Published 15 November 2019 Ill-health resulting from sedentary, static or repetitive work causes major problems for employees. The University has now purchased a pause program, Pausit, which all employees can download to their computers. Pausit’s break program offers pause exercises during the working day. It is a computer-based tool that helps you to do exercises that prevent stiffness and pain i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-pause-program-prevent-occupational-injuries - 2025-04-05

Published 20 January 2020 As of 1 January 2020, new rules regarding entertainment apply throughout the University. The new rules will make it easier to determine what is classified as entertainment and what is not. The maximum amount for entertainment purposes has also been adjusted. One of the aspects that has been made clearer is that it is always the purpose which determines how an event is to

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-rules-regarding-entertainment - 2025-04-05

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 22 December 2020 Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Message from the director Seasonal greetings from the team at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies  This has been a strange and challenging year. We have just closed down the Centre temporarily due to escalating Covid-19 pandemic.  However, in 2021 we

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-16-december-2020 - 2025-04-05

Published 13 October 2021 Project title: Early-life environmental risk factors for inflammatory bowel disease: A Nordic birth cohort study Project: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic, debilitating immune-mediated disease with a typical onset in childhood and young adulthood. After a rising incidence over the past decades, it now affects 0.5% of Western populations, and is an emerging di

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/job-opportunity-doctoral-student-medical-science-environmental-risk-factors-ibd - 2025-04-05

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/large-grant-research-genetics-alcoholism - 2025-04-05

Published 23 March 2021 Professor Jan Sundquist Professor Jan Sundquist at Lund University has been awarded a $3 million grant by the National Institutes of Health, NIH, USA. His group will do research on heredity and environmental factors in relation to the ongoing opioid epidemic and other drug abuse Together with Professor Kenneth Kendler at Virginia Commonwealth University, the research group

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/large-grant-research-opioid-epidemic - 2025-04-05

Published 18 November 2019 Book release and screening: Maria Norrman - An Afternoon Galleri Ping-Pong Stora Nygatan 4, Malmö 20 November 2019, 6.30 pm Artist Maria Norrman speaks with Måns Holst-Ekström about Norrmans artist book: An Afternoon. Graphic design by Nika Helia Persson  The book is based on the video work An Afternoon from 2011, which was Norrman’s bachelor work at Malmö Art Academy. T

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/alumni-maria-norrman-1 - 2025-04-05

By peter [dot] kjallkvist [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Peter Kjällkvist) - published 11 February 2025 The libraries at Lund University are launching Finn, a new search system for the autumn semester of 2025, replacing the current LUBcat and LUBsearch. A beta version of the new system is already available for testing and feedback submission. The developers are also looking for people to test the sys

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/finn-university-libraries-new-search-system - 2025-04-05

Published 12 October 2021 Lund University’s Future Week 18-24 October offers exhibitions, lectures, debates and tours - on site and online. The theme for this year's Future Week is "Breakthroughs". What breakthroughs are needed in research and in society for us to be able to manage our future in the best way possible? What breakthroughs do we expect to happen soon? The university’s researchers add

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/future-week-18-24-october-2021 - 2025-04-05

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/worlds-best-morning-digital-dos-and-donts - 2025-04-05

Published 29 March 2021 The competitive intelligence report for 2021 has now been completed. It is divided into different sections. Outlook covers special challenges and opportunities that the Risk Advisory Committee and University management have deemed relevant to the University’s future. The focus areas section covers trends and processes that may affect the University. The aim of competitive i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/where-does-university-stand-world - 2025-04-05

Published 29 March 2021 Planning for this autumn’s Future Week is in full swing. This year’s theme is “Breakthroughs” in all of their conceivable forms. Which programme items would you like to propose for this year’s event, which will take place between 18 and 24 October? What breakthroughs are needed in research and across society for us to tackle the future in the most effective way? What breakt

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/future-week-lund-university-18-24-october-2021 - 2025-04-05

By Jenny [dot] Hansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Hansson) - published 13 March 2023 Sustainability Week has established itself as a key meeting place and this year brings together over 60 different events. For the seventh year, Lund University and the City of Lund are working together to highlight everything from biodiversity and climate issues to the role of business in the transition, co

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainability-week-17-22-april - 2025-04-06

Published 15 January 2025 CMES Researcher Yafa Shanneik has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for her project "RELI-GENE: Governing Health, Family, and Religion". The study examines how religious and state health policies influence marriage and reproductive practices, particularly in close-knit religious communities in Europe and the Middle East. In many of these communities, marri

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/yafa-shanneik-awarded-erc-consolidator-grant - 2025-04-05

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/accelerating-sustainability-entrepreneurship-local-spaces - 2025-04-06

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/chakra-nordic-journal-south-asian-studies-call-articles-and-reviews - 2025-04-05

Published 21 August 2018 SASNET’s South Asia Library received a generous donation in the form of a Gandhi Collection from the relatives of the late Professor Lars Lindström. Lars Lindström (1943–2018) was since 1999 a professor in pedagogy. In 2008 he became a professor at Stockholm University at the Department of Educational Science where he worked on technical, aesthetic and practical traditions

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/second-gandhi-collection-donated-sasnet - 2025-04-05

Published 9 April 2024 We warmly invite innovation stakeholders and actors, business leaders, council and university representatives, and Future by Lund members to the seventh afternoon talk, this time about Lund Innovation District and the innovation politics that effects the way it is organised, governed, and financed. Lund Innovation District is a global innovation ecosystem that brings togethe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/afternoon-talk-about-new-conditions-developing-lund-innovation-district - 2025-04-06

By asa [dot] thormahlen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Thormählen) - published 23 April 2024 Join in and experience interdisciplinarity “in live practice”. Among other things, there will be a lunch seminar on what sound can teach us about democracy – and vice versa. Or perhaps a workshop, including performance, on ways to achieve existential well-being? Why not join the opening of the exhibition:

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/interdisciplinary-research-goes-live-pufendorf-institute - 2025-04-06

By jimmy [dot] edenborg [at] ub [dot] lu [dot] se (Jimmy Edenborg) - published 9 February 2025 Ahead of the autumn 2025 semester, LUBcat and LUBsearch will be replaced by Finn, the library search service. Finn allows you to search both the print and electronic collections of libraries. A beta version is already available for you to test and give feedback on. LUBcat and LUBsearch can be used as usu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/libraries-launch-new-search-service-2025 - 2025-04-06