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Godishimmel eller godishelvete? Konsumtionen av Halloween-relaterade produkter har skenat iväg sedan vi importerade traditionen från USA, och i år förväntas Halloweenfirandet i Sverige omsätta hela 1,6 miljarder kronor. Allhelgona eller Halloween har förvandlats från en stillsam svensk tradition där vi hedrar våra avlidna till en miljardindustri. Tidigare handlade det framför allt om att gå till k

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/sorgritualer-och-makabra-festligheter-halloweenkonsumtionen-okar-alltmer - 2025-12-08

Historikern David Larsson Heidenblad har skrivit självhjälpsboken ”Ta din tid: Gör mindre men bättre”. Han säger att en av de värdefullaste sakerna för framgång och ett lugnare liv är att ha ingenting att göra. De erfarenheterna har han samlat till fem tips inför julen.  – Det var en chock att få första barnet. Känslan av att inte kunna bestämma över sin egna tid och att inte hinna med väckte mitt

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fem-tips-att-ta-sin-tid-infor-julen - 2025-12-08

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 - 2025-12-07

The Centre for European Studies has awarded Ida Welén the 2024 honorary mention for her bachelor’s thesis “Strategic Altruism: Analyzing Development Aid for Donor Strategic Objectives. A quantitative analysis of the strategic interests influencing European aid flows”. The Centre for European Studies reached out to Ida Welén by email to ask her about the process of writing her thesis.Congratulation

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/ida-welen-receives-cfe-honorary-mention-2024 - 2025-12-07

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden can now reveal what the Danish King Hans had planned to offer when laying claim to the Swedish throne in 1495: a two-metre-long Atlantic sturgeon. The well-preserved fish remains were found in a wreck on the bottom of the Baltic Sea last year, and species identification was made possible through DNA analysis. At midsummer in 1495, the Danish King Hans was e

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/atlantic-sturgeon-kings-pantry-unique-discovery-baltic-sea-wreck-1495 - 2025-12-07

A forest management method different to those practised today would contribute to greater welfare and wellbeing for society in general, compared with current methods that mainly benefit the forestry industry. This has been shown in a new study by two researchers from Lund University in Sweden. There is an intensive debate at the moment about the best way to use the forest as a resource, not least

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/another-type-forest-management-would-provide-greater-values-society - 2025-12-07

LU Accommodation wish you all a safe and happy holiday period. The reception is closed between 21 December and 1 January, and here's what you need to know. This article will cover some frequently asked questions about this time of the year, including:Reception closedReturning keysCollecting keysHousing applicationsPayments and depositsContract CancellationsSurvey resultsWe would like to thank all

https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/holiday-update - 2025-12-07

Melissa Franklin is a guest professor from Harvard University who compares her environment at Fysicum with the tv-series Friends and Seinfeld. Here she shares her views on similarities and differences between the universities. When a colleague on my 3000 person experiment at CERN whom I didn’t know, Torsten Akesson, emailed suggesting I visit the Lund University physics department for a year, I sm

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/crossing-border-scania - 2025-12-07

The report published by EU3D: EU Differentiation, Dominance, and Democracy, argues that European Union challenges and crises of the past decade, including the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, refugees, ethno-nationalist/Brexit movements, COVID-19, and Russian invasion of Ukraine are part of a planetary organic crisis (POC) of economy, society, ecology, conflict, and polity. The recognition of the s

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-achieving-european-communion-planetary-organic-crisis - 2025-12-07

A grant of nearly 5 million SEK from Riksbankens jubileumsfond has been awarded to Doctor in Sociology Lisa Eklund, together with Kristina Göransson at the School of Social Work, for the project Parenting strategies around children’s education in urban China, Singapore and South Korea: A comparative ethnographic study. Abstract:This comparative ethnographic project addresses parents’ educational c

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/parenting-strategies-around-childrens-education-urban-east-asia-awarded-5-million - 2025-12-07

