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“Education and knowledge are the way to change society for the better. I want to make a difference and help to give young people the same fantastic opportunities I had”, says alumna Monica Getz Silfverschöld, a new board member for the Lund University Foundation (LUF). LUF is an independent foundation that aims to strengthen Lund University’s ties with the USA and American alumni. Monica Getz Silf

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dedicated-alumna-launched-minnesota-model-sweden - 2025-12-19

Här finns forskare som kan kommentera olika aspekter av kriget i Ukraina, situationen i Ryssland, det säkerhetspolitiska läget i Europa och Östeuropas historia. Uppdaterad 22 februari 2023Listan riktar sig till media som vill få kommentarer kring läget i Ukrainakrisen och även få en djupare bild av bakgrund, politik, historia och andra aktuella frågor kring länder som Ryssland och andra omkringlig

https://www.lu.se/artikel/expertlista-kriget-i-ukraina-ryssland-och-sakerhetspolitik - 2025-12-20

Meet Jonas Hafström, a lawyer with a background in the diplomatic service, including as Swedish ambassador to the USA. For the past year he has led government trade delegations around the world and helped to coach Swedish embassy staff in countries with strong economic growth. Jonas Hafström. Foto: Pawel Flato Welcome to Lund University as the new chair of the University Board. “Thank you.” You ha

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/welcome-jonas-hafstrom-new-chair-university-board - 2025-12-19

Can innovation strengthen research? Former NanoLund director Heiner Linke, professor of nanophysics and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, achieved this by combining research and innovation. His own attitude towards utilisation and innovation has evolved from a sense of duty to passion: “Now I think it’s genuinely exciting.” Do you see increasing integration of innovation within rese

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-both-worlds-heiner-linke-why-swedish-researchers-should-invest-innovation - 2025-12-20

Som styrelseordförande i Crafoordska stiftelsen har Ebba Fischer bland annat medverkat till inrättandet av en professur i ämnet mänskliga rättigheter och stöttat flera initiativ med inriktning på konst, musik och historia. 2014 utnämndes hon till hedersdoktor vid Lunds universitets humanistiska fakultet. Som en av grundarna av Lunds universitets stipendiestiftelse (LUSS) får hon möjlighet att hjäl

https://www.lu.se/artikel/filantrop-med-oga-studenternas-basta - 2025-12-19

What are your thoughts on death? How would you like to spend your last days? These kinds of existential questions are explored at so-called death cafés - gatherings that Jamie Woodworth began organising before she was 25, as a way of dealing with her anxiety about climate change. Now she has been awarded an honourable mention for her doctoral thesis on end-of-life care in the Swedish welfare state

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/when-care-becomes-luxury-jamie-woodworth-end-life-care-swedish-welfare-state - 2025-12-19

We are thrilled to announce the Department's Spring 2025 Seminar Series, featuring an exciting lineup of speakers from across the globe. The seminars will take place every Thursday at 13:15 in the Blue Hall in the Ecology Building. After the talks, there will be time for fika and mingling.Here is the complete schedule for spring 2025:All links, except the one to BLAM, lead to personal web pages on

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/spring-2025-seminar-series-announced - 2025-12-19

Increasing digitalisation and computerisation can lead to socio-legal governance problems and a dominating artificial intelligence. The Research Handbook on the Sociology of Law is here. Thirty-five authors have contributed to the book’s 30 chapters, covering historical, theoretical and methodological aspects of the socio-legal field. One of them is the Sociology of Law Department’s Professor Emer

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/we-need-sociology-algorithms - 2025-12-19

A new three-year term of office has begun for the University’s eight deans. Five are new in the role, while three have been around for some time. LUM has put a few questions to each of them. Annika Olsson, Faculty of Engineering (LTH), second term of office What’s the first thing you will be working on as dean? “Since I’m starting my second term as dean, LTH will continue with what we started duri

