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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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

In connection with a new report on measures to mitigate climate change, researchers at Lund University in Sweden see some hopeful signs. Among other things, Lars J Nilsson, Professor of Environmental and Energy Systems at Lund University, thinks there are good prospects for achieving zero emissions by 2050 in industries such as steel, cement, and chemicals, which are currently responsible for majo

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/un-climate-report-april-4th-what-matters-now-zero-emissions - 2025-12-29

The Swedish Government has today appointed Henrik Smith, professor in animal ecology at Lund University, as a new member of the Climate Policy Council. Henrik Smith works at the Center for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) and the Department of Biology in Lund. He will take up his position at the Climate Policy Council on 1 July. “The Swedish Climate Policy Council has been pivotal in puttin

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/henrik-smith-new-member-swedish-climate-policy-council - 2025-12-29

The research programme ”Pathways towards an efficient alignment of the financial system with the needs of biodiversity (BIOPATH)”, with Lund University as host, has been granted funding of SEK 50 million over a period of four years, starting September 2022. The financier is Mistra (Foundation for Environmental Strategic Research) and researchers from CEC will take part in the programme. Susanne Ar

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/50-millions-research-about-finance-and-biodiversity - 2025-12-29

What is happening to the climate and what role does climate research play in society? The strategic research areas MERGE and BECC, the Bolin Centre for Climate Research and SMHI are together arranging a climate symposium in Norrköping on 16-18 May 2022, the Swedish Climate Symposium. The conference means that Sweden's largest players in climate research gather for the first time for a major sympos

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/national-symposium-norrkoping-focuses-climate-research - 2025-12-29

Is it possible to put a value on nature and the vital ecosystem services it provides for us? What are the pros and cons of different valuation models? These are the key questions addressed in a new report by IPBES, the UN’s biodiversity panel, to be published on 11 July. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) can be described as the equivalent

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/how-nature-be-valued-new-report-way-ipbes - 2025-12-29

A Vice-Chancellor’s decision has been taken on five profile areas for Lund University. One of the areas is ClimBioSis, which involves several CEC researchers. Thirty researchers from over a dozen departments at Lund University were behind the profile area application for Sustainable solutions in the climate change – biodiversity – social nexus – ClimBioSis. “The application is based on a fantastic

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-says-yes-climbiosis-profile-area - 2025-12-29

New data by the research infrastructure ICOS confirms that natural carbon sinks such as the ocean and forests are not stable. Climate change makes these sinks more vulnerable, in some cases even turning them into carbon emitters. This compromises current climate targets and action plans, reserachers say. Fluxes, the European Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, is a new publication by the reserach infrastruct

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-change-makes-carbon-sinks-more-vulnerable - 2025-12-29

A new study led by Lund University in Sweden shows that cities negatively affect the diversity of birds. There are significantly fewer bird species in urban forests compared with forests in the countryside – even if the forest areas are of the same quality. The researchers examined 459 natural woodlands located in or near 32 cities in southern Sweden. They counted the occurrence of different bird

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/less-bird-diversity-city-forests - 2025-12-29