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During May 16th 2024 Malmö Theatre Academy hosted a day-event that explored practices and histories of alternative pedagogies in relation to art, education and ecology. Tracing ideas of urban transformation, spaces of social participation and critical publics, the event seeks to explore how unlearning environments and daily practices of support, play and organising might offer fundamental experime
https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/pedagogies-symbiosis - 2025-11-03
The climate cannot handle the amount of animals we eat. There needs to be a protein shift, according to researcher Karolina Östbring who is involved in the Sustainability Week. Her vision is to create a platform for research on vegetable proteins at LU. Karolina Östberg Photo: Kennet Ruona. The human population is growing, while our ecological footprint needs to become much lower in order to redu
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-need-protein-shift - 2025-11-03
The interdisciplinary Pufendorf Institute has received excellent reviews in an international evaluation. The way people there think, experiment and collaborate across boundaries is impressive. According to the evaluators, the institute is now ready to also play a strategic role as the engine of interdisciplinary research throughout the University. At the Pufendorf Institute, interdisciplinary acti
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/pufendorf-institute-ready-become-interdisciplinary-engine - 2025-11-03
One of the two recent Lund University jubilee stamps depicts the young diabetes researchers Anna Edlund and Jones Ofori. They are pleased to be featured on the stamps – but it was a complete surprise to them both. “Obviously we knew that our picture had been taken. A couple of years ago, there was a photographer here at CRC (Clinical Research Centre) who photographed the premises, labs and people.
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unknowing-researchers-became-stamp - 2025-11-03
Den stamcellsbaserade terapin för behandling av Parkinsons sjukdom, STEM-PD, har blivit godkänd av Läkemedelsverket för klinisk fas 1 och 2a-studie. Forskningen har sedan tidigare etiskt godkännande av Etikprövningsmyndigheten, och teamet som leds från Lunds universitet, är därmed redo att gå vidare med den kliniska prövningen. –Vi ser fram emot att den kliniska studien nu kan initieras och har fö
The TEDDY Study has increased our knowledge about what happens prior to the onset of autoimmune diabetes (type 1 diabetes) and has shown that a stomach infection can trigger coeliac disease. Lund University in Sweden has now received just over SEK 40 million from the American National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue the TEDDY Study for another five years. “We have large volumes of data to a
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/international-diabetes-study-receives-sek-40-million-continue - 2025-11-03
A newly started project is to produce a web solution to support potential students in the process of choosing courses and programmes. The decision to implement the project “A unified web experience for education” was taken at the Vice-Chancellor’s decision-making meeting on 30 November. The aim of the “a unified web experience for education” project is to create a modern service website that provi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-web-solution-will-focus-prospective-students - 2025-11-04
A few years ago, Maria Ekelin, programme director for our midwifery programme at the University of Texas, taught within the framework of STINT Teaching Sabbatical. "I'm passionate about educational issues and always have the University of Texas and how they did it in the back of my mind".A few years ago, Maria Ekelin, program director for our midwifery education, was in Austin, University of Texas
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/time-apply-teaching-sabbatical-among-most-fun-things-ive-done-teacher - 2025-11-04
For a researcher to be successful, he or she not only needs to produce good research – it also has to gain exposure. However, there is competition for space in scientific and popular science journals. This has led to the growth of a grey area with unprofessional journals that take payment from researchers who want their work to appear. Kristoffer Holmqvist recommends the information on the Univers
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unprofessional-open-access-publishing-new-industry - 2025-11-03
The John Molson MBA International Case Competition is a prestigious business case competition with teams from around the world, the world’s largest of its kind. During six days in January, 30 teams of highly skilled MBA students, gather in Montreal, Canada. The competition follows a round-robin format (where each team meets every other team), featuring seven engaging business cases. Open to elite
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/how-proud-we-are-great-achievement-our-students-international-case-competition - 2025-11-04
Celebrate Culture Night with Lund University! Browse among all our activities for young and old, which extend from morning to late evening. Culture NIght Lund is a festival for the whole Lund Municipality, and Lund University is a part of the programme.Bring your family or friends and take a part of the events and activities that Lund University have to offer. For everybody and all ages. Some of t
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-culture-night-saturday-20-september - 2025-11-04
Published 15 December 2021 Thesis: A Child-Centred Health Dialogue for the prevention of obesity: Feasibility and evaluation of a structured model for the promotion of a healthy lifestyle in preschool children and their families in the Swedish Child Health Services. Abstract Prevention of childhood obesity with its effects on children’s mental and physical health and wellbeing is an international
https://www.childfamilyhealth.lu.se/article/child-centred-health-dialogue-0 - 2024-06-25
Early diagnosis is key to receiving proper care and advancing research on future therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and dementia with Lewy bodies. New research from Skåne University Hospital and Lund University shows that combining a simple smell test with advanced spinal fluid analysis can predict these diseases with high accuracy, while sparing nearly half of patients f
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/smell-test-cuts-need-invasive-parkinsons-screening - 2025-11-03
The heads of the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC), the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES), and the Department of Geology have agreed on a proposed name for a joint department, contingent upon a co-organisation decision in September. Below is a background on how the departmental representatives, tasked with developing name proposals, have crafted the pre
https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/name-suggestions-potential-joint-department - 2025-11-03
With the support of an EU grant of 1.9 million euros, Alzheimer's researcher Oskar Hansson will lead and coordinate a research collaboration between Sweden, Spain, France, Germany and Denmark. The goal is to create conditions for early and correct diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. This is to improve the treatment and care of the patients and reduce the societal costs that the disease causes. The i
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/large-eu-project-alzheimers-coordinated-lund-university - 2025-11-03
Tycker (både du och) dina studenter att föreläsningarna blir för långa i onlineklassrummet? Nu kan äntligen alla anställda använda röstningsverktyget Mentimeter för att skapa ytterligare interaktivitet i undervisningen. Med Mentimeter kan du aktivera dina studenter i ett digitalt möte/eMöte i Zoom eller Teams såväl som i klassrummet. Som lärare (eller varför inte mötesledare?) skapar du exempelvis
https://www.education.lu.se/artikel/nu-kan-vi-rosta-med-mentimeter - 2025-11-03
This autumn, Lund University will offer its first three free open online courses, known as MOOCs. They will be in green economy, global health and European business law. Despite this decision, opinions are still partially divided. Some see MOOCs as a motor for development that will rejuvenate and adapt higher education to new methods of learning. Others fear that the hype surrounding MOOCs will ro
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/green-light-three-moocs - 2025-11-03
Enlightenment philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft believed that living in hierarchies destroyed and corrupted people deep down in their souls. “For her, inequality was the greatest threat to democracy and liberty. It is still dynamite today, as the gulf between rich and poor widens and the world is divided into lords and servants”, says Professor of Human Rights Studies Lena Halldenius. She has just p
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/reinterpreting-feminist-pioneer - 2025-11-03
Gaming Disorder har introducerats som ny diagnos i WHOs senaste klassifikation av sjukdomar. Men det finns i dag otillräcklig kunskap om hur olika typer av dataspel bidrar till ett problematiskt spelande. Därför har forskare undersökt sambandet och resultaten presenteras en ny studie från Lunds universitet. För att uppfylla kriterierna för diagnosen Gaming Disorder (GD) ska en person ha ett okontr
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/spelmarknaden-kan-behova-regleras-att-skydda-unga - 2025-11-04
