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Physical violence is rarely something people think about or act out. Even violence specialists - people with a propensity for violence and a capacity to cause devastating damage - are belligerent only a fraction of their time awake. Sociology professor David Wästerfors is an anomaly. He has thought about violence a lot. This fall, Professor Wästerfors published some of his thoughts in the book Vio

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/david-wasterfors-cant-stop-thinking-about-violence - 2026-07-11

The Department of Sociology's Christopher Mathieu is one of the editors of a new and heavy tome clarifying the complex and much-debated issue of the quality of jobs. It is easy to imagine what it is like to have a good job: good pay, low stress, short hours, a lot of freedom and creativity and a strong sense of meaning. Friendly colleagues would be nice. What about a comfortable workspace or an in

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/capturing-evasive-concept-job-quality - 2026-07-11

The annual event Almedalen Week in Visby is about to begin. Lund University is present and will highlight our global challenges – such as air pollution and food poverty. The program also inspires hope of finding solutions in external engagement between academia and society. Christina Isaxon at NanoLund participates in a panel discussion named “Clean air for everyone?” and an interview organized by

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/christina-isaxon-discusses-air-pollution-almedalen - 2026-07-11

In its third consecutive year, LUSEM’s capacity-building programme 'Innovation, Transformation, and Resilience for Sustainable Development' attracted 19 participants from across Africa. Developed at the Department of Economic History, administered by LUCE and funded by SIDA, the programme is led by Senior Lecturer Martin Andersson and executed in cooperation with PhD students Clara Dallaire-Fortie

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/driving-sustainable-change-lusems-annual-innovation-programme-draws-global-attention - 2026-07-11

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Den som kan förutspå utfallet av olika valutakurser kan tjäna stora pengar. Problemet är bara att forskningen visar att det inte finns något sådant som tillförlitliga valutaprognoser. Det säger två ledande Lundaforskare inom valutariskhantering. – Det är som att titta in en spåkula och med lite tur har du rätt i vad

https://www.lu.se/artikel/forskarna-sluta-spa-valutakurser-fokusera-pa-foretagets-strategiska-valutaexponering-istallet - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new technology has brought researchers one step closer to a future cure for Congenital Muscular Dystrophy type1A, a devastating muscle disease that affects children. The new findings are based on research by Kinga Gawlik at Lund University, Department of Experimental Medical Science, and were recently published in N

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/reversing-muscle-dystrophy - 2026-07-11

Hi Simon! You graduated from the Bachelor's programme in Economy and Society in 2023. Can you tell us a bit about what you’ve been doing since then – both academically and professionally?My studies at LUSEM sparked a deeper interest in economics, so I applied to various master’s programs and eventually ended up at the Stockholm School of Economics. The motivation for choosing that school was its c

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/simon-persson-alumnus-bsc-economy-and-society-2023 - 2026-07-12

Principen ”barnets bästa” ska alltid styra när rättvisan har att göra med barn, från vårdnadstvister till bestraffning av minderåriga. Men ny forskning från rättssociologen i Lund visar att den högtflygande moraliska ansatsen ofta landar platt. Barnkonventionen – svensk lag sedan 2020 – är tydlig: barn har rätt att komma till tals i frågor som rör dem själva och ”barnets bästa” ska vara avgörande.

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/barnets-basta-blir-tomma-ord-i-domstolen - 2026-07-11

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. TOO MANY TITLES TOO MANY TITS - art show by Ihra Lill and Stine Omar May 17 at 6 PM to May 19 at 12 AM at Cave 3000, Weserstraße 23, 12045 Berlin, Deutschland Deadlines you give yourself and the story of your life how you only come up with too many really good titles but no content. Its spring and you spend it all u

https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/ihra-lill-stine-omar-cave-3000 - 2026-07-11

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Coronapandemin har förändrat vardagen för Lunds universitets studenter – men det betyder inte att den entreprenöriella andan har försvunnit. Det skriver Ylva Lidin och Moa Persdotter från VentureLab. Under våren lyfte vi frågan om teknisk utmanings­driven innovation. Det utgår från samhälleliga utmaningar som klimat

https://www.lu.se/artikel/gasttyckarna-entreprenorsverksamhet-studenter-i-full-gang - 2026-07-11

