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What made IKEA go against the grain and move into town? This week, IKEA opened a bedroom store in central Stockholm. The store in The Lobby on Regeringsgatan is the latest in a series of smaller, city-centre formats that IKEA is currently testing in various parts of the world. It is an interesting development, at a time when other retailers are moving out of the city. And it represents another imp
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/ikea-bedroom - 2025-12-17
From waste to green gold: Lund's role in the transition of one of Europe's most polluted citiesMalgorzata Mańka-Szulik, mayor of Zabrze in Poland, was impressed with what she saw – a city with a waste management system resulting in as little as 3 per cent waste going to landfills.“She looked at me and said: ‘I want my city to be like Lund. How long will it take us?’”Mikael Backman, lecturer at the
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-mikael-backman - 2025-12-17
Borders don’t just divide nations — they define our bodies too. At the skin and in the gut, our barrier organs form the frontline of defense against infection. Here, diverse communities of friendly microbes, the microbiota, help maintain health and keep these borders strong, backed up by an immune system ready to deploy antibodies against any intruder. Protecting these barrier organs is central to
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/inta-gribonika-awarded-ssmf-starting-grant-research-skin-humoral-immunity - 2025-12-17
The students are not satisfied with the University's system for quality assurance of education. "It does not maintain the high and even quality that we would like", says Ella Sjöbeck, vice president of LUS, the umbrella organisation for Lund University's students' unions. At issue is the national review of the quality assurance work of higher education institutions currently being conducted at mos
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/students-criticise-quality-assurance-education - 2025-12-18
Tomas Bergström, Head of Department of Political Science, explains the rule of thumb of a 40-60 percent ratio between female and male authors represented in course reading lists. "Only one of many tools for generating awareness of gender issues among the department’s staff and students." How are reading lists adopted at the Department of Political Science?In light of the information about the Depa
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/objective-serves-tool-reflection-not-straightjacket - 2025-12-17
In the middle of October, the first project partner meeting was held in Helsingborg. The project is about shared and sustainable mobility in new housing developments, and was hosted by Lund University, Campus Helsingborg and the City of Helsingborg. The goal of the project is to create innovative conditions for new residential areas with the preservation of green spaces that enables valuable natur
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/reduced-number-parking-spaces-favour-green-meeting-places-new-eu-project - 2025-12-17
The economic sanctions against Russian following the invasion of Ukraine are having spillover effects in Central Asia. With the prospect of economic and social strain forcing Russian employers to lay off migrant workers, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan are preparing to receive high numbers of newly unemployed men. The fall of the Russian rouble in March - as a consequence of Western sancti
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/central-asian-migrant-workers-risk-mass-unemployment - 2025-12-17
With the market for fossil fuels in decline, the oil industry is investing heavily in the chemical and plastics industry instead. The strategy seems to be working: the plastics industry is growing faster than the global economy. Multibillion-dollar subsidies from states and publicly funded banks, combined with weak legislation, are reasons behind the rapid growth, according to a new report from Lu
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/us-europe-subsidize-rapidly-expanding-petrochemical-industry - 2025-12-18
The University has started a new initiative that involves inviting its new staff from far and wide to joint activities during the year. New international staff members and their families were recently welcomed to the new academic year at an event in the Main University Building. Specially invited staff members enjoyed a get-together and refreshments with music by Albin Rickman’s Trio and students
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-international-staff-members-were-welcomed-new-academic-year - 2025-12-16
One in three patients is asked about their lifestyle habits when they visit the outpatient healthcare clinics. This figure really ought to be higher, according to Professors Hanne Tønnesen and Inger Kristensson Hallström, who are in charge of the WHO Collaborating Centre at Lund University. Lifestyle should concern the health care system even more than it does today,stresses Hanne Tønnesen: “We qu
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/who-mission-creating-evidence-how-health-care-can-prevent-disease - 2025-12-17
In his doctoral thesis in sociology "Structures of subcontracting: Work organisation, control, and labour in the Swedish building sector", Rasmus Ahlstrand analyses the increased use of subcontractors and explores new forms of work organisation in the Swedish building sector. A key contribution of his study is the concept of masked staffing, which refers to unauthorised ways of organising labour t
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/rasmus-ahlstrand-has-defended-his-thesis-changing-swedish-building-sector - 2025-12-17
The TEDDY Study has increased our knowledge about what happens prior to the onset of autoimmune diabetes (type 1 diabetes) and has shown that a stomach infection can trigger coeliac disease. Lund University in Sweden has now received just over SEK 40 million from the American National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue the TEDDY Study for another five years. “We have large volumes of data to a
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/international-diabetes-study-receives-sek-40-million-continue - 2025-12-17
Inflammation researcher Ben King studies the function of two different proteins in connection with diabetes. In the future, such knowledge may be important for the development of new treatments for people with diabetes. Ben King is this year’s recipient of the Medeon Award for his innovative research. “I was very surprised and feel very honored to receive the award. In my role, I do a lot of exper
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/award-protein-research-may-lead-new-treatments-diabetes - 2025-12-17
The bad news about malignant melanoma is that the disease is increasing more rapidly than most other types of cancer. The good news is that it is easy to cure, as long as it is detected in time. A research group in Lund has therefore started a project that it is hoped will make it easier to correctly diagnose suspicious moles. Kari Nielsen (at the left). Photo: Roger Lundholm The purpose of the pr
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tape-could-simplify-skin-cancer-diagnosis - 2025-12-17
Meet Ivanna Read: the Master's student in Strategic Communication who is putting Lund University on the map as a blogger on Studyinsweden.se. In addition to being a high achiever academically, she is also the University's latest global ambassador - on 8 May she will be named as Lund University's Global Swede at a ceremony at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm. For the eighth successive
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-universitys-new-global-ambassador - 2025-12-17
Inflammation researcher Ben King studies the function of two different proteins in connection with diabetes. In the future, such knowledge may be important for the development of new treatments for people with diabetes. Ben King is this year’s recipient of the Medeon Award for his innovative research. “I was very surprised and feel very honored to receive the award. In my role, I do a lot of exper
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/award-protein-research-may-lead-new-treatments-diabetes - 2025-12-17
Despite an increasing number of informal outdoor sport and recreational spaces in Sweden and our society, not everyone feel that they can use them. Public spaces for physical activity are dominated by boys and men, while girls and women are under-represented. The research project Equalizer examines the barriers that hinders different groups access to these spaces and methods to remove the obstacle
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/methods-disturbance-gives-more-people-access-public-places - 2025-12-17
Lund University is investing SEK 100 million in an interdisciplinary research programme focusing on Agenda 2030 and sustainable development. The programme is to attract international research expertise and to bring about the establishment of more internationally leading research environments in sustainability. “With its breadth and cutting edge, Lund University has unique opportunities to tackle c
What are opinions, what are facts and what are outright lies? The latest PISA assessment clearly shows that children and young adults have difficulties navigating the fast flow of information in society today. When anyone at all can make their voice heard it also becomes more difficult to recognise misleading information and fake news. Together, actors, performing arts teachers and researchers are
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-and-performers-teaching-children-question-fake-news - 2025-12-18
Last week, six intrepid retail researchers from the Centre for Retail Research at Lund University travelled to London to observe the latest retail trends. Here, we summarise the most important trends and what the Swedish retail industry can learn from what is happening in London. Trend #1: Interesting use of space London is a densely populated city, which means they make use of all available space
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/handbags-flowers-and-desserts-what-can-sweden-learn-londons-retail-trends - 2025-12-18
