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I gränslandet mellan estetik och ekonomi omvandlar Centrum för estetik och företagets kreativitet (ABC) innovation genom att sammanföra estetik, ekonomi och teknik i ett organisatoriskt sammanhang. Vi fick möjlighet att prata med Alexandra Huang-Kokina och Robin Porsfelt – två nya postdoc röster som hjälper till att forma centrets ambitiösa vision, från AI-drivna operaföreställningar till hantverk
https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/dar-konst-moter-innovation - 2025-12-18
Ekonomihögskolans Joakim Zander blev jurist i Uppsala och doktor i Nederländerna, men författarskapet har han tagit med sig till Lund, hemstaden sedan drygt tio år. Den 31 juli har filmatiseringen av spänningsromanen ”Ett ärligt liv” premiär på Netflix. Där utgör Lund både skådeplats och brottsplats för en juriststudents drömmar och vedermödor. Finkaffe vid Clemenstorget, övervuxna rabatter vid
https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/lund-i-huvudrollen-nar-zanders-roman-blir-film - 2025-12-18
Många patienter med akut bröstsmärta blir inlagda på vårdavdelning – trots att bara en bråkdel av dem behöver akut, högspecialiserad hjärtsjukvård. Forskaren och akutläkaren Tsvetelina Nilsson har i sitt avhandlingsarbete undersökt hur dessa patienter – på ett säkert sätt – snabbare kan bedömas. I snitt kan nästan hälften av de som söker för akut bröstsmärta tryggt skickas hem – redan efter någon
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/fokus-spara-tid-och-pengar-till-akut-hjartsjukvard - 2025-12-18
En ny campusplan som omfattar samtliga campus i Lund, Malmö, Helsingborg och Ljungbyhed har tagits fram med sikte mot år 2050. Planen är ett strategiskt verktyg som ska stödja universitetets utveckling i en föränderlig värld, bidra till ett mer resurseffektivt utnyttjande av lokaler och utemiljöer, och möjliggöra framtida expansion under kommande decennier. Campusplanen riktar sig till alla som ar
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/ny-campusplan-med-sikte-pa-2050-beslutad - 2025-12-18
When LINXS moved from its old premises at Ideon to The Loop in Science Village in March, the institute became the first research environment from Lund University to make the move to Brunnshög. Since then, activities have more than doubled, new collaborations have emerged, and the team’s mood is distinctly optimistic.I met with Anna Ntinidou, Head of Administration, Noomi Egan, Communications Offic
https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/home-linxs-pioneer-paving-way-science-village - 2025-12-17
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.iac.lu.se/article/how-little-enough-meet-steinunn-knuts-onnudottir-get-possible-answers - 2025-12-17
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
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/en/article/how-little-enough-meet-steinunn-knuts-onnudottir-get-possible-answers - 2025-12-17
Associate Professor Pinar Dinc (Department of Political Science), together with colleagues from several faculties at Lund University and external partners, has received seed funding from the Strategic Research Areas of Lund University for the project Extreme-Loss: Agricultural Workers’ Livelihoods under Climate Change-Related Extreme Weather Events and Biodiversity Loss. The project brings togethe
How do you get a robot to behave in an ethical and moral way? Christian Balkenius is giving this a lot of thought, as it is the topic of his research project. However, he is also thinking about ethics among robot researchers. “It’s often said that we have advanced further than we actually have done. The aim of the research is not fulfilled if we are not honest.” Robots pique the imagination and
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/robots-not-so-smart-we-would-think - 2025-12-17
The economic sanctions against Russian following the invasion of Ukraine are having spillover effects in Central Asia. With the prospect of economic and social strain forcing Russian employers to lay off migrant workers, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan are preparing to receive high numbers of newly unemployed men. The fall of the Russian rouble in March - as a consequence of Western sancti
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/central-asian-migrant-workers-risk-mass-unemployment - 2025-12-17
A record donation of SEK 350 million from the IKEA Foundation has secured the future of the School of Industrial Design at Lund University. It is not the first time that the school has received a major donation from IKEA. It all started at a meeting over a lot of coffee and snuff between Ingvar Kamprad and Thomas Johannesson, former Dean of the Faculty of Engineering (LTH)… Thomas Johannesson was
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/shared-vision-about-good-design-everyone-behind-huge-donations - 2025-12-17
Following criticism from the Swedish Research Council for delays and unclear leadership at MAX IV, the organisation is now headed in the right direction. Efficiency has increased through stricter deadlines, clearer priorities among the projects and increased clarity in the decision chains. “We are on the right path and managers and team leaders are taking further necessary decisions”, says Marjole
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/max-iv-sees-light-end-tunnel - 2025-12-17
1.5 million Swedes and 850 million people globally suffer from migraines, a condition that Lars Edvinsson has been researching for almost forty years. Practically every day over the past year, he has received thank you letters from all over the world from patients whose lives have been transformed thanks to new medication based on his research. However, the path leading to this point has been long
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/migraine-researcher-who-bucked-trend - 2025-12-17
Why are there hundreds of jumbled human bones in the ground at Uppåkra? That is one of the mysteries that archaeologists at Lund University hope to be able to solve in the next few years. They will be aided by the latest DNA technology. A quiet calm rests over Uppåkra, just outside Lund. The only sound under the enormous tent canvas that has been hung just next to an old pigsty – which incidentall
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-technique-reveals-uppakras-violent-past - 2025-12-18
Ethnologist Susanne Lundin’s research is ultimately about life and death and how people relate to the inevitable. What are people willing to do to delay the end briefly? Is there a limit beyond which someone ceases to be human? Susanne Lundin is a professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences and has conducted interdisciplinary research with medics for 30 years. Today, she is a sought-
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/her-research-concerns-our-deepest-fears - 2025-12-18
Han Somsen has newly been appointed professor in environmental law at the Faculty of Law. He is best known for his recommendation that bird-killing cats should be kept indoors. “Humans see themselves as the kings of the hill, which extends to their cats. If you question this, many people get very angry. I got death threats,” says Han Somsen. Han Somsen’s latest position was as professor at Tilburg
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/law-professor-who-wants-put-nature-above-law - 2025-12-18
Henrik Smith receives the Marsh Awards for Ecology by the British Ecological Society. The prize recognizes his long-standing contributions to advancing ecological research and strengthening the connection between science and society. He himself highlights the need for public engagement in science — the days of letting hefty reports collect dust are behind us. The motivation for the Marsh Awards fo
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/henrik-smith-receives-award-has-message-academia - 2025-12-18
As one of four young researchers at Lund University, Ingrid van Dijk, Associate senior lecturer at the Department of Economic History at LUSEM and researcher at the Centre for Economic Demography, receives an ERC Starting Grant. Her project is titled “Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations”. She is the first researcher ever from Lund U
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/erc-starting-grant-economic-historian-ingrid-van-dijk-project-health - 2025-12-18
