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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Our researchers, Devrim Umut Aslan and Cecilia Fredriksson, have just released their book about ongoing transformations in city retail. We asked Devrim to tell us a little about the book. This book is based on the changing relationship between retail and cities. In recent decades, retail has changed in several fundame

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-book-about-city-retail-transformation - 2026-07-23

Many lung patients face a critical shortage of organs for transplantation. To address this challenge, the ‘The Bridge - Lungs for Life’ initiative led by Professor Sandra Lindstedt at the Skåne University Hospital in Lund and Lund University will establish a centralized Danish-Swedish "renovation facility" for damaged lungs – a first-of-its-kind endeavor in Europe. Lung transplantation is the prim

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/bridge-lungs-life-eu-funding-supports-oresund-lung-transplant-initiative - 2026-07-23

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-web-solution-will-focus-prospective-students - 2026-07-24

A unique long-term study, in which samples were collected from the same population of blue tits over a 30-year period, shows that rising spring temperatures have doubled the incidence of avian malaria in southern Sweden. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have collected samples every year from hundreds of blue tits in a single population at a local breeding area outside Lund. This has prov

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/warmer-nordic-springs-double-incidence-avian-malaria - 2026-07-23

The risk of exposure to covid-19 virus particles increases the closer you are to a patient, the higher virus levels of the patient, and if ventilation is inadequate. Measurements of viruses in the hospital air by researchers at Lund University provide new knowledge on how best to adapt care to reduce the risk of infection. The international guidelines that currently exist in healthcare need revisi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-knowledge-virus-particles-air-can-reduce-spread-infection-hospitals - 2026-07-23

Cities around the world are running experiments to address climate change and sustainability challenges - from new mobility trials and energy pilots to green space projects and circular economy initiatives. Yet too often, these efforts remain small, isolated, or disappear once funding ends. Researchers from the IIIEE, Professor Kes McCormick and Senior Lecturer Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, have contrib

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/future-urban-experimentation-through-ten-critical-lessons-decades-practice - 2026-07-23

CASE researchers Björn Slaug and Susanne Iwarsson have shown that their instrument for assessing accessibility in housing for the elderly also works in Japan - even though it was originally developed according to Swedish conditions. Swedish research contributes to improving public health in Japan.– Through long-term and careful work, we have been able to transfer it to a very different cultural co

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/japan-takes-help-case-developed-research-tool - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 82 years after his death, limnology superstar and the first professor in this field in Lund and the world, Einar Naumann, may have helped solve the riddle of why lakes become brown. With the help of Naumann’s and his students’ work dating back to the 1930s, senior lecturer Emma Kritzberg has created a data series that

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eighty-year-old-findings-help-solve-water-mystery - 2026-07-23

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 - 2026-07-24

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New Lund students are generally younger and have better educated parents than the average Swedish student. This emerges from the figures in a new LU report. Despite a series of initiatives to attract more students from non-academic backgrounds in recent decades, there is little progress. Now a major regional approach

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/initiatives-aimed-children-widen-participation - 2026-07-23

The Faculty has recently established a research council as an advisory body to the Faculty Board and management. ”We hope to strengthen the quality and impact of our research", says Chair Jonas Larsson, Vice-Dean. A central part of a research council's work is external monitoring and analysis of the quality development of the Faculty's research. As an advisory body to the Faculty Board of Medicine

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/our-facultys-new-research-council-quality-development-and-impact-agenda - 2026-07-23

During the 8th - 11 th August 2022, the Development Research School held its first doctoral course in Methodology and Field Studies. It took place in Sogakope, Ghana. The doctoral course was organised by the Institute of Statistical, Economic and Social Research (ISSER), in collaboration with the School of Graduate Studies, University of Ghana, universities of Lund, Gothenburg and Uppsala for doct

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/successful-completion-our-first-course-ghana - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCSUS organises two events at the Future week at Lund University, discussing the future of social movements and the future of traveling, in the light of both the climate crisis and the coronavirus pandemic. The events will take place both onsite and online. 14 October 15.00-16.00:  The future of traveling, mobility a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lund-university-future-week-12-18-october - 2026-07-23

The palm house in the Botanical Garden is to be renovated and the environment improved for both staff and visitors. Production is planned for 2024 and expected to take just over a year. The project was initiated by the University and the Botanical Garden because the cycads and other plants in the palm house require more space while the glass and technical systems in the building need reviewing and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/palm-house-botanical-garden-be-remodelled - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Nowadays it is possible to produce plastics from sugar or vegetable oils, but up to now fossil oil has been too cheap for the production of bioplastics to be profitable. That explains why the plastic-producing bacteria, developed some years ago by researchers at the Centre for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (Kemic

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/huge-potential-bioplastics - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The city of Helsingborg first implemented the Housing First method seven years ago. Since then, the number of homeless per 10,000 inhabitants has fallen sharply. The programme, introduced by researchers at the School of Social Work, has also brought about additional positive effects for socially vulnerable groups in H

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/seven-years-housing-first-success-story - 2026-07-23

LUSEM works strategically with a long-term perspective to connect academia and the business community. Through close partnerships, meeting places are created where companies can engage with the talent of the future and contribute valuable insights, while students gain a concrete understanding of the opportunities offered by working life. LUSEM sees great value in long-term collaboration with the b

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-and-wihlborgs-are-building-bridges-future - 2026-07-24

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Contagion spreads in various ways, with airborne viruses being especially difficult to protect oneself against. Norovirus, or the winter vomiting bug as it is sometimes known, is just such a virus. Carl-Johan Fraenkel, infectious disease and healthcare hygiene specialist, is currently defending his thesis at Lund Univ

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researchers-track-spread-norovirus-hospitals - 2026-07-23

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Ett axplock från oktober och novembers utmärkelser. FORSKNINGSPRIS. SO:s forskningsråd (arbetslöshetskassornas samorganisation) delar ut 75.000 kronor till professor Anders Kjellberg för hans forskning om förändringarna i a-kassereglerna och dess effekter. Anders Kjellberg har också fått Lars Salvius-föreningens sti

https://www.lu.se/artikel/senaste-priser-och-utmarkelser - 2026-07-23

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Bland innovationsforskare finns en utbredd uppfattning att kunskapsintensiva företag frodas bäst i större städer. Men i takt med att nätet byggts ut och människor blivit bättre på att använda det, minskar städernas försprång. Dessutom har landsbygdens trofasta personal som inte hoppar mellan jobb visat sig vara en k

https://www.lu.se/artikel/klyftan-mellan-foretag-i-stad-och-land-minskar - 2026-07-24