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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Engagement with alternative health theories and a scepticism towards authorities, politicians and pharmaceutical companies seem to unite the heterogeneous group of vaccine sceptics. “Many of them are not afraid of becoming infected with infectious diseases because they are convinced it will not happen”, says ethnologi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-vaccine-sceptics-think - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Research communication officer Evelina Lindén at the School of Economics and Management encouraged journalists to use their moral compass and be careful to give credit where it is due when interviewing researchers – in reference to a case in which SVT had assumed credit for a documentary. Here she points out what rese
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-deal-journalists - 2026-05-07
After a five-year pause, the Lund Stem Cell Center’s outreach initiative Taking Science to Schools – Borrow a Scientist has returned, once again bringing researchers face-to-face with students across southern Sweden. In March 2025, nine researchers from the Center visited more than 100 students at Malmö Latinskola, Filbornaskolan in Helsingborg, and Söderportgymnasiet in Kristianstad. The sessions
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/science-steps-outside-lab-borrow-scientist-returns-local-classrooms - 2026-05-05
Since 2020 Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir has been a PhD student at the Malmö Theatre Academy and is now defending her dissertation project: “How Little Is Enough? Sustainable Methods of Performance for Transformative Encounters.” Part of her PhD defence is the exposition at IAC during the Malmö Gallery Weekend (26 September to 3 October 2024).In her PhD project Steinunn has been exploring sustainable
https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/how-little-enough-meet-steinunn-knuts-onnudottir-get-possible-answers - 2026-05-07
Anna Lundberg has received funding for two projects investigating how and why public employees and trade unions respectively mobilise against the government's Informers Act. The law makes it mandatory for staff in certain public organisations to report undocumented migrants to the border police. In the "Human Rights Mobilization of Welfare Professionals Against the Informers Act – Arguments, Strat
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/anna-lundberg-leads-two-new-projects-studying-informer-act - 2026-05-05
This spring, several students from Malmö Academy of Music are participating in so-called ”short mobilities”. These are short international exchanges that usually last between a few days and two weeks. Here, four of them share insights from their intensive week at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. In the beginning of March, four students from Malmö Academy of Music, Karin Axelsson, David
https://www.mhm.lu.se/en/article/new-perspectives-and-experiences-during-short-mobility-vilnius - 2026-05-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Economist and researcher Andreas Bergh is closely involved in public debate. Few things make him really angry. One of them is stupidity. Like when the city of Malmö fails to create simple entry-level jobs because of unreasonable demands on people who want to start mobile food trucks. “That is how the sluggish Swedish
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/advocating-capitalist-welfare-state - 2026-05-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. ”Lund is a really great city and Lund University a fantastic place to be part of. We have met so many wonderful people from all over the world at our student housing”. These enthusiastic exclamations come from Shinjini Bhattacharjee and Rupsa Ghosh, two bright MPhil students in Geography from Delhi University (DU) who
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/indian-exchange-students-praises-lund-and-lund-university - 2026-05-05
In this interview, we reconnect with Anna Fedusiv, a 2016 graduate from the master’s programme in International Marketing and Brand Management. Anna shares her journey from working with global brands like LEGO and Schweppes to becoming a leadership and career coach. She reflects on her favourite parts of her LUSEM studies, lessons learned throughout her career and offers advice for aspiring profes
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/anna-fedusiv-alumna-msc-international-marketing-and-brand-management-2016 - 2026-05-06
Ethnologist Susanne Lundin’s research is ultimately about life and death and how people relate to the inevitable. What are people willing to do to delay the end briefly? Is there a limit beyond which someone ceases to be human? Susanne Lundin is a professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences and has conducted interdisciplinary research with medics for 30 years. Today, she is a sought-
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/her-research-concerns-our-deepest-fears - 2026-05-06
