Published 14 November 2017 A realistic sense of time, mentors at work, body therapy and a manager who welcomed her back. These were important elements in Ingela Steij Stålbrand’s rehabilitation after a severe case of exhaustion. Now she has organised her life in such a way as to prohibit her job from taking up too much time – and is enjoying everyday life more than she has for many years.  Ingela

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/i-should-have-been-put-bench-lot-earlier - 2025-07-11

Published 14 November 2017 Continual managerial changes and collegial leadership are major challenges for rehabilitation at LU according to Anne Link, head of the Occupational Health Service. Anne Link. Photo: Jenny Loftrup In spring 2016, changes to the Work Environment Act increased pressure on employers to regulate stress, overwork and workplace bullying. Responsibility for the rehabilitation p

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/occupational-health-service-managers-must-be-trained - 2025-07-11

Published 14 November 2017 Smith & Meissner are two researchers who have been hand-picked to find molecular clues to healing processes in the heart and blood vessels. A cardiologist and a molecular biologist who complement one another and work together to move research forward, Gustav Smith and Anja Meissner are one of the “tandem pairs” in a major initiative at the Wallenberg Centre for Molec

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tandem-researchers-smith-meissner - 2025-07-11

Published 14 November 2017 Narcissism, psychopathy and machiavellianism are personality traits that often lead to major social problems in the workplace. Magnus Lindén has researched “the dark triad” – dark personality traits that can nevertheless lead to success and management positions. Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson “People with dark traits often cause major relationship problems in the workpla

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dark-personalities-how-handle-arsehole-work - 2025-07-11

Published 14 November 2017 Fifty per cent of all pregnant women in need of a C-section are unable to get one. Most people around the world still do not have access to safe surgery, resulting in millions of deaths and disabilities each year. As a paediatric surgeon, Lars Hagander wanted to find ways to help, and has travelled the world to perform surgery. But, of course, this is not enough. A major

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lack-surgeons-threat-global-health - 2025-07-11

Published 14 November 2017 A night at the opera is associated with reverential listening and a formally dressed audience. But during an opera improvisation, a performance emerges organically. The audience may contribute with their thoughts and ideas before it starts. Sara Wilén Photo:Kennet Ruona Sara Wilén is Sweden’s – and probably the world’s – first doctor of opera improvisation, or more accu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/doctor-opera-improvisation - 2025-07-11

Published 14 November 2017 Colleagues who assume responsibility for the big picture at their workplace nurture the leadership culture that Torbjörn von Schantz wants to see at his University. The heads of department, managers and deans of the future need to consider what is best for the University as a whole in addition to their own area. Torbjörn von Schantz, vice-chancellor. Photo: Gunnar Menand

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leaders-future-should-assume-responsibility-university-whole - 2025-07-11

Published 14 November 2017 Comics for adults are no longer a subculture for comic book nerds but an established art form. Nina Ernst is the first literary scholar to study autobiographical comics that often address issues of vulnerability and difficult subjects. Nina Ernst Photo Kennet Ruona “The limited space and the immediacy of the images make this media more intense and poignant. It speaks to

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/autobiographical-comics-addressing-difficult-subjects - 2025-07-11

Published 7 December 2017 At what age are you considered old at work? Are you old when you are 48? Why do some people seem as if they never to want to retire, while others would not dream of working beyond 65? Kerstin Nilsson’s research concerns what makes us thrive at work and the factors that affect how long we are able, or want, to continue working. Retiring is a major life decision. It means g

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/48-considered-old-work - 2025-07-11

Published 7 December 2017 Giving yourself a pat on the back rather than thinking that you should have performed better – self-compassion is about being as friendly and kind to yourself as you would be to a close friend or colleague. Anna Pardo. Photo: Kennet Ruona Anna Pardo is a psychologist, registered psychotherapist and psychotherapy supervisor at the Department of Psychology. She has extensiv

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/silence-your-inner-critic-its-stressful-will-not-improve-your-performance - 2025-07-11

