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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 - 2025-10-11

The TEDDY Study has increased our knowledge about what happens prior to the onset of autoimmune diabetes (type 1 diabetes) and has shown that a stomach infection can trigger coeliac disease. Lund University in Sweden has now received just over SEK 40 million from the American National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue the TEDDY Study for another five years. “We have large volumes of data to a

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/international-diabetes-study-receives-sek-40-million-continue - 2025-10-11

A newly started project is to produce a web solution to support potential students in the process of choosing courses and programmes. The decision to implement the project “A unified web experience for education” was taken at the Vice-Chancellor’s decision-making meeting on 30 November. The aim of the “a unified web experience for education” project is to create a modern service website that provi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-web-solution-will-focus-prospective-students - 2025-10-12

A few years ago, Maria Ekelin, programme director for our midwifery programme at the University of Texas, taught within the framework of STINT Teaching Sabbatical. "I'm passionate about educational issues and always have the University of Texas and how they did it in the back of my mind".A few years ago, Maria Ekelin, program director for our midwifery education, was in Austin, University of Texas

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/time-apply-teaching-sabbatical-among-most-fun-things-ive-done-teacher - 2025-10-12

The John Molson MBA International Case Competition is a prestigious business case competition with teams from around the world, the world’s largest of its kind. During six days in January, 30 teams of highly skilled MBA students, gather in Montreal, Canada. The competition follows a round-robin format (where each team meets every other team), featuring seven engaging business cases. Open to elite

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/how-proud-we-are-great-achievement-our-students-international-case-competition - 2025-10-11

Celebrate Culture Night with Lund University! Browse among all our activities for young and old, which extend from morning to late evening. Culture NIght Lund is a festival for the whole Lund Municipality, and Lund University is a part of the programme.Bring your family or friends and take a part of the events and activities that Lund University have to offer. For everybody and all ages. Some of t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-culture-night-saturday-20-september - 2025-10-12

Supraledare är en hörnsten i bland annat kvantdatorer och partikeldetektorer. Ett vanligt problem är dock att effektiviteten försämras av olika störningar. Nu har forskare vid bland annat naturvetenskapliga fakulteten genom högprecisionsmätningar kommit ett steg närmare en förklaring till vad det är som händer. Supraledning är beroende av närvaron av elektroner bundna i så kallade Cooper-par. Två

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/ogonblick-av-tystnad-visar-vagen-mot-battre-supraledare - 2025-10-11

Filantropi har i alla tider spelat en viktig roll för Lunds universitets finansiering. I dag förvaltar universitetet donationer som uppgår till drygt 4,5 miljarder kronor. En summa som förpliktigar. Klemens Ganslandt är donationschef vid LU och den som har styrelsens mandat att placera universitetets pengar. Att placera i hållbara fonder och aktier är centralt i arbetet på avdelningen Stiftelseför

https://www.lu.se/artikel/hallbart-ar-grundregel-nar-universitetets-miljarder-ska-placeras - 2025-10-12

Den stamcellsbaserade terapin för behandling av Parkinsons sjukdom, STEM-PD, har blivit godkänd av Läkemedelsverket för klinisk fas 1 och 2a-studie. Forskningen har sedan tidigare etiskt godkännande av Etikprövningsmyndigheten, och teamet som leds från Lunds universitet, är därmed redo att gå vidare med den kliniska prövningen. –Vi ser fram emot att den kliniska studien nu kan initieras och har fö

https://www.multipark.lu.se/sv/artikel/lakemedelsverket-godkanner-klinisk-fas-1-och-fas-2a-studie-ny-stamcellsbaserad-behandling-av - 2025-10-11

During May 16th 2024 Malmö Theatre Academy hosted a day-event that explored practices and histories of alternative pedagogies in relation to art, education and ecology. Tracing ideas of urban transformation, spaces of social participation and critical publics, the event seeks to explore how unlearning environments and daily practices of support, play and organising might offer fundamental experime

https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/pedagogies-symbiosis - 2025-10-11

