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 Africa is home to some of the fastest growing economies in the world while juggling an expanding interest from especially China and India to invest in the continent. Financial investments from these actors are have already turned into new roads and train tracks along with job openings and previously unseen opportunities in Africa. The question is if the surging capital flow is benefiting Africans

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/who-are-winners-and-losers-scramble-africas-resources - 2025-10-29

“Most digital learning tools used in schools are unsatisfactory and only test the knowledge the pupils already have”, says Björn Sjödén a PhD researcher at Lund University, who has reviewed a large number of computer programs in his doctoral thesis “What Makes Good Educational Software?” “In a pilot study, we examined the top 100 apps within math and Swedish, and barely half of them could be consi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/pupils-learn-poorly-help-computer-programs - 2025-10-29

A Special Issue celebrates the outstanding achievements and contributions of women in evolutionary biology by highlighting a sample of their research and accomplishments. “To my knowledge, this is the first time a scientific journal has devoted a whole Special Issue to celebrate and showcase the research of women”, says Maren Wellenreuther, Associate Professor at Lund University in Sweden and a Se

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/journal-devotes-whole-special-issue-highlight-women-science - 2025-10-29

The scholarly book isn't dead. Researchers have long been under pressure to publish articles rather than monographs, but complex issues call for a larger format than the article provides. The new Lund University Press testifies to that fact. In collaboration with the third largest University Press in Britain, it will spread top-class Lund research world-wide, publishing its books simultaneously on

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/launching-new-lund-university-press - 2025-10-29

New data presented by researchers at Lund University and others in the journal Oceanologia show that the air along the coasts is full of hazardous nanoparticles from sea traffic. Almost half of the measured particles stem from sea traffic emissions, while the rest is deemed to be mainly from cars but also biomass combustion, industries and natural particles from the sea. “This is the first time an

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sea-traffic-pollutes-our-lungs-more-previously-thought - 2025-10-29

In late October, Lund University arranged a follow-up seminar in Rwanda on children’s rights at school. Some 30 representatives from the school sector in six different countries in West and East Africa participated and presented change projects that they have been working on with professional supervision for almost a year. One of the mentors from the National Resource Centre for Physics Education

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-helps-strengthen-school-pupils-rights-africa-1 - 2025-10-29

Workplace incivility should be treated with the utmost seriousness. This is the finding of three psychologists at Lund University in Sweden who surveyed nearly 6 000 people on the social climate in the workplace. Their studies show that being subjected to rudeness is a major reason for dissatisfaction at work and that unpleasant behaviour spreads if nothing is done about it. Rudeness in this conte

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/rudeness-work-contagious - 2025-10-29

Four promising young top researchers from the Faculty of Science at Lund University get over 1 million Euro each in so-called "Starting Grants" from the European Research Council, ERC. These are the biologists Jessica Abbott and Helena Westerdahl, the physicist Caterina Doglioni and the mathematician Erik Wahlén. Read briefly about their research areas below, which also include contact information

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/promising-young-researchers-receive-european-research-council-grants - 2025-10-29

“For us in the social sciences, it is very important to highlight that there is no simple link between climate change and migration”, says Dr. Angela Oels, a visiting professor at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS). “In fact, multiple factors influence the decision to migrate.” Angela Oels is the lead organiser of a side event at COP21 that Lund University is hosting in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/climate-migration-focus-official-cop21-side-event - 2025-10-29

On Wednesday 9 December all those who are interested can visit the Historical Museum and meet the founder of Lund University, Bishop Peder Winstrup (1605-1679). Peder Winstrup’s mummy and several fascinating artefacts from the coffin will be exhibited at the museum 10:00-20:00. Admission is free.“This is a unique opportunity that is not to be missed. Winstrup was a true Renaissance man with many s

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/open-house-unique-chance-see-mummy-peder-winstrup - 2025-10-29

For 25 years Charlotte Erlanson-Albertsson at Lund University in Sweden has conducted research on appetite control, the energy balance of the body, and how we should eat to stay healthy and happy – both our bodies and our brains. Here’s her dietary advice captured in one compelling film. We eat too much, too often, and more sugar, salt and fat than we should. Our bodies don’t like it. They become

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/video-shows-food-body-and-brain - 2025-10-29

The KPMG International Case Competition is one of the largest case competitions in the world for economics students. The top eight teams from eight different business schools and universities in Sweden compete every year for the honour of representing Sweden in the international finals. This year it was a team from Lund that, through fierce competition, snagged a place in the finals. “I don’t thin

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-students-are-best-casework-all-sweden - 2025-10-29

Anne L'Huillier and Sara Snogerup Linse chair their respective Nobel Committees at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Anne for Physics and Sara for Chemistry. Both have worked extensively at Lund University and are among the few women who are, or have been, committee chairs. Here they talk about how the work process to select the Nobel Prize winner has been kept a secret, about a report that h

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/they-choose-years-nobel-prize-winners - 2025-10-29

Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have discovered that our drinking water is to a large extent purified by millions of “good bacteria” found in water pipes and purification plants. So far, the knowledge about them has been practically non-existent, but this new research is about to change that. Watch video A glass of water contains millions of bacteria A glass of clean drinking water actu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-our-water-pipes-crawl-millions-bacteria - 2025-10-29

Offenders sentenced to forensic psychiatric care do not consider their mental illness to be the main reason for their crime. Instead, they point to abuse, poverty or anger toward a particular person. This is shown in a new doctoral thesis by Pontus Höglund, PhD student at Lund University in Sweden, and ethics coordinator within forensic psychiatry in Skåne. Pontus Höglund has conducted interviews

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/psychiatric-patients-and-staff-have-different-views-effects-mental-illness - 2025-10-29

Can "borrowed" genes contribute to ecological adaptation in plants? A recently published article in the scientific journal Proceeding of the Royal Society B suggests that this may be the case. Transgenes are genes that have moved from a donor to a recipient organism in the absence of sexual reproduction. Whereas the genetic modification of crop species involves the deliberate creation of transgene

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/natural-transgenes-could-help-plants-adapt-local-conditions - 2025-10-29

“I am so happy to be here”, says Alvina Erman, this evening’s perhaps newest alumnus. She completed her studies in Lund in Sweden last year and, together with her Canadian friend and former Lund student Jean-François Trinh Tan, she has come to attend Lund University’s very first alumni event in Washington DC. It is a warm November evening and as the dusk sets in over the United States capital, the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-holds-its-first-ever-alumni-event-washington-dc - 2025-10-29

The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University is launching a new Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) in the Greening the Economy series in January. How can we shape urban development towards sustainable and prosperous futures?A new open online course will explore sustainable cities as engines for greening the economy and analyse how to best shape urban

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/open-online-course-focusing-sustainable-cities-starts-18-january - 2025-10-29

Arrival Day will be held at Lund University on Monday 11 January. About 650 international students will participate, most of whom are exchange students here to study for at least one semester. The reception on Arrival Day will take place between 09:00 and 19:00. The students will be greeted by their international mentors at Copenhagen airport Kastrup and at the train station in Lund, after which t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-welcomes-students-around-world-arrival-day - 2025-10-29

Researchers have created a digital audio platform that can modify the emotional tone of people’s voices while they are talking, to make them sound happier, sadder or more fearful. New results show that while listening to their altered voices, participants’ emotional state change in accordance with the new emotion. “Very little is known about the mechanisms behind the production of vocal emotion”,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/way-you-sound-affects-your-mood - 2025-10-29