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There is a lot happening at the moment within the University concerning LU’s engagement in the work environment and equal opportunities. It is time to elect health and safety representatives – a very significant role. We are also marking 150 years since women gained the right to study at university and highlighting the fantastic attendance when LU took part in Pride for the first time. Take the op
What is the perfect recipe for semiconductors? Vanya Darakchieva is working on the answer in her research on novel semiconductor materials. As a professor of solid state physics at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), she is a “research chef” designing the future cookbook for sustainable and safe electronics. Understanding and explaining the mysteries of nature was Vanya Darakchieva’s dream during he
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-chef-refines-recipe-semiconductors - 2025-11-08
Hur påverkas föräldrar och barn av att delta i screeningstudier för typ 1-diabetes? Det är en fråga som doktoranden Jessica Melin har undersökt i en doktorsavhandling som läggs fram vid Lunds universitet. Resultaten kan användas för att identifiera de familjer som behöver rätt stöd för att minska deras oro och öka deras nöjdhet med sitt deltagande. Forskare vid Lunds universitets diabetescentrum (
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/hur-paverkas-foraldrar-och-barn-av-att-delta-i-screeningstudier - 2025-11-08
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 - 2025-11-08
In Sweden, class actions - such as the ongoing Aurora case, where 300 young people are suing the government for failing to implement climate policies - are rare. Too rare, according to the sociologist of law Michael Molavi. He argues that Sweden would benefit from more class actions and that the state should finance the legal costs. On 21 March, Nacka District Court announced that the youth group
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/should-state-pay-climate-class-action-litigation - 2025-11-07
Lund University needs long-term strategies with clear priorities from the faculties of what type of research to invest in, agree the two new pro vice-chancellors Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen and Bo Ahrén. They also recognise the difficulty of achieving this at a university as comprehensive as Lund. “Our breadth is definitely our strength, but it can also present problems”, says Bo Ahrén. The two new
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-pro-vice-chancellors-want-strategic-investments-research - 2025-11-07
The LERU meetings for deans are a priority for social scientists and lawyers. These meetings have provided social scientists with new ways to approach the EU, and lawyers with doctoral student exchanges with other prestigious LERU universities. So says Ann-Katrin Bäcklund – dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences for more than six years –, and Mia Rönnmar, newly appointed dean of the Faculty of Law
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leru-collaboration-opens-new-doors-eu - 2025-11-07
Within 100 years, approximately half of the 6,000 languages in the world will become extinct. A window to the past is currently being opened in Lund, where you can listen to languages that are no longer spoken thanks to a special resource for digital language documentation. Niclas Burenhult. Every two weeks, a language is lost. Through an infrastructure project funded by the Swedish Foundation for
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/language-collectors - 2025-11-07
A few weeks after the terrorist attack on Drottninggatan in Stockholm, researchers caution against describing reality as a black-and-white struggle between good and evil. If you want to protect society against extremism, it is important that you understand how and why it occurs. Although radicalised youth who return from the terror group ISIS is a threat to security, the threat must not be exagger
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/segregation-graver-threat-isis-returnees-long-run - 2025-11-07
Consumers are demanding cheaper clothing while more are becoming aware and reassessing their consumption: second hand rather than “fast fashion”. The sustainability challenges of clothing companies often have to do with long supply chains – and the consumers’ demands. But together, consumers, businesses and politicians can change the fashion industry, according to Johan Jansson, researcher in busi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-trends-fashion-industry-fast-and-cheap-sustainable - 2025-11-07
A researcher who made invisible female labour visible and had her hypotheses that efficiency thinking in healthcare is neither good nor cheap confirmed when her own husband became ill. Rosmari Eliasson-Lappalainen is a pioneer in elderly research. Photo: Gunnar Menander You could say that Rosmari Eliasson-Lappalainen is the mother of Swedish elderly care research. When she got a job at the Social
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/efficiency-mindset-inappropriate-elderly-care - 2025-11-07
Stefan Gössling, Professor in Service Management and Service Studies has published and article on The Conversation based on his latest research which has been widely circulated in the media, in Sweden but also internationally during the week. Article published on The conversation, october 22 Author: Stefan GösslingThe jet-setting habits of Bill Gates and Paris Hilton mean that they produce an asto
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/celebrities-cause-10000-times-more-carbon-emissions-flying-average-person - 2025-11-07
The battle for real democracy in the Middle East will largely be decided in schools. The role of education in a democracy was also the theme of a workshop in Alexandria, where Swedish researchers met their Egyptian counterparts. The USI network organised the event on a hot topic in a country that needs to fight for democracy if it is to take root. “Democracy in Egypt isn’t going to work unless p
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/battle-democracy-decided-schools - 2025-11-07
Lund University’s MOOCs have now started. First to launch was the Faculty of Law course in European Business Law, closely followed by Greening the Economy from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), and later in the spring the Faculty of Medicine’s course in sexual health will take place. The number of people registered for the courses has exceeded expectations
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mooc-launch-celebrated-fizz-and-folk-dance - 2025-11-07
We spend 90 per cent of our time indoors. We can both exercise and shop without taking a step outdoors and the indoor trend is on the increase, despite the fact that we have little understanding of the air we are breathing. “The health effects may not be detected for a number of years”, says LTH researcher Aneta Wierzbicka, who is coordinating an interdisciplinary theme at the Pufendorf Institute.
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-good-our-indoor-environment - 2025-11-07
How do we create a safe environment in which humans and robots can collaborate on handling hazardous materials? What do those working in the industry need to know about sustainable production processes, re-use and critical raw materials? Companies need to up-skill their employees to have competences for the fourth industrial revolution, industry 4.0, with new technologies mainly in automation, the
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/upskilling-swedens-engineers-through-unique-course-package - 2025-11-08
LU Accommodation wish you all a safe and happy holiday period. The reception is closed between 21 December and 1 January, and here's what you need to know. This article will cover some frequently asked questions about this time of the year, including:Reception closedReturning keysCollecting keysHousing applicationsPayments and depositsContract CancellationsSurvey resultsWe would like to thank all
https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/holiday-update - 2025-11-07
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 - 2025-11-08
Although emissions from air travel at Lund University have slightly decreased compared to last year*, longer journeys remain a major source of emissions. Now, a group of five researchers from different departments is tackling the challenge of shifting travel norms and reducing air travel with fresh perspectives. Funded by the University's Sustainability Fund ("Hållbarhetsfonden"), the project, ‘Bi
https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/researchers-aim-change-travel-norms-and-reduce-air-travel-lund-university - 2025-11-07
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 to his house to discuss a collaboration between the desig
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ingvar-kamprad-design-center-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary - 2025-11-08
