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The newly established Centre for Aesthetics and Business Creativity (ABC), at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), and led by Professor Daniel Hjorth, is thrilled to announce its collaboration with the Malmö Academy of Music (MHM), the Inter Arts Center (IAC) and the research cluster on “Creativity, AI, and the Human” at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI), University of E

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/bridging-performing-art-ai-creativity-and-entrepreneurship-abc-mhm-iac-and-efi-research-cluster - 2025-12-19

What happens if there is a power cut and the heating stops working for a long period of time? Besides the obvious consequences – that technology doesn’t work and it gets cold – how do we, as a society, prepare for such a crisis? Do we know who is supposed to do what when it happens? And who gets to decide on the crisis plans? There are many different unexpected and sudden events that can happen. A

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/everyone-must-be-included-crisis-planning - 2025-12-20

“Relapse of the condition is more common following the new treatment method using keyhole surgery, which for one-third of patients will lead to planned bowel operations. However, far fewer patients require ostomies,” says Pamela Buchwald, associate professor at Lund University and senior physician at Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, who led the study from Malmö. The study was led by researchers f

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/keyhole-surgery-ruptured-bowels-safe-long-term-method - 2025-12-19

Women make up 70 per cent of Zimbabwe's agricultural labour but have little influence over farmlands and resources. Recent research shows that women farmers are uniting to challenge traditional norms and are gaining influence and respect while promoting sustainable agriculture. When men leave Zimbabwe's rural areas for work in cities and abroad, women farmers establish agricultural leadership comm

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/zimbabwes-women-farmers-fighting-patriarchal-land-laws-and-reshaping-sustainable-agriculture - 2025-12-19

Neuroinflammation plays a significant role in neurodegenerative disorders. That is why MultiPark researchers collaborates across research teams. ”Neuroinflammatory pathways in neurodegenerative diseases” is a new special interest group (SIG) to elucidate molecular and genetic aspects in a rapidly growing research area. Malin Wennström explains how she convenes the joint effort. Can you briefly des

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/neuroinflammatory-pathways-neurodegenerative-diseases-special-interest-group - 2025-12-19

The forest and forest management are a hot topic in the climate debate, but there are still uncertainties in the mapping of the forest's function as a carbon sink or carbon source. In a new study, led by Patrik Vestin at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, the researchers have made measurements of greenhouse gases at clear-cutting and found that there are large net emission

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/clear-cut-forest-areas-emit-greenhouse-gases - 2025-12-19

Students from our international master’s programme and acting programme year 1 and 2 will participate in this years edition of Malmö Community Biennal. The Malmö Community Biennal return for its third time to shine a light on creative projects, productions and ideas that are being generated by and with local communities – challenging the division between ‘professional’ and ‘non-professional.’ Make

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/our-students-participate-malmo-community-biennal-2023 - 2025-12-19

Professor Kevin Anderson is one of the leading experts in the world on climate change and has written a number of articles on the urgency for action. On April 10 & 11 he is visiting Lund. On Monday April 10, Kevin Anderson will hold a lecture at the public library in Lund from 18.00 to 19.30: Mitigation – but how fast?Politicians and negotiators always seem to use yesterdays requirements for the r

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-researcher-kevin-anderson-visits-lund-april-10-and-11 - 2025-12-20

The University Board has decided on a Security Policy. The Policy applies to the whole University and provides guidance for how we are to work together on security issues systematically and for the long term. The Policy is part of a larger initiative to work more proactively and systematically in both the long and short term. In addition, security guidelines are being developed, along with practic

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-aiming-higher-its-security-policy - 2025-12-20

A new study from Lund confirms that pesticides commonly used in farmland significantly harm bumblebees. Data from 106 sites across 8 European countries show that despite tightened pesticide regulations, more needs to be done. Despite claims of the world's most rigorous risk assessment process, the use of approved pesticides in European agricultural landscapes still negatively affects non-target or

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/commonly-used-pesticides-are-still-harming-bees - 2025-12-19

