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On the second day of COP26, more than 100 global leaders, representing 85% of the world's forests, pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade. The Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forest and Land Use will cover forests totaling more than 13 million square miles. Sustainability researcher and deforestation expert, Torsten Krause, at Lund University for Su

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researcher-torsten-krause-comments-world-leaders-pledge-end-deforestation-2030 - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Is it OK for a manager to email employees in the evenings and on weekends? More employers should have explicit rules about emailing outside working hours, according to Mikael Ottosson, who is researching the work environment within a project entitled “Going home already? Fluid working hours means freedom to some peopl

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/should-employees-be-reachable-email-during-their-leisure-time - 2026-07-07

Petter Pilesjö, Abdulghani Hasan, and Andreas Persson were tired of the feeling of writing articles and presenting at conferences without anything happening. Learn how they went from research results to making use of their findings by starting the company PluvioFlow. Petter Pilsjö is a Professor at Lund University Centre for Geographical Information Systems (GIS Centre), as well as a founder of Pl

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/they-started-company-spread-their-research-findings-we-need-get-better-handling-floods - 2026-07-08

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/student-party-slottshagen-new-tradition - 2026-07-07

All employees now have the opportunity to increase their awareness around academic freedom and influence the University’s work in the area. Invitations to discussions at faculties and divisions will be sent out during the spring. Are we overly influenced by the demands of financiers and politicians? Are we muted by self-censorship and the Overton Window? What does academic freedom really mean, and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/take-opportunity-express-your-opinion-academic-freedom - 2026-07-08

During the foetal stage, a number of so-called cell programs run that are vital to the development of the foetus. In a study published in Cell Reports, researchers from Lund University demonstrate that one of these foetal programs appears to protect against acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). “We have used an experimental mouse model that always results in this type of leukaemia. The interesting thing

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-insights-foetal-development-may-protect-against-leukaemia - 2026-07-07

Obesity is commonly diagnosed using BMI, but this approach has several limitations. Researchers at Lund University and AstraZeneca show that integrating measurements such as body fat percentage and waist circumference captures disease risks missed by BMI alone.   In recent years, research has shown that there are several limitations with BMI alone when it comes to assessing adiposity quantity, dis

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-bmi-alone-does-not-fully-capture-health-risks-linked-obesity - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Food waste is completely bananas, according to a group of Master’s students in Food Technology at Lund University in Sweden. In fact, a significant amount of the 100 million tonnes of bananas produced annually worldwide is discarded before it even reach consumers. WATCH: Students make gluten-free banana flourThe Lund

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-students-create-gluten-free-banana-flour - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund researchers have every reason to be proud regarding competition for EU grants. LU is the best in Sweden in terms of total funding and in the top three with the Karolinska Institute (KI) and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) regarding the number of participations in different projects.  “We have the most ERC gra

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-top-eu-league-best-sweden-obtaining-grants - 2026-07-07

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/pausing-sweah-job-adventures-africa - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Anyone who can predict outcomes for Forex rates can earn considerable amounts of money. However, research shows this cannot be done reliably and should be avoided by serious corporations - as it does not generate any excess profit, according to two leading Lund University researchers in foreign exchange risk managemen

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-book-avoid-predicting-foreign-exchange-rates - 2026-07-07

The Edstrand Foundation awards three of Sweden’s largest art scholarships and four scholarships for newly graduated Master’s students. In cooperation with Malmö Art Academy, the scholarship recipients will show their work in a group exhibition. Leif Engström, Samaneh Reyhani and Carolina Sandvik each receive SEK 400,000 from the Edstrand Foundation’s scholarship fund. In addition, four Master’s st

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/edstrand-foundation-scholarships-2023 - 2026-07-07

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-news-restart-fika-and-new-webpage-about-email - 2026-07-08

Photo by Lukas Blazek on Unsplash As a Swedish university, Lund University needs to ensure that students with disabilities find themselves in a comparable situation with other students. Course coordinators or examiners may need to make adjustments so that the digital teaching and examination is accessible to students with a disability. Some students may have a disability that impairs working memor

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/importance-extended-writing-time - 2026-07-07

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/lund-south-africa-exchange-offered-new-perspectives-both-work-and-society - 2026-07-07

On 25 November, after two years of intense legal preparations, the youth organsation Aurora, submitted a litigation against the Swedish state for its insufficient climate policies – the very first of its kind in Sweden. Mark Connaughton, research assistant at LUCSUS, and member of the GAMES research project, a collaborative project led by LUCSUS with Copenhagen University and Imperial College Lond

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/aurora-climate-litigation - 2026-07-07

The heavy application period is over. Does it feel a bit empty? No calls that fitted your interdisciplinary project this year either? Well, we have an afternoon in June, just for you. Pufendorf IAS has invited Kerstin Gidlöf, Sara Naurin and John Phillips from Lund University Research Services to an informal, interactive, information meeting.Finding funding for cross and interdisciplinary research

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/funding-interdisciplinary-research-how-where-when-whom - 2026-07-08

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Giving yourself a pat on the back rather than thinking that you should have performed better – self-compassion is about being as friendly and kind to yourself as you would be to a close friend or colleague. Anna Pardo. Photo: Kennet Ruona Anna Pardo is a psychologist, registered psychotherapist and psychotherapy super

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/silence-your-inner-critic-its-stressful-will-not-improve-your-performance - 2026-07-07

Bokfonden slut Bokfonden, som bestod av medel från det uppsagda Elsevier-avtalet (från juli 2018 till december 2019) är förbrukad. Fonden bestod av totalt ca 13 miljoner kr som nu betalats ut eller öronmärkts för publicering av 111 böcker. Nu går bokfonden i stället in i den ordinarie modellen för finansiering av Open Access-publicering, tillsammans med stöd till publicering i Open Access-tidskrif

https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-maj-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation-3 - 2026-07-07

Lund University is returning to Almedalen with a broad programme to strengthen the public discussion about higher education and research. Since the university's first participation in 2009, the commitment has grown, and this year around 50 employees are participating. The programme offers discussions on everything from preparedness and AI to the future of food. ”Universities play an important role

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ai-crisis-and-quantum-lund-university-almedalen - 2026-07-08