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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Meet Ingvar Wirfelt – the new managing director of Gerdahallen, the university sports centre, from 1 March. What do you think is lacking at Gerdahallen at the moment? “I think there are a good range of activities and that the centre is good at picking up new trends. ‘Indoor walking’ is something I’d like to see – but

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-lacking-gerdahallen - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The eminent London universities UCL and Imperial College, as well as the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris and Chalmers in Sweden, have all concentrated their focus on areas of research excellence and global challenges. Lund University should draw inspiration from their example, in the view of Pro Vice-Chance

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-must-concentrate-focus-strong-areas-research - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Linde Lindkvist is on the way to becoming Sweden’s first Doctor of Philosophy in Human Rights Studies. He is the first to reach this goal within the subject, which combines law, history and philosophy. “This is an intense time, I am trying to isolate myself in order to finish.” He explains two doctoral students have b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/set-become-swedens-first-doctor-human-rights - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Meet Paul Franks... ... Professor of Diabetes Research and sportsman, who raised money for diabetes research by competing in the Copenhagen Ironman* triathlon race a while ago. How have the race and the fundraising gone? “I think it’s gone well. Despite a broken toe, I finished the race in just over 10 hours. I beat m

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/running-diabetes - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What is the effect on doctoral students’ creativity when they are forced into the academic straightjacket of research studies? What obstacles do they have to cross in order to reach their full potential? According to creativity researcher Eva Brodin, there are many examples of research environments where doctoral stud

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-creative-are-research-studies - 2026-05-13

Irene Kaltenborn In KHM1 gallery Irene Kaltenborn´s MFA exhibition Choreographies towards loss set the stage for the audience to enter artworks which echoed loss and a void, full of wonderment and poetics. The gallery was dimly lit and kept minimal, leaving room for the viewer to enter the web of interconnectedness between animals, humans and nature.       What has the process been like creating y

https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/mfa-student-interview-series-part-vii-irene-kaltenborn-and-karolina-bergman-engman - 2026-05-13

Last week, you read the first part of our interview with Elin Östlind and Thérése Jönsson, specialist physiotherapists with extensive experience in osteoarthritis education/school (swedish: artrosskola). If you haven't read the first part yet you'll find it here (link opens in a new tab).When the osteoarthritis education program was initially established, there was a common framework that was more

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/how-does-oa-school-work-treatment-osteoarthritis - 2026-05-13

On January 13th, London-based designers Guillaume Couche & Richard Shackleton held a guest lecture at the Department of Informatics. The guest lecture was delivered to students enrolled in the course Human-Computer Interaction - Design, part of the Master's Programme in Information Systems. The industry experts were invited by Lecturer and Course director Markus Lahtinen.Guillaume, who first visit

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/industry-experts-inspire-students-interface-design - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCSUS researcher Emma Johansson is currently in Cambodia to study linkages between land, water and food. The field trip marks the start of a new post doctoral research project aiming to investigate changes in water use and food production linked to land grabbing. The post doctoral studies are funded by the Crafoord F

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-challenges-surrounding-land-are-facing-population-emma-johansson-sets-out-field-trip-cambodia - 2026-05-13

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Internationella domstolen i Haag tog nyligen under fyra dagar del av argument för att kunna ta ställning till det juridiskt försvarbara i en mycket kontroversiell kolonialmaktshandling: Storbritanniens beslut att avskilja ögruppen Chagos från Mauritius före det senare landets självständighet 1968. Mauritius har driv

https://www.lu.se/artikel/chagosoarna-mauritius-tar-strid-med-brittisk-kolonialism-i-ett-fall-med-stora-konsekvenser - 2026-05-13

What made IKEA go against the grain and move into town? This week, IKEA opened a bedroom store in central Stockholm. The store in The Lobby on Regeringsgatan is the latest in a series of smaller, city-centre formats that IKEA is currently testing in various parts of the world. It is an interesting development, at a time when other retailers are moving out of the city. And it represents another imp

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/ikea-bedroom - 2026-05-13

International researchers who study islets of Langerhans met for a conference in Malmö in June. Studies of insulin-producing cells help us understand disease mechanisms in diabetes. Lund University Diabetes Centre and the strategic research area EXODIAB hosted the event. Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) and the strategic research are EXODIAB (Excellence of Diabetes Research in Sweden) hosted

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/international-islet-cell-researchers-met-conference-malmo - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For a mathematician, the waves of the sea are related to differential equations, and particularly complex ones at that. Mathematical research can help to improve understanding of how waves form and move – which could be useful, for example, in the work to predict dangerous monster waves. The sunlight glistens on the r

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/monster-waves-mathematical-challenge - 2026-05-13

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. I somras införde regeringen en tillfällig lag för att minska spel på nätkasino, spelautomater och andra former av spel under pandemin. Men även om högriskspelare verkar ha störst sannolikhet att öka sitt spelande under pandemin, är det få av dem som direkt har påverkats av lagen, visar en ny studie från Lunds univer

https://www.lu.se/artikel/problemspelande-i-i-riskzonen-trots-lag-om-spelreglering - 2026-05-14

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Diabetessjukdomarna har haft många namn. Från de som fanns innan insulinbehandling introducerades, sjukdomen beskrevs då som en mild form, en svårartad och en farlig till dagens mångfald av olika diabetessjukdomar. Den alltmer brokiga bilden är ett resultat av de växande insikterna om orsaken till sjukdomen och om v

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/en-allt-mer-komplex-karta-av-diabetesformer - 2026-05-13

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Höftledsoperationer är vanliga och sker idag nästan enligt en löpande band-princip. Men i detta missas ofta det individuella behovet av smärtlindring. Anja Geislers avhandling visar att brist på individuellt anpassad smärtlindring riskerar att orsaka onödigt lidande. Det blir också tydligt hur komplex – och individu

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/komplex-smarta-vid-hoftoperation-kraver-individuell-lindring - 2026-05-14

Malin Parmar, professor i cellulär neurovetenskap vid Lunds universitet och föreståndare för Lunds stamcellscentrum, har valts till vice president för International Society for Stem Cell Research, en världsledande organisation inom stamcellsforskning och regenerativ medicin. International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) är en oberoende, ideell global organisation som samlar forskare inom st

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/malin-parmar-vald-till-vice-president-i-international-society-stem-cell-research - 2026-05-14

A major European research initiative is transforming how scientists study life at every scale, from molecules to entire organisms. Euro-BioImaging, a distributed research infrastructure, is providing researchers across Europe with unprecedented access to state-of-the-art imaging technologies and expertise. In Sweden, participation in Euro-BioImaging is coordinated through national infrastructures,

https://www.lbic.lu.se/article/euro-bioimaging-expands-access-advanced-imaging-across-europe - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCSUS Professor Christine Wamsler recently visited Australia to give the prestigious Dean’s lecture at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD). She was also invited to meet with researchers, practitioners and policy-makers in order to stimulate their work and open up a wider debate on urban adaptation and resilience. -

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/christine-wamsler-giving-deans-lecture-australia-and-creating-wider-debate-urban-adaptation-and - 2026-05-13

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Nu aktuella dokumentärfilmen Map of Salvation berättar om den gräsrotsrörelse som blev motpol till en av historiens mest förbisedda mänskliga katastrofer - folkmordet på kristna minoritetsgrupper i turkiska Armenien. Lundahistorikern Maria Småberg har bidragit till filmprojektet genom sin forskning om en av filmens

https://www.lu.se/artikel/hennes-forskning-blev-viktig-pusselbit-i-armenisk-folkmordsfilm - 2026-05-13