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CASE:s koordinator, Steven Schmidt, är i gång på allvar med nya forskningsprojektet EPIC-LIFE, som ska utforska strategier för ett effektivt nyttjande av befintliga bostäder. Det handlar om samverkan med civilsamhället på riktigt – boende och andra intressenter bjuds in till spel. Forskarna vill identifiera ekonomiska och sociodemografiska faktorer relaterade till trångboddhet och benägenheten att

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/utforskar-bostadsmarknaden-och-trangboddhet-genom-spel - 2026-05-19

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Skadliga effekter av ämnen som insöndras från röda blodkroppar kan förklara den ökade risken för hjärt-kärlsjukdomar hos patienter med typ 2-diabetes. Resultaten presenteras i två nya studier gjorda av forskare vid Karolinska Institutet. Det är känt att patienter med diabetes löper betydande risk att drabbas av hjär

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/roda-blodkroppar-orsakar-hjart-karlskada-vid-typ-2-diabetes - 2026-05-19

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Djupintervjuer med Parkinsonpatienter som befinner sig i ett tidigt stadie av sjukdomen visar att acceptans skapar förutsättningar för en bibehållen livstillfredsställelse trots sjukdomen. Studien genomfördes av hälsovetenskapliga forskare från det strategiska forskningsområdet MultiPark vid Lunds universitet. Perso

https://www.multipark.lu.se/sv/artikel/acceptans-nyckel-till-livstillfredsstallelse-hos-personer-med-parkinsons-sjukdom - 2026-05-19

Twenty years ago, Anne L’Huillier was supervisor to doctoral student Per Eng-Johnsson. Today he is a professor of atomic, molecular and optical physics, director of the Lund Laser Centre and one of the Nobel Laureate’s closest collaborators. “She makes everyone feel involved. She sees and includes everyone and is completely unpretentious,” he says. When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announ

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/colleagues-around-world-are-genuinely-happy - 2026-05-18

In October, all Lund University School of Economics and Management’s (LUSEM) doctoral students were invited to an afternoon dedicated to exploring career opportunities outside academia. To explore career opportunities outside academia, the doctoral students were presented with information from potential employers, from Lund University School of Economics and Management’s (LUSEM) Professor of Pract

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/exploring-non-academic-career-paths - 2026-05-18

Trump’s intervention in Venezuela was physical, concrete, and armed. What is happening now is decisive for the country’s future, but it also affects the entire region, according to Andrés Palacio, researcher at LUSEM. Historically, the United States has on several occasions asserted Central America, the Caribbean, and South America as its sphere of interest. Since the end of the Second World War,

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/venezuela-after-maduro - 2026-05-18

A research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered a certain type of cells – foam cells – in patients with the aggressive brain tumour glioblastoma. It has been shown how these cells accelerate the cancer’s growth and that this can be successfully inhibited using a drug developed for arteriosclerosis. Glioblastoma affects around 500 Swedes every year and is the most common and most aggres

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/foam-cells-brain-tumours - 2026-05-19

3 October – the Tuesday of the so-called Nobel Week – will go down in history as the day when LTH and Lund University received their very first Nobel Prize. At the same time, to all of us, it was a working day among many. Communication Officer Evelina Lindén, who divides her working hours between Fysicum and LTH’s secretariat, writes about what it was like to suddenly have her workplace invaded by

https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2023/day-work-nobel-prize-joy-behind-scenes - 2026-05-19

What kind of an image of yourself do you present on social media? And why? Carys Egan-Wyer, researcher in Consumer Culture, believes that in some ways leisure time has become a type of work. Showing off the perfect meals, gardens and jogging sessions also says something about us and our time. You probably know what it's like. Despite the burnt pots and sauce all over the stove: a photo of a beauti

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leisure-time-ordeal-enjoy - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There are delicious smells emanating from the kitchen at the Malmö apartment of nutrition physiologist, Louise Brunkwall. Today, she is making pasta and vegetable sauce for lunch. A clean up before the interview with LUM means she can no longer find anything in the kitchen cupboards:  “Usually there is always some kin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/help-your-body-outwit-reptile-brain - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The theme for the first online Transformations Conference (17 – 18th June 2021), co-organised by LUCSUS, is about enabling positive tipping points for sustainability transformations. In this interview, conveners J. David Tàbara (GCF) and Diego Galafassi (LUCSUS), speak on key aims and hopes for the upcoming conference

