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Continuity in healthcare can improve health outcomes of patients by ensuring that patient-specific information is not lost in translation between providers, and by improving the appropriate follow-up care. Yet, little is known about how patients cope with the sudden and permanent loss of a main provider in healthcare, such as a primary care practice. The findings in a new PhD thesis from Lund Univ

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/closures-primary-care-practices-lead-reduction-doctor-visits - 2025-12-14

Children in preschool and primary school will now be able to learn more about insects, birds, flowers and plants, how valuable they are and how we humans can protect nature. The collaborative project ‘Natural Nations’ is introducing biodiversity in the curriculum. In the past, knowledge of species and the natural world was part of general knowledge and was passed down through generations. Today, t

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/children-and-biologists-research-biodiversity-together - 2025-12-13

When LINXS moved from its old premises at Ideon to The Loop in Science Village in March, the institute became the first research environment from Lund University to make the move to Brunnshög. Since then, activities have more than doubled, new collaborations have emerged, and the team’s mood is distinctly optimistic.I met with Anna Ntinidou, Head of Administration, Noomi Egan, Communications Offic

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/home-linxs-pioneer-paving-way-science-village - 2025-12-13

Agriculture is critical to achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals. New research from Lund University shows that researchers, policymakers, and farmers in Europe currently have different, often conflicting priorities for sustainable agriculture. The researchers propose a way forward built on shared priorities. – We identified precisely where the major gaps between research, policy, and

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/identifying-common-ground-sustainable-agriculture-europe - 2025-12-14

Rich in animals and plants, a refuge to calm anxiety, and a source of new energy. A place for recreation and cultivation. This is how residents of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favela describe their natural surroundings in interviews. It is a narrative seldom brought to the fore, and one that stands in stark contrast to the common description of favelas as hectic and dangerous places. With their new st

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-study-reveals-diverse-relations-nature-rios-favelas - 2025-12-13

During the pandemic, the free COVID Symptom Study app has helped researchers understand the complexity and spread of the corona virus better. “The study has exceeded our expectations since its launch in Sweden in April 2020. Participants from all over Sweden got involved and many of them have spent one minute every day answering questions about their health”, says Maria Gomez, Professor of physiol

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/study-tracks-spread-covid-19-sweden - 2025-12-13

Donald Trump aims to introduce sharply increased tariffs and an extensive deportation policy, while Kamala Harris is focused on domestic issues like stabilizing inflation and strengthening the middle class. What will happen to the U.S. and global economy when one of them becomes president? Maria Persson, Associate Professor in Economics, takes a closer look at the next U.S. president from an econo

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/harris-and-trump-economy-and-election - 2025-12-14

The Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions (GUST) research project is soon coming to an end. It has explored the concept of Urban Living Labs, and has involved four research organisations and cities in Sweden, the UK, Austria and the Netherlands. One outcome from the project will be a handbook full of ideas for the transition to more sustainable cities to be used as an inspiration for urba

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/collaborative-research-speed-sustainable-transition-cities - 2025-12-14

No 43, 21 June 2025 The NAISS training team hopes you had a good summer break and feel refreshed for the autumn term.In this newsletter we advertise a wide variety of NAISS training events, scheduled for the beginning of the autumn term.An overview on our events is available on the NAISS website:OverviewNAISS trainingOn-site workshop: "Awk Workshop", Uppsala, 28-29 August, 2025Online training semi

https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter - 2025-12-13

This Regional Outlook focuses on the role of satellite imagery in shaping our understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the physical damage it has caused the landscape.  On 7 October 2023, Hamas carried out a large scale attack against Israel, causing over 1 000 fatalities, taking more than 200 hostages and firing thousands of rockets into Israeli territory. At the time of writing, Isr

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-monitoring-israels-destruction-gaza-space - 2025-12-13

He was selling carpets on Mårtenstorget in Lund, applying for all kinds of jobs and answered an advert from the Department of Clinical Immunology, Lund University, for a lab technician job. He didn´t get the job. Instead he was asked if he wanted to start a Ph.D. A few weeks ago immunology professor William Agace was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He invited me to his c

