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CMES will host two events on democracy and gender-just peace in the MENA region (in Swedish) on July 6 during the Almedalen week in Visby. All welcome! Please note that the events will be held in Swedish! Democracy in the Middle East (Demokratispaning i Mellanöstern) July 6, 2022, 11:15-12:15, Hästgatan 13 in Visby The contemporary Middle East and North Africa is populated by authoritarian one-par
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-almedalen - 2026-07-07
Today, on the 17 of June, the board of the Pufendorf IAS decided to accept three applications to form three new Advanced Study Groups - all starting in September 2024! These ASGs will pursue interdisciplinary research ideas within Oaths and Courts – from Forum to the Future;Neobiogenesis: The Inevitability of Life; Next Generation Healthscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Care Facilities of th
https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/three-new-advanced-study-groups-and-five-new-themes-2024-2025 - 2026-07-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “Solar energy has great potential in Sweden. The fact that we use solar energy to a lesser extent than many other European countries is not due to lack of sun, but due to lack of knowledge”, says architect Jouri Kanters who has mapped what politicians, urban planners, builders and architects should be better at in ord
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lack-knowledge-explains-low-utilisation-solar-energy - 2026-07-07
Within third-cycle education, as in the University as a whole, we are all different and as such we need to work according to the different subject conditions of the faculties. At the same time, we are more alike than we sometimes believe and there are advantages to having the same procedures and rules where possible, particularly when we see more interdisciplinary projects crossing departmental an
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lus-comprehensive-approach-third-cycle-education - 2026-07-08
The on-screen lecture looks like any other digital seminar. But this is no normal session. The audience lives in the university town of Zhytomyr in Ukraine, and they are taking part in a series of online seminars organised by around ten researchers and teaching staff from Lund. One of the organisers of the knowledge exchange is Oksana Chernysh, dean of the Faculty of Pedagogical Technologies and L
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/respite-ukrainian-students-through-collaboration-lund - 2026-07-08
In February 2026, the University’s new unified education website, ESU, will be launched. The goal is to make it easier for students to find the right course or programme. The work encompasses new design, new underlying technology, reworked content and new working methods for information about education. The project, which has been in progress for several years, has involved many people from all pa
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-education-website-will-help-right-students-find-right-course-or-programme - 2026-07-08
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Swarming bats at mine entrance Photo:Jens Rydell During the day they are not visible. But at dusk, brown long-eared bats, pond bats and greater mouse-eared bats spread their wings and start hunting. LUM accompanied researcher and bat expert Jens Rydell to Hovdala castle for a bat inventory. The bat detector crackles a
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/kings-night-take-over-hovdala-castle - 2026-07-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Threats against researchers are increasing, according to acting chief security officer Håkan Jönsson, who received 16 reports of threats last year. The rise is in online threats, whereas the number of disruptive or violent people on campus is dropping – probably thanks to more locked doors. “But the hidden figures are
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/online-threats-against-researchers-are-rise - 2026-07-07
Over the coming years, the Faculty of Science’s four subject libraries will be brought together under one roof. The libraries for geology, biology, physics and astronomy, and chemistry will leave their current premises and move into a shared home in the Astronomy Building, where a study centre is also planned.The relocation of the libraries is the result of several changes: an extensive densificat
https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/work-relocating-100000-titles-has-begun - 2026-07-07
Tolibjon Mustafoev, PhD candidate at Lund University For the last few decades, Uzbekistan has been a popular research destination for many scholars studying authoritarian regimes. Indeed, the first president of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, had been in power from the first days of independence in 1991 until September 2016. Karimov was known for his policies on closed economy, high bureaucracy, centra
Vad händer egentligen i kroppen vid neurologiska och kardiovaskulära sjukdomar? Det kan en teknik som kallas magnetresonansavbildning hjälpa forskarna på Lunds universitet att få svar på. Den prekliniska MR-kameran vid Lunds universitet Bioimaging center, LBIC, är dock i akut behov av en uppgradering för att även fortsättningsvis kunna leverera forskning i världsklass. Tack vara anslag på 1.3 Mkr
https://www.lbic.lu.se/article/lbic-far-13-mkr-fran-crafoordska-stiftelsen-till-uppgradering-av-preklinisk-mr-kamera - 2026-07-07
The Econometric Game in Amsterdam is a competition known as the ”World Championship in Econometrics”. In 2021 LUSEM won the game and now it is time again! LUSEM was represented by a team of four: two first-year PhD students in Economics, Christina Maschmann and Tilman Bretschneider, as well as two master’s students Ida Haggren and Benjámin Olivér Maday who are currently embracing their final month
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-team-wins-world-championship-econometrics-0 - 2026-07-07
It’s time to nominate the Faculty's Honorary doctors for 2026. This year, philosopher Jonna Bornemark and journalist Sara Heyman were appointed honorary doctors at the faculty, and now we want to continue to associate other "stars" with us through honorary doctorates. Do you have a prominent person in your network who you think could be suitable? If so, make sure to nominate that person latest 1 S
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/do-you-have-honorary-doctor-stand-nominate-now-0 - 2026-07-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCSUS organises two events at the Future week at Lund University, discussing the future of social movements and the future of traveling, in the light of both the climate crisis and the coronavirus pandemic. The events will take place both onsite and online. 14 October 15.00-16.00: The future of traveling, mobility a
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lund-university-future-week-12-18-october - 2026-07-07
“Lundensare” Nobel Prize winner Arvid Carlsson (1923-2018) did not receive the prestigious Nobel Prize while living or working in Lund – but he is an alumnus! Carlsson grew up in Lund (which could clearly be heard in his Lund accent) and in 1951 he became a doctor of medicine at Lund University. He was employed as an associate professor of pharmacology and in 1959 he left for Gothenburg, where he
Climate researchers often emphasise the fact that reducing carbon emissions is in everyone’s best interest, and should involve all of us. But how good are they at minimising their own carbon footprint? A new study carried out jointly by Lund University and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland shows that some of them use up half their annual carbon allowance in a single week. There are ways to
https://www.science.lu.se/article/conferences-make-scientists-climate-transgressors - 2026-07-07
The Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (SUHF) has produced three reports that highlight key issues it regards as threats to the activities of higher education institutions. A fourth report on governance in higher education will be published after the summer. The other reports concern academic freedom, increased bureaucratisation and the reliance of research on external funding. T
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-reports-threats-academic-freedom-and-university-governance - 2026-07-08
Mårten Edlund from Handelsbanken and Tobias Lindberg from Ernst & Young take their seats next to LUSEM researchers Hassan Hamadi, Ola Mattisson, Ulf Ramberg and Mats Urde. It is time for the case competitors to do their presentations about Harley Davidson Motorcycles. What if you were told as a master student at the beginning of your first semester that you could spend about six extra hours, one d
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/case-competition-intellectual-sport - 2026-07-08
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. ESS, internationella studenter, delårsrapport, Debatt i Lund, hälsningsgille, LUX och MOOC:s är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. ESS. I morgon är det äntligen dags att sätta spaden i jorden för att inleda bygget av ESS. Det sker vid en ceremoni där utbildningsminister Jan Björklund samt hans danska kollega So
https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-1-september - 2026-07-06
