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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 - 2025-10-25

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 - 2025-10-25

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 - 2025-10-25

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 - 2025-10-25

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 - 2025-10-25

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 - 2025-10-25

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 - 2025-10-25

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 - 2025-10-25

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 - 2025-10-25

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 - 2025-10-25

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 - 2025-10-25

Lena Svenaeus har utvärderat Diskrimineringsombudsmannens verksamhet åren 2009 - 2020 och presenterat resultatet i en rapport som publicerats av tankesmedjan Arena Idé. I rapporten kritiserar hon myndigheten för att ha frångått sitt huvuduppdrag att skydda enskilda mot diskriminering och uppmanar regeringen att agera. Sammanslagningen av fyra diskrimineringsbekämpande myndigheter 2009 till en enda

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/artikel/forskare-pa-rattssociologen-kritiserar-diskrimineringsombudsmannen - 2025-10-25

Samhällsvetenskapliga fakultetens styrelse utser biträdande lektor Ida Nafstad till docent. Fakultetens beslut grundar sig på Kerstin Jacobssons, professor i sociologi vid Göteborgs universitet, utvärdering av Ida Nafstads vetenskapliga arbete och pedagogiska meriter. Kerstin Jacobsson skriver att Ida Nafstads forskning fördjupats och breddats efter disputationen från Universitetet i Oslo för sju

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/artikel/rattssociologiska-institutionen-har-fatt-en-ny-docent - 2025-10-25

Rättssociologiska institutionens lektor Karl Dahlstrand har värvats som krönikör av juridikförlaget JP Infonet. Företaget ägnar sig åt juridisk informationsinsamling och kunskapsspridning och anlitar över 200 specialister. Av dessa är Karl Dahlstrand ensam rättssociolog och skriver om straffrätt och brottsofferperspektivet. I sin första krönika skriver Karl Dahlstrand om att Brottsoffermyndigheten

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/artikel/karl-dahlstrand-kronikor-pa-juridiskt-kunskapsforetag - 2025-10-25

Den 9 december höll Sveriges radio seminariet ”Röster som inte får tystna - om hat och hot mot journalister”. Bland de fem paneldeltagarna fanns Rättssociologiska institutionens doktorand Oscar Björkenfeldt. Han undersöker hur och under vilka förutsättningar hat och hot mot journalister online riskerar att försvaga yttrandefrihet och demokrati. Oscar Björkenfeldt påtalade att journalister utsatts

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/artikel/oscar-bjorkenfeldt-spred-visdom-pa-sveriges-radios-seminarium-om-hat-och-hot-mot-journalister - 2025-10-25

I början av december blev det klart att Rättssociologiska institutionen hamnar under nytt ledarskap. Dåvarande prefekt Mattias Baier hade avstått omval. Istället valde personalen Isabel Schoultz till prefektuppdraget. Efter elva år som föreståndare och prefekt för Rättssociologiska institutionen lämnar Matthias Baier uppdraget för att fokusera på forskningsprojekten ”The Multilevel Orders of Corru

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/artikel/det-har-ar-rattssociologiska-institutionens-nya-prefekt - 2025-10-25

I slutet av förra sommaren intervjuade Amin Parsa och Niklas Selberg professor Adelle Blackett om hennes undervisning och forskning om avkolonisering av arbetsrätt och juridisk utbildning. Samtalet har precis publicerats. Den 31 augusti 2020 hade Rättssociologiska institutionens postdoktor Amin Parsa och Niklas Selberg, lektor vid Juridiska fakulteten, en digital konversation med Adelle Blackett,

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/artikel/avkolonisera-arbetsratten-ett-samtal-med-adelle-blackett - 2025-10-25

Universitet över hela världen har stängt sina campus och vänt sig till digitala undervisning. Även om studenterna sitter fast hemma kan den nya miljön ha fördelar mot en konventionell akademisk miljö. Martin Joormann, postdoktor vid Rättssociologiska institutionen, representerar Lunds universitet i VirtualLAS, ett digitalt undervisningsprojekt som involverar universitet i fem länder, initierat vid

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/artikel/leder-reseforbud-till-mer-internationaliserade-klassrum - 2025-10-25

Att vara gift och ha hög inkomst och utbildningsnivå är fördelaktigt om du inte kan betala dina amorteringar. I en kvantitativ studie publicerad i Journal of Consumer Policy konstaterar Mikael Lundholm, doktorand vid Rättssociologiska institutionen, att ”högre socioekonomisk status är positivt korrelerad med större potential för kompensation” vid en utmätning. Han drar också slutsatsen att korrela

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/artikel/hog-socioekonomisk-status-ger-battre-chanser-att-fa-betalt-vid-tvangsforsaljning - 2025-10-25

Den tidigare jämställdhetsombudsmannen är kritisk till hur Diskrimineringsombudsmannen arbetat med diskrimineringsärenden. Rättssociologiska institutionens forskare Lena Svenaeus skriver i Svenska dagbladet att mer än hälften av alla arbetsgivare struntar i jämställdhetslagen sedan Jämställdhetsombudsmannen och tre andra myndigheter ersattes av Diskrimineringsombudsmannen (DO) 2009. Detta har möjl

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/artikel/lena-svenaeus-do-har-bagatelliserat-diskriminering - 2025-10-25