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Almedalen Week is Sweden’s biggest political meeting place with a week full of seminars, speeches, meetings and get togethers. Some of our MERGE researchers are seen at different events in Almedalen, Gotland this year. Hur anpassar vi Sverige till en varmare värld?When: Tuesday 1 July, 9.00-12.00Patrick Samuelsson, SMHI, is one of the speakersRead more about the event hereKlimatfrågor och stålprod
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-almedalen-week - 2025-10-19
De humanistiska, teologiska, juridiska och medicinska fakulteterna har utsett följande hedersdoktorer som kommer att promoveras vid jubelpromotionen den 25 maj. Humaniora Timothy Snyder, professor i historia vid Yale University i USA blir hedersdoktor för sina enastående insatser inom forskningsfältet europeisk historia samt för sitt stora engagemang i den internationella forsknings- och samhällsd
https://www.lu.se/artikel/nya-hedersdoktorer-2018-utsedda - 2025-10-17
Markus Lahtinen, researcher and lecturer at the Department of Informatics, Lund University, has been interviewed by both Dagens Nyheter (DN) and Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) for expert insights on the use of AI for crime-fighting purposes. The articles in DN and SvD report on the potential integration of AI into camera surveillance, including facial recognition and automatic reading of licence plates.
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/markus-lahtinen-speaks-ai-and-camera-surveillance - 2025-10-18
LUCSUS organises two events at the Future week at Lund University, discussing the future of social movements and the future of traveling, in the light of both the climate crisis and the coronavirus pandemic. The events will take place both onsite and online. 14 October 15.00-16.00: The future of traveling, mobility and flyingFlying, or rather flying less, has been in the public debate for the las
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lund-university-future-week-12-18-october - 2025-10-19
During this year’s graduation ceremonies, both Bachelor’s students at Helsingborg’s Arena and the department’s Master’s students at the University Auditorium in Lund were awarded scholarships and honourable mentions for best degree projects. The degree projects focus on different aspects of strategic communication within the department programmes.Scholarship holders 2015 Marknadsföreningen in Hels
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/seven-degree-projects-receive-special-recognition-during-years-graduation-ceremonies - 2025-10-19
Thomas Sterner, professor of environmental economics at School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg,and BECC PI, has been ranked as no 9 of the most 101 influential opinion leaders in Sweden for sustainable development. The ranking is made by the sustainability magazine Aktuell Hållbarhet. Motivation: The professor's engagement is most noticeable internationally; As a visiting
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/thomas-sterner-no-9-swedens-most-influential-opinion-leaders - 2025-10-19
In order to be able to prescribe the appropriate dose of physical activity to patients, healthcare professionals need to consider a range of individual factors. There is a need to facilitate the assessment of aerobic capacity i. e. maximal oxygen uptake capacity (VO2max), as well as to calculate the intensity of training according to the WHO recommendations for physical activity. Now, researchers
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/my-aerobic-capacity-rpc - 2025-10-19
Our latest study on COVID-19 transmission risk among healthcare professionals, a collaboration between Prof Magnus Rasmussen (Dep. of Infection Medicine) and Associate Professor Yang De Marinis (Dep. of Clinical Sciences). The study was conducted on ~500 healthcare professionals and staff members from 9 units at the Skåne University Hospital in Malmö and Lund, as well as non-medicine related depa
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/study-covid-19-among-healthcare-professionals - 2025-10-19
The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, is hereby announcing three tenure track positions; Associated Senior Lecturer in the Study of Modern China (application now closed) Associated Senior Lecturer in the Study of Modern Japan (application now closed) Associated Senior Lecturer in the Study of Modern South-East Asia (application now closed) Please follow these instructi
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tenure-track-positions - 2025-10-19
Sustainability week is an annual event in Lund organised as a joint venture by Lund University and Lund municipality. As usual, researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences participate in several interesting events. Come and listen to your colleagues! The week serves as a platform for bringing together ideas, for cross-disciplinary collaborations, for raising public awareness and for inspiring
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/social-scientists-sustainability-week-8-13-april - 2025-10-19
Priscilla Solano has received a three-year grant from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet VR) for a research project that will study ”a second side to the refugee crisis” - how civil society organisations filled the gaps left by EU national policies and fulfilled refugees’ and migrants’ basic needs: food, a place to stay and legal assistance. Priscilla Solano’s International postdoc-proj
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/funding-project-second-side-refugee-crisis - 2025-10-19
Donald Trumps bakgrund inom amerikansk wrestling har bäddat för hans politiska karriär. Genom att använda sig av wrestlingens ”kayfabe” – konsten att framställa iscensatta händelser som verkliga – har Trump suddat ut gränserna mellan verklighet och fantasi. Det menar religionsfilosofen Aaron James Goldman. Presidentvalskampanjen 2024 i USA kommer att gå till historien. Inte nog med mordförsöket på
https://www.lu.se/artikel/trump-gor-presidentvalet-till-en-wrestlingmatch - 2025-10-18
The next-door neighbour whose home you’ve never been inside. That was how Jason Diakité, also known as hip hop artist Timbuktu, felt about the University while growing up in Lund. Today, he feels differently – having been awarded an honorary doctorate and now taking his seat as one of LU’s external Cultural Council members. Inside the historic Old Bishop’s House, final preparations are underway fo
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/timbuktu-universitys-cultural-council-glimpse-under-bonnet - 2025-10-18
Johannes Persson började med matematik men blev filosof. Efter noggrann prövning av argument för och emot tackar han alltid ja till förfrågningar om nya uppdrag, nu senast till att bli dekan för HT-fakulteterna. – Jag är nyfiken på hur universitetet fungerar, säger han. Johannes Persson ser ljust på HT:s framtid. Viss inblick har Johannes Persson redan fått som prefekt för Filosofiska institutione
https://www.lu.se/artikel/hts-blivande-dekan-vi-har-en-generation-starka-unga-forskare-pa-gang - 2025-10-17
Journalisterna Thomas Lunderquist och Lars Mogensen, producent respektive programledare för radioprogrammet Filosofiska rummet, och Anette Warring, professor i historia vid Roskilde universitet, utses till hedersdoktorer vid Humanistiska fakulteten vid Lunds universitet. Journalisterna Thomas Lunderquist och Lars Mogensen är producent respektive programledare för Filosofiska rummet i Sveriges Radi
https://www.lu.se/artikel/journalister-och-dansk-historiker-blir-hedersdoktorer-vid-humanistiska-fakulteten - 2025-10-18
Intresset för Peder Winstrups mumie fortsätter att växa. Tack vare donationer är projektet nu säkrat, vilket skapar förutsättningar för såväl fler undersökningar som en kommande bok och utställning. Det finns också goda förhoppningar om att kroppen kan återföras till Lunds domkyrka. Biskop Peder Winstrup (1605-1679), initiativtagare till Lunds universitet. – Vi kan konstatera att Winstrups mumie ä
https://www.lu.se/artikel/stor-donation-sakrar-winstrup-projektet - 2025-10-19
Get to know Ann-Catrin Johansson, the new coordinator at the Unit for Educational Support since the beginning of the year. Ann-Catrin has previously worked as a librarian at LTH with a focus on teaching information literacy as well as reading and writing support for students. Over the next two years, Ann-Catrin will work to strengthen the forms of accessible and inclusive teaching through the proj
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/hello-there-ann-catrin-johansson - 2025-10-19
