Published 20 November 2014 A lot of research on human behaviour is based entirely on words: researchers read, ask questions, send out questionnaires and write reports. But this means they miss a lot of elements concerning sound, sights and people’s interaction with their physical surroundings. Devrim Umut Aslan wants to study consumers’ attitudes to a shopping environment (Södergatan in Helsingbor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/consumers-attitudes-captured-film - 2025-07-05

Published 20 November 2014 … Professor of Functional Zoology and Cancer Cell Biology, who is helping to develop a world-class cell culture laboratory in Bolivia. It is part of a SIDA-funded project to study how medicinal plants can influence cancer cells. What is your collaboration with Bolivia like? “This is the third in a line of SIDA-funded projects which I have now joined as a cancer researche

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meet-stina-oredssonabout-collaboration-bolivia - 2025-07-05

Published 21 November 2014 “Really good research is often interdisciplinary”, said Kerstin Sahlin from the Swedish Research Council (VR) at a seminar in Lund on how the land lies for research funding. She wanted to debunk the myth that VR is not good at encouraging interdisciplinary projects. Quite the opposite – a working group has recently been appointed specifically for this type of application

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tips-funding-bodies - 2025-07-05

Published 18 December 2014 How creative are research studies? What can be done to make them more creative? LUM has met Samuel West, who is not only a doctoral student, but who actually does research on creativity. Samuel West had worked as a psychologist for many years when he decided four years ago to do a PhD. Now he is looking back on his research studies, which will soon be finished, and doesn

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/he-searching-creativity-outside-academy - 2025-07-05

Published 18 December 2014 What is the effect on doctoral students’ creativity when they are forced into the academic straightjacket of research studies? What obstacles do they have to cross in order to reach their full potential? According to creativity researcher Eva Brodin, there are many examples of research environments where doctoral students do not have an opportunity to be really creative

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-creative-are-research-studies - 2025-07-05

Published 18 December 2014 Sweden has got its first seven Tesla MRI scanner. The 40 ton scanner had to be lowered into place at the Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC) at Skåne University Hospital. Until now, the most powerful MRI scanners in Sweden that are used on humans have had a magnetic field of three Tesla. The weather was kind when the over 40 ton MRI scanner was lifted into the hospi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-host-strongest-mri-scanner-sweden - 2025-07-05

Published 17 December 2014 What are you used to? This was the question that twenty five eager course participants seized on when they gathered to investigate cultural differences in order to better meet the various needs of international students. The course in intercultural communication aimed to increase awareness of intercultural encounters and the misunderstandings that can arise. Every year,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/better-student-reception-aim-course-cultural-differences - 2025-07-05

Published 17 December 2014 The Inter Arts Centre (IAC) in Malmö provides a forum enabling all parts of the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts to conduct research together and create joint projects. Its objective is to find new approaches and to achieve collective results which are greater than the sum of their parts. An example of the Centre’s work is one of the largest symposia ever to be held i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/experimental-art-across-boundaries - 2025-07-05

Published 18 December 2014 Meet Per Ödling, Professor of Telecommunication at LTH, who recently gave a lecture for the Hjärntrusten network in Lund entitled “The new digital society is already here”. You expect to become redundant as a teacher within the foreseeable future? “Yes, that’s correct.” And whose fault is that? “It is mine and all those who have contributed to technical and digital devel

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-digital-society-already-here - 2025-07-05

Published 18 December 2014 Wandering among the amaryllises and other seasonal blooms of the “Christmas in the orangery” exhibition in Lund’s Botanical Garden is one very satisfied director. Bente Eriksen came from Gothenburg University to her new job in Lund a couple of months ago and has now learnt that the municipality of Lund will support the garden to the tune of SEK 2 million per year. The ne

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-director-botan-prepares-two-anniversaries - 2025-07-05

Published 18 December 2014 He is checking out at the same fighting weight as when he checked in, and does the same number of push-ups (40!) now as he did then. He has been through several tough rounds and had to fight to defend his convictions and his views on the University’s development. Per Eriksson summarises his time as vice-chancellor as “six years of incredibly great joy, development, press

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eriksson-you-have-dare-take-risks-sometimes-if-you-want-make-things-happen - 2025-07-05

Published 6 February 2015 His ambition is to awaken our longing for a life which doesn’t revolve around wage labour. “If I had a citizen’s salary, I would do the same things I do now – read, write and have an occasional go with a scrubbing-brush, to make life more real. Others might play computer games, which would of course be perfectly OK”, says sociologist Roland Paulsen, who has become a bit o

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/igniting-debate-shorter-working-hours - 2025-07-05

Published 6 February 2015 Professor of Spanish Inger Enkvist has written a large number of books about education and teaching. She sees it as her obligation to take part in the debate on education, but she also participates in the public debate in other areas. Most recently, she wrote in Språktidningen about the Catalonian independence movement. Last year she was awarded the Instituto Cervantes in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/obligation-participate-education-debate - 2025-07-05

Published 6 February 2015 Vinnova is investing SEK 500 million in collaboration on non-communicable diseases over the next ten years. A call for proposals for collaborative projects is currently open. “Researchers who collaborate with either the business sector or the health service, or both, have a chance of obtaining a grant”, says Peter Nordström, who is coordinating the national initiative fro

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/strategic-innovation-area-coordinated-lund - 2025-07-05

Published 6 February 2015 The University is now a member of Scholars at Risk (SAR), an international network that helps vulnerable and persecuted academics. Professor Shirin Zubair visited Lund University and spoke about her situation as a persecuted academic. “This is in line with our core values as a university, which include defending and supporting academic freedom”, says Pär Svensson at Exter

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-joins-network-help-scholars-risk - 2025-07-05

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 15 September 2023 Photo: Panorama Images from Getty Images Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University has launched its ATMP Pipeline Report, which maps the pipeline of cell and gene therapies being developed at the center. Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs) are revolutionary medicines based on cells, tissues, or

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-releases-atmp-pipeline-report - 2025-07-05

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 9 October 2023 Using a data-driven, bioinformatics approach, Lund University researchers have made it possible to take a holistic approach to how our blood group genes are regulated. Photo: iStock/choja Currently, a lot is known about which genes are responsible for our individual blood groups, however not much is understood a

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-bioinfomatics-pipeline-solves-50-year-old-blood-group-puzzle - 2025-07-05

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 11 October 2023 An illustration depicting the different steps that need to be taken to bring a novel stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s Disease, STEM-PD, from the lab to the clinic. Illustration by Katrine Bech Lauritzen. A recent publication by researchers at Lund University’s Lund Stem Cell Center, gives a closer look

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/closer-look-making-novel-stem-cell-therapy-parkinsons-disease - 2025-07-05

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 17 October 2023 Filipe Pereira (R) coordinates the research project which is allocated 33 million from the EIC. Together with Fábio Fiúza Rosa (L), he is also one of the founders of the company Asgard Therapeutics, a partner in the EIC project. Photo: Asgard Therapeutics An international research project led from Lund

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/enemy-friend-33-million-reprogramming-cancer-cells - 2025-07-05

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 27 October 2023 Researchers at Lund University have developed an new strategy against leukemia that targets the energy production within cancer cells. Photo: Science Photo Library/Canva.com Cancer cells are the ultimate sugar addicts, gobbling up glucose to fuel their growth and spread. What if we could starve them of

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/powering-down-cancer-cells-new-way-beat-leukemia - 2025-07-05