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How can a plant shape knowledge, community, and activism? New doctoral thesis sheds light on cannabis activism and human–plant relations in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Today, Monday 29 September, Lucia Amaranta Thompson marks the successful defence of her doctoral thesis in Gender Studies at Lund University, presenting a unique ethnographic insight into the cannabis community in Buenos Aires, Argenti
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Veronika Burcar Alm, a teacher at the Department of Sociology, has this year been named Qualified Teaching Practitioner by the Faculty of Social Sciences' Teaching Academy. Meet the department's Qualified Teaching Practitioner Veronika Burcar Alm as she talks about her views on teaching and why she applied to the facu
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/teaching-and-learning-interaction - 2026-07-11
It is always exciting to move into a new student apartment. You might think that all student apartments look pretty much the same, both in terms of layout and interior design, but that is far from the truth. At Furutorpsgatan student accommodation, Ellen Tössberg lives in a one-bedroom apartment of twenty square meters. The apartment may be small, but it has a lot of personality. When I enter Elle
https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/welcome-home-ellen - 2026-07-11
This is the question guiding a new study in the project “Consuming digital data”, with the purpose to see how the consumer experience and feels about the collection of their personal data. The study was conducted by Christian Fuentes, professor at Lund University and Niklas Sörum, Docent at University of Borås. Everything we do online is traced. Some information we provide our selves when we regis
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-study-how-do-consumers-experience-online-data-collection - 2026-07-11
Through an interdisciplinary research project in collaboration with industry, a group of researchers hope to identify a more efficient way of assessing the ground ahead of future construction projects. The results of the research might, for example, accelerate the process of modernising the Swedish rail network. On selected sections of the track between Lund and Hässleholm, a research project is u
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/improving-efficiency-construction-railway-future - 2026-07-12
How can youth movements influence and promote democratisation and social justice in the Middle East? Can researchers support and contribute to democratic reform? These are questions that political scientist Sarah Anne Rennick is working on as a researcher at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies. Sarah Anne Rennick is a familiar face among political scientists in Lund. She received her do
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sarah-anne-rennicks-research-profiled-lund-university-magazine - 2026-07-11
Using a supercomputer simulation, a research team at Lund University in Sweden has succeeded in following the development of a galaxy over a span of 13.8 billion years. The study shows how, due to interstellar frontal collisions, young and chaotic galaxies over time mature into spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way. Soon after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe was an unruly place.
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-disorderly-young-galaxies-grow-and-mature - 2026-07-11
We follow up our systematic work environment management every year. This year’s follow-up paints an overall picture that I think is worth pausing to consider. I can see a positive shift in the way we discuss and address work environment issues. Many people have been involved in this development, and I would therefore like to take this opportunity to encourage everyone to take pride in this year’s
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/when-systematic-mindset-becomes-part-everyday-life - 2026-07-12
Many of the University’s staff members state that they seldom or never use AI at work, according to a survey conducted by the Ad Hoc Group. As previously mentioned in LU News, a questionnaire on the use of AI was sent to a random selection of technical and administrative (TA) staff at the University. The survey was conducted within the framework of the University’s digitalisation and AI initiative
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ta-staff-opinions-are-divided-ai - 2026-07-12
En representant från det strategiska forskningsområdet (SFO) EpiHealth har pratat med Martin L. Olsson, som är fakultetsledningsrepresentant för EpiHealth styrelsen och vice dekan med särskilt ansvar för forskningsinfrastruktur och strategiska frågor vid Medicinska fakulteten. Martin är också professor i transfusionsmedicin vid Institutionen för laboratoriemedicin och konsult inom transfusionsmedi
Huntingtons sjukdom är ärftlig, genetisk och debuterar vanligtvis i åldersspannet 30 till 50 år. I Sverige har omkring 1000 personer diagnosen och flera tusen lever med risk att insjukna. Ännu fler har en koppling till sjukdomen då symptomen också i hög grad påverkar de anhöriga. Sjukdomen leder till för tidig död och det finns ingen bromsande behandling. Med ökad kännedom om sjukdomens uttryck ka
https://www.multipark.lu.se/sv/artikel/huntingtons-en-komplex-hjarnsjukdom-som-paverkar-rorelser-tankar-och-kanslor - 2026-07-11
Arbetet med att förtäta och utveckla fakultetens lokaler pågår på flera håll, där mycket redan har genomförts. Målet är att använda befintliga ytor bättre och frigöra ytor till forskning och utbildning. Bakom en stor del av arbetet står Hanieh Heidarabadi, processledare vid naturvetenskapliga fakulteten. Arbetet med fakultetens lokaler har vuxit fram över tid, ofta som en konsekvens av andra beslu
Kvant. Ordet dyker upp allt oftare i samtal om framtidens teknologi, säkerhet, medicin och datorer. Samtidigt uppfattas området ofta som både abstrakt och svårtillgängligt. Men vad är egentligen kvantfysik och varför är intresset så stort just nu? – Kvantfysik utvecklades för att beskriva universums allra minsta beståndsdelar. När forskare började studera atomer, elektroner och ljus upptäckte man
https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/internt/artikel/vad-ar-kvant-egentligen-och-varfor-pratar-alla-om-det - 2026-07-11
Kvant. Ordet dyker upp allt oftare i samtal om framtidens teknologi, säkerhet, medicin och datorer. Samtidigt uppfattas området ofta som både abstrakt och svårtillgängligt. Men vad är egentligen kvantfysik och varför är intresset så stort just nu? – Kvantfysik utvecklades för att beskriva universums allra minsta beståndsdelar. När forskare började studera atomer, elektroner och ljus upptäckte man
https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/vad-ar-kvant-egentligen-och-varfor-pratar-alla-om-det - 2026-07-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What do muffins and space travel have in common? Answer: They affect our genes through altered DNA methylation patterns. Two researchers who studied this recently met at the public defence of a doctoral thesis at Lund University. Andrew Feinberg from Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA, has
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/big-data-muffins-and-space-travel - 2026-07-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Christmas and New Year holidays did not turn out the way Caroline Nilsson intended. Instead of taking time off from her job as a research nurse in the POInT study, she had to step in and help out in a COVID-19 ward at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö. For six weeks, Caroline Nilsson and two other colleagues from
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/research-nurse-caroline-her-time-covid-19-ward - 2026-07-11
Visible matter in the universe represents only five per cent of everything that exists. The rest is invisible dark matter and dark energy. Particle physicist Ruth Pöttgen is one of the Lund University researchers involved in the search for the mysterious dark matter of the universe. She is standing at her whiteboard in a small office at Fysicum. With the help of her pen, Ruth Pöttgen tries to pain
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/search-shadow-invisible - 2026-07-12
When we talk about antibodies against COVID-19, we tend to mean the so-called neutralising antibodies, that offer protection by blocking the virus from invading our cells. Now, a new study from Lund University in Sweden has revealed that non-neutralising antibodies may also be important in providing protection against Covid. “Our results indicate that non-neutralising antibodies could also provide
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/additional-antibodies-may-protect-against-covid - 2026-07-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Many Swedes have large debts, and being in debt is often expected to lead to poor health. However, economist Therese Nilsson at the School of Economics and Management finds that we still do not know enough to determine whether it is the debt itself that leads to ill health – or if ill health leads to debt. Economist T
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/does-debt-create-ill-health-or-does-ill-health-create-debt - 2026-07-11