Att det är en konst att skriva bra flervalsfrågor är det nog många lärare som håller med om. Flervalsfrågor, på engelska kallade Multiple Choice Questions eller MCQ, är så kallade stängda frågor, där den som svarar får välja bland ett antal givna svarsalternativ istället för att själv formulera ett svar. Foto: Ashley Batz på unsplash.com. MCQ När man skapar sina flervalsfrågor måste man reflektera

https://www.education.lu.se/artikel/konsten-att-formulera-flervalsfragor-till-ett-quiz - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The number of managers at the University who have consulted the Occupational Health Service for preventive purposes has risen during the pandemic. "It is easy to feel that you are losing control when things change quickly and you don't know exactly how your employees are coping at home", says Anne Link, head of the Oc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-people-need-help-cope-working-home - 2026-07-11

The year 2024 was a record year for Lund University in terms of the number of articles published in The Conversation. Fifty-five articles by 50 researchers amassed a total of 1.6 million reads. Mikael Roll, a researcher at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, topped the list with an article about the brain and reading. The Conversation is an international news website that gives researc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-breaks-record-conversation-2024 - 2026-07-12

Together with almost 6400 other researchers around the globe Johannes Rousk has been selected as Highly cited researcher 2020 by The Web of Science Group. Only about one per cent of the researchers within a scientific field are appointed. Johannes Rousk is proud. To be appointed is proof that your research is important and has reached out to peers who have found it useful and frequently cited you.

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/johannes-one-most-cited-researchers-world - 2026-07-11

In a new Swedish study by Lund University on comorbidities in osteoarthritis, researchers studied if people with osteoarthritis are at an increased risk for cancer compared to people without osteoarthritis. The study focused on the four most common cancer types, lung, colon, breast, and prostate cancer. Researchers found no differences in the risk of being diagnosed with colon cancer if you had os

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/oa-linked-cancer - 2026-07-11

Congratulations to Gemma Atkinson, Roni Odai and Vasili Hauryliuk at the Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, and their collaborators, on their study “The Viral AlphaFold Database of monomers and homodimers reveals conserved protein folds in viruses of bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes” that is published in the high impact scientific journal Science Advances. This study con

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/ai-powered-viral-protein-models-advance-global-health-research - 2026-07-11

Summer, sun and annual leave! Read through the tips below, so that you will be able to wind down properly during your time off. Some weeks before your vacations Apply for your annual leave into Primula (don't applies for teachers) Submit outstanding travel expense reports Primula Take the opportunity to register your documents before the summer holidays so that your colleagues can easily find them

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-bear-mind-summer - 2026-07-12

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Seminarium inom modellering av kritisk infrastruktur den 23/6 kl 11.00-12.00. Talare är Associate Professor Kash Barker från University of Oklahoma, USA. Seminariet är anordnat av Jonas Johansson inom ramen för CenCIP. Den 23/6 kl 11.00-12.00 hålls ett seminarium vid CenCIP inom ämnesområdet kritisk infrastruktur. T

https://www.cencip.lu.se/artikel/seminarium-med-assoc-prof-kash-barker - 2026-07-11

Although Lund University’s 350th anniversary celebrations are drawing to a close, some projects will live on, along with the working method known as the jubilee model. Carina Jensen, soon to step down from her role as jubilee coordinator, talks about Sunday’s big kick-off for the future, which is open to all. “It will start with an open house event in the main University building, celebrating the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jubliee-concludes-kick - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Feng Zhang, professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard visited Lund University at the beginning of March to deliver the annual honorary lecture organised by the Royal Physiographic and Mendelian Societies in Lund. First published: 2019-05-26Listen to the interview and hear more about why Feng Zhang wants to i

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/honorary-lecturer-feng-zhang-crispr-research-treasure-hunt-nature - 2026-07-11