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Increasingly, industry is looking to recruit staff with doctoral degrees for research and development positions. This may involve hiring people with technical expertise in a specialist area and who also hold sufficient qualifications to independently run projects according to the company’s requirements. A newly graduated doctoral student who comes straight from academia may experience large cultur

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/industrial-doctoral-students-valuable-industry - 2025-10-03

Lund University continues its climb towards the top of the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability, which ranks sustainable development at universities around the world. The University is now ranked 3rd in the world out of approximately 1,750 ranked universities. This places the University second in Europe, and number one in Sweden. QS World University Rankings: Sustainability is a framework

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-ranked-third-world-qs-sustainability-ranking - 2025-10-02

Childlessness is a growing phenomenon in many countries, especially in China. Wenqian Xu will the next three years work with evidence-building, capacity-building and public-engagement activities on the topic "Ageing without children", within this grant. Could you please comment upon this international postdoc grant, what does it mean to you? - I am honored to receive this international postdoc gra

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/sweah-alumnus-wenqian-xu-receives-large-international-postdoc-grant-swedish-research-council - 2025-10-03

Childlessness is a growing phenomenon in many countries, especially in China. Wenqian Xu will the next three years work with evidence-building, capacity-building and public-engagement activities on the topic "Ageing without children", within this grant. Could you please comment upon this international postdoc grant, what does it mean to you? - I am honored to receive this international postdoc gra

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/case-guest-researcher-wenqian-xu-receives-large-international-postdoc-grant-swedish-research-council - 2025-10-03

Sara Ullström, PhD in Sustainability Science, will present her work at a first seminar on 17th September. We asked her to explain what her research within the project, The takeoff of staying on the ground, is about. What do you explore in your PhD? My research investigates the questioning of high-carbon worlds through the case of the staying on the ground phenomenon in Sweden. This phenomenon cons

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-sara-ullstrom-studies-mobilisation-and-voluntary-action-connected-low-carbon-ways-life - 2025-10-03

Covid-19 and the subsequent closure of universities around the world have meant that we all quickly had to learn how to teach remotely. Educators all over the world have gathered experiences and evaluated them, and talk about the present as a "new normal" where both teachers and students expect universities to take advantage of knowledge and skills acquired during the pandemic. Photo: Nicole Geri

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/using-video-teaching - 2025-10-03

Researchers at Lund University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States have developed a method to analyse and separate cells from the blood. Ultimately, the method, which goes under the name iso-acoustic focusing, can become significant to measure the efficiency of cancer treatments for individuals. In brief, the new method involves exposing cells to ultrasound when they

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-ultrasound-method-increases-awareness-about-cancer-cells - 2025-10-03

The global university network Universitas 21 (U21) has appointed Lund University's Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Eva Wiberg, as the network's first executive director. Professor Wiberg, currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Lund University, will take up the position from 1 February 2015 on a part-time basis, combining this role with her current duties at Lund. The creation of the new position ar

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/deputy-vice-chancellor-eva-wiberg-appointed-executive-director-u21-network - 2025-10-03

Sofia Wijk will defend her Ph.D. thesis on the 8th of September 2022, with a vision to contribute to the development of future cell-based therapies for patients with chronic lung disease. She has dedicated the last several years to better understanding the regenerative properties and processes of stem cells in our airways. In this interview, she tells us about her research, her journey in academia

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-sofia-wijk - 2025-10-03

Maria Tonini and Admir Skodo will join SASNET as researchers from 1 January 2017. As a SASNET researcher, Maria will explore patterns of inclusion and exclusion as they are articulated in digital media in India and Sweden, with special focus on social media platforms and user-generated content. Issues of interest include: online harassment, marginalization, and visibility. She plan to focus specif

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/two-researchers-will-join-sasnet - 2025-10-03

The thesis, entitled Fashioning the Ecological Crisis: Sustainability and Feminism in Fashion Advertising and Communication in Contemporary Sweden, is a critical feminist study that explores the fashion industry's ethical marketing in its advertising and communication aimed at consumers.  Such ethical marketing and communication can involve companies using messages that reinforce the image that th

