Oskar Hansson and Sara Linse collaborate across faculties and their research has recently localised a drug that could potentially slow the progress of Alzheimer’s and be made available to the market next year. Photo: Johan Joelsson She is a chemist. He is a medic. Together they are behind some of the major breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research in recent times. Sara Linse and Oskar Hansson

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/top-duo-want-solve-mystery-alzheimers - 2025-08-25

 To achieve the University’s emissions targets, students and employees must for example, reduce how much CO2 they produce when commuting . Cycling is one alternative. Photo: Kennet Ruona By 2023 the University is to have reduced its CO2 emissions by half, according to the new sustainability plan. Things look promising right now due to Covid-19 – there will be a radical reduction this year as air t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lus-new-plan-co2-emissions-be-halved-2023 - 2025-08-25

LU has fine laboratories with advanced equipment. But one RQ20 panel wonders how these are to be used and by whom? PHOTO: Kennet Ruona Recruitment is an area on which the University needs to continue working. "We can certainly become even better in this area", says Freddy Ståhlberg, one of the project managers in the RQ20 research evaluation. The reports from the transverse panels were completed b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-evaluation-rq20-calls-better-international-recruitment - 2025-08-25

Torna Hällestad. Researchers have placed 170 owl nesting boxes included in their multiyear project aiming to find out as much as possible about how tawny owls are affected by living in proximity to humans. Photo: Kennet Ruona The owlet, little over three weeks old, squints slightly as Hannah Watson lays it on its back in a plastic container that once held vanilla ice cream. It seems quite happy th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tracking-owls-send-sms-their-nests - 2025-08-25

Charlotte Leire and Kes McCormick are responsible for the MOOCs produced at IIIEE. Photo: Jan Olsson The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, IIIEE, is taking the lead on open, month-long online courses, known as MOOCs. The investment in MOOCs has been quite a success. In recent years, every sixth student has stated that the online courses influenced them to apply for on

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/moocs-more-popular-during-pandemic - 2025-08-25

“High-income countries, such as the United States, have sharply reduced their use but the gas still accounts for more than 60% of their climate emissions from anaesthetic gases", says Talbot. Photo: iStock Gases used in anaesthesia are potent greenhouse gases, and their total global impact has not previously been known. A study published in The Lancet Planetary Health led by Lund University shows

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/reduced-climate-impact-anaesthetic-gases-worrying-trend-middle-income-countries - 2025-08-25

The synthesis report concludes that climate change is accelerating and its impacts are becoming more pronounced. (Photo: Daniel Páscoa/Unsplash) The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a synthesis report summarizing the reports of recent years. Markku Rummukainen, Sweden's contact person for the IPCC and also Professor of Climatology at the Center for Environmental a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-climate-report-near-term-action-crucial - 2025-08-25

Photo: Carla Böhme Bringing together experts from diverse fields across the university along with a number of guest researchers, the Pufendorf theme "DigiJustice: Rethinking Digital Inequalities and Human Rights in the Age of AI" will showcase an interdisciplinary approach to digital justice and shaping an inclusive future. Co-led by Miranda Kajtazi, Associate professor in informatics, and Lena Ha

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/digijustice-interdisciplinary-approach-digital-equality - 2025-08-25

The inscriptions in Karnak in Egypt are approximately 3 500 years old. Photo: Artdi/MostPhotos What would it take for people living 100 000 years from now to be able to understand a message from people living today? Language historian and exegete Ola Wikander has, on behalf of the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), outlined some of the linguistic challenges. The question of h

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/search-language-eternity - 2025-08-25

Can fashion ever become sustainable? How do we transition to environmentally smart e-commerce? What role will universities play in future society? These are some of the subjects to be discussed during the research festival Our Future City on 7-10 June at Campus Helsingborg. The event is organised in collaboration with the daily newspapers Helsingborgs Dagblad. Our Future City can most simply be de

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainable-cities-and-communities-focus-research-festival-our-future-cityh22-7-10-june - 2025-08-25

