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Six researchers at Lund University’s Lund Stem Cell Center have been awarded SEK 13.4 million from the Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund, Barncancerfonden, in its latest funding round. The projects address key challenges in childhood cancer, from understanding how the disease develops to designing treatments that are more precise and less harmful for young patients. In total, Barncancerfonden is inves
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Do you leave work full of energy and excited about what the rest of the day has to offer? If not – maybe it is worth trying to improve recovery during the working day. Lina Ejlertsson's thesis is about recovery of staff in one of the most stressful work environments – healthcare centres. She says we have a certain am
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/recover-during-working-day - 2026-08-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Infertility is now a condition as common as diabetes. On the one hand, women are waiting until they are older to have children, which makes it more difficult to get pregnant, but some studies also indicate a drastic decline in sperm counts in men over the past 50 years. Repro Union 2.0 is a Danish-Swedish initiative t
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eu-infertility-project-focuses-men - 2026-08-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RQ20, the new major research quality evaluation, is underway! It is based on self-evaluations and will involve around 5 000 members of staff. In contrast to the last time, in 2008, there is no extra money for the fields of research that come out best. There will be no grades or gold stars. “However, the evaluation wil
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-be-evaluated-without-grades-or-gold-stars - 2026-08-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Vice-Chancellor Torbjörn von Schantz is convinced that leadership at the University is a momentous question. “If we are perceived as being incapable of making uncomfortable decisions, there is a risk that we will see the same changes here as in other places such as Denmark – that collegial leadership is replaced by pu
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-its-important-managers-be-able-make-uncomfortable-decisions - 2026-08-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Melissa Franklin is a guest professor from Harvard University who compares her environment at Fysicum with the tv-series Friends and Seinfeld. Here she shares her views on similarities and differences between the universities. When a colleague on my 3000 person experiment at CERN whom I didn’t know, Torsten Akesson, e
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/crossing-border-scania - 2026-08-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Kidney exchange, refugee placements and choosing schools. Separate things but with the common denominator that, with digitalisation's new tools, it is possible to save both time and money – and to save lives. "I don't like it when I see things that are wrong which research could solve. Then it is up to me to take my
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/algorithm-maker-saving-lives - 2026-08-15
Researchers from Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) will play a key role in a long-term grant from FORTE to establish a new national research centre. Lund University has received a long-term grant from FORTE to establish a new national research centre dedicated to interdisciplinary research on cancer and equity in women’s health. The centre, known as CIRCE (Centre for Inter
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-part-winning-proposal-national-research-centre-womens-health - 2026-08-16
When planning for food in times of crisis – what foodstuffs do we imagine? Many think of tin cans and freeze-dried food, but the fact is that if a crisis occurs, it is not stockpiled cans that will save us. Food preparedness is a subject being taken up by researchers from the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at Almedalen Week, one of their reflections being how local growing of crops that do not need
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/preparedness-more-stockpiling-pantry-provisions - 2026-08-16
After 15 years, hundreds of meetings, conferences, opinion pieces, interviews and trips to Stockholm, it happened – the Government adopted the Housing First model as a national strategy for tackling homelessness. “We are very proud. We have just finished an information guide that the National Board of Health and Welfare will distribute to Sweden’s social workers,” Marcus Knutagård tells LUM when w
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/finally-housing-first-model-adopted-national-strategy - 2026-08-16
The internal combustion engine is a subject that has been described as nasty and outdated. In fact, it is not outdated at all – but an area of cutting-edge research that is an important part of a sustainable energy transition. Martin Tunér is a professor of Internal Combustion Engines at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and he explains that a functioning and egalitarian society needs transport, so
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/internal-combustion-engine-will-remain-important - 2026-08-16
Plans to move some research and education to Science Village are being formulated. But the University’s finances are proving to be a limiting factor for the establishment. The goal for the University is to have completed a premises programme by the end of the year, which is essential if research and teaching are to be conducted in Science Village by 2030. Yet, Science Village Scandinavia AB, which
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/finances-stumbling-block-move-science-village - 2026-08-16
Economists are obsessed with growth. So says economist Timothée Parrique, who has recently attracted attention for his research into degrowth. He thinks that creativity is missing from economic theory. “Economists stubbornly attempt to solve today’s problems with yesterday’s theories,” he says. Trusting one’s gut instinct can bring rewards. In Timothée Parrique’s case that was certainly true – tod
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/degrowth-path-future - 2026-08-16
As governments around the world ramp up subsidies to accelerate the transition to renewable energy, a key question remains: Do these policies deliver the economic and environmental benefits they promise? New research by Kajsa Ganhammar sheds light on the unintended consequences of one popular tool, green certificate schemes, revealing that when dominant producers can game the system, consumers may
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/how-renewable-energy-subsidies-can-affect-electricity-prices - 2026-08-16
They come from different academic disciplines but have all ended up at the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University. Join Ingrid van Dijk, Finn Hedefalk and Björn Eriksson in a conversation about the conditions for early-career researchers, learning from senior colleagues, and passing the torch on. “One of the most enjoyable parts of our work is learning from others.” These words belong t
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/knowledge-transfer-way-forward-early-career-researchers - 2026-08-16
Sociologist of religion Linnea Jensdotter conducts research on the role of religion in politics. She has analysed 20,000 Facebook comments on articles from Sweden’s biggest news sites. Her analysis shows that religion is becoming more politicised. Some comments point to religion to assert “Swedish values”. Others display a genuine interest and a willingness to discuss. “What surprised me was that
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/religion-politicised-social-media - 2026-08-16
The idea that research results should be simplified and related to a media logic when being communicated to the public is challenged in a new report on research communication. “It is just as important, if not more so, to provide an understanding of what lies behind the results – of the knowledge and the methods used,” says organisational researcher Anna Jonsson. She has been involved in the recent
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/background-results-important-when-communicating-research - 2026-08-16
A meeting at the kitchen table, with lots of coffee and snus. And a donation of SEK 250 million. That’s what happened when Ingvar Kamprad met LTH’s dean in 1998 to talk about the future of industrial design education at the University. The kitchen table belonged to the then dean of LTH Thomas Johannesson, who had invited the founder of IKEA to his house to discuss a collaboration between the desig
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ingvar-kamprad-design-center-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary - 2026-08-16
Five years after the opening of the prestigious Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, nothing has turned out as planned. The “tandem pairs” that were supposed to develop research together are now cheating on each other with other researchers. Private and work life have become intertwined and families often barbecue together. It’s a cold Sunday afternoon and the ground is covered in a thin laye
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cheating-and-interdisciplinary-fun - 2026-08-16
