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Gaining access to Brief Admission by self-referral reduced the need for emergency care in adolescents with severe self-harm. The method has previously been introduced for adults, and a study led by researchers from Lund University has now explored whether the method could also be used for children and young people. The results are published in The Lancet Psychiatry. Most children and young people
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 - 2025-12-19
During a French state visit to Sweden, President Emmanuel Macron visited Lund University on Wednesday, where he spoke directly with students at Studentafton. The President addressed challenges, possibilities and the future of the European cooperation. It was a long wait for vice-Chancellor Erik Renström and the audience inside the main University building. Finally, President Macron and his wife Br
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/french-president-emmanuel-macron-visits-lund-university - 2025-12-20
Every year, the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library in London is accepting applications for funding to support the preservation of archival material worldwide that is in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration, not the least in South Asia. The programme is being financed by Arcadia (formerly known as the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund), in pursuit of one of its ch
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/endangered-archives-programme-funding-south-asia-projects - 2025-12-19
Climate change has become one of the defining social and environmental challenges of our time. In light of the public and political attention that the issue has gained, the need for informed and critical perspectives on this important topic is more urgent than ever. At LUCSUS, we believe that climate change knowledge needs to be integrated in all aspects of society in order to facilitate the trans
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-course-climate-change-and-society - 2025-12-20
The Nordic Centre in India (NCI) is offering three different grants for scholars from NCI member universities to conduct research in India. As in previous years, the Nordic Centre in India, a consortium of leading universities and research institutions in the Nordic countries, will provide funding to a number of doctor-level researchers and above from NCI member universities to support their resea
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nci-grants-research-visits-india - 2025-12-20
This course is aimed at doctoral students and research faculty who write and publish in English, and who wish to strengthen their language and writing skills. Over six sessions (a total of 16h), we discuss central aspects of English scholarly writing, ranging from ways of communicating one’s research more efficiently and effectively to issues of language choices and style. Participants are given i
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/written-english-scholarly-publication-spring-2025 - 2025-12-20
2019-12-16 The yearly winter cleaning competition in most of LU Accommodation's corridor housing ended today. The winners this year was the following corridors: Eddan C 1101 - 1106 1st Prize Eddan D 1205-1209 1st Prize Eddan E 1501-1506 1st Prize North Spoletorp 1201-1206 1st Prize South Spoletorp 2:1410-1419 1st Prize Eddan C
https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/news-updates-2019 - 2025-12-19
”Lund is a really great city and Lund University a fantastic place to be part of. We have met so many wonderful people from all over the world at our student housing”. These enthusiastic exclamations come from Shinjini Bhattacharjee and Rupsa Ghosh, two bright MPhil students in Geography from Delhi University (DU) who have spent two months in Lund from mid-November 2015 as exchange students throug
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/indian-exchange-students-praises-lund-and-lund-university - 2025-12-19
The Faculty of Medicine has reviewed its communications activities and made some changes. They have reorganised their ways of working and have even reworked their internal website, Intramed. 2022 saw the reorganisation of the communication activities at the Faculty, taking as its starting point an analysis made from 2019-2020 of the situation as it was then, including proposals for improvements.
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-internal-website-staff-faculty-medicine-has-made-difference - 2025-12-20
The Department of Strategic Communication was visited last week by various lecturers who represent components of some of the department’s courses. Last Tuesday, our Bachelor’s students received a lecture by Susanna Laurin, CEO of the company Funka, providing information on how we can create a more humane Internet. On the Wednesday our Master’s students had the opportunity to meet Thomas Öberg and
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/what-communication-more-humane-internet-trip-bob-hund - 2025-12-19
The Nordic Centre in India (NCI) is offering three different grants for scholars from NCI member universities to conduct research in India. As in previous years, the Nordic Centre in India, a consortium of leading universities and research institutions in the Nordic countries, will provide funding to a number of doctor-level researchers and above from NCI member universities to support their resea
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nci-grants-research-visits-india-0 - 2025-12-19
Young Connectors of the Future (YCF) is an intercultural leadership programme initiated by the Swedish Institute, 2016 run for the third or fourth time. The programme is directed towards young people with leadership talents from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka who represent different sectors of society and are visionaries in positions to make a difference. SASNET deputy dire
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/successful-swedish-institute-leadership-programme-young-southasians - 2025-12-19
Breath-holding spells are common in young children and are benign. Yet children often undergo unnecessary diagnostic interventions when seeking medical care. This is because there are no national or international guidelines on how to assess children in these cases. A team of researchers at Lund University, Sweden has now proposed guidelines to reduce the number of emergency and unplanned medical v
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/children-breath-holding-spells-undergo-unnecessary-diagnostic-interventions - 2025-12-19
Breath-holding spells are common in young children and are benign. Yet children often undergo unnecessary diagnostic interventions when seeking medical care. This is because there are no national or international guidelines on how to assess children in these cases. A team of researchers at Lund University, Sweden has now proposed guidelines to reduce the number of emergency and unplanned medical v
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/children-breath-holding-spells-undergo-unnecessary-diagnostic-interventions - 2025-12-20
Two world-leading American researchers known respectively for their research within medical humanities, and the sensory nervous system and perception of pain and temperature have been named honorary doctors at the Faculty of Medicine. The honorary doctorates will be conferred on 26 May 2023. Ever since David Julius’ discovery of the temperature and pain receptor TRPV1, he has contributed crucial d
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/honorary-doctors-named-faculty-medicine - 2025-12-19
The Department of Physics’ thesis fair on the 18th of November drew a packed audience, giving bachelor’s, master’s and engineering students the chance to discover projects spanning everything from nanomaterials to dark matter. Interest was high and the range of topics broad – from nanoscale materials research and advanced quantum mechanics to astrophysics and insect population measurements using L
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/full-house-department-physics-thesis-fair - 2025-12-19
“High-tech companies have fantastic support from the Taiwanese education system, which provides companies with competent staff. The link between industry and academia is impressive”, says Professor Lars Samuelson from the Nanometre Structure Consortium. Per Eriksson, Lars Samuelson, Anders Robertsson and Per Tunestål on a tour of the campus at Taiwan Tech in Taipei. In the background are Henrik Ho
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/reconnaissance-taiwan-new-strategic-collaborations - 2025-12-19
The number of cyber attacks against the University is always high, but the attacks are growing in sophistication. In addition to direct attempts to intrude or exploit vulnerabilities in our IT systems, phishing (aimed at stealing login credentials) and the spread of malicious software known as malware are on the rise. Fraudulent emails, especially so-called CEO scams, have increased markedly. Thes
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/be-alert-cyber-attacks - 2025-12-20
Arrival Days for international students were arranged on the 17th and 18th of August for those commencing their studies at Lund University in the autumn of 2020. Over the two days, 231 exchange students and 793 international Bachelor’s and Masters’ students arrived, which is around half the usual number of arrivals in August. Lund University made adjustments both to the Arrival Day events and the
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/arrival-day-international-students-now-they-are-here - 2025-12-20
