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Lund University needs long-term strategies with clear priorities from the faculties of what type of research to invest in, agree the two new pro vice-chancellors Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen and Bo Ahrén. They also recognise the difficulty of achieving this at a university as comprehensive as Lund. “Our breadth is definitely our strength, but it can also present problems”, says Bo Ahrén. The two new

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-pro-vice-chancellors-want-strategic-investments-research - 2025-12-15

“We have to become much better at actively pursuing human rights issues in the public debate”, says Morten Kjaerum who since last spring is new director at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Lund. His goal is to make the Institute more visible: within the University, locally, nationally and internationally. Morten Kjaerum at Raoul Wallenberg Institute LUM’s meeting with Morten Kjaerum to a large ex

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/raoul-wallenberg-institute-has-become-more-visible-public-debate - 2025-12-15

For many years, professor of Chinese Michael Schoenhals compiled a substantial archive containing material from the Cultural Revolution in China. He is now donating this unique collection to the Lund University Library. Michael Schoenhals. The Cultural Revolution took place from 1966 to 1976 – a period about which not much has been said for a long time in China. Michael Schoenhals began studying C

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/memories-cultural-revolution - 2025-12-15

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/pilot-remote-control - 2025-12-15

Out of 283 districts in Europe, only two collective regions perform well in both social and environmental sustainability. This is concerning as it suggests that the EU farm subsidy scheme, the Common Agricultural Policy, is failing to deliver on its aim to protect rural livelihoods, landscapes and the environment. – Currently, public money in the EU is paying for bad performance. Instead of using

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/mapping-hotspots-sustainable-and-unsustainable-agriculture-europe - 2025-12-15

The procurement process is concluded. It has been decided that Vectura Fastigheter will host Lund University’s Nanolab Science Village, a lab for manufacturing nanomaterials and semiconductor components. The lab will be a neighbour of the major research facilities ESS and MAX IV, and together they will form a hub of scientific facilities that will create a competitive research environment with gre

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/vectura-landlord-future-nanolab-science-village - 2025-12-15

A lab where you can “craft” new materials on the atomic level, bringing together cross-disciplinary scientists to produce nanomaterials and semiconductor components. A neighborhood with major research infrastructures, complementary to each other. And most important: an open environment where academia, industry, and society can meet and collaborate, finding solutions for a sustainable world. Intrig

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/making-it-big-nano-crafting - 2025-12-15

David Gisselsson Nord and Tony Ingesson both love spy novels and have a nerdy interest in history. Their shared curiosity resulted in an interdisciplinary collaboration about how it might be possible to inspire smarter cancer treatment with the help of methods from espionage and intelligence analysis. Tony Ingesson finds it fairly easy to show a bit of attitude in front of the camera. David Gissel

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cancer-researcher-and-intelligence-expert - 2025-12-16

Can fashion ever become sustainable? How do we transition to environmentally smart e-commerce? What role will universities play in future society? These are some of the subjects to be discussed during the research festival Our Future City on 7-10 June at Campus Helsingborg. The event is organised in collaboration with the daily newspapers Helsingborgs Dagblad. Our Future City can most simply be de

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainable-cities-and-communities-focus-research-festival-our-future-cityh22-7-10-june - 2025-12-16

We all remember the disruptive boys in the class. The ones who shoplifted, got into playground fights and started smoking early. Some of these boys were quite simply displaying normal defiance and are now living a good and stable life as adults. But for a few of them, these were warning signs of risky behaviour that later led them on to a life of crime. Almost all teenagers have a tendency to brea

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/early-signs-ending-life-crime - 2025-12-16

A recent publication by researchers at Lund University’s Lund Stem Cell Center, gives a closer look at the making of a novel stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s Disease, STEM-PD, which has been approved for a Phase I/IIa clinical trial in Europe. Parkinson's Disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects almost 8 million people worldwide, causing movement difficulties due to the loss of dopami

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/closer-look-making-novel-stem-cell-therapy-parkinsons-disease - 2025-12-15

Changes occur in all cells of the human body as we age. Blood stem cells, in particular, lose some of their functionality over time, contributing to various blood disorders and disease-related conditions. Scientists are investigating the reasons behind this decline. According to a recent study by researchers from the Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University, published in Nature Aging, the genetic

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/intrinsic-aging-or-lab-induced-stress-understanding-genetic-changes-blood-stem-cells - 2025-12-15

Scientists all over the world agree: the earth is getting hotter and hotter and extreme weather such as heat waves or prolonged droughts create a greater risk of forest fires. In a new photographic exhibition in the Pufendorf Institute's garden in Lund, visitors could take part of powerful photographs of how people, animals and communities are affected by forest fires. The fire season is getting l

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/world-fire-how-do-we-adapt-warmer-planet - 2025-12-16

We need new ways of understanding and accounting for how people depend on nature to protect and preserve our environment. Research from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) strives to diversify ways of measuring and evaluating ecosystem services to take into account people’s place-based, varied and often emotional relationships with nature. – An important question is to what

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/current-frameworks-assess-human-nature-relationships-are-too-simplified-and-risk-compromise-human - 2025-12-16

When researchers are working in the field, they may be faced with challenging and sometimes dangerous situations. How does Lund University prepare its doctoral students and researchers for fieldwork? When LUM asks about the faculties’ procedures, it becomes clear that the departments are primarily responsible. Dealing with dangerous situations in the field once they have arisen is not enough – the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/safe-fieldwork-who-responsible-security - 2025-12-16

"No matter what happens in real time politics, some damage is already done”. Researcher Torsten Krause comments on the newly elected Brasilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s plans for deforestation and exploitation of the Amazon.  Bolsonaro takes office on the first of January 2019 and has promised to open protected areas and indigenous territories to mining, to relax environmental laws, cut financing

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/torsten-krause-comments-exploitation-and-deforestation-brazilian-amazon - 2025-12-15

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/art-treasures-taken-out-hiding - 2025-12-15

Every year Birger Schmitz, Fredrik Terfelt and Ellinor Martin dissolve five to ten tonnes of limestone with highly dangerous chemicals. The aim is to find microscopic grains from fossilised meteorites that are many millions of years old, which can provide important clues to the development of life on Earth.  LUM was given a tour of the world-unique acid laboratory.  There is a smacking sound as Fr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chemically-empowered-hunt-space-grains - 2025-12-15

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-lise-viotti-and-armin-tavakoli-are-appointed-research-leaders-future - 2025-12-15

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/humans-city-day-focusing-sustainable-urban-planning - 2025-12-16