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Ska någon prisas för vad som skett i Singapore så är det Sydkoreas president Moon Jae-In. Det är han som är katalysatorn till att vi idag ser avspänningar i Nordkoreas relationer till omvärlden. Det menar experten på internationella relationer Paul O’Shea vid Lunds universitet. – Bättre relationer till Nordkorea har varit ett av president Moons viktigaste mål som politiker. Det är till stor del ha

https://www.lu.se/artikel/moon-bakom-ljusning-i-nordkorea-fragan - 2025-12-13

En landsbygd som utarmas på samhällsfunktioner. Städer där bostäderna blir så dyra att det blir svårt för en medelinkomsttagare att få en rimlig levnadsstandard. Och allt större skillnader mellan länen i hur mycket varor och tjänster som produceras. Kerstin Enflo, forskare i ekonomisk historia, förklarar riskerna i ett land där klyftorna växer. – Idag har Stockholms län ungefär 40 procent högre re

https://www.lu.se/artikel/det-finns-inga-vinnare-i-ett-land-som-dras-isar - 2025-12-13

Riksdagsvalet är också ett EU-val. På bordet i Bryssel ligger just nu en lång rad frågor som de partier som bildar regering ska besluta om i EU:s ministerråd. En ny studie från Lunds universitet visar att väljarna har ytterst små chanser att bilda sig en uppfattning om hur riksdagspartierna ställer sig till huvuddelen av dessa frågor. Idag presenteras en omfattande webbplats där riksdagspartierna

https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-studie-omojligt-ta-reda-pa-vad-riksdagspartierna-tanker-bestamma-i-bryssel - 2025-12-13

Med tolv nya bolagsinvesteringar, fyra noteringar, två industriella exits och ett positivt resultat om drygt 21 miljoner kronor gör LU Holding sitt bästa resultat någonsin. Sedan starten 1997 har bolaget investerat i drygt 100 bolag genom åren och har nu byggt upp ett långsiktigt investeringskapital på närmare 100 miljoner. Siffrorna framgår av holdingbolagets nyligen offentliggjorda årsredovisnin

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rekordresultat-lunds-universitets-holdingbolag - 2025-12-13

Riklig pollinering med många och olika pollinerande insekter ger jordgubbar som växer snabbare, har jämnare form, väger mer och har bättre hållbarhet än om jordgubbsplantorna endast besöks av ett fåtal pollinerande insekter. Varmt och soligt väder i maj månad har gett gynnsamma förutsättningar för alla som odlar jordgubbar. Men jordgubbsplantor behöver mer än sol och fint väder för att producera j

https://www.lu.se/artikel/manga-och-olika-pollinerande-insekter-ger-fina-jordgubbar-till-midsommar - 2025-12-13

Forsknings- och innovationspropositionen, QS-rankingen, myndighetskapitalet, iranska studenter i kläm, toppbetyg för juristutbildningar, Innovation in Mind, professorsinstallationen, dekanresan och Styrgruppen med anledning av varslen på SONY:s arbete är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. Forsknings- och innovationspropositionen. Regeringen presenterade delar av FoI-proppen i förra veckan och

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-17-september - 2025-12-13

Budgetpropositionen, Max IV, Medicon Village, USA:s ambassads besök på universitetet, Dekanresan, kvalitetsdialoger och ett nytt samarbete om masterutbildningar är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. Budgetpropositionen för 2013 visar att grundutbildningsanslaget för Lunds universitet ökar. Under de tre kommande åren skjuts tillfälliga platser till, för 2013 uppgår de till 17 miljoner kronor f

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-1-oktober - 2025-12-13

A Dutch pilot, a safety manager from Australia, an average-adjuster from Denmark and twelve others who work with safety in high-risk industries came together a week before Christmas in Lund to hone their critical thinking skills. They are all studying the distance-learning MSc in Human Factors and System Safety, and it was now time to meet in real life. Participants on the distance-learning progra

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/scattered-risk-students-gather-lund - 2025-12-13

Lund University’s MOOCs have now started. First to launch was the Faculty of Law course in European Business Law, closely followed by Greening the Economy from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), and later in the spring the Faculty of Medicine’s course in sexual health will take place. The number of people registered for the courses has exceeded expectations

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mooc-launch-celebrated-fizz-and-folk-dance - 2025-12-13

