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

Space contains staggeringly more than we can see or measure. The universe is estimated to consist of 5 per cent visible matter, 27 per cent dark matter and 68 per cent dark energy. Photo: ESA/Hubble & NASA, V. Antoniou Visible matter in the universe represents only five per cent of everything that exists. The rest is invisible dark matter and dark energy. Particle physicist Ruth Pöttgen is one of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/search-shadow-invisible - 2025-08-26

Märta Wallinius is motivated by seeing people succeed in their journey towards a life without crime. Photo: Ingemar Hultquist You are at the shop to buy food for the weekend. The shop’s security guard is keeping a close eye on you and you start to get nervous. He approaches you and you feel that you are starting to break out in a sweat. What the heck does he really want? This is not happening for

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/captivating-vr - 2025-08-26

The results from the autumn travel habits survey show that a majority of the University’s staff (approx. 80%) get to and from work by walking, cycling or using public transport. This is a higher percentage than for other large organisations in Lund. However, there is potential for even more people to commute sustainably by investments in public transport and measures to promote cycling on campus.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-staff-are-best-sustainable-commuting - 2025-08-26

Photo: Max Böhme When researchers are working in the field, they may be faced with challenging and sometimes dangerous situations. How does Lund University prepare its doctoral students and researchers for fieldwork? When LUM asks about the faculties’ procedures, it becomes clear that the departments are primarily responsible. Dealing with dangerous situations in the field once they have arisen is

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/safe-fieldwork-who-responsible-security - 2025-08-26

Rainwater is collected and purified with an existing technique but in a new way before it is used to flush a couple of toilets. Photo: Jenny Leyman It is not every day that the inauguration of a toilet draws a hundred spectators. Such a toilet would have to be pretty special – and this one is. It is special because it is flushed using rain water gathered from the roof of Kemicentrum. LUM was able

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rain-roof-restroom - 2025-08-26

Tolibjon Mustafoev, PhD candidate at Lund University For the last few decades, Uzbekistan has been a popular research destination for many scholars studying authoritarian regimes. Indeed, the first president of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, had been in power from the first days of independence in 1991 until September 2016. Karimov was known for his policies on closed economy, high bureaucracy, centra

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/uzbekistan-takes-steps-towards-establishing-welfare-state-and-eradicating-poverty-iron-feast-iron - 2025-08-25

Pollinering på natten är lika viktig som den som sker på dagtid, men har ofta underskattats. Bild: Franco Patrizia från Pixabay. I över 60 år har forskare försökt avgöra om växter pollineras mer på dagen eller natten – utan att nå någon tydlig slutsats. Nu visar en stor forskningsöversikt gjord vid Lunds universitet att nattens pollinatörer gör lika stor insats som dagaktiva arter i hela 90 procen

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/pollinering-i-morker-lika-viktig-som-i-dagsljus-ny-studie-utmanar-forskningsbias - 2025-08-25

Från vänster till höger på bilden: Blerim Emruli, Erik Påander, Jordina De Sousa, Iván Ortiz Del Noval & Alfriyadi Rafles. Photo: Carla Böhme. Studenter på Magisterprogrammet i informationssystem har möjlighet att få värdefulla certifikat i business analytics för att stärka sina CV. Det internationella Magisterprogrammet i informationssystem på Institutionen för informatik, Ekonomihögskolan vid Lu

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/studenter-utrustas-med-karriarframjande-certifikat - 2025-08-25

Foto: Carla Böhme Experter från olika områden inom universitetet samt ett antal gästforskare kommer inom Pufendorf-temat "DigiJustice: Digitala ojämlikheter och mänskliga rättigheter i den artificiella intelligensens tid" att demonstrera ett tvärvetenskapligt förhållningssätt till digital rättvisa och utformningen av en inkluderande framtid. Temat, som leds av Miranda Kajtazi, docent i informatik,

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/digijustice-en-tvarvetenskaplig-strategi-digital-rattvisa - 2025-08-25

