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Laura Cox and Haro de Grauw work together at the Lund doctoral student union. Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg Sexual harassment, mental health issues, racism and non-European doctoral students engaged in uphill struggles with the Swedish Migration Agency to be allowed to remain in Sweden. These are examples of the sorts of things that Haro de Grauw has been faced with since becoming doctoral studen
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ombudsman-rescue - 2025-09-01
Stina releases her book about genealogy in September. At the Department of Physics, she is Stina Loo, education administrator for first and second cycle programmes. But she can also call herself a linguist, entrepreneur and television personality. And now, with a dream come true: author. The book ‘Hitta din historia – släktforskning för alla’ (Find your story – genealogy for everyone), which Stina
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/stina-brings-history-life-new-book - 2025-09-01
Bete är en nyckelåtgärd för att bevara naturbetesmarker, några av Sveriges viktigaste livsmiljöer ur natur- och kulturvårdssynpunkt. Det är dock en utmaning att hitta rätt nivå på betet vilket leder till att många värdefulla marker betas för hårt, medan andra marker växer igen. För att diskutera utmaningar med ett högt betestryck, och öppna dörren till möjliga lösningar, bjöd LU Land in till ett f
August Jörding, Annika Horstmann, Fiona Kusche och Erik Hollmann i Montreal på John Molson MBA International Case Competition, en prestigefylld case-tävling där lag från hela världen tävlar. Foto: Erik Hollmann John Molson MBA International Case Competition är en prestigefylld case-tävling där lag från hela världen deltar. Under sex dagar i januari samlades 30 lag med högkvalificerade studenter i
https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/ekonomihogskolan-pa-john-molson-mba-international-case-competition-0 - 2025-08-31
Migrantarbetare. Omslagsbild till Rustam Urinoyevs bok Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia. Foto: Bokens författare De ekonomiska sanktionerna mot Ryssland efter invasionen av Ukraina har destabiliserande effekter även i Centralasien. Eftersom ekonomiska och sociala påfrestningar i Ryssland kan leda till omfattande uppsägningar av migrantarbetare förber
https://www.lu.se/artikel/centralasiatiska-gastarbetare-hotas-av-massarbetsloshet - 2025-09-01
Mer än två tredjedelar av männen i DAABS-studien fortsatte en kriminell bana under den undersökta tiden. Foto: iStock En uppföljningsstudie av unga svenska män som dömts till fängelse för vålds- eller sexbrott, målar en tydlig bild: de flesta återfaller i brott gång på gång – i snitt över 30 brott innan de hunnit fylla 30. Nu publiceras forskningsresultat som även visar att en historia av allvarli
https://www.lu.se/artikel/fokus-pa-unga-valdsdomda-som-fortsatter-bega-brott - 2025-09-01
AI generated image This Regional Outlook provides insight into an emerging environmental hazard: dust storms in the Middle East, one of the driest regions in the world. It also sheds light on the typical drivers and new technologies that can help investigate this phenomenon. Some sustainable mitigation measures are also discussed. Significant changes in recent years, such as population growth and
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-dust-storms-middle-east-insights-satellite-data-and-ai - 2025-08-31
In a large international study the researchers found that analysis by the AI led to 14 times fewer missed diagnoses of severe arrhythmias. Photo: Bild: iStock/alexaldo. In patients with symptoms such as irregular heartbeats, dizziness, or fainting, or in individuals that physicians suspect may have atrial fibrillation, many days of ECGs may be required for diagnosis – “long-term ECG recordings”. T
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/ai-better-humans-analysing-long-term-ecg-recordings - 2025-08-31
Researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center are coming together with colleagues across Lund University to shape the future of healthcare. A new University-wide seed funding initiative seeking to support emerging research topics that benefit society will see interdisciplinary teams of neuroscience, medicine, and biotechnology researchers attempt to develop new, innovative, patient-specific disease model
Louise Brunkwall likes to add red lentils to make casseroles go further. Photo: Kennet Ruona There are delicious smells emanating from the kitchen at the Malmö apartment of nutrition physiologist, Louise Brunkwall. Today, she is making pasta and vegetable sauce for lunch. A clean up before the interview with LUM means she can no longer find anything in the kitchen cupboards: “Usually there is alw