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/carpets-market-academy-professor - 2025-12-13

Just before Christmas, his department lost out on a top international researcher, an investment worth over SEK 100 million. A month later, his group reported a major breakthrough in pheromone research. Professor Christer Löfstedt, head of the Department of Biology, one of the largest departments at Lund University, features in the first of a series of articles on day-to-day academic leadership – a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rollercoaster-life-head-department - 2025-12-13

“Behind every successful man there is a woman”, according to an old saying. So what about successful women? And what about couples where both are successful – how do they manage family life? LUM met Olle Melander and Marju Orho-Melander, who are among the Lund University researchers to have been awarded most prizes and grants in the field of medicine. Olle Melander and Marju Orho-Melander. The cou

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/planning-key-success-researcher-couple - 2025-12-13

Nordic and Andean countries started their economic modernisation in the same way: with export of raw natural resources. Later on, Norway and Sweden became rich, while Bolivia, Chile and Peru followed a quite different path. What made them diverge from the common road? Different fiscal policies may be one of the reasons, new research from Lund University suggests. In the mid-19th century, Norway ex

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/resource-curse-new-light-research-findings-fiscal-policy-andean-and-nordic-countries - 2025-12-14

An examination of the travel policy in Malmö municipality, flood management solutions in local neighborhoods, lobbying and regulation in Denmark, and biodiversity policies for universities. These were some of 2018 Knowledge to Action Projects – the course where LUMES students get to apply their knowledge to real world problems. Chad Boda and David O’Byrne, teachers at LUMES, say that for many stud

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/knowledge-action-projects-2018-travel-policies-overfishing-flood-management-and-biodiversity-loss - 2025-12-13

LONGREAD. He treats tremor with sound waves, is preparing to help paralyzed patients control a cursor with their thoughts and envisions a future where brain and machines talk to each other in both directions. Neurosurgeon and researcher Andres Lozano is pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the human brain – and doing it with both precision and imagination. “We are trying to discover the b

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/fine-tuning-neural-circuits-heal-brain-segerfalk-lecturer-andres-lozano-next-gen-neurosurgery - 2025-12-13

A sun drenched day in the allies of Västra Hamnen. A whirlwind of black and white tails, snouts and barks are on duty at the townhouse door. Dog dad, Professor of Immunology Tomas Leanderson, hushes, admonishes, welcomes into the kitchen table and coffee. In a few days, this rare specimen of the old kind of professor at the Faculty of Medicine will be a free man, after a life-long love affair with

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/one-last-ones-out-old-school-professors - 2025-12-13

Chair: Ulrika Andersson, Lund University, Anna Lindberg, Lund University, Nishi Mitra vom Berg, TISS VENUE: Tornrummet, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, Lund Session 1: Femininity, Concepts and NotionsSeptember 20, 2016 Time: 14.30-16.30 Paper presenters: Soibam Haripriya, Rachna Chaudhary, EM Varughese, Sheba Saeed Session 2: Contesting Practices and NegotiationsSeptember 21, 2016 Time: 1

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-7-women-and-gender-south-asian-modernity-vulnerabilities-and-violence - 2025-12-13

Chairs: Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Alf Gunvald Nielsen and Anand Vaidya  TWO sessions:1. Wednesday 21 Sept, 10.00–12.004. Thursday 22 Sept, 09.00-11.00VENUE: Ombudsmannarummet, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, LundABSTRACTS: The Subaltern as a Political Voyeur? The landscape of shifting political allegiances in an Indian slum – An Ethnographic AccountTripta ChandolaConsider these political predic

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-2-mapping-subaltern-modernities-neoliberal-india - 2025-12-13

This spring students in the Critical & Pedagogical Studies Programme at Malmö Art Academy will present their exam projects towards the completion of a Master of Fine Arts degree. The exam projects will lead to several weeks of diverse activities which will discuss and reflect different critical and pedagogical aspects from the perspective of the artist. Activities will be conducted as a workshop,

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/critical-and-pedagogical-studies-exam-projects-2017 - 2025-12-13