Published 10 June 2013 All over the world, thousands of experts are sitting entering information about their home countries into a huge democracy database. Soon, three quarters of the world’s countries will have been entered. “In my megalomaniac moments, I usually compare the database to the CERN particle accelerator. It will be as important a tool for political scientists as CERN is for physicist

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/gigantic-database-stores-information-about-democracy-worldwide - 2025-04-29

Published 10 June 2013 Infant mortality in Malawi is among the highest in the world. In a new EU-funded project, researchers from Lund, Cork and Oxford will develop new mobile technology to help health care staff in the country diagnose and treat serious diseases earlier and more effectively. In rural Malawi, aid organisations’ health care staff use a disease manual called IMCI, developed by the W

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mobile-will-save-childrens-lives-malawi - 2025-04-29

Published 26 June 2013 Using harmless viruses to insert genes that produce healthy, healing substances into the brain... transplanting cells, possibly from the patient’s own skin... or, most sci-fi of all, controlling special treated nerve cells with light signals in the brain. These are three different paths to a possible treatment for epilepsy that are being tested by a research group in Lund. T

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-paths-treatment-epilepsy - 2025-04-29

Published 22 August 2013 Lund University is welcoming this autumn’s new international students. Around 2 000 students from around the world will be arriving in Lund to study for a semester or longer.   Students from over 85 countries are expected on Arrival Day. The highest numbers of exchange students come from Germany, the US, France, the Netherlands and Spain. The highest numbers of students ad

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-welcomes-students-around-world - 2025-04-29

Published 19 September 2013 She is a new ‘Hedda’ professor, but has a long career behind her. Biologist Ellen van Donk now hopes that she can serve as a role model for female students who dream of a future career in research. Biologist Ellen van Donk is a new professor in Hedda Andersson’s name. LUM meets ecology researcher Ellen van Donk on a beautiful summer’s day. She comes from the Netherlands

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-professor-wants-be-role-model-female-students - 2025-04-29

Published 19 September 2013 For the next four years, Lund University will coordinate a new exchange programme with India. Over 100 Indian scholarship recipients will get the chance to study or do research in Europe. Lund University hopes that many of them will choose Lund as their destination. “We are pleased that the European Commission has put its trust in us again. We can now further develop th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-coordinate-new-eu-exchange-india - 2025-04-29

Published 20 September 2013 Entry phones can cause problems. For elderly people with a visual impairment or reduced mobility, getting into one’s flat can suddenly become a challenge. However, researchers can also experience problems. One person who knows is occupational therapist Elina Taurina, who has mapped environmental obstacles for elderly people in Latvia together with researchers from Lund

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/swedish-elderly-research-exported-latvia - 2025-04-29

Published 23 September 2013 Meet Jean-Pierre Filiu, Professor in Middle East Studies at Sciences Po., who visited Lund last week during the conference “Everyday Life in the Middle East”, hosted by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University. He is a former diplomat with long experience from the Middle East. This summer he visited Syria to see how the revolution affected people’s everyda

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/syria-waiting-enough-enough - 2025-04-29

Published 25 September 2013 “Thy throne rests on mem’ries from great days of yore, when worldwide renown was valour’s guerdon...” is the translation of the words of the Swedish national anthem, which tries to construct a memory of a glorious national past. This type of attempt is not unusual, nor is its opposite – the suppression or alteration of shameful events. “We like to think that history is

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/collective-memory-sand-sculpture-can-be-re-moulded - 2025-04-29

Published 25 September 2013 Where did I put my sunglasses? Where have the car keys got to, what is the door code to Lisa’s building, and what did I do yesterday afternoon? We all know how irritating it can be when our memory doesn’t work as it should. However, it can be difficult to know what is a ‘normal’ poor memory and what is the result of disease. Susanna Vestberg is a researcher in psycholog

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/multiple-explanations-memory-problems - 2025-04-29

