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The University’s Equal Opportunities Report 2026 has now been published. The report provides an overview of the University’s work on equal opportunities and anti-discrimination over the past year and highlights key areas for future development. The University works systematically and with a long-term perspective to ensure gender equality and equal opportunities for all staff and students. The visi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-lu-works-promote-equal-opportunities-and-combat-discrimination - 2026-05-16

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Johanna Alkan Olsson from CEC, Lund University was awarded 5,000 Euros for her project on algorithmic potato farming at Climate-KIC Nordic Ideation Day 27 January. The project will create a method for farmers to better handle outbreaks of late blight on crops, a disease expected to become more problematic in a changin

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/potato-project-awarded-grant - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In conjunction with the IPCC authors’ meeting in Malmö in October Sustainability Forum and Climate-KIC, both operating from the CEC, are co-organizers of three arrangements concerning climate change, climate policy and innovation as a solution. Climate change – from knowledge to politicsMonday, October 23 at 11, at Ma

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-change-state-knowledge-politics-and-innovations-solution - 2026-05-15

Join in and experience interdisciplinarity “in live practice”. Among other things, there will be a lunch seminar on what sound can teach us about democracy – and vice versa. Or perhaps a workshop, including performance, on ways to achieve existential well-being? Why not join the opening of the exhibition: "Coastal Perspectives" – an exhibition about the challenges and opportunities of the changing

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/interdisciplinary-research-goes-live-pufendorf-institute - 2026-05-16

Sigrid Hemels is Professor of Tax Law at Erasmus School of Law (Erasmus University, Rotterdam). She is internationally well known and has been involved with LUSEM since 2018, first as a visiting professor and since 2022 as an adjunct professor. Sigrid Hemels is highly appreciated by both colleagues and students at the Department of Commercial and Business Law at LUSEM and has made many important c

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/professor-tax-law-appointed-honorary-doctor-lusem - 2026-05-16

More than 34,000 people have applied for the University's programmes for the spring semester of 2026. Law tops the list of the most attractive programmes, followed by medicine and economics. A total of 34,869 people have applied for the University's programmes and courses for the spring semester of 2026, or 39,011 if courses within programmes are included. The number of first-choice applicants is

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/law-medicine-and-economics-remain-most-popular-subjects-lund-university - 2026-05-16

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/alzheimers-disease-can-be-diagnosed-symptoms-emerge - 2026-05-15

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-morphine-treatment-people-copd-and-severe-long-term-breathlessness - 2026-05-15

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/when-common-cold-becomes-life-threatening - 2026-05-15

A new thesis in Service Studies has been completed at the department. Marcus Persson has written "How is leadership enacted?: Sacralization in everyday interactions at a care and elderly care administration". Marcus will defend his work at the public defence on 24 March. "The answer to the question of why certain everyday interactions can be interpreted as examples of how leadership is exercised c

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/marcus-persson-nailed-his-dissertation - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Last week it was announced that our longtime colleague and LUDC researcher/SUS clinician Martin Ridderstråle has been appointed Senior Vice President of Patient Care in the Novo Nordisk Foundation. This is not only a remarkable achievement by Martin but also goes to show that our environment fosters excellent scientis

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/senior-vice-president-patient-care-novo-nordisk-foundation - 2026-05-15

With only a few weeks remaining of its first semester, the maiden voyage of the Master’s programme in Cultural Criminology at Lund University is ending. How does this unique criminology master’s programme provide nuance to deviance? “I have found the course to be fantastic so far,” says Jack Lowe, one of the 14 students currently in the Master’s programme in Cultural Criminology. Having received h

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/focusing-seduction-crime-deviance-and-control - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Can insulin absorbed in small doses through food in early childhood get the immune system accustomed to insulin and thereby delay – or prevent – type 1 diabetes? Researchers hope to find the answer through POInT, a study starting in Skåne this autumn. Newborn babies in Skåne with a high risk of autoimmune diabetes (ty

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-study-babies-skane-prevent-type-1-diabetes - 2026-05-15

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/could-supplements-during-pregnancy-reduce-child-diabetes-risk - 2026-05-15

Øystein Opedal was one of 494 European researchers to receive an ERC Starting Grant for his project “POLLCLIM: Plant adaptation in a changing pollination climate“. As Øystein is a member of BECC, we were curious to know a little bit more about his grant. The ERC Starting Grant is intended for early-career researchers and the only selection criterion is scientific excellence. After undergoing peer

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/oystein-opedal-receiving-erc-grant - 2026-05-15

A new global study shows that in human-disturbed regions, many native plant species are absent from their natural habitats, contributing to the missing so called “dark diversity”. Natural vegetation often lacks many species that could potentially be present, especially in regions heavily affected by human activities, according to a new study coordinated by researchers at the University of Tartu an

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/global-study-dark-diversity-reveals-hidden-impact-human-activities-nature - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Christelle Prinz, professor of solid state physics and affiliated to NanoLund, receives 150,000 euros to further develop research results that are considered to have great innovation potential by the European Research Council. For several years, physicist Christelle Prinz has developed nanotechnology to diagnose and s

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-grant-one-step-covid-detection - 2026-05-15

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/could-singing-spread-covid-19 - 2026-05-15

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/what-if-we-paid-countries-protect-biodiversity - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University and Simrishamn Municipality have created a joint research environment at the Marine Centre in Simrishamn to address the challenges facing the Baltic Sea. An Academic Council led by Maria C Hansson from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research (CEC) will be affiliated to the centre. The overall

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-affiliates-marine-centre-simrishamn-collaboration-ocean-and-water-research - 2026-05-15