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A desire to be able to freely carry out research and the chance to provide her daughter with a good education led Pinar Dinc to leave Turkey. It is a journey that is not over yet. However, with another prestigious research grant from Formas she feels secure in Lund for the next three years. “I would be able to begin research on anything at all in Turkey, however, if I were to present results tha
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-found-sanctuary-lund - 2025-10-05
It is halftime for Vice-chancellor Erik Renström and his team. Three years of his term of office have passed, and three remain. Here in LUM, he sums up the first-half performance, looks ahead and explains how he approaches a job in which everyone wants a bit of his time. Word is that he is always on time to meetings, but almost never arrives early. Heading up the stairs to his office on the second
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/halftime-vice-chancellor-erik-renstrom - 2025-10-06
Vad är det som gör att vissa får typ 1-diabetes medan andra inte får sjukdomen? Forskare runtom i världen söker gemensamt efter ett svar på den svårlösta frågan. Diabetesforskare vid Lunds universitet bidrog nyligen med data till en studie som visar att sjukdomen utvecklar sig på tre olika sätt hos barn. Den ökade kunskapen gör det möjligt att genomföra nya typer studier som går ut på att förebygg
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/barnens-blodprover-okar-kunskapen-om-utvecklingen-av-typ-1-diabetes - 2025-10-05
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 - 2025-10-05
Why do some people develop type 1 diabetes and others do not? Worldwide, researchers are now collaborating to find the answer to this complex question. Diabetes researchers at Lund University recently contributed data to a new study that shows that type 1 diabetes develops in three different ways in children. This improved understanding makes it possible for scientists to conduct new types of stud
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/blood-testing-children-leads-better-understanding-type-1-diabetes - 2025-10-05
Farshid Jalalvand has a PhD in infection biology and vaccine development, and he has appeared frequently in the media during the debate on the Covid-19 vaccine. “When you work, as I do, with vaccines and you understand how they work, it feels important to try to explain it so that people can take decisions based on solid evidence”, he says. A lot of the criticism against vaccines occurs on social
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-everyones-responsibility-get-vaccinated - 2025-10-05
Three members share their take-aways from getting involved in an organization committed to bringing forward the voice of young researchers and teachers at the Faculty. Register for the anniversary on May 2, no later than April 20. Anders Rasmussen, 40, Associate Professor in Neuroscience & PI, Future Faculty Chair:How, when and why did you get involved in Future Faculty?"I went to a retreat in Yst
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/celebrating-20-years-future-faculty-has-taught-me-how-navigate-academia - 2025-10-05
What surprises a course participant from Africa on a short visit in Lund and to LUSEM? And what made the strongest impressions? Takes to bring back? And what about the group dynamic with new acquaintances from many different parts of the same continent? We are really curious about what happened during the fourth round of the course Innovation, Transformation and Resilience for Sustainable Developm
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/what-we-learned-and-will-take-home - 2025-10-06
Dick Harrison is 57 years old and has written 105 books. He lectures all over the country, is a regular expert on TV and radio, runs a podcast, and writes articles for magazines and two columns a week in one of Sweden’s largest newspapers. “Teaching is my calling, though, the thing closest to my identity.” It’s winter and muddy on the drive in front of the Harrisons’ Art Nouveau villa in Åkarp. On
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dick-harrison-brand - 2025-10-06
Den 31 oktober samlas representanter från världens alla hörn i Glasgow för att delta i FN:s stora klimattoppmöte COP26 som ska pågå i två veckor. Förväntningarna är skyhöga efter fjolårets inställda konferens och den alarmerande rapport som FN:s klimatpanel IPCC släppte i augusti. Men vad kan vi egentligen förvänta oss av mötet? Vad står på spel och vad har utkomsten för betydelse? Fem Lundaforska
https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/klimattoppmotet-i-glasgow-vad-handlar-det-om-och-vad-spelar-det-roll - 2025-10-05
Rektor beslutade 2022 om fem forskningsområden som ska vara universitetets profilområden fram till 2030. Förhoppningen då var att regeringen snabbt skulle sjösätta planerna på att profilera landets lärosäten och skjuta till mångmiljonbelopp. Men regeringsskiftet hösten 2022 innebar istället utredning och analys och fortfarande är det oklart om den nationella satsningen blir verklighet. LUM har tag
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/profilomraden-fast-i-limbo - 2025-10-06
She has survived a brain tumour and hates empty phrases such as “seize the day” and “live in the present”. Despite this, after the tumour operation Ulrika Sandén both researched and wrote a book on what she calls “Contentment in the moment”, an approach to life that she assimilated during her years in Vesterålen in northern Norway. “The present can be terrible. It’s more a matter of affecting the
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/contentment-moment-makes-life-more-enjoyable - 2025-10-05
Selma Maric is a woman who is not afraid of departures and she has not followed the classic path into the research world. “I have never shied away from ending things if something else shows up. I only have one life and I have to do what is most interesting and exciting.” Her worldview may have been affected by her flight from former Yugoslavia, says the synchrotron and neutron researcher, who chan
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/refugee-experience-coloured-researchers-worldview - 2025-10-05
On October 31st, representatives from across the globe will gather in Glasgow for two weeks to attend the UN climate change conference COP26. Expectations are high following last year's cancelled conference, and the IPCC report released in August. What can we expect from the meeting? Five Lund researchers give answers. How far do countries' climate ambitions go? As part of the Paris Agreement in 2
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/glasgow-climate-summit-what-it-about-and-why-does-it-matter - 2025-10-05
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 - 2025-10-06
Increased collaboration within the faculties and a general revitalisation. This is already a clear result from the RQ20 research evaluation that was presented in March. “We have caught sight of each other” was a frequent comment heard in a round of telephone calls to the deans and research managers. Most of the faculties were encouraged to identify their strengths, combine their strengths and mak
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculties-regrouping-after-rq20 - 2025-10-05
How has life and work changed during the pandemic? LUM has met coworkers with widely different situations, starting with Tove Eriksson and Anna Löthman. Anna Löthman and Tove Eriksson, Communication officers at EHLLU has become a race car!Many people are working from home due to the coronavirus, but not you. Why?"We live in Lund and our partners are working from home. At work, we can work undistur
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/everyday-life-wake-corona-crisis - 2025-10-05
The war in Gaza has caused conflict at universities in Sweden and abroad. Overcoming the differences between protestors and university managements and within groups of employees is likely to take time. We met with both Lund University’s Vice-Chancellor and protestors from the encampment in Lundagård. In this edition of LUM, they share their visions of how to move forward. We have also interviewed
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/after-palestinagard-way-forward - 2025-10-06