Published 25 September 2013 The scent of a madeleine dipped in lime blossom tea awakened a flood of childhood memories for the main character in Marcel Proust’s famous novel about ‘lost time’. The madeleine is an example of a clue for the memory. In Proust’s case, the clue worked subconsciously, in other cases we can use clues to consciously try to recall the memories for which we are searching. M

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/clues-can-awaken-hidden-memories - 2025-04-29

Published 30 September 2013 “Education and knowledge are the way to change society for the better. I want to make a difference and help to give young people the same fantastic opportunities I had”, says alumna Monica Getz Silfverschöld, a new board member for the Lund University Foundation (LUF). LUF is an independent foundation that aims to strengthen Lund University’s ties with the USA and Ameri

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dedicated-alumna-launched-minnesota-model-sweden - 2025-04-29

Published 3 October 2013 Meet Markku Rummukainen... ... Professor of Climatology, who conducts research on climate change and its consequences. Is this year’s hot summer a taste of things to come? “Yes, a general increase in temperatures means that hot weather will become increasingly common and cold weather less common. For instance, in a review of various different temperature records in the US,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/years-hot-summer-taste-things-come - 2025-04-29

Published 17 October 2013 “We want to use the knowledge of those who have worked for many years with the care and treatment of elderly people, and who are now growing older themselves. We mustn’t let their knowledge go to waste!” said Professor Emerita Bodil Jönsson at the start of the project Uppdrag Kunskap, in which 20 senior citizens will each carry out a research project. Professor Emerita Bo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/older-researchers-offer-new-dimension-elderly-research - 2025-04-29

Published 17 October 2013 With enthusiasts plus technological developments, a lot of progress can be made in quite a short space of time. This is shown by developments in cancer genetics advice, which is now a natural part of the health service, but which was questioned 20 years ago. The primary enthusiasts were Professor of Oncology Håkan Olsson and Reader in Clinical Genetics Ulf Kristoffersson.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/strong-progress-cancer-genetics - 2025-04-29

Published 17 October 2013 This autumn, a unique research satellite, Gaia, will be launched. The project aims to map a billion stars and involves hundreds of European astronomers. One of the originators of the initiative is Lund University’s Professor of Astronomy Lennart Lindegren. Lennart Lindegren tests a meridian circle, which was used in the 19th century to measure the position of the stars. P

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/idea-lund-behind-research-satellite - 2025-04-29

Published 17 October 2013 How have you persuaded 5 000 lorry drivers to get involved in a project on cabotage – and what is it? “Cabotage is domestic transport carried out by foreign carriers. This could be freight or passenger transport. Within the EU, there is a narrower definition as given in the ‘CMR waybill’ that accompanies transported goods. In practice, it means that transport in Sweden ca

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meet-henrik-sternberg-researcher-newly-established-logistics-centre-relog-campus-helsingborg - 2025-04-29

Published 17 October 2013 Having LU researchers and lecturers on site is very important to develop functioning international collaborations, according to Head of International Relations at the Faculty of Medicine Karin Frydenlund. She has recently returned from a visit to Jordan, where the collaboration between LU and the University of Jordan is growing deeper and deeper. Vice-Chancellor Per Eriks

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/collaboration-jordan-strengthened - 2025-04-29

Published 15 November 2013 Lund University Students’ Unions (LUS) has now received a hearing for its demand that the meetings of the University’s internationalisation committee should be held in English. The meetings will be held in English for a trial period, while minutes will be taken in Swedish to fulfil the legal requirements placed on public authorities. “In the long run, you can’t speak Swe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meetings-english-students-request - 2025-04-29

Published 15 November 2013 Soon it will be possible to take a ‘ministerial’ degree in Lund. Next autumn, the departments of Philosophy, Political Science and Economics will be starting a Bachelor’s degree in Practical Philosophy, Politics and Economics – PPE. The role model for the programme is a degree given at Oxford University, and it is reputed that several British ministers hold a PPE degree

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ministerial-degree-equips-philosophers-job-market - 2025-04-29