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https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/cancerfonden-supports-research-role-rna-modification-cancer-development - 2025-12-03

Researchers from Lund University have now succeeded in restoring mobility and sensation in rats that have suffered Stroke, by transplanting neurons developed from reprogrammed human skin cells into animal brains. “Six months after transplant, we could see how the new cells had repaired the damage that a stroke had caused in the brains of rats," explains Professor Zaal Kokaia, who together with sen

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/scientists-repair-stroke-damaged-rat-brain-1 - 2025-12-03

Teaching is to be as highly valued as research when it comes to appointments and promotions. Despite this ambition, it has rarely worked that way in practice. A recently completed project provides a new framework which will help faculty managements, as well as individual teaching staff members, to evaluate and develop educational qualifications. In the ‘Pedagogisk Meritering’ project, which concer

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-initiative-raise-status-teaching - 2025-12-04

The year 2023 was a fantastic year for research at Lund University. The year can be summarised as 1825. In this case, it does not refer to the year 1825 and that our research has stagnated at the level it was then. Here, 1825 refers to four numbers: 1: Number one stands for a Nobel Prize – What a fantastic recognition for the incredible research conducted by Anne L'Huillier.8: Number eight stands

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/annual-report-research-2023-fantastic - 2025-12-04

By welcoming Laurence Mott, LUSEM further builds its capacity to combine academic excellence with practical experience and deepen its international network. LUSEM has appointed its first Professor of Practice, Laurence Mott. Through this new role, Laurence will provide strategic advice to LUSEM’s leadership and contribute to the work of the International Advisory Board. He will also engage with st

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/laurence-mott-joins-lusem-professor-practice - 2025-12-04

What does it feel like to live with dementia? The answer is offered by the “dementia simulator” developed by virtual reality researchers at the Faculty of Engineering, LTH. The simulator takes the user into a virtual world to experience different aspects of life with a cognitive disorder. LTH researchers Joakim Eriksson and Maria Hedin have been working for several years on virtual experiences of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/successful-commercialisation-dementia-simulator - 2025-12-04

A new project has been initiated to strengthen work on academic freedom and clarify the University’s role in society. The project, which will run until the end of 2026, aims to create a common understanding of what academic freedom entails and how it can be safeguarded in practice. Why is academic freedom important?Academic freedom is a fundamental pillar of research and education. It means that u

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-project-will-strengthen-academic-freedom-lund-university - 2025-12-04

Emissions from our air travel decreased in 2024, compared with the previous year. Air travel accounts for the main part of our emissions from business travel and therefore the total climate impact of our business travel has decreased, even though emissions from car travel have increased. Every year, in connection with its annual report, the University submits a report on our environmental manageme

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/greenhouse-gas-emissions-our-business-travel-have-decreased - 2025-12-04

Department of Political science researchers Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren, Niklas Altermark and Linda Nyberg all awarded grants from Forte. Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren has, together with Patrik Hall, Mats Fred and Kettil Nordesjö from Malmö University, been awarded 6 million for the project "Acquiring practical knowledge: social investment as a tool for municipal governance and organization?" The project anal

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/three-grants-departments-research-group-public-administration - 2025-12-03

WINGS steering committee invites you all to a seminar the 11th of February A brief report from two international gender equality conferences We will in this seminar report on research results and policy measures presented at the conferences Gender Equality in Higher Education – 10th European conference and STEMM Equality Congress. Those conferences were held during the autumn of 2018 and we who pa

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/brief-report-two-international-gender-equality-conferences - 2025-12-03

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/early-action-and-cooperation-reach-2-degree-goal - 2025-12-03

Not all air pollution are created by humans. As the global average temperature rises, harmful emissions from plants increase and more desert dust is dispersed in the atmosphere. Researchers from the University of Gothenburg ande MERGE-members, among others, warn that this leads to increased health risks. Climate change does not only mean that the global average temperature is rising by several deg

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/deteriorating-air-quality-warmer-world - 2025-12-03

MERGE-member Deliang Chen, world leading climate researcher and Professor of Physical Meteorology at the University of Gothenburg, has been elected International Science Council Fellow. It is the highest honor awarded by the ISC to those championing science in and for society. – I am deeply honored to be recognized by the ISC as a global voice for science. It is humbling to stand alongside such a

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/deliang-chen-new-isc-fellow-recognized-promoting-public-impact-science - 2025-12-03

New and updated AV equipmentDuring next year, Med IT will start updating AV equipment at CRC. First up is Agardh Hall as well as 25:an, 37:an and Medelhavet.Next, we will concentrate on lecture halls. Function account for AV equipmentDue to increased security requirements from MSB, the function account fo4750me will be discontinued. The account is used as a general login to computers in lecture ha

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/important-information-med-it-av-contact-emergency-support - 2025-12-03

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/sign-give-popular-science-lecture-during-nmt-days - 2025-12-03

It is a tradition for the Tourism and Hotel specialisation of the Bachelors programme in Service Management to go to Helsingborgs's twin city Pärnu in Estonia every year. This year's trip stood out partly because for the first time also master students with the specialisation in tourism came along, but also because an extra stop on the trip was introduced - a city walk in Helsinki. It was a mixed

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/excursion-parnu - 2025-12-03

Gap mending is an analytical tool that helps teachers and researchers in social work to reflect upon what, in their practice, increases, maintains or mends gaps between professionals and service user groups. Teachers and researchers at the School of Social Work, Lund University, have been developing this method since 2005, when the first "Mobilisation course" was taught. The course trains social w

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/guardian-writes-about-gap-mending - 2025-12-03

Professor Johansson was invited by the European Economic and Social Committee to speak at a public hearing on financing civil society organisations by the EU. On 6 September Professor Håkan Johansson participated in a hearing on Financing of civil society organisations by the EU at the EESC (European Economic and Social Committee). The goal of the hearing was to come up with recommendations for re

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/hakan-johansson-spoke-brussels-civil-society-funding - 2025-12-03

Carolin Schütze has been awarded the ReNEW Early Career Paper Prize in social sciences for the best conference paper at the Third Nordic Challenges Conference, 2019. In her award-winning paper entitled “Feeling Fear in Times of Polarization.  A Systematic Content Analysis of Bureaucrats’ Commentary on Migrants using the Concept of Ontological Security”, Schütze addresses the question of immigratio

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/doctoral-student-wins-early-career-prize - 2025-12-03

How do forests shape the climate — and how does a changing climate reshape our forests? What can science reveal about the forests of tomorrow? This mini-documentary dives into the world of climate modeling and forest ecosystems, offering insights into one of the most pressing environmental questions of our time. This short documentary explores the complex relationship between forests and climate t

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/mini-documentary-climate-modeling-and-forests - 2025-12-03