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/help-your-body-outwit-reptile-brain - 2025-08-31
The research quality evaluation, RQ20, is now in full swing. The evaluation-fatigue that project leaders Freddy Ståhlberg and Mats Benner expected to see among their university colleagues has not materialised. “We have encountered a strong engagement and interest!” The 200 or so external advisors for the 32 panels are appointed and the 156 research environments are organised. In January, the self-
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/strong-engagement-rq20 - 2025-08-31
Missiologist Mika Vähäkangas travels a lot – from Lund, Helsinki and to different countries in Africa. Photo: Kennet Ruona Missiologist Mika Vähäkangas thinks that Scandinavians can be a little self-righteous. He says that he has become who he is in great part thanks to his research in Africa – there he learnt what he knows about compassion. Over nearly thirty years, he first carried out missiona
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/africa-has-given-me-more-i-could-ever-give-back - 2025-08-31
Students’ clinical training at the women’s clinic in Malmö. Photo:Kennet Ruona There is a noticeably nervous atmosphere in the small examination room at the women's clinic. Medical students Caroline Hellsten, Joakim Öhman and Rasmus Hagberg are about to carry out a gynaecological examination for the first time during their studies. However, Marina Larsson Silly, who is today's 'professional patien
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/professional-patient-guides-way-medical-students - 2025-08-31
"When our usual methods of relaxing become a way to compete for social status, those activities then become exhausting instead.There is no rest for the body and soul. This is something that I think needs to be discussed more, says Carys Egan-Wyer. What kind of an image of yourself do you present on social media? And why? Carys Egan-Wyer, researcher in Consumer Culture, believes that in some ways l
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leisure-time-ordeal-enjoy - 2025-08-31
Illustration: Agsandrew/Shutterstock The quest to control the remarkable phenomena of quantum physics is ongoing around the world. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is making the subject even hotter. Lund University is also involved in exploring the unknown – and at times mind-boggling – perspectives of quantum states. Mathieu Gisselbrecht, senior lecturer in Physics, leads the way down the basem
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researching-another-reality - 2025-09-01
Emma Kritzberg travelled for five days return to participate at a job meeting on Mallorca. Photo: Johan Persson Emma Kritzberg took the train to a meeting on Mallorca. A journey that took 54 hours and cost double what it would have to fly a couple of hours to the Mediterranean island. Yet, flying was never an option. She has not flown once for work or privately in the last six years, a conscious d
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/54-hours-one-way-join-job-meeting-mallorca - 2025-09-01
Peter Svensson, senior lecturer in Business Administration, questions why a lot of courses in the first cycle are taught in English. Photo: Jenny Leyman “English is like a membrane between us and reality”. The quote comes from a teacher at a Swedish higher education institution and describes their experience of teaching Swedish students in English. “Today, there are often no educational reasons wh
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/poorer-learning-if-teaching-anglicised - 2025-09-01
Dr. habil. Andreas Broeckmann is an art historian and curator who lives in Berlin. He is currently a Visiting Professor and tutor in our PhD Program in Fine Arts. We asked him a few questions about his work at Malmö Art Academy. What is your role at Malmö Art Academy, and what is you background?Since last year, 2024, I have been working as a tutor in the PhD Program in Fine Arts. By academic train
https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/get-know-dr-andreas-broeckmann-visiting-professor-and-tutor-our-phd-program-fine-arts - 2025-08-31
Det är inte bara det att Lunds universitet har samlat på sig ett stort ekonomiskt överskott genom att inte använda fakultetsanslagen. – Eftersom räntan är negativ så betalar vi dessutom för att vi inte använder pengarna, säger Lise Bröndum som har gjort en särskild utredning om myndighetskapitalet. Lise Bröndum har gjort en särskild utredning om myndighetskapitalet vid LU. Myndighetskapitalet hand
https://www.lu.se/artikel/myndighetskapitalet-vaxer-igen-och-det-kan-bli-dyrt - 2025-08-31