… CEO of Lund University’s student consulting company Lunicore, which increased its turnover by 45 per cent last year. As a result, it is now probably the largest student-run consulting company in Scandinavia. Why should students work as consultants during their studies? “Because they get the chance to put their theoretical knowledge into practice while they’re still studying, to see their skills

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meet-emil-erikssonabout-students-consultants - 2025-12-13

The students, wider society and the path to academic success were important points in Torbjörn von Schantz’s inauguration speech on the University’s foundation day, 28 January. After the usual pomp and ceremony, and with the vice-chancellor’s chain hanging splendidly round his neck, he expressed his thanks for the appointment, which he sees as a great honour. Vice-chancellor Torbjörn von Schantz .

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-vice-chancellor-safeguard-student-influence - 2025-12-13

Economist and researcher Andreas Bergh is closely involved in public debate. Few things make him really angry. One of them is stupidity. Like when the city of Malmö fails to create simple entry-level jobs because of unreasonable demands on people who want to start mobile food trucks. “That is how the sluggish Swedish labour market works. If we dared to shake up the regulations we would gain a lot

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/advocating-capitalist-welfare-state - 2025-12-13

From Jordan to Lund: Sahar Al-Rabadi and Marwa Al-Khalidi have got off to a good start as PhD students in architecture at LU. They are the result of a revitalised agreement with Yarmouk University. PhD students in architecture Sahar Al-Rabadi and Marwa Al-Khalidi outside LUX, a building they find architecturally interesting. “I love following rules and here there are rules everywhere. Everything i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jordanian-doctoral-students-appreciate-swedish-order - 2025-12-13

David Gisselsson is a researcher on a roll. In the autumn, he was awarded Lund’s ‘local Fernström Prize’, which goes to a promising young researcher in medicine, and he has recently had an article published in one of the most prestigious journals in the field, Nature Communications. David Gisselsson with two of his research tools – the microscope and the computer. David Gisselsson’s research is ab

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/attention-new-findings-childhood-cancer - 2025-12-13

Doctoral students living on relatively low external scholarships should get terms of employment that are more equal to those on doctoral studentships. This is the hope of the University’s Education Board, which has approved the faculties topping up the income of doctoral students on scholarships. However, the Faculty of Law and the University’s employment lawyers have registered reservations again

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/better-conditions-horizon-scholarship-holders - 2025-12-13

Meet Jonas Hafström, a lawyer with a background in the diplomatic service, including as Swedish ambassador to the USA. For the past year he has led government trade delegations around the world and helped to coach Swedish embassy staff in countries with strong economic growth. Jonas Hafström. Foto: Pawel Flato Welcome to Lund University as the new chair of the University Board. “Thank you.” You ha

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/welcome-jonas-hafstrom-new-chair-university-board - 2025-12-13

Enlightenment philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft believed that living in hierarchies destroyed and corrupted people deep down in their souls. “For her, inequality was the greatest threat to democracy and liberty. It is still dynamite today, as the gulf between rich and poor widens and the world is divided into lords and servants”, says Professor of Human Rights Studies Lena Halldenius. She has just p

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/reinterpreting-feminist-pioneer - 2025-12-13

Peter Schurtenberger wants to create specially designed nanoparticles that can instruct themselves. He is a high-level researcher and chemistry professor recruited from Switzerland, and is fascinated by the processes behind nature’s own ability to organise its smallest components. His aim is to mimic them. Peter Schurtenberger wants to create nanoparticles that could build complex structures in ac

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mimicking-nature-nanoscale - 2025-12-13

Lund University needs long-term strategies with clear priorities from the faculties of what type of research to invest in, agree the two new pro vice-chancellors Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen and Bo Ahrén. They also recognise the difficulty of achieving this at a university as comprehensive as Lund. “Our breadth is definitely our strength, but it can also present problems”, says Bo Ahrén. The two new

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-pro-vice-chancellors-want-strategic-investments-research - 2025-12-13

“I am a political activist and want to broaden and deepen the subject of film studies”, says Chris Holmlund, who is spending the spring as a visiting professor at Lund University. She is a prominent figure in the world’s largest organisation for film researchers and in that capacity will represent Lund University at conferences worldwide. Chris Holmlund is a professor of film studies, women’s stud

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/visiting-professor-film-studies-prominent-among-film-researchers - 2025-12-13