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It is still unclear how much students and staff will be on campus in the autumn, but a gradual return is being planned. Discussions are also being held as to whether technical and administrative staff will be able to continue working from home after the pandemic. At the University, teaching staff and researchers have long been able to choose to work from home when that was most effective for them
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-are-we-work-autumn - 2025-10-15
Workhorse Philip Warkander became Sweden’s first PhD graduate in Fashion Studies. He describes research in a new subject as continuously doubting – an approach he also applies to the academic community’s focus on hard work. Moving around as a researcher, he noticed one day that he had fallen into the classic man-trap – friends and interests beyond work had been lost. When LUM meets fashion studies
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/doubting-fashion-pioneer - 2025-10-15
Tre medlemmar delar sina lärdomar från engagemang i organisationen som arbetar för att föra fram unga forskares och lärares röst vid fakulteten. Anmäl dig till jubileet den 2 maj senast den 20 april. Anders Rasmussen, 40, docent i neurovetenskap, forskargruppsledare, ordförande i Future Faculty:Hur, när och varför engagerade du dig i Future Faculty?– Jag åkte på en retreat i Ystad 2018 som anordna
https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/20-arsjubileum-future-faculty-har-lart-mig-hur-man-navigerar-i-akademin - 2025-10-15
Why do some people develop type 1 diabetes and others do not? Worldwide, researchers are now collaborating to find the answer to this complex question.Diabetes researchers at Lund University recently contributed data to a new study that shows that type 1 diabetes develops in three different ways in children. This improved understanding makes it possible for scientists to conduct new types of studi
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/blood-testing-children-leads-better-understanding-type-1-diabetes - 2025-10-15
A desire to be able to freely carry out research and the chance to provide her daughter with a good education led Pinar Dinc to leave Turkey. It is a journey that is not over yet. However, with another prestigious research grant from Formas she feels secure in Lund for the next three years. “I would be able to begin research on anything at all in Turkey, however, if I were to present results tha
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-found-sanctuary-lund - 2025-10-15
A new blood test demonstrated remarkable promise in discriminating between persons with and without Alzheimer’s disease and in persons at known genetic risk may be able to detect the disease as early as 20 years before the onset of cognitive impairment, according to a large international study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and simultaneously presented at
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-blood-test-shows-great-promise-diagnosis-alzheimers-disease - 2025-10-15
"Mastery of the law gives you power. And I want to use that power to support the vulnerable" says Sofia Åkerman, doctoral student at the Department of Law with personal experience of vulnerability and self-harming behaviour. She survived, but several of her friends did not. The Lego bricks occupy a central position in the middle of the living-room floor of Sofia Åkerman's home, a terraced house in
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/using-law-fight-vulnerable - 2025-10-15
As SciLifeLab continues to grow as a hub for cutting-edge life science research, collaboration and coordination are more important than ever. At SciLifeLab Lund, the coordinators play a vital role in connecting researchers, infrastructure units, and strategic initiatives across disciplines and sectors. We meet Anabella, Sophie and Wojtek, the three coordinators at SciLifeLab Lund. Each brings a un
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/enhancing-research-and-partnerships-new-coordinators-step-scilifelab-lund - 2025-10-15
Covid-19 turned parts of the ordinary research process upside down. Economist Erik Wengström is among those who have studied Swedes’ behaviour during the pandemic from the centre of events. But the current funding system risks putting a spanner in the works. His wish: for the faculty to have a quick source of money for highly topical research. “The pandemic has been an interesting time for researc
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/call-speedy-action-finance-highly-topical-research - 2025-10-15
Many of us have worked more remotely during the pandemic than we ever dreamed of doing. Informatics researcher Saonee Sarker has been studying IT-enabled collaboration and its impact on work-life balance for many years, but mainly with a focus on the IT sector. Today, she sees how that industry's digital settings has moved to encompass us all. The bookshelves in Saonee Sarker's office at the Schoo
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hybrid-workplace-future - 2025-10-15
