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Vice-Chancellor Torbjörn von Schantz is convinced that leadership at the University is a momentous question. “If we are perceived as being incapable of making uncomfortable decisions, there is a risk that we will see the same changes here as in other places such as Denmark – that collegial leadership is replaced by pure New Public Management.” One example is the concern that has been expressed in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-its-important-managers-be-able-make-uncomfortable-decisions - 2025-11-11

Melissa Franklin is a guest professor from Harvard University who compares her environment at Fysicum with the tv-series Friends and Seinfeld. Here she shares her views on similarities and differences between the universities. When a colleague on my 3000 person experiment at CERN whom I didn’t know, Torsten Akesson, emailed suggesting I visit the Lund University physics department for a year, I sm

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/crossing-border-scania - 2025-11-11

Kidney exchange, refugee placements and choosing schools. Separate things but with the common denominator that, with digitalisation's new tools, it is possible to save both time and money – and to save lives.  "I don't like it when I see things that are wrong which research could solve. Then it is up to me to take my responsibility and tell politicians and decision-makers how they could be solved"

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/algorithm-maker-saving-lives - 2025-11-11

What do human remains really have to do with a museum? When Lund University closed the Department of Anatomy of 1995, its collection of human remains was transferred to the Historical Museum. Now, the museum wants to conduct a proper review of the collection in order to communicate more about it. Human remains in a museum context awaken many feelings. As recently as last year, Lund University hand

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/they-want-shine-light-dark-chapter - 2025-11-11

It weighs 1 265 kilograms, is nearly 70 years old and gave rise to MAX IV. After collecting dust in a museum warehouse, the University's first electron accelerator is now on show at the Faculty of Engineering. Behind the exhibition 'UrMAX – Light from Lund' are a group of enthusiasts who wish to preserve the historically interesting research equipment.  The snowflakes whirled about in Lund, the co

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/urmax-has-come-home - 2025-11-11

Last year, the Disciplinary Board at Lund University found 64 students guilty. The most common form of cheating is plagiarism.  “It is important to report it”, says Maria Bangura director of studies at the School of Social Work. “Departments have a great responsibility to ensure that students have the required skills when they head out and start working with people in difficult situations. It is s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/director-studies-important-report-students-who-cheat - 2025-11-11

Despite the early morning, the pool is full of patients exercising in the warm water. There are laminated exercise programmes by the side of the pool depicting different exercises. Ronny Karlsson has been in the hospital for a week. A couple of months ago he was bitten by a tick and contracted TBE. He now has problems with motor function and balance and needs to train his body to be able to functi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/perceptive-training-best-way-forward - 2025-11-11

How staff communicate – at lectures, meetings, via email and on social media is more valuable for the trust in the University than PR campaigns. However, to talk about Lund University staff as ambassadors for the university brand is to choose the wrong perspective, say communication researchers Charlotte Simonsson and Mats Heide. On social media staff has a bigger impact than the organisation“I wo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/staff-communication-more-valuable-pr-campaigns - 2025-11-11

Currently, a worthy and fast-moving academic career requires extensive travel with high carbon dioxide emissions. Because of this, sustainability researcher Hervé Corvellec says Lund University should review its qualifications system as well as looking into students’ air travel.   “Currently, it is unreflectingly incorporated in recruitments that a candidate who has travelled extensively brings qu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-cannot-assume-doctoral-student-or-researcher-better-because-they-have-attended-more-international - 2025-11-11

Kan mode någonsin bli hållbart? Hur ställer vi om till miljösmart e-handel? Och vilken roll ska universiteten ha i framtidens samhälle? Det är några av de ämnen som diskuteras under forskningsfestivalen Our Future City den 7-10 juni på Campus Helsingborg. Evenemanget görs tillsammans med Helsingborgs Dagblad och FoU Helsingborg och sker under den stora stadsmässan H22. Our Future City kan enklast

https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/hallbara-stader-och-samhallen-i-fokus-pa-ny-forskningsfestival - 2025-11-11

Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers at Lund University in Sweden found when they collected dead hedgehogs to investigate the environmental pollutants found in urban environments. Previous research has investigated the presence of heavy metals in hedgehogs from other urban areas in Europe and

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/high-levels-environmental-pollutants-and-heavy-metals-hedgehogs - 2025-11-12

Four months ago, Professor Moheiddin Homeidi came to Lund from Syria as the first researcher the University has received through the network Scholars at Risk. Despite the start not being as he imagined he sees exciting opportunities in his new research community.  On the Ebla Private University website, there is a photo of Moheiddin Homeidi in a suit, as the somewhat austere dean of the Faculty of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/syrian-linguist-given-sanctuary-lu - 2025-11-12

Using fishing-rods laced with dental floss and the Nobel-prize winning Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technology, Nathalie Feiner wants to reveal some of the deepest mysteries of evolution. At the root of it all: a heartfelt love of lizards. Lying on a thin branch in the terrarium on Nathalie Feiner’s desk in the Department of Biology is a grey-speckled anolis lizard, looking out over the empty coffee c

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lizards-key-evolutionary-mysteries - 2025-11-12

So say Mats Benner and Freddy Ståhlberg after having reviewed both self-evaluations and assessor reports. The RQ20 Research Quality Evaluation Project is now entering its final phase and, so far, the results are looking good. “But it would be out of the question for us to sit back now just because we’re known globally for our excellence”, says Benner. Together with project coordinator Malin Breden

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rq20-research-still-evaluated-despite-pandemic-obstacles - 2025-11-12

She is a chemist. He is a medic. Together they are behind some of the major breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research in recent times. Sara Linse and Oskar Hansson hope to be able to lay the foundations for the medicines and diagnostic methods of the future. It is one of those unusually clear mornings in late November, when the sun is not having to battle through layers of steel-grey cloud. Wa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/top-duo-want-solve-mystery-alzheimers - 2025-11-12

Why does Lund University manage farms in Skåne? It’s a matter of tradition. From 1666 and for a long time afterwards the entire University was funded by the farms that dowager queen Hedvig Eleonora donated – known as “akademiska hemman” – the academic homesteads. These are still managed by the University and the current value of the properties is approximately SEK 700 million. The Akademihemman Fo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/farms-valuable-heritage-university - 2025-11-12

Few people look forward to digital meetings, but the researchers at Design Sciences do just that. They have found meeting places that give them energy and smart structure. He is holding a virtual cup of coffee and looks a little like a figure in the Sims computer game. “Now, running remote meetings feels creative and enjoyable”, says Mattias Wallergård. His avatar leans in a relaxed manner against

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-fun-meet-avatars - 2025-11-12

The ability to capture the largest possible part of the spectrum of sunlight – with as little material as possible. Physics professor Magnus Borgström is dedicated to finding more efficient ways of utilising solar energy. The ordinary solar cells currently on the market can convert around 15–20 per cent of solar energy into electricity that we can use. The most common material is silicon. "The bes

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hunting-worlds-best-solar-cell - 2025-11-12

With enormous eyes, a huge mouth and defined, prominent eyebrows, an avatar in the form of a ghost using sign language in real time takes the stage. During 2022, Riksteatern Crea – one of the world’s leading sign language theatres – and researchers at Lund University Humanities Lab trialled new innovative and creative solutions in order to make the technology work for this multi-dimensional theatr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/avatar-provides-live-signing-stage-unique-project - 2025-11-12

Årets mottagare av Leif C. Groop-priset kartlägger mekanismer i fettväven, vilket har ökat förståelsen kring varför vissa med fetma får typ 2-diabetes. Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm vid Sahlgrenska akademin, Göteborgs universitet, är forskaren som blir sporrad att hitta nya svar när iakttagelserna i labbet inte stämmer överens med gängse uppfattningar. Prismotivering ”Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm vid S

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ingrid-wernstedt-asterholm-far-leif-c-groop-priset-forskning-om-fettvaven - 2025-11-12