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On October 10, 2025, Campus Helsingborg celebrated its 25th anniversary with a festive afternoon filled with music, reflections, and forward-looking conversations. The event welcomed staff, alumni, students, and partners to honor a quarter-century of education, research, and collaboration. The celebration began with a mingling lunch accompanied by live music from students at Malmö Academy of Music

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/celebrating-25-years-campus-helsingborg - 2026-04-29

What can 100,000 SEK in research funding lead to? For Yulia Vakulenko and her research group at Campus Helsingborg, Lund University, the answer turned out to be new knowledge, new methods, and international recognition from OpenAI. The research group, led by Yulia Vakulenko and based at REAL – the Centre for Retail and Logistics at Lund University – has received a Token of Appreciation from OpenAI

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/seed-funding-global-recognition-researchers-acknowledged-openai - 2026-04-29

The Campus Helsingborg International Student Career Programme, launched in the spring of 2025, consists of a series of events specifically designed to equip international students with the tools needed to navigate the Swedish labour market, apply for jobs and internships, visit local companies, and build valuable professional networks. More than 350 international students participated in the activ

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/wrapping-2025-and-looking-ahead-job-market - 2026-04-29

There has been a record-breaking number of applicants for Lund University’s international recruitment drive. The original total of 25 advertised positions has been increased to 45 – researchers from some of the world’s leading universities who are now heading to Lund. The recruited researchers come from higher education institutions such as Harvard University, the University of Oxford, the Humbold

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/unprecedented-interest-lund-universitys-international-recruitment - 2026-04-29

The Lund University Programme for Global Excellence is the University’s largest international recruitment initiative to date, highlighting our commitment to world-leading research in strategically prioritised research areas. Our visiting professors will contribute part-time at the university for a minimum of two years and they hold full professorships at universities outside Sweden. Two of the vis

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/visiting-professors-campus-helsingborg-2026 - 2026-04-29

The University has made a further major investment in the Lund University Centre for Preparedness and Resilience (LUPREP). The funding will go to the Centre’s graduate school, which will have eight new positions. The aim is to be Sweden’s leading hub for research, education and collaboration concerning preparedness and resilience. In the autumn of 2025, the University established the Lund Universi

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-makes-new-investment-total-defence - 2026-04-29

Are you interested in supporting research on how people experience and interact with virtual environments? Researchers from Lund University are looking for volunteers aged 18 and over to take part in a study exploring responses to different situations in a virtual environment. During the session, you will wear a VR headset to experience a virtual environment while we record how your body responds

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/experience-virtual-reality - 2026-04-29

Lund University welcomes prospective and admitted students to explore our campus, meet our community, and learn what it’s like to study at one of Europe’s leading universities. Join us for a full day of activities designed to answer your questions and introduce you to life in Lund and Helsingborg. The programme – Open Day 2026, May 118:30–9:00 – Registration and check-inCheck in, collect your mate

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/international-open-day-may-11-2026 - 2026-04-29

It is always exciting to move into a new student apartment. You might think that all student apartments look pretty much the same, both in terms of layout and interior design, but that is far from the truth. At Furutorpsgatan student accommodation, Ellen Tössberg lives in a one-bedroom apartment of twenty square meters. The apartment may be small, but it has a lot of personality. When I enter Elle

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/welcome-home-ellen - 2026-04-29

Lucas, an active board member of Ingenjörssektionen, has generous tips for both new students and those already in Helsingborg. We asked him a few questions to get his insider knowledge on how to navigate student life and take advantage of all that Helsingborg has to offer. You come as a new student to the city, how do you get to know people? The best way to get to know new people is to participate

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/new-helsingborg-what-not-miss - 2026-04-29

Eléonor studies strategic communication and lived in Helsingborg for the first two years of her studies. Read on to find out what she thinks the best things to do in Helsingborg during the summer! Are there any activities or events that you would recommend to others? The summer in Helsingborg is full of concerts so even though the semester has ended there is plenty of life in the city. This year H

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/there-lot-going-helsingborg-all-time - 2026-04-29

Spy scandals as a power struggle between three actors: whistleblowers, journalists and the intelligence service. On Friday 1 October Alexandra Franzén at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral thesis in sociology, which investigates three cases of spy scandals in Western democracies. Alexandra Franzén's thesis defence took place on Friday 1 October at 13:15 in Eden's Auditorium in Lund

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/alexandra-franzen-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-04-29

The Department of Sociology in Lund will receive three years of funding for a large collaboration project looking at insecure and informal work in the Nordic countries. Researchers Rasmus Ahlstrand and Sara Eldén, here at the Department of Sociology in Lund are part of the project "Tackling Precarious and Informal Work in the Nordic Countries (PrecaNord)" which has been granted funding within the

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/three-years-funding-large-nordic-collaboration-insecure-and-informal-work - 2026-04-29

When the American research field "Fear of Crime" was introduced in Sweden in the 1980s, it was translated "otrygghet", a word with a previously established meaning in Swedish. The meaning of the word "otrygghet" has since then changed significantly in Sweden. From being used to signify economic and materialist unpredictability, "otrygghet" has come to be used almost exclusively in a crime context.

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hanna-sahlin-lilja-has-defended-her-thesis-fear-crime-research-sweden - 2026-04-29

The everyday life in two day-care centres of psychiatry in the municipality of Copenhagen is examined in a new sociology thesis from Vibeke Klitgaard. Focus lies on the patients' communication and behavior as well as the stigmatization they experience from the social environment. Vibeke Klitgaard defended her thesis "Social (dis) order in district psychiatry: A systems theory analysis of psychiatr

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/vibeke-klitgaard-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-04-29

Associate Professor Sébastien Tutenges and Researcher Susanne Boethius of the Department of Sociology at Lund University are Editor-in-Chief and Co-Editor of the Nordic Journal of Criminology since the turn of the year. Looking forward to the new job! In an interview for The Nordic Research Council for Criminology (NSfK), the new Editor-in-Chief Sébastien Tutenges says he very much looks forward t

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-editors-nordic-journal-criminology - 2026-04-29

In his doctoral thesis in sociology "Structures of subcontracting: Work organisation, control, and labour in the Swedish building sector", Rasmus Ahlstrand analyses the increased use of subcontractors and explores new forms of work organisation in the Swedish building sector. A key contribution of his study is the concept of masked staffing, which refers to unauthorised ways of organising labour t

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/rasmus-ahlstrand-has-defended-his-thesis-changing-swedish-building-sector - 2026-04-29

In his article "Does remote work weaken trade unions?*" Anders Kjellberg, Professor of sociology, discusses how the balance of power in the labour market is changed when working from home increases in society. He also writes about the new trade union issues that distance working raises in industries where it is widespread. Those affected are primarily white-collar workers in both the private and p

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/does-remote-work-weaken-trade-unions - 2026-04-29

Why do people across cultures gather in groups to get intoxicated? Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology in Lund Sébastien Tutenges has been researching nightclubs and festivals for two decades to answer this question. His new book "Intoxication" offers valuable new insights into a wide variety of experiences. This book takes us to bars, nightclubs, festivals, nightlife resorts, under

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/collective-intoxication-can-give-religious-experience-and-more-solidarity - 2026-04-29

On 21 May the Young Academy of Sweden elected six new, prominent researchers representing fields ranging from brain surgery, analytical sociologoy and energy transformation. One of them is Alison Gerber, senior lecturer in sociology here at the Department of Sociology at Lund University. Why did you apply to The Young Academy of Sweden? - Because I want to contribute to making Swedish academic res

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sociologist-one-six-new-prominent-researchers-selected-young-academy-sweden - 2026-04-29