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With the kick-off at the start of October, the 23/24 WCMM Research School has officially begun. As this year marks the fifth anniversary of the WCMM Research School, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past and present, and to check in with some current and past attendees to hear their thoughts on the school. Since a month has already passed and activities are in full swing, we started of
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/research-school-fifth-anniversary - 2026-07-11
“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 - 2026-07-11
“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 - 2026-07-12
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Fifty per cent of all pregnant women in need of a C-section are unable to get one. Most people around the world still do not have access to safe surgery, resulting in millions of deaths and disabilities each year. As a paediatric surgeon, Lars Hagander wanted to find ways to help, and has travelled the world to perfor
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lack-surgeons-threat-global-health - 2026-07-11
In collaboration with the Pufendorf IAS, the LMK Foundation invites to an annual Idea Forum for young researchers. Last autumn, Maya Kylén and Magnus Dustler Medfak participated, and this is what it was like for them. Deadline to nominate for participation this year is April 15. Maya Kylén: "It was exciting and rewarding! The moderators (Göran Bexell, Sven Strömqvist and Susanne Åkesson) did a fan
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. From Jordan to Lund: Sahar Al-Rabadi and Marwa Al-Khalidi have got off to a good start as PhD students in architecture at LU. They are the result of a revitalised agreement with Yarmouk University. PhD students in architecture Sahar Al-Rabadi and Marwa Al-Khalidi outside LUX, a building they find architecturally inter
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jordanian-doctoral-students-appreciate-swedish-order - 2026-07-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What if you could take a substance that allows a nasty bacterium to resist the human immune system and develop it into a drug to help people with completely different diseases? It sounds like a fairy tale for medical researchers. Yet this is precisely what is about to happen in Lund. Lars Björck hopes that the enzyme
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/enzyme-killer-bacteria-could-save-seriously-ill-kidney-patients - 2026-07-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Åsa Burman, like many humanities researchers, struggled alone with her thesis in philosophy. Now she helps other doctoral students to finish on time, and to feel better during the process. “However, I would never have made this idea a reality without my experiences as a consultant in the private sector and my practica
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/helping-doctoral-students-finish-time - 2026-07-11
Att söka hjälp för psykisk ohälsa kan vara svårt nog. En ny studie som Emmy Nilsson skrivit visar att många patienter upplever ett glapp mellan sina behov av stöd och den vård de faktiskt får. Att söka hjälp för psykisk ohälsa är sällan enkelt. En ny svensk studie av doktorand Emmy Nilsson visar nu att många patienter som vänder sig till primärvården känner sig ensamma, osäkra och ibland missförst
Nair Ferreira Barbosa da Costa, kindly called Voinha in the family, was married off at 14. She gave birth to thirteen children, had to leave her first four children behind, fled 1500 miles to escape an abusive marriage and later became a single mother. "I had the guts. If I decided to do something, I would just do it." Now, Agenda 2030 PhD student Iury Salustiano Trojaborg's interviews with her gr
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. On Thursday 10th of November 2016, we had another inspiring edition of the Development Research Day, a flagship annual event at Lund University bringing together all disciplines working on development issues since 2002. This year the Development Research Day was hosted by the Human Geography department and was dedic
Nu är namnen på de 45 nya biträdande universitetslektorer och gästprofessorer som blir våra nya kolleger publicerade. Vi i universitetsledningen har tidigare skrivit om vilket fantastiskt intresse dessa satsningar har fått, med sammanlagt 1327 ansökningar. Och nu finns möjligheten att bekanta oss med våra nya kolleger. Våra nya kolleger kommer från många olika länder - flera från USA, men också fr
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/nu-valkomnar-vi-vara-nya-kolleger-fran-hela-varlden - 2026-07-12
Universitetets nya professorer installeras vid en ceremoni i universitetshuset den 13 oktober 2023 kl. 16.00. Bland de nya professorerna finns våra kollegor Jonathan Polk, Robert Klemmensen och Fariborz Zelli. Ceremonin innehåller de officiella invigningarna av rektor, framträdanden av Akademiska orkestern och tal av några av de nya professorerna och ordföranden för Lunds universitets studentkårer
https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/installationshogtid-nya-professorer-den-13-oktober-med-tre-statsvetare - 2026-07-11
Kan fettinjektioner lindra knäartros? Knäartros är en vanlig och smärtsam ledsjukdom som påverkar miljontals människor världen över. Forskare letar ständigt efter nya behandlingsmetoder för att lindra smärta och förbättra livskvaliteten för de drabbade. En ny studie har undersökt om en enda injektion av kroppseget fett, så kallad mikrofragmenterad fettvävnad, kan vara en effektiv behandling. Men h
Bling is associated with expensive, ostentatious accessories and “bad taste”. This contrasts with the prevailing aesthetic values of the design world. But what happens when bling and design are brought together? A new thesis in industrial design from the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), Lund University in Sweden, shows that provocations – such as breaking convention with the help of the bling subcult
https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/challenging-design-conventions-key-more-vibrant-design - 2026-07-11
Fler än femtio socionomstudenter, tidigare studenter, lärare och andra kom till Edens hörsal på fredagseftermiddagen för att lyssna till och prata med Nicolas Lunabba, grundare och verksamhetsledare i Helamalmö, och författare till boken "Blir du ledsen om jag dör?". Det är läraren Arne Kristiansen som bjudit in Nicolas Lunabba till sin kurs, för att hålla ett föredrag som inledning till ett mome
https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/socialt-arbete-ar-social-rattvisa-i-praktiken - 2026-07-11
Your research deserves to be communicated clearly, efficiently, and correctly. To develop your academic English, don't miss the opportunity to take part in the popular course “Written English for Scholarly Publication”. Register by 11 October. The course is organized by the English Unit at the Centre for Language and Literature and consists of eight seminars in November and December. The course is
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/popular-course-written-english-scholarly-publication - 2026-07-11
