were not too keen on putting their face to that in LUM... However, another group of employees told us about their new and creative ways of keeping active. "I work out in the laundry room" Dragana Trivic, head of comm

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-your-body-feeling-and-how-your-training-going - 2025-10-13

Ethnologist Susanne Lundin’s research is ultimately about life and death and how people relate to the inevitable. What are people willing to do to delay the end briefly? Is there a limit beyond which someone ceases to be human? Susanne Lundin is a professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences and has conducted interdisciplinary research with medics for 30 years. Today, she is a sought-

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/her-research-concerns-our-deepest-fears - 2025-10-14

Ana Maria Vargas har tilldelats pris för bästa avhandling i Sverige inom forskningsområdet arbetsliv och arbetsmiljö 2016 för avhandlingen “Outside the Law – An Ethnographic Study Of Street Vendors In Bogota”. Juryn, som består av styrelsen för FALF– forum för arbetslivsforskning, motiverar valet enligt följande:"Ana Maria Vargas avhandling ger en mycket god etnografisk skildring av arbetsvillkor

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/artikel/prisbelont-skildring-av-gatuforsaljare-och-cykel-taxis-i-bogota - 2025-10-13

Andreas Edsfeldt, docent i experimentell kardiologi vid Lunds universitet, får Bundy Academys stora pris 2025. Prissumman är tre miljoner kronor, och forskningen som prisas handlar om hur hjärt-kärlkomplikationer i samband med typ 2-diabetes kan förebyggas – i förlängningen både med läkemedel och förbättrad bilddiagnostik. År 2016 fick Andreas Edsfeldt Bundy Academys lilla pris, även då för att st

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/andreas-edsfeldt-far-bundy-academys-stora-pris - 2025-10-13

Torbjörn von Schantz tycker att han kommit en bra bit på vägen till ett enat universitet. I sin ledningsgrupp möter han nu mer av gemensamt ansvarstagande och mindre av stuprörstänkande och särintressen. Det han saknat mest under sina rektorsår är närheten till verksamheten i övrigt. – Jag gillar att snacka med folk, säger han. Efter fyrtio år i universitetsvärlden med uppdrag som prefekt, dekan o

https://www.lu.se/artikel/avgaende-rektor-nojd-med-att-fler-ser-till-helheten - 2025-10-14

Att cellerna i kroppen kan förflytta sig vet man – men exakt hur de bär sig åt för att göra det har inte tidigare varit känt. Nu har forskaren i infektionsmedicin Pontus Nordenfelt vid Lunds universitet lyckats beskriva och avbilda cellernas rörelser på molekylär nivå. Detta kan på sikt få betydelse för behandlingen av bland annat infektionssjukdomar, inflammation och cancer, där cellmigration har

https://www.lu.se/artikel/hur-celler-flyttar-sig - 2025-10-14

82 years after his death, limnology superstar and the first professor in this field in Lund and the world, Einar Naumann, may have helped solve the riddle of why lakes become brown. With the help of Naumann’s and his students’ work dating back to the 1930s, senior lecturer Emma Kritzberg has created a data series that fill a gap of 50 years. Emma Kritzberg In Sweden and many other countries in the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eighty-year-old-findings-help-solve-water-mystery - 2025-10-13