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This year’s first interdisciplinary CASE Scientific Session yesterday, about digital technology, was a collaboration between the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine. And gathered more researchers than usual to these sessions. PhD students from the latter, Samantha Svärdh and William son Galanza, presented their preliminary findings on their work with technologies used in care for older adul

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/hot-topic-ai-and-digital-technology-older-adults - 2026-07-05

Maryam Nastar, researcher at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), and Rashmi B. Prasad, Associate Professor at Lund University Diabetes Centre, receive the first two SASNET grants intended to support individual researchers at Lund University in their writing of research applications. Maryam Nastar, (Mal)Adaptation to extreme urban heat: At what cost, to whom? The proposed re

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/two-new-sasnet-grants-support-writing-research-applications - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Master students and people from the tourism industry was in place when the conference "Tourism 2.0: Innovation & Experience" was held at Campus Helsingborg. During the conference, participants could, among other things hear about exchange students as tourists, about queuing in amusement parks as well as about free gui

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-ideas-tourism-industry - 2026-07-05

Efforts to strengthen leadership and protect academic freedom are underway, including new leadership programmes and a management forum. A project for academic leadership has also been established. Efforts to strengthen leadershipSome years ago, we completed a study on the leadership of the future at Lund University. The study gave rise to a number of recommendations, resulting in the introduction

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/strengthening-leadership-and-redoubling-efforts-academic-freedom - 2026-07-06

Sara Linse, Professor of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant worth 2.5 million euro. Chemistry professor Sara Linse’s research project, CHAPLIN, is to investigate the thermodynamic basis for how a group of chaperone proteins work. This applies to chaperone proteins that increase other proteins’ solubility and thereby protect against neurogenerative diseases

https://www.science.lu.se/article/chemist-receives-prestigious-grant-european-research-council - 2026-07-05

Johannes Lindvall and Katren Rogers have co-authored the article “The Changing Faces of the Modern State” published in Governance. The article describes the changing nature of the English and Swedish states between 1800 and 2020 from the perspective of ordinary citizens. Abstract This paper describes the changing nature of the English and Swedish states between 1800 and 2020 from the perspective o

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-and-rogers-changing-faces-modern-state - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On January the 11th the tourism students on the Masters' programme of 2016, arranged a conference on the theme of tourism practices. As a part of the course "Value creation and innovation in tourism", the students of the Master programme with the specialisation Tourism, organized this conference that through a number

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/tourism-practices-today-and-tomorrow - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Michael Hansen has, together with Kathleen Dolan from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, co-authored the article "Blaming Women or Blaming the System? Public Perceptions of Women’s Underrepresentation in Elected Office", which was recently published in "Political Research Quarterly". While scholars understand so

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hansen-public-perceptions-womens-underrepresentation-elected-office - 2026-07-05

With 89 defibrillators, Lund University has more defibrillators than any other Swedish higher education institution. These are to cover a campus area of around 550,000m2 and be available for about 39,000 staff and students. The magazine Universitetsläraren has conducted a survey to find out how many defibrillators there are at Sweden higher education institutions (HEIs). They sent out a questionna

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-has-most-defibrillators-1 - 2026-07-06

The Development Office has produced a campaign called “Give research as a Christmas present”, which is being arranged for the second year running. The primary message of the campaign is that you can make a difference by simply making a donation. In practical terms it could concern helping to reveal Uppåkra’s historical secrets or supporting the development of cures for serious viral diseases. Prov

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/christmas-present-campaign-support-lus-research - 2026-07-05

No 57, 13 March 2026 Welcome to a new addition of the NAISS training newsletter.   Our event “Efficient use of the Grace Hopper GPU nodes on Dardel and Arrhenius” is about to close registration.   Since last week we added two more events.  The first one is our advanced programming course on parallel programming with MPI.  The second one are our NAISS induction training days.   These are a set of m

https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter-10 - 2026-07-05

In his current research project, Sherzod Eraliev investigates the conditions of life and work for some of the thousands of undocumented Uzbeks operating within the Swedish shadow economy. The governmental agency Statistics Sweden put the number of Uzbek nationals in Sweden at about five thousand. Sherzod Eraliev, a postdoctoral researcher at the Sociology of Law Department, says the actual number

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/life-and-labour-undocumented-uzbeks-sweden-and-finland - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In their quest to find new and better methods to make cancer cells more susceptible to treatment, Karin Lindkvist and her research group at Lund University in Sweden are looking into the world of molecules, using the X-rays at the MAX IV laboratory. The researchers believe that limiting the cells' access to sugar will

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/researchers-believe-sugar-and-obesity-can-make-cancer-cells-more-difficult-kill - 2026-07-05

With each day that passes, I become more impressed by this organisation. In the early spring, we came out of the pandemic (well, not completely, but there was at least a loosening of restrictions that were paralysing society) to be met by a new uncertainty, which since then has unsettled us and caused anxiety – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Just as when the pandemic struck, Lund University showed

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/summer-greeting - 2026-07-05

Since the beginning of the Nanoimprint Lithography topic, Lund has been an important node for growing know-how. This year, the 23rd International Conference on Nanoimprint and Nanoprint Technologies, and the European NIL Industrial Day 2024 merged into the world’s leading symposium on nanoimprint and nanoprint. We talked to one of the Conference Chairs, Lars Montelius, on the last day of the confe

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/great-success-nanoimprint-litography-conference - 2026-07-05

No 59, 15 April 2026 Welcome to a new addition of the NAISS training newsletter.   Since the last edition we have added the course “AI in HPC”, which can be attended on-site in Stockholm and online.  We still take late registrations for the “Using Python in an HPC environment” event next week.   We remind on a number of events announced previously, which cover a wide range of topics.   Our new use

https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter-11 - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The University finds itself in a time of paradoxes. At the same time as the EU, via its framework programmes, works for openness and mobility for researchers and students, there are increasing nationalistic and protectionist trends. In addition, the trust and hope that society has in research as a solution for global

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/competitive-intelligence-increasing-difficulty-being-university - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 2020 will be remembered as the year when the coronavirus paralysed the world. At the same time, the negative effect of climate change became increasingly apparent, and the pleas to listen to the scientist and the calls for action became even more urgent. What changes for the climate do researchers want to see in 2021?

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-researchers-wish-list-2021 - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Eighteen nationalities come together during lunch on level B10 at Biomedical Centre (BMC). There is a hotchpotch of dishes and languages. Lunch becomes an opportunity to meet colleagues across borders and to learn about other cultures and approaches. Diversity, openness and curious taste buds are good prerequisites fo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/world-meets-lunch - 2026-07-05

2010-2014 43 Swedish strategic research areas (SRA’s) was funded by the Swedish government, BECC is one of the SRA’s. During 2014 the SRA’s was evaluated. Today the evaluation, together with recommendations for the future, was announced and the BECC environment can be proud to achieve a positive and successful evaluation statement. BECC is also one of four highlighted SRAs out of the 9 situated at

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/successful-evaluation-becc - 2026-07-05