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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Susanna Johansson, Senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, is one of the editors of a new book offering an interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of the Barnahus model. This edited collection explores the background and implementation of the Nordic Barnahus (or 'Children's House') model – recognised as

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/new-book-nordic-barnahus-model - 2026-06-29

SWEAH PhD student Christina Heller just had her Mid-way review: "Simulation models as a tool to compare housing policies for a population aging in place". Housing policies can be instrumental in addressing several major public health issues. - Thus, there is an urgent need to develop sustainable housing policies to accommodate the growing number of seniors in accessible home environments. In order

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/urgent-need-develop-sustainable-housing-policies-older-people-their-home-environments - 2026-06-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How do micro-plastics affect our soil? What's the impact of urbanization on biodiversity? And how can drones be used for measuring carbon fluxes from Swedish peatlands? These were a few of the questions raised at the initial PhD student spring meeting at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research (CEC). The fir

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-knowledge-makers-focus-environmental-and-climate-effects - 2026-06-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. OUTREACH: Professor Annica Kronsell gave a talk on Collaborative urban sustainability governance through experimentation, hosted by the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the Singapore Theatre, Basement Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne on Thursday 23rd March. From the poster:Innovations in u

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kronsell-talked-melbourne-about-more-sustainable-and-climate-resilient-cities - 2026-06-29

Message Passing is presently a widely deployed programming model in massively parallel high performance computing. Message Passing is suitable for programming a wide range of current computer architectures, ranging from multi-core desk top equipment to the fastest HPC systems in the world, offering several hundred thousand processing elements.This online course is at the beginners level and assume

https://www.lunarc.lu.se/article/introduction-parallel-programming-using-message-passing-mpi-16-17-23-and-24-september-2025 - 2026-06-29

EUGLOH stands for European University Alliance for Global Health and is a partnership between 9 European universities*. To further develop relations within the alliance, an annual summit is held each year. This year the meeting will be held at Lund University and takes place between 13-14 June. We welcome staff, students, and PhD candidates from Lund University to participate. The annual meeting i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eugloh-annual-summit-2023-held-lund-13-14-june - 2026-06-30

EU Days Lund is the main Swedish annual EU forum gathering around 500 Swedish and international high-level speakers and participants. Come and network at Sweden's largest annual European affairs forumEU Days Lund is the main Swedish annual EU forum gathering around 500 Swedish and international high-level speakers and participants.On 23–24 September 2025, EU Days Lund will be held for the fifth ti

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eu-days-lund-2025-23-24-september - 2026-06-30

The Sustainable Development Goal number 8, ‘Decent work and economic growth’, is based on the idea that decent employment opportunities create fair globalization and reduce poverty. But the goal is often seen as conflicting with other goals. How can economic growth be ensured while also ensuring a sustainable planet? Lund University (LU) is one of the top-ranking academic institutions in the world

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/workshop-12-september-decent-work-and-economic-growth-possibility-or-miss - 2026-06-30

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How can images show that the world we live in is being subjected to ongoing climate change? This is the research question being considered by Adam Brenthel, a doctoral student in art history. He has studied researchers’ attempts to translate their findings into images to better communicate them to the general public.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/polar-bear-hackneyed-image-climate-change - 2026-06-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Compared with other migratory birds, the common swift follows a very unusual pattern when it migrates from the breeding areas in Europe to its wintering locations south of the Sahara. This is what researchers have observed in a major eleven-year international study of the birds. “Our study is very significant for unde

https://www.science.lu.se/article/rare-pattern-observed-migrating-common-swifts - 2026-06-29

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/welcome-home-ellen - 2026-06-29

To create a more inclusive and safe work environment for everyone, the Department of Laboratory Medicine invites all faculty employees to a digital lecture on norms and lgbtqi issues on 21 November. Sign up in advance to ge access to the lecure. Those who do not follow the norm, depending on, for example, gender, sexuality or gender expression, may feel discriminated against and excluded. The lect

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/lgbtqi-conversations-about-inclusive-workplace - 2026-06-29

Researchers at Lund University and Washington University have identified a blood marker that reflects the amount of Alzheimer’s pathology in the brain. This discovery may play a key role in determining who is most likely to benefit from the new Alzheimer’s drugs. In brief:A newly discovered blood marker, MTBR-tau243, can reveal how much Alzheimer’s disease pathology is present in the brain. The hi

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-reliable-blood-marker-reveals-extent-alzheimers-pathology-brain - 2026-06-29

Earlier this fall, Milda Pucetaite was one of the 400 European researchers to receive an ERC Starting Grant for her project “Tracing single-cell scale chemical signalling between interacting soil fungi". As Milda is a member of BECC, we were curious to know a little bit more about her grant. The ERC Starting Grant is intended for early-career researchers and the only selection criterion is scienti

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/milda-pucetaite-receiving-erc-grant - 2026-06-29

The EU is now focusing efforts on innovation work – and it is also important for LU to pick up the pace! The question “How can a university sharpen up its innovation environment”, was on the agenda at the LERU meeting “Policy group enterprise and innovation” recently. Universities in Europe have started to position themselves more clearly in terms of the role the universities can, and perhaps simp

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/innovation-work-european-perspective - 2026-06-29

Our PhD course “Generic knowledge and skills – portfolio” is undergoing improvements, to be implemented February 1st. Olga Göransson, course leader, has led the changes: “The aim is to make the workflow and outcomes more logical and examination more uniform.” At the Faculty of Medicine, “the portfolio” is short for the mandatory PhD course “Generic knowledge and skills – portfolio”. Throughout the

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/simplified-portfolio-phd-students-say-hello-generic-knowledge-and-skills-20 - 2026-06-29

We follow up our systematic work environment management every year. This year’s follow-up paints an overall picture that I think is worth pausing to consider. I can see a positive shift in the way we discuss and address work environment issues. Many people have been involved in this development, and I would therefore like to take this opportunity to encourage everyone to take pride in this year’s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/when-systematic-mindset-becomes-part-everyday-life - 2026-06-30

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. - We discussed questions of how people are geographically affected, who is affected, and therefore who might support or resist a particular political arrangement, and what this means for forests as ecosystems, Emily Boyd, Director at LUCSUS, says. She recently took part in a BECC (Biodiversity and ecosystem services i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/governance-climate-change-and-biodiversity-loss-global-forestry-sector-emily-boyd-comments-workshop - 2026-06-29

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Towards an integrated system modeling of water scarcity with projected changes in climate and socioeconomic conditions" together with S. Dehghani (University of Tehran), A.R. Massah Bavani (University of Tehran), A. Roozbahani (University of Tehran) and A. Gohari (Isfahan University of Technology), published in Sustainable Producti

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/water-scarcity-modeling-iran - 2026-06-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In the past decade, knowledge of how lifestyle affects our genes, a research field called epigenetics, has grown exponentially. Researchers at the Lund University Diabetes Centre have summarised the state of scientific knowledge within epigenetics linked to obesity and type 2 diabetes in a review article published in

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/how-lifestyle-affects-our-genes - 2026-06-29