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“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, she explained. Göran Blom
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tips-funding-bodies - 2025-12-17
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’t regret it, although his
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/he-searching-creativity-outside-academy - 2025-12-17
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 in their research. Eva Brod
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-creative-are-research-studies - 2025-12-17
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 hospital. The new MRI scanner is
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-host-strongest-mri-scanner-sweden - 2025-12-17
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, Lund University welcomes ar
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/better-student-reception-aim-course-cultural-differences - 2025-12-17
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 in Scandinavia within the fi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/experimental-art-across-boundaries - 2025-12-17
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 developments in society.” What a
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-digital-society-already-here - 2025-12-17
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 new director of the Botanical
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-director-botan-prepares-two-anniversaries - 2025-12-17
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, pressure and intensity”. There w
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eriksson-you-have-dare-take-risks-sometimes-if-you-want-make-things-happen - 2025-12-17
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 of a standard-bearer for th
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/igniting-debate-shorter-working-hours - 2025-12-17
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 intercultural prize for her
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/obligation-participate-education-debate - 2025-12-17
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 from Lund. Peter Nordström is
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/strategic-innovation-area-coordinated-lund - 2025-12-17
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 External Relations, who is LU’s
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-joins-network-help-scholars-risk - 2025-12-17
I en ny rapport från Lunds klimatpolitiska råd utvärderas klimatpolitiken i Lund. Forskarna har i år fokuserat på transportsystemet. Trots höga ambitioner och flertalet insatser för att minska utsläppen behöver det lokala klimatarbetet accelereras för att nå de utsatta målen. Rapporten som överlämnades till kommunstyrelsen den 1 april är den andra sedan rådet bildades 2018. Rådet, som består av åt
https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/lunds-klimatpolitik-utvarderas-av-forskare - 2025-12-17
Om du andas ut en klar dag i den rena, kalla luften på Arktis så kommer du inte att se ditt andetag forma det moln vi är vana vid att se när temperaturen sjunker. Moln kan nämligen inte bildas utan aerosolpartiklar. Moa Sporre, forskare i kärnfysik vid Lunds universitet, fokuserar på hur dessa partiklar påverkar molnbildningen och hur molnen i sin tur påverkar klimatet. Moln påverkarAerosoler är m
https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/partiklar-gackar-klimatforskare - 2025-12-17
Uteupplevelser har trendat så här i coronatider, när familjemedlemmar ska rastas och social distansering samtidigt tillämpas. Varför inte bota din eller barnens artblindhet när ni ändå är ute? All forskning visar att ju mer man vet om naturen, desto mer villig är man att värna den. Här kommer tips på tio vanliga – och de flesta även ätbara – växter att leta efter, i staden eller på skogsutflykten.
https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/upptack-naturen-runt-husknuten-tio-vaxter-att-spana-efter-eller-smaka-pa - 2025-12-17
Hur oroliga och rädda är människor i olika länder för COVID-19? Och vad anser de om deras myndigheters åtgärder? Sydkoreaner instämmer mest i påståendet att deras regering är effektiv medan japaner gör det i minst grad. Detta och mycket annat visar en studie från Cambridge universitet. Lundaforskare har bidragit med uppgifter från Sverige, samt genom att visualisera insamlade data. Cirka 7 000 per
https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/internationell-jamforelse-av-virusradsla-och-syn-pa-myndigheters-atgarder - 2025-12-17
Statsvetaren Åsa Knaggård om hur politiker fattar beslut under stor osäkerhet: ”I Ungern använder man smittspridningsbegränsande politik för att montera ned demokratin ytterligare. Det är riktigt oroväckande.” Med anledning av coronakrisen intervjuar Lunds universitet en rad forskare som kan kommentera och bidra med kunskaper kring coronaviruset ur olika aspekter.Statsvetaren Åsa Knaggård är knute
https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/sa-fattar-politiker-beslut-under-coronakrisen - 2025-12-17
Studier från Lunds universitet pekar på att floran i Skåne förändrats drastiskt under 1900-talet och fram till idag. Den största minskningen av artrikedomen kan ses i skogsbygderna i norra och mellersta delarna av Skåne. – Jag blev förvånad av att det är klimatförändringen som har påverkat mest, säger forskaren Torbjörn Tyler vid Lunds universitet. Forskarnas studie baseras på inventeringar av ört
https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/drastiskt-forandrad-flora-i-skane - 2025-12-17
Forskarskolorna ClimBEco vid CEC och Bolincentrets Climate Research School (CRS) har nyligen utvecklat ett samarbete med flera miljö- och klimatfokuserade avsikter. De gemensamma aktiviteterna ska stärka kursutbudet och nätverksmöjligheterna för respektive doktorander och bidra till att driva forskningsfronten om klimat och biologisk mångfald framåt. – Det här är ett fantastiskt sätt att dra nytta
https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/nytt-samarbete-starker-forskning-om-klimat-och-biologisk-mangfald - 2025-12-17
