Jessica Melin är forskningssjuksköterska inom TEDDY-studien och lägger nu fram sin avhandling där hon undersöker psykologiska effekter av att delta. Foto: Kennet Ruona Hur påverkas föräldrar och barn av att delta i screeningstudier för typ 1-diabetes? Det är en fråga som doktoranden Jessica Melin har undersökt i en doktorsavhandling som läggs fram vid Lunds universitet. Resultaten kan användas för

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/hur-paverkas-foraldrar-och-barn-av-att-delta-i-screeningstudier - 2025-08-23

Åke Lernmark prisas för sin forskargärning inom diabetesforskning. Foto: Tove Smeds Åke Lernmark har lett forskargrupper i tre olika länder, handlett 33 doktorander till disputation och byggt upp TEDDY-studien som genererat mer än 150 publikationer. Han är rankad som en av världens främsta experter inom sitt fält, diabetes typ 1, med över 40 100 citeringar i vetenskapliga tidskrifter. I oktober to

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/prisad-sin-forskargarning-och-sitt-innovativa-ledarskap - 2025-08-23

Vi var väldigt förväntansfulla inför resan till London, man hör ofta att London leder utvecklingen av miljözoner i Europa tack vare sina omfattande, strikta och ambitiösa policyer för att minska utsläpp och förbättra luftkvaliteten. Stadens Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) är en av de mest omfattande i världen och täcker hela stor London sedan augusti 2023. Zonen mäter 1 500 km² och omfattar ca nio

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/framtidens-stadslogistik-inspiration-fran-londons-grona-omstallning - 2025-08-23

FOTO: MARIA_SBYTOVA/Smartphotos De flesta kvinnor kommer någon gång under sitt yrkesliv att befinna sig i klimakteriet. Hur kan en arbetsplats riggas för att underlätta för anställda i övergångsåldern? Ett pilotprojekt vid Lunds universitet undersöker frågan. Svettningar, humörsvängningar och dålig sömn. Många kvinnor lider av att vara i klimakteriet. Enligt en studie från 2021 publicerad av Socia

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/hur-kan-lu-bli-en-mer-klimakterievanlig-arbetsplats - 2025-08-24

Lila Lee-Morrison, Alison Gerber, ­Tobias Olofsson och Isak Engdahl ingår i forskningsprojektet ”Show and tell”. Foto: Minna Wallén-Widung När sociologen Alison Gerber fick 1,5 miljoner euro från EU skulle hon för första gången sätta ihop och leda en egen forskargrupp. Att gå in i rollen som forskargruppsledare har varit kul, men också en utmaning. Alison Gerber är ny som forskargruppledare och ef

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/en-egen-forskargrupp-roligt-och-utmanande - 2025-08-24

Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm at Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg receives the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research for research on the adipose tissue. Photograph: Johan Wingborg This year's recipient of the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research maps out mechanisms in the adipose tissue, which has increased the understanding of why some people with obes

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/ingrid-wernstedt-asterholm-receives-leif-c-groop-award-research-adipose-tissue - 2025-08-23

Since 2020 Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir has been a PhD student at the Malmö Theatre Academy and is now defending her dissertation project: “How Little Is Enough? Sustainable Methods of Performance for Transformative Encounters.” Part of her PhD defence is the exposition at IAC during the Malmö Gallery Weekend (26 September to 3 October 2024).In her PhD project Steinunn has been exploring sustainable

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/how-little-enough-meet-steinunn-knuts-onnudottir-get-possible-answers - 2025-08-23

From climate anxiety to death cafés and end-of-life care, Jamie Woodworth is honoured for research that brings care and death into the public conversation. What are your thoughts on death? How would you like to spend your last days? These kinds of existential questions are explored at so-called death cafés - gatherings that Jamie Woodworth began organising before she was 25, as a way of dealing wi

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/when-care-becomes-luxury-jamie-woodworth-end-life-care-swedish-welfare-state - 2025-08-23

Since 2020 Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir has been a PhD student at the Malmö Theatre Academy and is now defending her dissertation project: “How Little Is Enough? Sustainable Methods of Performance for Transformative Encounters.” Part of her PhD defence is the exposition at IAC during the Malmö Gallery Weekend (26 September to 3 October 2024). In her PhD project Steinunn has been exploring sustainable