Published 15 December 2021 Thesis: A Child-Centred Health Dialogue for the prevention of obesity: Feasibility and evaluation of a structured model for the promotion of a healthy lifestyle in preschool children and their families in the Swedish Child Health Services. Abstract Prevention of childhood obesity with its effects on children’s mental and physical health and wellbeing is an international

https://www.childfamilyhealth.lu.se/article/child-centred-health-dialogue-0 - 2024-06-25

The heads of the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC), the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES), and the Department of Geology have agreed on a proposed name for a joint department, contingent upon a co-organisation decision in September. Below is a background on how the departmental representatives, tasked with developing name proposals, have crafted the pre

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/name-suggestions-potential-joint-department - 2025-10-11

With the support of an EU grant of 1.9 million euros, Alzheimer's researcher Oskar Hansson will lead and coordinate a research collaboration between Sweden, Spain, France, Germany and Denmark. The goal is to create conditions for early and correct diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. This is to improve the treatment and care of the patients and reduce the societal costs that the disease causes. The i

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/large-eu-project-alzheimers-coordinated-lund-university - 2025-10-11

Early diagnosis is key to receiving proper care and advancing research on future therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and dementia with Lewy bodies. New research from Skåne University Hospital and Lund University shows that combining a simple smell test with advanced spinal fluid analysis can predict these diseases with high accuracy, while sparing nearly half of patients f

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/smell-test-cuts-need-invasive-parkinsons-screening - 2025-10-11

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researcher-torsten-krause-comments-world-leaders-pledge-end-deforestation-2030 - 2025-10-11

Gaming Disorder har introducerats som ny diagnos i WHOs senaste klassifikation av sjukdomar. Men det finns i dag otillräcklig kunskap om hur olika typer av dataspel bidrar till ett problematiskt spelande. Därför har forskare undersökt sambandet och resultaten presenteras en ny studie från Lunds universitet. För att uppfylla kriterierna för diagnosen Gaming Disorder (GD) ska en person ha ett okontr

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/spelmarknaden-kan-behova-regleras-att-skydda-unga - 2025-10-11

Gaming Disorder har introducerats som ny diagnos i WHOs senaste klassifikation av sjukdomar. Men det finns i dag otillräcklig kunskap om hur olika typer av dataspel bidrar till ett problematiskt spelande. Därför har forskare undersökt sambandet och resultaten presenteras en ny studie från Lunds universitet. För att uppfylla kriterierna för diagnosen Gaming Disorder (GD) ska en person ha ett okontr

https://www.lu.se/artikel/spelmarknaden-kan-behova-regleras-att-skydda-unga - 2025-10-12

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have launched a free app to help map the spread of infection in Sweden and increase knowledge of the coronavirus. “Data from the app will give us a clearer picture of the development of the disease and why some people only experience mild symptoms while others get seriously ill and die”, says Paul Franks, professor of genetic epidemiology. It takes approxim

https://www.covid19app.lu.se/artikel/covid-symptom-tracker-app-launched-sweden - 2025-10-11

Tycker (både du och) dina studenter att föreläsningarna blir för långa i onlineklassrummet? Nu kan äntligen alla anställda använda röstningsverktyget Mentimeter för att skapa ytterligare interaktivitet i undervisningen. Med Mentimeter kan du aktivera dina studenter i ett digitalt möte/eMöte i Zoom eller Teams såväl som i klassrummet. Som lärare (eller varför inte mötesledare?) skapar du exempelvis

https://www.education.lu.se/artikel/nu-kan-vi-rosta-med-mentimeter - 2025-10-11

Around 100 select astronomy books dating from 1545 to 1799 have been relocated from the Astronomy Library to the University Library. LUM was there as the books were packed away, and again, several months later, after they had been quarantined and it was time to catalogue, encapsulate and put them in storage. Next year, the rarest volumes will be digitalised and perhaps even be displayed. Outside A

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/star-studded-tomes-astronomy-library-move-new-home - 2025-10-12