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Consumers’ attitudes captured on film

A lot of research on human behaviour is based entirely on words: researchers read, ask questions, send out questionnaires and write reports. But this means they miss a lot of elements concerning sound, sights and people’s interaction with their physical surroundings. Devrim Umut Aslan wants to study consumers’ attitudes to a shopping environment (Södergatan in Helsingborg) from a sociocultural per

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/consumers-attitudes-captured-film - 2025-11-05

Meet Stina Oredsson…about collaboration with Bolivia

… Professor of Functional Zoology and Cancer Cell Biology, who is helping to develop a world-class cell culture laboratory in Bolivia. It is part of a SIDA-funded project to study how medicinal plants can influence cancer cells. What is your collaboration with Bolivia like? “This is the third in a line of SIDA-funded projects which I have now joined as a cancer researcher. Work is already being ca

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meet-stina-oredssonabout-collaboration-bolivia - 2025-11-05

Tips from the funding bodies

“Really good research is often interdisciplinary”, said Kerstin Sahlin from the Swedish Research Council (VR) at a seminar in Lund on how the land lies for research funding. She wanted to debunk the myth that VR is not good at encouraging interdisciplinary projects. Quite the opposite – a working group has recently been appointed specifically for this type of application, she explained. Göran Blom

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tips-funding-bodies - 2025-11-05

He is searching for creativity outside the academy

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 - 2025-11-05

How creative are research studies?

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 - 2025-11-05

Lund host for strongest MRI scanner in Sweden

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 - 2025-11-05

Better student reception aim of course on cultural differences

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 - 2025-11-05

Experimental art across boundaries

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 - 2025-11-05

"The new digital society is already here"

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 - 2025-11-05

New director of Botan prepares for two anniversaries

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 - 2025-11-05

Per Eriksson: “You have to dare to take risks sometimes if you want to make things happen”

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 - 2025-11-05

Igniting debate on shorter working hours

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 - 2025-11-05

“Obligation to participate in the education debate”

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 - 2025-11-05

Strategic innovation area coordinated from Lund

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 - 2025-11-05

LU joins network to help scholars at risk

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 - 2025-11-05

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