“Suicide threat. Young woman with self-harming behaviour who has taken an overdose of pills”. This is one of the emergency calls that come in during Rasmus Eltén’s ten-hour shift at the ambulance station in Helsingborg. He is in his first week of internship on the specialist nursing programme in pre-hospital emergency care and it is going to be a long day. Erblind Mustafa who, like Rasmus Eltén, i
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/emergency-call - 2025-10-15
It is halftime for Vice-chancellor Erik Renström and his team. Three years of his term of office have passed, and three remain. Here in LUM, he sums up the first-half performance, looks ahead and explains how he approaches a job in which everyone wants a bit of his time. Word is that he is always on time to meetings, but almost never arrives early. Heading up the stairs to his office on the second
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/halftime-vice-chancellor-erik-renstrom - 2025-10-16
När SciLifeLab växer blir effektiva samarbeten avgörande för att hålla ihop och utveckla verksamheten. De tre koordinatorerna Anabella, Wojtek och Sophie har en central roll i detta arbete. Vi träffar Anabella, Sophie och Wojtek – de tre nya koordinatorerna vid SciLifeLab i Lund. De kommer från olika akademiska bakgrunder och har skilda expertområden, från datavetenskap och biologi till strategisk
https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/scilifelab-vaxer-nya-koordinatorer-i-lund-tar-over-rodret - 2025-10-15
Forskare vid Lunds universitet har i en ny studie funnit ett tydligt samband mellan östrogenbehandling och de tre vanligaste typerna av hudcancer. Att effektivt kunna behandla klimakteriebesvär är viktigt för många kvinnors mående. Men, konstaterar forskarna: läkarna bör informera sina patienter om att solskydd är extra viktigt vid östrogenbehandling. Antalet personer som varje år diagnosticeras m
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/tydligt-samband-mellan-ostrogenbehandling-och-hudcancer - 2025-10-16
Vad är det som gör att vissa får typ 1-diabetes medan andra inte får sjukdomen? Forskare runtom i världen söker gemensamt efter ett svar på den svårlösta frågan. Diabetesforskare vid Lunds universitet bidrog nyligen med data till en studie som visar att sjukdomen utvecklar sig på tre olika sätt hos barn. Den ökade kunskapen gör det möjligt att genomföra nya typer studier som går ut på att förebygg
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/barnens-blodprover-okar-kunskapen-om-utvecklingen-av-typ-1-diabetes - 2025-10-15
Three members share their take-aways from getting involved in an organization committed to bringing forward the voice of young researchers and teachers at the Faculty. Register for the anniversary on May 2, no later than April 20. Anders Rasmussen, 40, Associate Professor in Neuroscience & PI, Future Faculty Chair:How, when and why did you get involved in Future Faculty?"I went to a retreat in Yst
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/celebrating-20-years-future-faculty-has-taught-me-how-navigate-academia - 2025-10-15
Why do some people develop type 1 diabetes and others do not? Worldwide, researchers are now collaborating to find the answer to this complex question. Diabetes researchers at Lund University recently contributed data to a new study that shows that type 1 diabetes develops in three different ways in children. This improved understanding makes it possible for scientists to conduct new types of stud
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/blood-testing-children-leads-better-understanding-type-1-diabetes - 2025-10-15
Farshid Jalalvand has a PhD in infection biology and vaccine development, and he has appeared frequently in the media during the debate on the Covid-19 vaccine. “When you work, as I do, with vaccines and you understand how they work, it feels important to try to explain it so that people can take decisions based on solid evidence”, he says. A lot of the criticism against vaccines occurs on social
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-everyones-responsibility-get-vaccinated - 2025-10-15
Dick Harrison is 57 years old and has written 105 books. He lectures all over the country, is a regular expert on TV and radio, runs a podcast, and writes articles for magazines and two columns a week in one of Sweden’s largest newspapers. “Teaching is my calling, though, the thing closest to my identity.” It’s winter and muddy on the drive in front of the Harrisons’ Art Nouveau villa in Åkarp. On
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dick-harrison-brand - 2025-10-16
What surprises a course participant from Africa on a short visit in Lund and to LUSEM? And what made the strongest impressions? Takes to bring back? And what about the group dynamic with new acquaintances from many different parts of the same continent? We are really curious about what happened during the fourth round of the course Innovation, Transformation and Resilience for Sustainable Developm
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/what-we-learned-and-will-take-home - 2025-10-16
