Kristian Pietras, Emma Sparr och Hanna Isaksson. Photo: Kennet Ruona Where is the debate on the Strut inquiry's proposals and their consequences? That is the question being asked by the three researchers Kristian Pietras, Hanna Isaksson and Emma Sparr who are particularly worried by one of the proposals. – An increase in direct government funding at the cost of weakened research councils may mean

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researchers-call-debate-future-distribution-resourcesresearch-freedom-danger - 2025-09-07

Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin. Photo: Gisela Lindberg Everyone knows about source criticism, but researchers Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin want to emphasise source confidence. “There has been an intensive focus on the critical aspect. Pupils leave school with the attitude that you cannot trust anything, so source confidence is an important complement to source criticism. There must be confidence in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/they-strike-blow-source-confidence - 2025-09-07

Calle Rosengren does research on boundaries between working and private life. Photo:Jenny Loftrup Who are you – a separator or an integrator? Mobiles and laptops have created a working life where it is possible to work anytime and anywhere. In a major study, work environment researchers have identified how seven different personality types set boundaries – or not – between work and free time. "Eve

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/who-are-you-work - 2025-09-07

Photo:Kennet Ruona It weighs 1 265 kilograms, is nearly 70 years old and gave rise to MAX IV. After collecting dust in a museum warehouse, the University's first electron accelerator is now on show at the Faculty of Engineering. Behind the exhibition 'UrMAX – Light from Lund' are a group of enthusiasts who wish to preserve the historically interesting research equipment.  The snowflakes whirled ab

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/urmax-has-come-home - 2025-09-07

Albert Eriksson and his patient Ronny Karlsson. Photo:Kennet Ruona Despite the early morning, the pool is full of patients exercising in the warm water. There are laminated exercise programmes by the side of the pool depicting different exercises. Ronny Karlsson has been in the hospital for a week. A couple of months ago he was bitten by a tick and contracted TBE. He now has problems with motor fu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/perceptive-training-best-way-forward - 2025-09-07

Head of planning, Tim Ekberg, is amazed with the swift digitisation at LU. Photo:Britta Collberg The coronavirus pandemic has not put Lund University in any financial difficulty. There is money in the University's coffers, assures the head of planning Tim Ekberg. The agency capital currently amounts to SEK 1.7 billion. "It is money that could be useful to support affected areas of activity", he co

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/no-threat-lund-universitys-finances-thanks-agency-capital - 2025-09-07

"I never would have left Syria if it were not for the war. I had it all. I was teaching a couple of hours per week, working on my research and I had a beautiful farm with space for the whole family", Moheiddin Homeidi says. Four months ago, Professor Moheiddin Homeidi came to Lund from Syria as the first researcher the University has received through the network Scholars at Risk. Despite the start

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/syrian-linguist-given-sanctuary-lu - 2025-09-07

“What the whole University has done is amazing. How much we can achieve when we gather our strengths and collaborate. Everyone worked towards the same goal – to make it work – and we succeeded!” Photo: Kennet Ruona Getting important information out fast to the right target group has been a challenge for the crisis management group, which has now entered a calmer phase after an intensive spring. “N

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-successful-quick-digital-restart - 2025-09-07

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 - 2025-09-07

 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 - 2025-09-07

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 - 2025-09-07

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 - 2025-09-07

“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 - 2025-09-08

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 - 2025-09-07

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 - 2025-09-07

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 - 2025-09-07

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 - 2025-09-07

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 - 2025-09-07

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 - 2025-09-07

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 - 2025-09-07