Sveriges radio P4 Blekinge rapporterar att flera personer med utländsk bakgrund hotats efter att de medverkat i lokala medier. I inslaget hörs Rättssociologiska institutionens doktorand Oscar Björkenfeldt, som forskar om hur hot och hat mot journalister påverkar det offentliga samtalet och demokratin.– Det finns en kollektiv avsikt att tysta vissa frågor från det offentliga samtalet, samt att unde

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/artikel/oscar-bjorkenfeldt-intervjuad-som-expert-i-sveriges-radio-p4-blekinge - 2025-09-05

Statens utredning om stärkt rätt till skadestånd för brottsoffer ser över vissa regler kring brottsoffers rätt till skadestånd. Rättssociologen Karl Dahlstrand disputerade på brottsofferersättning och besökte nyligen utredningens expertkommitté. Karl Dahlstrands forskning om kränkningsersättning till brottsoffer tangerar regeringens utredning om stärkt rätt till skadestånd för brottsoffer. Uppdrag

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/artikel/karl-dahlstrand-presenterade-sin-forskning-regeringens-utredningsgrupp - 2025-09-05

A Dutch pilot, a safety manager from Australia, an average-adjuster from Denmark and twelve others who work with safety in high-risk industries came together a week before Christmas in Lund to hone their critical thinking skills. They are all studying the distance-learning MSc in Human Factors and System Safety, and it was now time to meet in real life. Participants on the distance-learning progra

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/scattered-risk-students-gather-lund - 2025-09-05

Lund University’s MOOCs have now started. First to launch was the Faculty of Law course in European Business Law, closely followed by Greening the Economy from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), and later in the spring the Faculty of Medicine’s course in sexual health will take place. The number of people registered for the courses has exceeded expectations

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mooc-launch-celebrated-fizz-and-folk-dance - 2025-09-05

… CEO of Lund University’s student consulting company Lunicore, which increased its turnover by 45 per cent last year. As a result, it is now probably the largest student-run consulting company in Scandinavia. Why should students work as consultants during their studies? “Because they get the chance to put their theoretical knowledge into practice while they’re still studying, to see their skills

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meet-emil-erikssonabout-students-consultants - 2025-09-05

The students, wider society and the path to academic success were important points in Torbjörn von Schantz’s inauguration speech on the University’s foundation day, 28 January. After the usual pomp and ceremony, and with the vice-chancellor’s chain hanging splendidly round his neck, he expressed his thanks for the appointment, which he sees as a great honour. Vice-chancellor Torbjörn von Schantz .

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-vice-chancellor-safeguard-student-influence - 2025-09-05

Economist and researcher Andreas Bergh is closely involved in public debate. Few things make him really angry. One of them is stupidity. Like when the city of Malmö fails to create simple entry-level jobs because of unreasonable demands on people who want to start mobile food trucks. “That is how the sluggish Swedish labour market works. If we dared to shake up the regulations we would gain a lot

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/advocating-capitalist-welfare-state - 2025-09-05

From Jordan to Lund: Sahar Al-Rabadi and Marwa Al-Khalidi have got off to a good start as PhD students in architecture at LU. They are the result of a revitalised agreement with Yarmouk University. PhD students in architecture Sahar Al-Rabadi and Marwa Al-Khalidi outside LUX, a building they find architecturally interesting. “I love following rules and here there are rules everywhere. Everything i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jordanian-doctoral-students-appreciate-swedish-order - 2025-09-05

David Gisselsson is a researcher on a roll. In the autumn, he was awarded Lund’s ‘local Fernström Prize’, which goes to a promising young researcher in medicine, and he has recently had an article published in one of the most prestigious journals in the field, Nature Communications. David Gisselsson with two of his research tools – the microscope and the computer. David Gisselsson’s research is ab

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/attention-new-findings-childhood-cancer - 2025-09-05

Doctoral students living on relatively low external scholarships should get terms of employment that are more equal to those on doctoral studentships. This is the hope of the University’s Education Board, which has approved the faculties topping up the income of doctoral students on scholarships. However, the Faculty of Law and the University’s employment lawyers have registered reservations again