Linnea Mörth, Eva Åkesson och Carina Jarl studying some responses about the establishment in Science Village. Photo: Maria Lindh There is widespread agreement among the physicists and chemists for their establishment in Science Village to take place simultaneously and as soon as possible. There are also proposals for how the two departments could work together. Leif Bülow, head of the Department o

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chance-lifetime - 2025-08-25

Yulia Vakulenko outside Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre in Lund. Photo: Jan Olsson Yulia Vakulenko grew up in a small Russian town north of the Arctic Circle, today she works at Lund University. When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, her world was turned upside down. The first thing Yulia Vakulenko says when she meets me on the staircase of her workplace at the Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre, IKDC

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/yulia-russia-helps-refugees-ukraine - 2025-08-25

Jonas Borell. What happens if there is a power cut and the heating stops working for a long period of time? Besides the obvious consequences – that technology doesn’t work and it gets cold – how do we, as a society, prepare for such a crisis? Do we know who is supposed to do what when it happens? And who gets to decide on the crisis plans? There are many different unexpected and sudden events that

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/everyone-must-be-included-crisis-planning - 2025-08-25

It is time to summarise 2021, a year in which nothing was the same as before, if a year can ever be like another. For me personally, it has been transformative to take over as vice-chancellor of Lund University together with a new management team: deputy vice-chancellor Lena Eskilsson and the five pro vice-chancellors Per Mickwitz, Kristina Eneroth, Ann-Kristin Wallengren, Jimmie Kristensson and V

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/time-ring-out-old-year-and-ring-new - 2025-08-25

Most children are angry sometimes. But to often might be dangerous. Foto: Cresta Johnson/Shutterstock We all remember the disruptive boys in the class. The ones who shoplifted, got into playground fights and started smoking early. Some of these boys were quite simply displaying normal defiance and are now living a good and stable life as adults. But for a few of them, these were warning signs of r

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/early-signs-ending-life-crime - 2025-08-25

Olivia Ingvarsson is skating with one of the girls in the project "Girl to girl": Photo: Kennet Ruona Wobbling and laughing, a few of the girls glide over the ice. They are holding hands in a chain. If one falls, they all go down. They are thirteen recently arrived girls and five volunteers in the Save the Children project, Girl to Girl, who are meeting on a Sunday at the ice rink in Lund. One of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/students-dont-need-pack-their-bags-gain-international-qualifications - 2025-08-25

Linnea Wegerstad chose to return to academia. Photo: Kennet Ruona “True crime” has exploded in popularity and crime and punishment dominates the headlines. Linnea Wegerstad, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, opposes the tendency to label people who have committed crimes as monsters. Linnea Wegerstad researches sexual offences and has a background as a judge in training. She was about halfway

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mind-legal-scholar - 2025-08-25

A few examples of commentaries on Facebook that Linnea Jensdotter has studied. Sociologist of religion Linnea Jensdotter conducts research on the role of religion in politics. She has analysed 20,000 Facebook comments on articles from Sweden’s biggest news sites. Her analysis shows that religion is becoming more politicised. Some comments point to religion to assert “Swedish values”. Others displa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/religion-politicised-social-media - 2025-08-25

Bangers and mash. Not for every kid. Photo: Picasa/Mostphotos A heated discussion under the hashtag Swedengate erupted on social media last spring. Swedes were accused of being strange as they did not invite their children’s friends to eat with them when the family was having dinner. The phenomenon was upsetting and ethnologist Håkan Jönsson was quickly inundated with questions. Are Swedes stingy?

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/swedengate-disrespect-or-being-stingy - 2025-08-25

Ingvar Kamprad Design Center, IKDC. Photo: Kennet Ruona A meeting at the kitchen table, with lots of coffee and snus. And a donation of SEK 250 million. That’s what happened when Ingvar Kamprad met LTH’s dean in 1998 to talk about the future of industrial design education at the University. The kitchen table belonged to the then dean of LTH Thomas Johannesson, who had invited the founder of IKEA t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ingvar-kamprad-design-center-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary - 2025-08-25