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/thesis-sheds-light-how-fashion-companies-use-greenwashing-marketing-campaigns-contributes - 2025-10-03

The disproportionate impacts of climate change on vulnerable groups, art for the SDG:s, and political and personal stories about flying and climate change. This is the focus of three LUCSUS projects that recently received funding from Formas.  Other projects include research on mobilisation for the SDG:s, and an exploration of love in relation to land and place in Zimbabwe. An especially large gra

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-projects-lucsus-climate-change-flying-and-sanitation - 2025-10-03

With the Research Data Office, the University is working to improve support for researchers in the management of research data. Each faculty now has a data steward to assist researchers in their work with research data. Ann-Sofie Zettergren has the role of data steward at the Faculty of Social Sciences. The new Research Data Office will better support researchers in managing their research data ac

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-research-data-office-data-stewards-each-faculty - 2025-10-03

Det sjukdomsalstrande proteinet tau tycks ansamlas fortare hos kvinnor än män. Det visar en studie från Lunds universitets strategiska forskningsområde MultiPark och Skånes universitetssjukhus. Studien har publicerats i den vetenskapliga tidskriften Brain. Runt 100 000 svenskar lider av Alzheimers sjukdom som är den vanligaste formen av demens. Fler kvinnor än män drabbas av minnesproblem på grund

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/snabbare-ansamling-av-alzheimers-protein-hos-kvinnor - 2025-10-03

Psykiska och kognitiva symtom kommer tidigt vid Huntingtons sjukdom och är ofta de svåraste symtomen i sjukdomen, vittnar berörda. Ändå har forskningen, i sin jakt på behandling, främst fokuserat på sjukdomens rörelsestörningar, ett senare symtom. Ny forskning visar att känslohjärnan påverkas tidigare i sjukdomsförloppet och därför bör ges mer fokus vid utvecklingen av nya behandlingar. Artikeln p

https://www.multipark.lu.se/sv/artikel/kanslohjarnan-en-nyckel-i-kampen-mot-huntingtons-sjukdom - 2025-10-03

Managementkonsulternas lösningar saknar allt som oftast stabilt stöd i seriös forskning. Det borde egentligen vara högst kontroversiellt att chefer och politiker väljer att följa råden från dessa karriärister med begränsad erfarenhet, skriver Johan Alvehus, lektor vid Institutionen för service management och tjänstevetenskap. Diskussionen om styrningen av offentlig sektor är ständigt aktuell. Deba

https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/dags-att-ifragasatta-konsulternas-trams - 2025-10-03

The Lund Students’ Prize for Excellence in Teaching is awarded for outstanding contributions to education. This year, the prize has been awarded to Oriana Quaglietta Bernal, Department of Sociology, and Patrik Lindskoug, Department of Law. The Vice-Chancellor appoints the winners after a proposal by the student unions. The prize-winnersreceive a diploma and a salary rise in accordance with the loc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-students-prize-excellence-teaching-2024 - 2025-10-02

Elsa Hedling is an affiliated researcher at the Psychological Defence Research Institute at Lund University, where she contributes to advance research on disinformation and hybrid threats. Elsa Hedling is an Associate Professor (Docent) in Political Science and an Associate Senior Lecturer in European Studies at the Centre for Languages and Literature. Her research focuses on the intersection of d

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/researcher-profile-elsa-hedling - 2025-10-03

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/unanimous-examination-committee-approves-imad-rasans-dissertation - 2025-10-03

Elsa Hedling defended her dissertation "Blending Politics and New Media. Mediatized Practices of EU Digital Diplomacy" on December 19 at 10:00 in Eden auditorium. Discussant was Professor Alister Miskimmon, Queen’s University Belfast. In her PhD thesis titled “Blending Politics and New Media. Mediatized Practices of EU Digital Diplomacy”, Elsa Hedling explores the relationship between politics and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elsa-hedling-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-10-03