Published 17 December 2024 At the end of April, the Faculty Board decided that a new department, the Department of Communication, will be created. The establishment of the new department is part of the faculty's development towards fewer units, but the merger has also been motivated by additional reasons. The new department will be established on 1 January 2025 and the following units will be incl

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/new-department-communication-january-2025 - 2025-08-15

Published 17 December 2024 Tobias Linné, Head of Department of the Department of Communication and Media. A new year is approaching and when the Faculty enters 2025, it will be with nine departments instead of the current eleven. The Faculty of Social Sciences will gradually develop towards fewer units over the next six years, according to a policy decision from 2023. After initial preparatory wor

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/eleven-departments-nine-turn-year - 2025-08-15

By susanna [dot] lonnqvist [at] eit [dot] lth [dot] se (Susanna Lönnqvist) - published 28 May 2025 Chief of surgery Kiet Tran described the equipment required for anesthesia and monitoring of patients. Researchers from Theme 3 and Theme 6 within NextG2Com had the opportunity to visit the Children’s Heart Center at Skåne University Hospital in Lund. Under the guidance of Chief of Surgery Kiet Tran

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/smallest-patients - 2025-08-15

Published 5 May 2025 Keynote speaker Birgit Penzenstadler presented a number of tools to "sustainify" NextG2Com research. NextG2Com organizes an annual workshop for all center partners, and this year, the second workshop in the series took place on April 29. The agenda included sustainability at all levels, insights from long-standing collaboration between industry and academia, and short partner

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/sustainability-collaboration-and-theme-workshops - 2025-08-15

Published 10 June 2025 Professor and honorary doctor Margaret-Anne Storey presented her work in social aspects of software development at the AID Breakfast seminar. LTH honorary doctor 2025 Margaret-Anne Storey presented her research on social aspects of software development on different occasions during the conferment week in May. You can watch two recordings of her presentations here.

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/social-aspects-software-development - 2025-08-15

By sylvia [dot] lysko [at] iac [dot] lu [dot] se (Sylvia Lysko) - published 7 November 2023 Interview with Karin Johansson (vice dean for research) and Hedvig Jalhed (interim director at the IAC) The Faculty Council recently adopted new guidelines and a new establishment period for the IAC. The new guidelines will apply from the turn of the year and for the next three years. Karin Johansson, Assoc

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/new-guidelines-inter-arts-center - 2025-08-15

Published 11 January 2024 Anja Cecilie Petersen, Responding Arches. At deadline 1 October 2023, Make Sound had received many interesting applications for a residency at the IAC. Two projects were successfully selected. Congratulations to Anja Cecilie Petersen and Xavier Bonfill!“Responding Arches” is an evolving sound installation, rooted in research into the interplay between sound and physical s

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/make-sound-artists-october-2023 - 2025-08-15

Published 30 May 2023 IAC has the great pleasure to announce that it has been granted SEK 250,000 by Sten K Johnson for the workshop series "Spatial Audio Workshop" which is planned to take place in 2024. The grant will be awarded at a ceremony on 20 June 2023 at the School of Economics and Management in Lund. With the funds granted, IAC wishes to implement a workshop series entitled "Spatial Audi

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/iac-project-funded-sten-k-johnson-foundation - 2025-08-15

Published 12 June 2023 At deadline 1 April 2023, Make Sound received many interesting applications for a residency at IAC. Three projects have now been selected. Congratulations to Jonas Olesen, Sóley Sigurjónsdóttir and Matthew Grouse! Jonas Olesen is a Danish composer and sound artist. Formerly lecturer in electronic composition and history at the Danish Institute for Electronic Music (DIEM), an

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/make-sound-artists-selected - 2025-08-15

Published 31 August 2023 Inter Arts Center is happy to announce the Call "1,2,3 Playtime" in collaboration with Region Skåne. Games constitute a multidisciplinary field which the workshop series reflects by exploring various methods and tools within game design in both digital and physical environments. The project offers an opportunity to transform and develop aspects of one’s own artistic practi

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/123-playtime-lecture-and-workshop-series-field-gamification - 2025-08-15