No 45, 17 September 2025 In this newsletter we advertise a wide variety of NAISS training events, scheduled for the autumn term. Since last time we have added an Introduction to Python on HPC systems.An overview on our events is available on the NAISS website.OverviewNAISS trainingOnline workshops: Mondays with Matlab, 23 SeptemberOnline training seminar: Introduction seminar for Alvis users, 1 O
https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter-0 - 2026-05-07
How do some planets end up extremely close to their host stars, despite appearing to have formed much farther away? A new international JWST study, led by the University of Southern Queensland in collaboration with MIT, seeks to answer this question. From Lund University, Judith Korth contributed key dynamical analysis. The study focuses on TOI‑1130b, a mini‑Neptune orbiting a star about 190 light
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/when-planets-migrate-lund-researcher-contributes-key-analysis-jwst-study - 2026-05-07
What is most surprising about the demonstrations in Iran, is how young the protesting girls are. So says Rola El-Husseini, researcher in political sociology and expert on women's movements in the Middle East. On Monday, she will participate in a panel discussion on Iran, organised by the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University. – Iran is rocked by major protests about every t
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/leadership-needed-protests-usher-change-iran - 2026-05-05
This year, the Swedish University Pitch Competition was held for the first time for students engaged in finance associations at Swedish universities. The Lund University Finance Society, LINC, both hosted the competition and won first prize with one of their participating teams. Hello Ture Eknor, President of LINC! Can you tell us about the Swedish University Pitch Competition?“It all started with
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/finance-society-linc-hosted-new-competition-won-first-prize - 2026-05-06
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What’s the point of having lots of higher education credits if you don’t use them to make the world a little better? Activism and academia go together, according to student Johannes Witkowsky-Bengtsson. Johannes Witkowsky-Bengtsson. “As a child, I dreamed of fighting side by side with the Apache indians”, Johannes lau
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/activism-and-academia-go-together - 2026-05-07
When using quizzes you might want to adjust the points to make them better match what the student deserve. Photo by Ben White on Unsplash Inflexibility Many of us are using the quiz function in Canvas, both for allowing students to practice and for exams. Canvas uses a rather inflexible way of automatically grading the answers in most cases – either the answers are completely correct or all wrong!
https://www.education.lu.se/artikel/using-quizzes-give-your-students-points-they-deserve - 2026-05-07
CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Noninvasive Monitoring of Subsurface Soil Conditions to Evaluate the Efficacy of Mole Drain in Heavy Clay Soils" together with Akram Aziz (Port Said University), Tamer Attia (Port Said University), Yasser Hamed (Port Said University) and Tarek Selim (Port Said University). The article is published in the journal Water. Soil degrada
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/subsurface-soil-drainage-egypt - 2026-05-05
Photo: You X Ventures by Unsplash Padlet can be thought of as an online bulletin board that can be used for communication, interaction, and collaboration. You can create posts with text, pictures, links, or video by clicking on the Padlet surface and writing. Different ways to use Padlet Another reason why Padlet has become so popular is that it is so simple to create surfaces that can be adapted
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/padlet-now-available-lu - 2026-05-07
Application deadline: 27 May 2024 Inter Arts Center (IAC) announces a Spatial Audio Workshop during autumn 2024 that will investigate spatial audio techniques to explore ways of leveraging the potential of spatial audio for creating immersive experiences and opening up new possibilities for listening.Spatial audio is currently experiencing a renaissance period through the rise of various extended
https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/new-call-iac-spatial-audio-workshop - 2026-05-07
SWEAH PhD student Ana Sabsil, Karolinska Institutet, is home again after one week’s research visit to the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, THL, in Helsinki, financed by SWEAH travel grant. During the visit, she worked on data analysis at the THL offices every day, that gave her the opportunity to meet many colleagues involved in the trial of the MET-FINGER study, Multidomain Lifestyle Int
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/ana-finland-perfect-opportunity-deepen-my-understanding-and-strengthen-collaborations - 2026-05-07
