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Linnea Mörth, Eva Åkesson och Carina Jarl studying some responses about the establishment in Science Village. Photo: Maria Lindh There is widespread agreement among the physicists and chemists for their establishment in Science Village to take place simultaneously and as soon as possible. There are also proposals for how the two departments could work together. Leif Bülow, head of the Department o
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chance-lifetime - 2025-09-09
Yulia Vakulenko outside Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre in Lund. Photo: Jan Olsson Yulia Vakulenko grew up in a small Russian town north of the Arctic Circle, today she works at Lund University. When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, her world was turned upside down. The first thing Yulia Vakulenko says when she meets me on the staircase of her workplace at the Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre, IKDC
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/yulia-russia-helps-refugees-ukraine - 2025-09-09
Linnea Wegerstad chose to return to academia. Photo: Kennet Ruona “True crime” has exploded in popularity and crime and punishment dominates the headlines. Linnea Wegerstad, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, opposes the tendency to label people who have committed crimes as monsters. Linnea Wegerstad researches sexual offences and has a background as a judge in training. She was about halfway
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mind-legal-scholar - 2025-09-09
A few examples of commentaries on Facebook that Linnea Jensdotter has studied. Sociologist of religion Linnea Jensdotter conducts research on the role of religion in politics. She has analysed 20,000 Facebook comments on articles from Sweden’s biggest news sites. Her analysis shows that religion is becoming more politicised. Some comments point to religion to assert “Swedish values”. Others displa
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/religion-politicised-social-media - 2025-09-09
Bangers and mash. Not for every kid. Photo: Picasa/Mostphotos A heated discussion under the hashtag Swedengate erupted on social media last spring. Swedes were accused of being strange as they did not invite their children’s friends to eat with them when the family was having dinner. The phenomenon was upsetting and ethnologist Håkan Jönsson was quickly inundated with questions. Are Swedes stingy?
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/swedengate-disrespect-or-being-stingy - 2025-09-09
Ingvar Kamprad Design Center, IKDC. Photo: Kennet Ruona 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 t
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ingvar-kamprad-design-center-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary - 2025-09-09
Kristina Holmin Verdozzi wants to strengthen the faculty's position along the so-called knowledge corridor on Sölvegatan. A study center, a unified library, a student café, and an office for faculty management—plus a towering venue for events. Project manager and library director Kristina Holmin Verdozzi has grand visions for the Astronomy Building, which is set to undergo a complete transformatio
https://www.science.lu.se/article/she-wants-create-space-scientific-curiosity - 2025-09-09
Photo: Carla Böhme Bringing together experts from diverse fields across the university along with a number of guest researchers, the Pufendorf theme "DigiJustice: Rethinking Digital Inequalities and Human Rights in the Age of AI" will showcase an interdisciplinary approach to digital justice and shaping an inclusive future. Co-led by Miranda Kajtazi, Associate professor in informatics, and Lena Ha
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/digijustice-interdisciplinary-approach-digital-equality - 2025-09-09
Torna Hällestad. Researchers have placed 170 owl nesting boxes included in their multiyear project aiming to find out as much as possible about how tawny owls are affected by living in proximity to humans. Photo: Kennet Ruona The owlet, little over three weeks old, squints slightly as Hannah Watson lays it on its back in a plastic container that once held vanilla ice cream. It seems quite happy th
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tracking-owls-send-sms-their-nests - 2025-09-09
Charlotte Leire and Kes McCormick are responsible for the MOOCs produced at IIIEE. Photo: Jan Olsson The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, IIIEE, is taking the lead on open, month-long online courses, known as MOOCs. The investment in MOOCs has been quite a success. In recent years, every sixth student has stated that the online courses influenced them to apply for on
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/moocs-more-popular-during-pandemic - 2025-09-09
Ester Barinaga studies local currency initiatives. Photo: Juan Ocampo Local currencies may arise when there is a clear need for certain products and services in a local area and where the competences to produce them exist but the lack of traditional money puts obstacles in the way. The lack of money might be the result of pandemics, war, natural disasters, financial crises or poverty. Ester Barina
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/local-currencies-solution-times-crisis - 2025-09-10
Mikael Akke studies how protein molecules move and how other molecules bind to them – important knowledge in the development of the medicines of the future. Photo: Kennet Ruona Protein researcher Mikael Akke has been showered with grants recently: a total in excess of SEK 130 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the European Research Council. But who is the Faculty of Engineer
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/protein-researcher-receives-major-grants - 2025-09-10
Inequalities are at risk of increasing as we seek to improve the health of the population. Photo: Stefan Holm/Mostphotos and Carina Andreasson/Mostphotos That life is not fair is hardly news. But that inequalities are at risk of increasing as we seek to improve the health of the population is perhaps unexpected. Health economics is a way of evaluating the potential health benefits of different int
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unfair-life - 2025-09-10
Sign interpretation demands a lot of concentration. There are usually two interpreters in place during a lecture to relieve each other every 15 minute or so. Photo: Kennet Ruona Lund University sociology student Julia Grahn is among those who receive learning support. She is deaf and is provided with sign-language interpretation during her studies. Cilla Riber Alm is one of the sign-language inter
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/when-studies-depend-interpretation - 2025-09-10
Space contains staggeringly more than we can see or measure. The universe is estimated to consist of 5 per cent visible matter, 27 per cent dark matter and 68 per cent dark energy. Photo: ESA/Hubble & NASA, V. Antoniou Visible matter in the universe represents only five per cent of everything that exists. The rest is invisible dark matter and dark energy. Particle physicist Ruth Pöttgen is one of
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/search-shadow-invisible - 2025-09-10
Märta Wallinius is motivated by seeing people succeed in their journey towards a life without crime. Photo: Ingemar Hultquist You are at the shop to buy food for the weekend. The shop’s security guard is keeping a close eye on you and you start to get nervous. He approaches you and you feel that you are starting to break out in a sweat. What the heck does he really want? This is not happening for
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/captivating-vr - 2025-09-10
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 - 2025-09-10
Photo: Max Böhme When researchers are working in the field, they may be faced with challenging and sometimes dangerous situations. How does Lund University prepare its doctoral students and researchers for fieldwork? When LUM asks about the faculties’ procedures, it becomes clear that the departments are primarily responsible. Dealing with dangerous situations in the field once they have arisen is
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/safe-fieldwork-who-responsible-security - 2025-09-10
Rainwater is collected and purified with an existing technique but in a new way before it is used to flush a couple of toilets. Photo: Jenny Leyman It is not every day that the inauguration of a toilet draws a hundred spectators. Such a toilet would have to be pretty special – and this one is. It is special because it is flushed using rain water gathered from the roof of Kemicentrum. LUM was able
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rain-roof-restroom - 2025-09-10
