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Museum Stobaeanum Explore the collections of Museum Stobaeanum – the first public museum in Lund, established in the early 18th century, with roots in the cabinet of curiosities of Kilian Stobaeus (1690–1742), professor in natural philosophy and history at Lund University. Who was Kilian Stobaeus? He was a physician, a scientist, and a university vice-chancellor. Kilian Stobaeus was the man whose

https://www.historiskamuseet.lu.se/stobaeus - 2026-07-21

Broad public contention against nuclear energy can be observed as a new phenomenon in Japanese society after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. This study aimed to identify a sufficient explanation about why the emergence of such a protest movement only occurred after the direct experience of a critical event and did not happen before. Discrediting a sole and simple grievance

The aim is to investigate the effect of availability and level of detail of data on cost estimates of alcohol consumption. Using the recent Swedish cost of alcohol study as baseline, limitations on data are applied, forming two models. The costs of alcohol in Sweden are re-estimated in the two models and compared to the baseline, to establish the magnitude and direction of the bias resulting from

Abstract Author: Erica Almström Title: “Too personal a tale” – a qualitative study about accommodation educators vision of their work with unaccompanied refugee children. Supervisor: Anders Östnäs The purpose of this study was to illustrate how the work with unaccompanied refugee children is perceived by the employees at a youth accommodation. The study had a qualitative study and the empirical d

BECC RESEARCH STRATEGY 2026-2030 The strategic research area (SRA) Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services under Climate Change (BECC) develops research that targets sustainable management of ecosystems in a world undergoing rapid change. BECC researchers study direct and indirect human impacts, from local to global scales, on the climate, ecosystems, biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and how knowl

https://www.becc.lu.se/sites/becc.lu.se/files/2026-01/BECC%20Strategy_2026-2030.pdf - 2026-07-23

Pavements in Sweden today are often designed to have a life span of at least 20 years. This means that pavements are designed to endure all seasons for 20 years: 20 winters, 20 spring thaws. 20 summers and so on. For those occasions where a life span less than 20 years is requested, there is no standardized method to use today. Designing is instead usually done either by scaling down the results f

COSM52_literature_list_2025 COSM52_Literature List Mandatory readings: 678 pages Presenter readings: 355 pages Please note that some of the literature currently marked as “NOT available at LUBsearch” may become available at a later stage. Altman, Dennis. "Global gaze/global gays." GLQ: A journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 3, no. 4 (1997): 417-436. > Pages to read for students: 20 > Available at LU

https://www.ace.lu.se/sites/ace.lu.se/files/2025-07/COSM52_literature_list_2025.pdf - 2026-07-23

A great amount of financial statements of Swedish companies are registered with the Swedish companies registration office, Bolagsverket, as paper copies. These copies are then scanned and made available to the public as image-PDFs, meaning the financial information contained in them is not digitised and therefore not easily processed in an automated manner. Being able to do so, is valuable however

The Cantril Ladder is among the most widely administered subjective well-being measures; every year, it is collected in 140+ countries in the Gallup World Poll and reported in the World Happiness Report. The measure asks respondents to evaluate their lives on a ladder from worst (bottom) to best (top). Prior work found Cantril Ladder scores sensitive to social comparison and to reflect one’s relat

The DARPA Grand Challenge (DGC) 2005 was a competition, in form of a desert race for autonomous ground vehicles, arranged by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA). The purpose was to encourage research and development of related technology. The objective of the race was to track a distance of 131.6 miles in less than 10 hours without any human interaction. Only public GPS signa

The LUDICH project wants to build the digital concert hall of the future and lay the foundation for tomorrow's cultural experiences. This will be done using the market's best digital solutions and the broad and varied knowledge of the project's various collaborative partners and by placing the audience's individual experience at the center. The Faculty of Arts is leading a thematic collaborative i

https://www.arts.lu.se/collaboration/lund-university-digital-interactive-concert-hall-ludich - 2026-07-21

“The important criterion for a graph is not simply how fast we can see a result; rather it is whether through the use of the graph we can see something that would have been harder to see otherwise or that could not have been seen at all.” William S. Cleveland When presenting graphs for people with visual impairments the solutions found on the market today often present pure data values only. Over

The study focuses on the efforts surrounding youth delinquency from the perspectives of persons working in state and non-profit organizations. The aim is to investigate how the respondents perceive their roles in this endeavor and how these roles differ from each other. This is done to gain an understanding of society's work against youth delinquency. The methods employed in the study include