A new study from Lund confirms that pesticides commonly used in farmland significantly harm bumblebees. Data from 106 sites across 8 European countries show that despite tightened pesticide regulations, more needs to be done. Despite claims of the world's most rigorous risk assessment process, the use of approved pesticides in European agricultural landscapes still negatively affects non-target or

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/commonly-used-pesticides-are-still-harming-bees - 2025-12-19

Workshop held at the Department of Human Geography, 6-7th February 2019. Following the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Goal 11, making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable will be the focus of the workshop’s discussions. Swedish and Turkish scholars contribute to the subject matter from the angle of an advanced capitalist country context and an emergi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/workshop-financialisation-housing-and-violation-housing-rights-global-north-and-south - 2025-12-19

A team of NanoLund researchers sought ways to make students understand what is actually happening inside the “magic black box” of a commercial spectrophotometer.  “This set promotes discovery in a natural and self-motivating way. By changing samples in the spectrometer, we can explore a variety of materials and their properties,” says NanoLundian Jens Uhlig, one of the researchers behind the work.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/inexpensive-spectrometer-triggers-chemistry-students-curiosity-0 - 2025-12-19

On Tuesday September 11 at 4-5:30 pm at Gamla Kirurgen R236 Dr. Martin J. Bayly will give a talk entitled "Taming the Imperial Imagination: How the British Came to Know Afghanistan and Why it Matters" Abstract of the talk:Colonial knowledge played a key role in shaping the practices of colonial rule in South Asia and across the British empire as a whole. This lecture  pays particular attention to

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lecture-british-colonial-administrators-afghanistan - 2025-12-19

SASNET's Director, Ted Svensson, and Joel Lee (Williams College) are jointly organising a workshop at Lund University 30-31 May 2023. They would like to invite postdocs and PhD students affiliated with a university in the Nordic countries to apply to participate. Deadline is the 10 February. Workshop description  Though Hindu nationalists posit the existence of a monolithic ethnoreligious majority

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-sasnet-workshop-hindu-majoritarianism-caste-politics-and-minoritisation - 2025-12-19

Maj Hasager, rector at Malmö Art Academy, will be installed as Professor of Fine Arts at a ceremony in the University House auditorium on October 18th. In addition to her role as rector, Hasager is active as an international artist, focusing on moving images and photography in the social sphere. In connection to the installation as professor, we took the opportunity to ask her a few questions.How

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/maj-hasager-rector-malmo-art-academy-installed-professor-fine-arts - 2025-12-19

Efforts to combat climate change tend to focus on supply-side changes, such as shifting to renewable or cleaner energy. In a Special Issue in the Energy Efficiency Journal that follows the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ˚C, researchers argue that demand-side approaches can play a crucial role given the aspirational target outlined in the Paris Agreement. “We need to aggressively redu

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/can-we-limit-global-warming-15-degc - 2025-12-20

The 10th Sustainability Week will be held on 13–18 April 2026, and as a university employee, you have the opportunity to contribute to the programme! Every spring, Lund University and Lund Municipality organise a six-day programme full of activities that focus on sustainability issues. During the week, we highlight current societal challenges and explore inspiring visions for the future. In recent

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/be-part-10th-sustainability-week - 2025-12-20

In the article “Global Norm-Maker as China’s New Brand? An Analysis of the Responsible Cobalt Initiative”, Hyeyoon Park explores China’s normative role in global governance for sustainable mineral extractions. China became a key actor in the global supply chain of extractive resources (e.g., cobalt and lithium) - crucial part of green transition worldwide. Hyeyoon Park examines China’s role in glo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hyeyoon-park-explores-chinas-norm-making-role-global-extractives-governance - 2025-12-19

The annual CED Lund Population Day (LPD) 2025 is coming up 8 May on the theme The Two Fertility Puzzles, 2010-2020. We asked the organizer, professor Martin Dribe, three quick questions to learn more. Hi Martin Dribe, professor of Economic History, specializing in Economic Demography, and organiser and lead researcher of the upcoming annual CED Lund Population Day (LPD) 2025.What inspired the them

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/curious-about-lpd-three-quick-questions - 2025-12-20