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Three travel grant applications from SWEAH PhD-students have been approved this spring. Sharon Kagwa, Karolinska Institutet, will visit to the non-governmental organisation SAJIDA foundation in Bangladesh, in June- August this summer.– I am mostly looking forward to being exposed to new research methodologies and perspectives within a new research setting in a middle-income country. This internshi

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/they-are-going-research-adventures-abroad - 2025-12-23

On January 1, 2024, Wallenberg Centre Lund got a new preclinical co-director. Professor Kristian Pietras will replace Jonas Larsson, who recently started his new position as Deputy Dean. Welcome to the team! | How does it feel becoming the next preclinical co-director of WCMM Lund?"I am honored to take on this position and really look forward to working with everyone within the centre to create th

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/get-know-new-wcmm-co-director - 2025-12-23

Can the loss of biodiversity slow down if one exposes its economic value? In a study recently published in the scientific journal Nature Communications, the scientists show that among the many thousands of species of bees in the world, only a few species are of economic importance for agriculture. The most common pollinators of crops can be promoted by relatively simple measures in agricultural la

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/putting-price-nature-difficult-new-study-nature-communications - 2025-12-23

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/large-research-grant-mapping-linkage-between-stress-and-diabetes - 2025-12-23

Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) will join a new IMI project - SOPHIA - which will contribute to a more patient-centric and equitable narrative around obesity and its multiple impacts on individuals from both a social and medical perspective. The project will provide evidence-based classification of predictors for obesity complications and response to obesity treatment. Obesity is a chronic

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/sophia-aims-improve-obesity-treatment-and-change-narrative-around-obesity - 2025-12-23

Associate Professor Sébastien Tutenges and Researcher Susanne Boethius of the Department of Sociology at Lund University are Editor-in-Chief and Co-Editor of the Nordic Journal of Criminology since the turn of the year. Looking forward to the new job! In an interview for The Nordic Research Council for Criminology (NSfK), the new Editor-in-Chief Sébastien Tutenges says he very much looks forward t

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-editors-nordic-journal-criminology - 2025-12-23

Things are going well now, for our Faculty. Vice Dean Thomas Hellmark, Head of Education, is pleased with UHR's latest statistics. "More people want to study with us, so the admitted students' grades are rising, which means that they have better prior knowledge and thus better conditions to cope with their studies.” All our programmes have more reserve places than last year and most programmes hav

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/new-semester-years-admission-figures-are-gratifying-it-will-be-fun-receive-our-new-students - 2025-12-24

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/remake-hoping-end-bicycle-chaos-november - 2025-12-24

For the academic year 2020–2021, the Faculties of Humanities and Theology (HT) are funding 25 per cent of a business developer’s post at Lund University Commissioned Education (LUCE). The aim is to broaden their range and commissioned education is deemed to be an important tool for obtaining updates from the wider world. Through collaboration it is hoped to increase understanding of the opportunit

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculties-humanities-and-theology-embark-strategic-collaboration-commissioned-education - 2025-12-24

Emissions from business travel by air dropped by 86% compared with the previous year, but energy consumption was not much affected by the pandemic. The environmental management report for 2020 has now been submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency and shows that 5 out of 7 relevant environmental targets were met. For example, the University has approved new investment regulations for fossil

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/results-2020-environmental-management-report - 2025-12-24

It should be possible to plan the 2021 autumn semester based on some reversion, provided that the infection rate allows it. Teaching and assessment are to continue to be conducted digitally with no physical presence on the University’s premises, up to and including 29 August 2021. The University has also decided that all staff members are entitled to get vaccinated against Covid-19 during paid wor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/updated-vice-chancellors-decision-12-may-regarding-covid-19 - 2025-12-24

Over 50% of the global population lives in cities, and those cities all share the same pressing challenge: how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion in a sustainable way? One way of finding answers to that question is urban living labs, a type of testbed where social and technical innovations are tested in real time in an urban setting.“Urban living labs are a new form of govern

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/book-release-urban-living-labs-experimenting-city-futures - 2025-12-24

Luis Mundaca, Lead author of the IPCC Special Report and Summary for Policymakers, and Professor of Policy Analysis at the IIIEE at Lund University, comments on the report. The Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC was approved by the IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) on Saturday in Incheon, Republic of Korea. It will be a key scientific input into the Katowice Climate Chang

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/ipcc-special-report-global-warming-15oc-has-been-approved-governments - 2025-12-24

MoRe-Lab (Movement & Reality Lab) was inaugurated on 8 December as a new test environment for experimental health sciences at Lund University. All three guided tours on the day were fully booked and there were many questions. The event gave rise to concrete ideas for future collaborations as well as new contacts. The range of participants was wide, to the particular satisfaction of MoRe-Lab’s dire

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/taste-more-lab-lus-new-movement-and-reality-lab - 2025-12-24

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/award-outstanding-chinese-student-abroad - 2025-12-23

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/yemens-higher-education-crisis-cmes-mohammed-almahfali-one-speakers - 2025-12-23

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/staffan-edling-has-defended-his-thesis-los-investigative-work - 2025-12-23

The objective of this lunchtime seminar is to provide a guided reflection on the different ways in which a CV can be constructed to maximize your potential for success in job and grant applications. Why: CVs are the most commonly used instrument for job and grant applications across many different fields, industries and cultures. The CV for most applications is severely limited with regard to leng

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/how-strategically-build-and-sell-your-cv-across-fields-industries-and-cultures-june - 2025-12-23

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/vacuum-cleaner-effect-fungi-can-hold-nanoplastics-bay - 2025-12-23

Kulturnatten (”Culture Night”) is a very popular annual event in Lund that attracts thousands of people to enjoy concerts, science-shows, arts and good food. This time NanoLund again took part in joint efforts with the Physics Department and MAX IV Laboratory to show and explain what our science is all about. One of the key events this year was a popular physics lecture by our very own Nobel Prize

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-and-physics-department-kulturnatten - 2025-12-23