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A person who carries the mutant gene will at some point in his or her life develop the deadly Huntington's disease. This brain disease can be inherited from generation to generation and begins insidiously, making it increasingly difficult to regulate emotions, thoughts, then movements. There is no treatment that slows down the disease. But Huntington researcher and psychiatrist Åsa Petersén works

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/huntingtons-disease-fascinating-and-touching-mystery - 2025-12-17

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/modelling-survival-bumblebees - 2025-12-17

The 9th of December Anna Spitzkat defended her doctorate dissertation “Understanding Social Media Shopping – Instagram and the Reconfiguration of the Practice of Shopping”. The thesis explores how the consumer uses Instagram for shopping and the blurring of previously established roles. About the thesis The thesis offers new insights into the understanding of novel, technology-driven consumption p

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-doctoral-thesis-about-social-media-shopping - 2025-12-17

Remember the ”beauty study”? It received a lot of attention in the autumn of 2022; was reported for flaws in the research method, but was later found not to have deviated from good research practice. Economist Adrian Mehic had not even defended his doctoral thesis yet, but had an article from his forthcoming thesis published in a scientific journal.”I could imagine that it would create a lot of bu

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/beauty-study-perfect-storm - 2025-12-17

The Centre's international guest researcher, Dr. George Maglaras, comments on resilience in the retail sector and, with examples from the grocery sector, illustrates how we must learn to live with the contemporary disruptions we have been experiencing. Multiple critical incidents in the last few years provided evidence of the increasing uncertainty in the business environment, which is negatively

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/learning-live-disruptions - 2025-12-17

– The SDG:s can help us as a sustainability centre to reflect around impact and how we are contributing to the goals. Where does our research sit in this context, and how can we make it more relevant to stakeholders and communities?, says Emily Boyd. This is important she notes, because today the SDG.s are becoming increasingly recognized worldwide – and many sectors have begun to work strategical

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/emily-boyd-lucsus-and-sustainable-development-goals - 2025-12-17

Seminarium inom modellering av kritisk infrastruktur den 23/6 kl 11.00-12.00. Talare är Associate Professor Kash Barker från University of Oklahoma, USA. Seminariet är anordnat av Jonas Johansson inom ramen för CenCIP. Den 23/6 kl 11.00-12.00 hålls ett seminarium vid CenCIP inom ämnesområdet kritisk infrastruktur. Talare är Associate Professor Kash Barker från University of Oklahoma, USA, som unde

https://www.cencip.lu.se/artikel/seminarium-med-assoc-prof-kash-barker - 2025-12-17

In English:  Salary review process enters new phase for members of Saco-S and OFR/S Lunds universitet har nu undertecknat lokala avtal med Saco-S och OFR/S om principer för genomförande av lönerevision. Parterna är överens om att revisionsperioden är den 1 oktober 2020 till och med den 30 september 2022, vilket innebär att de nya löner som snart kommer att fastställas betalas ut retroaktivt från d

https://www.hr-webben.lu.se/artikel/ny-fas-i-lonerevisionsarbetet-medlemmar-i-saco-s-och-ofrs - 2025-12-17

Geopolitical issues, medical breakthroughs and cultural history topics have dominated the first eight months of the year. Researchers such as Ming Gao, Tabita Rosendal, Martin L Olsson and Jill Storry are behind some of the most read articles of the year. This year got off to a flying start. In 2025, 49 articles have been published, clocking up 985,000 views in The Conversation. Most readers are i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/almost-million-readers-conversation-so-far-year - 2025-12-18

Margarita Chumarina, from the iPSC laboratory for CNS disease modeling, will be defending her PhD thesis on Wednesday 15th of January. Researching in the group led by Laurent Roybon, Margarita has been utilizing stem cell-based models to study cellular alterations in Parkinson’s disease. Here, Margarita answers a few questions about her research and time spent at Lund Stem Cell Center. What have y

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-margarita-chumarina - 2025-12-18

https://www.combustionphysics.lu.se/article/improving-food-spray-drying-tetra-pak - 2025-12-17

August 20th – October 9th Opening August 19th 5-7 pm Tiril Hasselknippes (NO 1984) sculptures are brutalism in synthetic form. The double bonds between the sacred and the primitive / natural and artificial / the life-giving and the downfall, are all present in Hasselknippes works. This voltage and indeterminacy has contributed to mark her as one of the major Nordic artists today.Inspired by an Ame

https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/tiril-hasselknippe-tranen - 2025-12-17

You are at the shop to buy food for the weekend. The shop’s security guard is keeping a close eye on you and you start to get nervous. He approaches you and you feel that you are starting to break out in a sweat. What the heck does he really want? This is not happening for real. It is just a situation in a virtual world, tailor-made for violent criminals to train them to control their aggression.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/captivating-vr - 2025-12-18

It is six times more expensive for society – and for you individually - if you travel by car instead of cycling. This has been shown in a Department of Service Management and Service Management study of Copenhagen, a city of cyclists. It is the first time a price has been put on car use as compared to cycling.  In the comparative study, Stefan Gössling from Lund University and Andy S. Choi from th

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/six-times-more-expensive-travel-car-bicycle-study - 2025-12-17

The potential of ecodesign:Increasing efficiency by requirement From a sustainability point of view, the EU Ecodesign Directive has been very successful in improving the environmental performance of products – but there is more work to do. IIIEE researcher Carl Dalhammar is currently searching for concrete suggestions as to how the Swedish Energy Agency can advance their governance for resource ef

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-carl-dalhammar - 2025-12-18

The Malayali historian, social critic, and feminist Devika J. from Centre for Development Studies (CDS) in Thiruvananthapuram, India, will spend one month at our department. The Department of Gender Studies and SASNET (Swedish South Asian Studies Network) will host during one month Dr. Jayakumari Devika from Centre for Development Studies (CDS) in Thiruvananthapuram, India. Devika did her Master o

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/guest-reseacher-dr-jayakumari-devika - 2025-12-17

Verina Gfader kommer främst att vara ansvarig för vårt nya masterprogram i fri konst med inriktning mot forskningsförberedande studier. Verina Gfader is an artist and researcher whose practice is orchestrated as organised fields of research aided by printed matter, drawing and animation, text performance and fabulations, and fictional institutions. The work is an interaction, a relation between t

https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/konsthogskolan-i-malmo-valkomnar-professor-verina-gfader - 2025-12-17

Vår nye doktorand Mikael Karlsson / Our new PhD Student Mikael Karlsson Genusvetenskapliga institutionen hälsar vår nye doktorand Mikael Karlsson välkommen. Mikael har en kandidatexamen i praktisk filosofi, där han diskuterade demokratiska styrelseformer på global nivå. Hans kandidatuppsats i genusvetenskap handlade om konstruktionen av kön och ledarskap bland burmesiska demokratiaktivister i exil

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/ny-doktorand-new-doctoral-student - 2025-12-17

Markus is currently enrolled on our one-year international Master's Programme in Information Systems. He majored in Cyber Security at The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. Having completed his first semester with us, we asked him a few questions about his experience so far. Why did you choose Lund?“Professionally, I chose Lund because of the University’s academic reputation and long history

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/msc-student-portrait-markus-richardson - 2025-12-18

Jan Magnusson at the School of Social Work at Lund University and Manish K Jha at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai have received a planning grant to establish a research program for the study of social work and climate change in the North-East region of India. The grant was awarded by SASNET. Although the School of Social Work in Lund has established a research base in the form o

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/planning-grant-study-social-work-and-climate-change-north-east-region-india - 2025-12-17