Published 7 December 2017 Foto:Mostphotos Are people generally trustworthy? Yes, say about two out of three Swedes. Nordic countries are ranked high in what we call interpersonal trust. In other countries, trust is not as obvious. What happens when these perspectives meet? Economist Andreas Bergh has studied the phenomenon more closely. In Sweden, we have access to healthcare and education regardl

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/trust-good-economy - 2025-07-11

Published 7 December 2017 In the wake of #metoo, thousands of women have dared to speak out about the sexual assaults and harassment they have been subjected to in the workplace. In the case of academics, this has been channelled through the call to action, “Akademiuppropet”, which started on Facebook. Lena Lindell is human resources consultant at the University’s central administration. How big i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-scale-sexual-harassment-lu - 2025-07-11

Published 7 December 2017 Curiosity, openness and compassion are words to live by for Sylvia Schwaag Serger, who will become the new deputy vice-chancellor as of next year. She believes that we all have a civic duty to be proactive but must also be aware that we might, actually, be wrong. Sylvia Schwaag-Serger, new deputy vice-chancellor at Lund University. Sylvia Schwaag Serger currently works at

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leaving-her-comfort-zone-lund-university - 2025-07-11

Published 7 December 2017 Two universities within 20 km of each other will become a reality next year when the higher education institution in Malmö will receive full university status. What this will mean for Lund is unclear. Will the university in Malmö be a complement or a competitor? In Lund, the feeling is cautiously optimistic. Huset Orkanen, Malmö Högskola (foto: Fiora M.C /Mostphotos) och

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/complement-or-competitor - 2025-07-11

Published 16 February 2018 Petra Fransson is the first member of the Malmö Theatre Academy to obtain a PhD as a stage performer. The dilemma between the tough conditions for professional actors on the one hand, and the potential between the body and delivering lines on the other led her to her PhD project. “I started eight years ago, but I chose to study part-time while continuing to work as an ac

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/first-actress-broaden-repertoire-artistic-doctoral-degree - 2025-07-11

Published 22 February 2018 Is there any underlying biological explanation for why men are responsible for such a large proportion of sexual assaults compared to women? Or, from a biological point of view, could women just as easily have been the ones to commit this type of harassment and assault, if the social and historical power structure were reversed? In the light of the #metoo movement’s many

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/biology-could-partially-explain-sexual-abuse-power - 2025-07-11

Published 22 February 2018 Swedish manhood enters into crisis at irregular intervals; the male role may now be about to change once again in the aftermath of the #metoo protest. Gender historian Emma Severinsson hopes that the boys of today will learn to show feelings – and gender scholar Jens Rydström adds that men need to get better at talking about problems. Despite Sweden’s ground-breaking rol

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/will-male-roles-change-after-metoo - 2025-07-11

Published 22 February 2018 What does the origin of life on Earth have to do with malignant tumour cells? In an unusual research project, a geochemist and a tumour biologist have joined forces to explain the emergence of animals in a new way, thereby questioning one of the cornerstones of evolution. Geochemist Emma Hammarlund is excited to see what kind of response she and Sven Påhlman will get bas

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/odd-pair-solves-evolutionary-riddle - 2025-07-11

Published 22 February 2018 “When I see the ideal father role today, I see a copy of the motherhood myth. I am concerned that men are about to end up where many women have been in relation to parenthood, never satisfied and always feeling that they should have done more”, says developmental psychologist Elia Psouni. Elia Psouni. Photo: Ulrika Oredsson “I think it was naïve to think that if men took

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/gender-equal-dads-risk-falling-womens-trap - 2025-07-11

Published 22 February 2018 Today’s governance of Swedish higher education institutions is short-sighted, poorly coordinated and much too general and competitive. The separation of direct government funding between education and research has created unnatural boundaries and promoted a culture within academia that underestimates education in relation to research. Pam Fredman, former vice-chancellor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/combine-government-funding-research-and-education - 2025-07-11