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/how-little-enough-meet-steinunn-knuts-onnudottir-get-possible-answers - 2025-08-23

Claus-Christian Eckhardt, the Director of the School of Industrial Design is relieved. Photo: Erik Andersson A record donation of SEK 350 million from the IKEA Foundation has secured the future of the School of Industrial Design at Lund University. It is not the first time that the school has received a major donation from IKEA. It all started at a meeting over a lot of coffee and snuff between In

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/shared-vision-about-good-design-everyone-behind-huge-donations - 2025-08-23

1.5 million Swedes and 850 million people globally suffer from migraines, a condition that Lars Edvinsson has been researching for almost forty years. Practically every day over the past year, he has received thank you letters from all over the world from patients whose lives have been transformed thanks to new medication based on his research. However, the path leading to this point has been long

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/migraine-researcher-who-bucked-trend - 2025-08-23

Eva Nordmark comes to Humlamaden three times a week to help look after the horses. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Eva Nordmark was 62 when she received her Alzheimer’s diagnosis. But rather than life ending, it gave her the chance to reclaim parts of her life that she had not previously had time for. It is a sunny autumn day at the Humlamaden rehab centre outside Veberöd, and the stable is full of life and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/when-memory-fails - 2025-08-23

Torbjörn von Schantz is satisfied that the management group has got better at taking collective responsibility. Photo: Kennet Ruona Torbjörn von Schantz finds that he has made good progress on the road to a united University. In his management group, he now sees more of a shared assumption of responsibility and less of a silo mentality and special interests. What he has missed most during his year

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/outgoing-vice-chancellor-satisfied-see-more-people-taking-collective-responsibility - 2025-08-23

Dragana Trivic working out in the laundry room. LUM asked a handful of employees this question after almost a year of working from home. Several of them spoke about putting on some extra weight, more TV and less exercise – but they were not too keen on putting their face to that in LUM... However, another group of employees told us about their new and creative ways of keeping active. "I work out i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-your-body-feeling-and-how-your-training-going - 2025-08-23

“Cultural heritage means a great deal for Syria’s identity and is something we all share. It can help to reconcile groups that were previously in conflict”, says Anas Al Khabour. In his homeland, Syria, he was a museum director – but today there is not much left of the National Archaeological Museum in Raqqa after it was plundered by IS. “I try to do what I can to save the cultural heritage”, says

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fighting-save-syrias-cultural-heritage - 2025-08-23

The precise construction design for Science Village is still unclear, with the possible exception of the common Space (in the background) which will be the first building to be erected in the area. This will house a reception, restaurant and exhibition ab "Now I dare to rejoice a little", says Sven Lidin, dean of the Faculty of Science. "The uphill task that establishment in Brunnshög had become a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chemists-jump-science-village-bandwagon - 2025-08-23

"There is so much freedom and so many opportunities here – it is a fantastic place. But if my main task is to be smart, there must be the conditions for it." says Jimmie Kristensson. Photo: Kennet Ruona Enjoying your job is a condition for both academic success and freedom, according to pro vice-chancellor Jimmie Kristensson. He is in charge of the University’s new initiative for gender equality a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/going-work-should-be-fun-0 - 2025-08-23

As one of four young researchers at Lund University, Ingrid van Dijk, Associate senior lecturer at the Department of Economic History at LUSEM and researcher at the Centre for Economic Demography, receives an ERC Starting Grant. Her project is titled “Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations”. She is the first researcher ever from Lund U

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/erc-starting-grant-economic-historian-ingrid-van-dijk-project-health - 2025-08-23

“Replication studies are not seen as valuable, but researchers and society need to know which studies hold up”, says Burak Tunca. Photo: erol ahmed, evan smogor och hans reniers/unsplash Science should be able to be reproduced, but in reality this is a step that is often overlooked. Researcher Burak Tunca at the School of Economics and Management sees several possible measures that could make rese

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/do-it-again-and-do-it-right - 2025-08-23

Christian Balkenius is not worried about robots taking over and becoming smarter than us. " Not in my lifetime, in any case", he reassures. Photo:Maria Lindh How do you get a robot to behave in an ethical and moral way? Christian Balkenius is giving this a lot of thought, as it is the topic of his research project. However, he is also thinking about ethics among robot researchers.  “It’s often sai

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/robots-not-so-smart-we-would-think - 2025-08-23