Published 19 September 2023 Open-call for composers and sound-artists affiliated with Inter Arts Center/Lund University (including alumni) Lithuanian Composers’ Union, together with Druskininkai Artists‘ residency and Culture Moves Europe programme, invites artists to apply for the international residency, gathering artists from Austria, Sweden, and Ukraine to compose new works for Jauna muzika co

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/one-month-residency-lithuania - 2025-08-15

Published 6 March 2024 Introducing EPI: Your robotic karaoke duet partner! No more stage fright – EPI mimics your performance, diverting attention from your singing skills. EPI was designed by Lund University Cognitive Science Robotics Group. Its approachable child-like appearance conveys friendliness and likeability. In a karaoke setting, EPI can foster a sense of connectedness and emotional reas

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/emotional-support-karaoke-bot - 2025-08-15

By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 18 January 2024 Voinha, who was approaching the age of one hundred, interviewed by her grandchild Iury Salustiano Trojaborg. Image from a videotaped interview. Photo: Ulrik Trojaborg Nair Ferreira Barbosa da Costa, kindly called Voinha in the family, was married off at 14. She gave birth to thirteen children, had to le

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/exploring-voinhas-life-journey-forced-marriage-feminist-empowerment - 2025-08-15

By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 4 February 2024 Markus Gunneflo, the new coordinator of the Agenda 2030 Graduate School. Photo: Kennet Rouna Markus Gunneflo has always been interested in interdisciplinarity, and working with PhD students has been the most enjoyable part of his professional life. A perfect combination for the new coordinator of the Ag

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/new-coordinator-passion-interdisciplinarity-markus-gunneflo - 2025-08-15

By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 4 February 2024 Markus Gunneflo är sedan årsskiftet koordinator för forskarskolan Agenda 2030. Foto: Kenneth Rouna. Markus Gunneflo har alltid intresserat sig för tvärvetenskap och att få arbeta med doktorander har varit det roligaste i hans yrkesliv. En perfekt kombination för uppdraget som forskarskolan Agenda 2030:s

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/markus-gunneflo-ny-koordinator-med-passion-tvarvetenskapen - 2025-08-15

Published 21 February 2024 Photo: We Animals Media Popular media discourses and heated debates on possible transitions to plant-based food systems can sometimes give the impression that veganism is a newfangled trend or that advocacy for animals is an intrinsically Western or even ‘white’ social phenomenon. However, such portrayals neglect how advocacy for Earth Others can be traced way back in th

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/advocacy-veganism-and-animal-liberation-neither-new-nor-western-phenomenon-plant-based-capitalism - 2025-08-15

Published 29 April 2024 Maria Takman and Christie Nicoson. Photo: Hilde Skar Olsen and Sara Håkansson Two new PhDs! Congratulations to the Graduate School's two new doctors, Maria Takman and Christie Nicoson. On 26 April, they successfully defended their doctoral theses at Lund University. Both scholars have made significant contributions in their respective fields. Maria Takman has written "From

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/graduate-school-celebrates-achievements-phd-graduates-maria-takman-and-christie-nicoson - 2025-08-15

By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 10 June 2024 Tanya Andersson Nystedt has successfully defended her thesis on migrants' vulnerability to sexual violence. We are proud to announce that the Agenda 2030 Graduate School PhD student, Tanya Andersson Nystedt, successfully defended her thesis on 5 June and now has her PhD! Tanya has been an integral part of

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/thesis-successfully-defended-tanya-andersson-nystedt - 2025-08-15

By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 12 June 2024 Eating according to new dietary recommendations reduces premature deaths and greenhouse gas emissions. Agenda 2030 PhD student Anna Stubbendorff compared seven dietary indices to find a good way to measure how we eat in relation to the recommendations. The Planetary Health Diet. That's the diet that will k

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/stubbendorffs-index-paves-way-sustainable-healthy-diets - 2025-08-15

Published 18 June 2024 As the climate crisis deepens, discussions on sustainability are evolving to include the existential aspects of human life. In the autumn of 2023, Lund University's Agenda 2030 Graduate School introduced a PhD course on existential sustainability. The course ended with a student conference, where some of the papers are now being shared with a wider audience. Sustainability h

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/integrating-existential-aspects-sustainability - 2025-08-15