Naturvetenskapliga fakultetens dekan Sven Lidin på den vildvuxna åkern som snart kommer att påbörja sin metamorfos till vetenskapsmeckat Science Village. En katalysator som kommer att modernisera naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, både i Brunnshög och på Sölvegatan. Dekan Sven Lidin må ha blivit ”närsynt, lönnfet och medelålders” under sina tio år i symbios med Science Village. Men hans framtidsvision

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/fakultetens-fard-mot-vetenskapsbyn-i-brunnshog - 2025-08-25

Pollinering på natten är lika viktig som den som sker på dagtid, men har ofta underskattats. Bild: Franco Patrizia från Pixabay. I över 60 år har forskare försökt avgöra om växter pollineras mer på dagen eller natten – utan att nå någon tydlig slutsats. Nu visar en stor forskningsöversikt gjord vid Lunds universitet att nattens pollinatörer gör lika stor insats som dagaktiva arter i hela 90 procen

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/pollinering-i-morker-lika-viktig-som-i-dagsljus-ny-studie-utmanar-forskningsbias - 2025-08-25

"Jag vill bjuda in alla att besöka oss på Campus Helsingborg i sommar. Vi har skapat en riktigt spännande forskningsfestival, ta chansen att ta del av den fantastiska bredd och kunskap våra forskare delar med sig av under den här veckan." Det säger Charlo Kan mode någonsin bli hållbart? Hur ställer vi om till miljösmart e-handel? Och vilken roll ska universiteten ha i framtidens samhälle? Det är n

https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/hallbara-stader-och-samhallen-i-fokus-pa-ny-forskningsfestival - 2025-08-25

En människa ärver gener från båda föräldrar och generna styr vilka egenskaper vi ska ha. Forskarna bakom en ny studie har studerat hur egenskaper som är viktiga för ämnesomsättningen förs vidare från mammor och pappor till barn. Foto: Kennet Ruona Forskning vid Lunds universitet visar att de biologiska föräldrarnas gener påverkar barnets insulinfunktion samt förmågor att reglera blodsockernivåer o

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ny-studie-foraldrars-metaboliska-egenskaper-kan-paverka-barnets-halsa-over-tid - 2025-08-26

Earning money on the book is not an incentive for either of them. Charlotta Turner intends to donate her share to Nadia Nurad’s initiative to rebuild the villages destroyed by ISIS. Former doctoral student Firas Jumaah and supervisor Charlotta Turner have had a special bond since 2014, when Jumaah and his family got caught up in the first ISIS lightning offensive in Iraq.  Employing far-reaching m

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-she-became-professor-hardcore - 2025-08-25

“What side effects can you get?"," What unnatural chemicals do they inject?" and "Is it unnecessary to get vaccinated?" are some questions that vaccine sceptics ask themselves, according to Mia-Marie Hammarlin. Photo: Anna Aatola Engagement with alternative health theories and a scepticism towards authorities, politicians and pharmaceutical companies seem to unite the heterogeneous group of vaccin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-vaccine-sceptics-think - 2025-08-25

A popular pick-your-own option for all sorts of cabbage began in 2020 at Norra Knästorp. At Christmas time, crowds of Lund residents were seen walking with swaying plumes of kale towards the city. Photo:Emma Sandberg Why does Lund University manage farms in Skåne? It’s a matter of tradition. From 1666 and for a long time afterwards the entire University was funded by the farms that dowager queen H

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/farms-valuable-heritage-university - 2025-08-25

Stephan Reber with two of the alligators he works with. Photo: Kennet Ruona “Toke is shy but does the most exploring of all of them, while Siggi is relaxed and friendly. But you have to know them to be able to work with them”, says cognitive scientist Stephan Reber. He is not talking about his colleagues but the alligators now on site in Ystad zoo, where the researchers have a specially adapted fa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/alligators-are-key-world-dinosaurs - 2025-08-25

The researchers could see an increase in the number of pregnancies and a relative number of 38% more babies born among women who received hormone therapy that matched their gene variation compared with those who did not. Photo: iStock Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have conducted a clinical study to show how a woman’s genetic profile provides information on which hormone treatment is mos

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/higher-success-rate-using-simple-oral-swab-test-ivf - 2025-08-25