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-term-deans - 2025-12-20

Our researcher is part of the Swedish Olympic Committee’s development programme “Tomorrow’s Sports Researchers” and her research on para-athletes’ health and wellbeing aims to ensure that people with physical disabilities can play sports safely. Presently she is in China to provide support for the Swedish Paralympians at the Winter Paralympics. In terms of performance, it is Sweden’s best Winter P

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researcher-supporting-our-athletes-most-successful-paralympic-winter-games-long-time - 2025-12-19

Making independent decisions about your body and your life is a big part of being a human being in Sweden today. Part of this is taking care of your sexual health and choosing whether and when to have children. In heterosexual relationships, this is a task that often falls on the person who can get pregnant. The ideal, according to new research, is different and involves an equal distribution of c

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/share-unshareable-strong-equality-ideal-young-peoples-contraceptive-work - 2025-12-19

Foto:Mostphotos Are people generally trustworthy? Yes, say about two out of three Swedes. Nordic countries are ranked high in what we call interpersonal trust. In other countries, trust is not as obvious. What happens when these perspectives meet? Economist Andreas Bergh has studied the phenomenon more closely. In Sweden, we have access to healthcare and education regardless of what our parents ea

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/trust-good-economy - 2025-12-19

Joint seminar - discussion. Welcome to the seminar in collaboration between the Center of Ageing and Supportive Environments, Urban Arena and Lund University Proactive Ageing Profile Area. The event is planned as part of MIRAI 2.0 seed-funding to develop collaborations between Japan and Sweden on living environments and health in ageing societies in times of crises.  The aim of the current seminar

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/living-environments-and-health-ageing-societies-times-crises - 2025-12-19

Ingegerd Wirehed has been appointed to the newly established position of information security coordinator at the University. The position is based at LDC, LU’s central unit for IT services. However, Ingegerd explains that information security it not purely an IT issue, but rather a strategic area for the entire organisation in which information owners and others need to obtain support and assistan

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ingegerd-wirehed-first-information-security-coordinator - 2025-12-19

The Financial Times (FT), a reputable financial newspaper, revealed its most recent ranking results on 4 December, highlighting the results of the FT European Business School Rankings 2023. Notably, Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) has demonstrated impressive advancement, securing an ascent of 8 positions in this esteemed ranking. Secured the 70th positionIn the most rece

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/yes-lusem-climbs-again-ft-european-business-schools-ranking-2023 - 2025-12-19

Dedicated, pedagogical and popular - that's how two of the Department of Physics' teachers are described by the students themselves. Andreas Ehn and Kristina Eriksson Stenström have both been awarded Teacher of the Year by their respective student sections at the Faculty of Engineering, LTH. Andreas Ehn - Teacher of the Year 2024/2025, I-sectionAndreas Ehn, senior lecturer and researcher at the Di

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/they-are-honoured-their-outstanding-teaching - 2025-12-19

This autumn, Dean, Deputy Dean and members of the board of the Faculty of Medicine will be elected. The Nomination Committee has worked hard during the spring and is now ready to share their proposal. They are convinced that all candidates will contribute with commitment, knowledge and competence if elected. Eva Ekvall Hansson, Chair of the Nomination Committee, talks about the process. How has th

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/candidates-dean-deputy-dean-and-faculty-board-mfs - 2025-12-20

Students from our international master’s programme and acting programme year 1 and 2 will participate in this years edition of Malmö Community Biennal. The Malmö Community Biennal return for its third time to shine a light on creative projects, productions and ideas that are being generated by and with local communities – challenging the division between ‘professional’ and ‘non-professional.’ Make

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/our-students-participate-malmo-community-biennal-2023 - 2025-12-19

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/modelling-survival-bumblebees - 2025-12-19

Här är en lista över forskare från Lunds universitet som kan svara på många olika slags frågor som kan bli aktuella under de stundande helgerna, från A till Ö. God jul! önskar Lunds universitet AAdvent, jul och trettondag: historia, teologi och praktikStephan Borgehammar, professor i praktisk teologi, kan svara på frågor om uppkomsten och innebörden av det kristna jul- och trettondagsfirandet, adv

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-julexperter-2016 - 2025-12-20