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/transformations-conference-2021-enabling-positive-tipping-points-sustainability - 2026-05-19

Salem Thawaba, Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Birzeit University in Palestine, visited Lund at the end of April. He was there to participate in teaching activities and discuss potential collaborations with Lina Eklund from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (MGeo). On 30 April, he held a seminar entitled “Colonisation and ever-shifting borders: A Case from the West Bank”

https://www.mgeo.lu.se/en/article/researcher-highlights-effects-border-changes-west-bank - 2026-05-19

Salem Thawaba, Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Birzeit University in Palestine, visited Lund at the end of April. He was there to participate in teaching activities and discuss potential collaborations with Lina Eklund from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (MGeo). On 30 April, he held a seminar entitled “Colonisation and ever-shifting borders: A Case from the West Bank”

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researcher-highlights-effects-border-changes-west-bank - 2026-05-19

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Att ha lågt betyg i gymnastik i grundskolan, kan det ha betydelse för hälsan när man är äldre? Simon Timpka som studerade till läkare blev nyfiken och tänkte sig forska i ämnet en sommar eller två. Men fastnade och nu 5 ½ år senare är han nybliven doktor i ortopedi vid Lunds universitet på en koppling få verkar ha s

https://www.lu.se/artikel/skolgympan-har-effekt-genom-hela-livet-simons-avhandling-visar-nya-samband - 2026-05-18

För första gången har forskare kopplat specifika defekter i spermier till graviditetskomplikationer och negativ effekt på barnets hälsa. Studien från Lunds universitet visar att DNA-skador på pappans spermier fördubblar risken för havandeskapsförgiftning för kvinnor som blivit gravida genom IVF. Dessutom ökar risken för barnet att födas för tidigt. Ofrivillig barnlöshet är ett växande problem och

https://www.lu.se/artikel/defekta-spermier-dubblar-risken-havandeskapsforgiftning - 2026-05-18

“English is like a membrane between us and reality”. The quote comes from a teacher at a Swedish higher education institution and describes their experience of teaching Swedish students in English. “Today, there are often no educational reasons why a particular course in the first-cycle is taught in English,” says Peter Svensson, senior lecturer in Business Administration at the School of Economic

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/poorer-learning-if-teaching-anglicised - 2026-05-18

“English is like a membrane between us and reality”. The quote comes from a teacher at a Swedish higher education institution and describes their experience of teaching Swedish students in English. “Today, there are often no educational reasons why a particular course in the first-cycle is taught in English,” argues Peter Svensson, senior lecturer in Business Administration at Lund University Scho

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/poorer-learning-if-teaching-anglicised - 2026-05-19

COP16 in Cali, Colombia, is the first Conference of the Parties since the adoption of the landmark Biodiversity Plan in 2022 in which countries pledged to save 30 percent of Earth’s land and sea for nature by 2030. PhD student Valentina Lomanto is attending COP, which takes place 21 October – 1 November 2024, as a representative for the LUCSUS project Environmental Human Rights Defenders. In this

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/what-are-ideal-outcomes-cop16 - 2026-05-19

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Vissa ämnen skrivs det särskilt ofta i media om under sommaren. Här finns en lista över forskare vid Lunds universitet som kan svara på vanliga sommarfrågor. Medicin, mat och hälsaAktivt och hälsosamt åldrande
Det finns många viktiga forskningsfrågor på området aktivt och hälsosamt åldrande t ex boendefrågor, äldres

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-sommarlista-2017-massor-av-experter-pa-sommarens-fragor - 2026-05-19

What is the perfect recipe for semiconductors? Vanya Darakchieva is working on the answer in her research on novel semiconductor materials. As a professor of solid state physics at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), she is a “research chef” designing the future cookbook for sustainable and safe electronics. Understanding and explaining the mysteries of nature was Vanya Darakchieva’s dream during he

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-chef-refines-recipe-semiconductors - 2026-05-18