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/better-conditions-horizon-scholarship-holders - 2025-09-05

Meet Jonas Hafström, a lawyer with a background in the diplomatic service, including as Swedish ambassador to the USA. For the past year he has led government trade delegations around the world and helped to coach Swedish embassy staff in countries with strong economic growth. Jonas Hafström. Foto: Pawel Flato Welcome to Lund University as the new chair of the University Board. “Thank you.” You ha

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/welcome-jonas-hafstrom-new-chair-university-board - 2025-09-05

Enlightenment philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft believed that living in hierarchies destroyed and corrupted people deep down in their souls. “For her, inequality was the greatest threat to democracy and liberty. It is still dynamite today, as the gulf between rich and poor widens and the world is divided into lords and servants”, says Professor of Human Rights Studies Lena Halldenius. She has just p

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/reinterpreting-feminist-pioneer - 2025-09-05

Peter Schurtenberger wants to create specially designed nanoparticles that can instruct themselves. He is a high-level researcher and chemistry professor recruited from Switzerland, and is fascinated by the processes behind nature’s own ability to organise its smallest components. His aim is to mimic them. Peter Schurtenberger wants to create nanoparticles that could build complex structures in ac

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mimicking-nature-nanoscale - 2025-09-05

Lund University needs long-term strategies with clear priorities from the faculties of what type of research to invest in, agree the two new pro vice-chancellors Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen and Bo Ahrén. They also recognise the difficulty of achieving this at a university as comprehensive as Lund. “Our breadth is definitely our strength, but it can also present problems”, says Bo Ahrén. The two new

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-pro-vice-chancellors-want-strategic-investments-research - 2025-09-05

“I am a political activist and want to broaden and deepen the subject of film studies”, says Chris Holmlund, who is spending the spring as a visiting professor at Lund University. She is a prominent figure in the world’s largest organisation for film researchers and in that capacity will represent Lund University at conferences worldwide. Chris Holmlund is a professor of film studies, women’s stud

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/visiting-professor-film-studies-prominent-among-film-researchers - 2025-09-05

We spend 90 per cent of our time indoors. We can both exercise and shop without taking a step outdoors and the indoor trend is on the increase, despite the fact that we have little understanding of the air we are breathing. “The health effects may not be detected for a number of years”, says LTH researcher Aneta Wierzbicka, who is coordinating an interdisciplinary theme at the Pufendorf Institute.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-good-our-indoor-environment - 2025-09-05

Rain – both its presence and more particularly its absence – controls most things in the Sahel. Despite the fact that the belt of land south of the Sahara has become greener, the outlook is gloomy when it comes to making resources stretch to a growing population in the face of climate change. Now researchers want investments in agriculture, education and family planning to help resources go around

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/family-planning-new-weapon-against-threatened-sahel - 2025-09-05

Despite rules and legislation on water for all at a reasonable cost, water shortages hit the poor hardest. In slums in large cities, illegal water mafia have emerged that take advantage of people’s desperate need for water. Maryam Nastar has studied water politics in two fast growing cities, Hyderabad in India and Johannesburg in South Africa. Maryam Nastar has studied water policy in Hyderabad in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/water-mafia-take-advantage-poor - 2025-09-05

The construction of a dam in Ethiopia could solve many problems for the growing population along the Nile. However, when the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam began, it was met with warmongering from countries downstream. Egypt in particular felt threatened by the dam, which would regulate the Nile, the artery that runs through the heart of the country. “From a scientific perspec

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nile-lifeblood-and-source-conflict - 2025-09-05

In the early 1990s, peacemakers, politicians and researchers believed that growing water shortages would lead to an increasing number of wars and conflicts around the world. It was thought that the disputes in the Middle East would become more difficult to resolve as water resources diminished. However, views have since changed on the role of water in conflicts. Instead of being a cause of war, it

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/collaboration-water-offers-great-potential-peace - 2025-09-05