I samarbete mellan studieförbundet Bilda och Körcentrum Syd vid Musikhögskolan i Malmö erbjuds du möjligheten att följa en inspirerande workshop med två av Sveriges mest rutinerade vokalgruppsartister! Katarina och Peder arbetar med 3 av Bildas gospelkörer, med målet att hjälpa dessa  utvecklas och hitta nycklar för att bli säkrare, tryggare och mer närvarande i sången. Vill du komma som åskådare

https://www.korcentrumsyd.lu.se/artikel/masterclass-med-katarina-henryson-och-peder-karlsson-fran-real-group - 2025-12-07

Meet Gabriele, a graduate of the master’s degree programme in Economics who has navigated a challenging yet rewarding career path since completing his studies in 2019. From an uncertain job search to finding his footing as an Assistant Economist at the Office for National Statistics in the United Kingdom, Gabriele's journey is a clear example of determination and flexibility. He shares insights in

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/gabriele-bindi-alumnus-msc-degree-economics-2019 - 2025-12-08

Det är ännu osäkert hur mycket studenter och medarbetare kommer att vara på campus under hösten. Men en successiv återgång planeras. Diskussioner förs också om administrativ och teknisk personal ska få fortsätta jobba hemifrån post-corona. På universitet har lärare och forskare länge kunnat välja att arbeta hemifrån när det fungerar bäst för dem och verksamheten. Administratörerna har arbetat på p

https://www.lu.se/artikel/hur-ska-vi-jobba-i-host - 2025-12-08

”Hot om suicid. Ung kvinna med självskadebeteende som tagit överdos av tabletter”. Så låter ett av larmen under Rasmus Elténs tio timmar långa pass på Helsingborgs ambulansstation. Det är hans första praktikvecka på specialistutbildningen till ambulanssjuk­sköterska och det kommer bli en lång dag. Erblind Mustafa, som liksom Rasmus Eltén gör sin praktik inom den verksamhetsförlagda utbildningen (V

https://www.lu.se/artikel/larmet-gar-forsta-dagen-i-ambulansen - 2025-12-08

In the recent assessment from QS World University Rankings, Lund University was ranked as number 8 in the world, number three in Europe and number one in Sweden! The ranking is an assessment on how universities are tackling the global challenges within sustainability. This is the second year the rankings have been produced, and LU has climbed four places compared with last year’s position. The ran

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lund-university-climbs-global-sustainability-global-ranking - 2025-12-07

Why does Russia still use Morse code? Has military conscription increased equality? These are two questions that Tony Ingesson, associate senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science, reflects on in two highly read articles on the news platform, The Conversation. One of Tony Ingesson’s articles, on military conscription, has 26,000 reads and the other, about Morse code, has over 40,000 r

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/morse-code-russia-path-idea-popular-article-conversation - 2025-12-08

The grant enables a study of how children's rights are understood and made use of in custody cases in three countries with different legal cultures. The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte) grants the Sociology of Law Department almost five million SEK (€420,000) for the project "The dynamic life of Child Rights in three legal cultures. A comparative analysis of ch

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/five-million-sek-research-childrens-rights-custody-disputes - 2025-12-07

A new LUCSUS study sheds light on the challenging lives of seasonal migrant farmworkers in Turkey. The workers, who are predominantly Kurds, Arabs, and Syrian refugees, face multiple layers of marginalization, including racial discrimination, state violence, chronic poverty, and forced displacement. A new study by LUCSUS researcher Sinem Kavak, reveals the harsh realities faced by seasonal migrant

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/exploited-and-invisible-harsh-realities-seasonal-migrant-farmworkers-turkey - 2025-12-07

“Do you want to see what a box jellyfish sees and experiences when it rides a roller-coaster?” “We humans believe that what we see is reality, but it isn’t. It is an eminently human reality, filtered through our eyes. The visual world of animals shows different realities”, says Dan-Eric Nilsson. Almost 40 years have passed since Dan-Eric Nilsson arrived in Lund from Gothenburg as a doctoral studen

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/animal-eyesight-needs-driven - 2025-12-07

On Saturday, a TEDx conference will be held in Malmö. One of the speakers is Hannah Stanton, a former student at the Department of Strategic Communication, who has the opportunity, in her professional life, to combine what she learned during her studies with experiences from her voluntary work. Here is a very recent interview with Hannah, filled with inspiration and advice to current and future st

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/hannah-stanton-never-compromise-things-you-know-you-are-good - 2025-12-07