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There were no differences in quality of life, symptoms, hospital admissions or mortality between a group of patients with pulmonary disease and low oxygen levels in the blood that received oxygen therapy at home for 24 hours a day, and a group that received the same therapy for 15 hours a day, according to a study from Lund University in Sweden. “This has considerable significance for patients wit

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/no-benefits-24-hour-compared-15-hour-oxygen-therapy - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Public interest in degrowth is on the rise in these times of global warming awareness, but the idea is hardly new. We talked to professor Hervé Corvellec after the 6th International Degrowth Conference took place in Malmoe. "Degrowth is the idea of turning economic development from growth-based into its opposite. A ke

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/circular-economy-just-another-growth-model - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Nordic Centre in India announces a spring internship position for the NCI India Liaison Office for 2018. The deadline for receiving applications is the 31st of October, 2017. The purpose is to provide the intern with exposure to hands on experience on the working in an organisation that works in the area of intern

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/internship-opportunity-nordic-centre-india - 2026-05-07

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-associate-or-full-professor-asian-humanities - 2026-05-07

The feasability study of the building Gamla kirurgen is now initiated. A new, more detailed architectural sketch showing how the need for premises can be met will be produced and sent for consultation to the faculty. The Campus Paradis project includes the renovation of several buildings in the area and the construction of an extension, the Centre for Social Sciences (Cesam). A feasibility study f

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-step-towards-renovation-gamla-kirurgen - 2026-05-07

Applications are now open for CMES Project Proposals (2025-2028) as well as CMES Writing Retreats (2025). Call for Project Proposals (2025-2028) CMES supports three-year-research projects with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area (SRA) Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). CMES encourages collaboration between scholars from different disciplines at Lund University

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-calls-project-proposals-2025-2028-and-writing-retreats-2025 - 2026-05-07

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/new-research-council-department - 2026-05-07

Liminal Urban Dwelling captures Mumbai’s most significant resettlement program and exemplifies the racialized housing forms for the poor population in the urban zones that are deemed unfit for human habitation. The exhibition comprises ten photographs, as seen and suggested by the community, that captures photographic representation of everyday encounters of environment, space, architecture, infra

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/exhibition-lund-liminal-urban-dwelling - 2026-05-07

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-street-addresses-paradis-area - 2026-05-07

Lund University’s common web accessibility guide has now been translated into English and can be accessed via the short address staff.lu.se/web-accessibility. The web accessibility guide contains practical tips on how to create accessible web content, which applies whether you work in Drupal, Typo-3 or some other type of content management system. “We have received very positive feedback on our we

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/web-accessibility-guide-now-available-english - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Assoc. Prof. Luis Mundaca and Prof. Lena Neij at the IIIEE guest edit a special issue in Applied Energy Entitled “Towards a Green Energy Economy? Assessing policy choices, strategies and transitional pathways”, the latest special issue of Applied Energy has been published open access and seeks to bring together the fi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/special-issue-towards-green-energy-economy-assessing-policy-choices-strategies-and-transitional - 2026-05-07

Thoas Fioretos and Yvonne Lundberg Giwercman, professors at Medfak, have been awarded the LU Innovation Awards, established by Lund University and Sparbanken Skåne. Thoas Fioretos is the first recipient of Lunds Innovatörspris (the Lund Innovator Award), a newly established prize that recognises research that has been successfully transformed into innovation with a tangible impact on society and t

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/lu-innovation-researchers-medfak-awarded - 2026-05-07

Lund University has been ranked 85th in the world in the QS World University rankings, making it the top ranked comprehensive university in Sweden. QS has published university rankings annually since 2004 and the ranking is done in collaboration with Elsevier. On 27 June, QS published its latest list (Ranking 2024) in which 2,963 institutions were evaluated and 1,503 universities were ranked. Lund

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranked-85th-qs-world-university-rankings - 2026-05-08

The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) recently visited the AI and Society research group at LTH and AI Lund to discuss artificial intelligence. In addition to the latest research, the meeting focused on multidisciplinary perspectives, transparency, and how the authority can collaborate with academia to ensure that AI is developed in a responsible manner. IMY plays a central role in is

https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2025/ai-and-innovation-agenda-when-imy-visits-lund - 2026-05-07

CMES researcher Lina Eklund has been interviewed in Swedish online journal Kvartal about climate and migration from Syria. The article "Flydde Syrienflyktingar från klimatet?" (English translation: "Did Syrian Refugees Flee the Climate?"), written by Henrik Höjer, was published online on 10 August 2023 in Kvartal. Below are som excerpts from the article translated into English. In the article, Lin

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/climate-and-migration-syria - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. During two days in October, the Department of Strategic Communication and its senior Lecturer James Pamment hosted the conference Managing Societal Threats in the Digital Age: The Case of Propaganda and Violent Extremism, together with the key note speaker Corneliu Bjola from Oxford University. The aim was to bring to

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/department-brings-top-scholars-together-fields-public-diplomacy-security-and-countering-violent - 2026-05-07

A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the ability of microorganisms to adapt to climate warming will slow down global warming by storing carbon in soil. In the study, researchers collected soil samples from across Europe in a wide range of temperatures, from minus 3.1 to 18.3 degrees Celsius. The samples revealed that microorganisms in soils – such as bacteria and fungi – are stron

https://www.science.lu.se/article/microorganisms-climate-adaptation-can-slow-down-global-warming - 2026-05-07

David Wästerfors, Veronika Burcar Alm and Erik Hannerz have published an article in New Media & Society dealing with crime case discussions on the Swedish platform Flashback. The article shows how the interactions form a "bumpy" path as the Flashback-writers together try to achieve knowledge, evidence and authority regarding the various crimes being discussed. Much of today's public discussion on

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sleuthing-online-bumpy-path-net-detective - 2026-05-07

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/unique-research-project-electrons-awarded-grant - 2026-05-07

The climate cannot handle the amount of animals we eat. There needs to be a protein shift, according to researcher Karolina Östbring who is involved in the Sustainability Week. Her vision is to create a platform for research on vegetable proteins at LU. Karolina Östberg  Photo: Kennet Ruona. The human population is growing, while our ecological footprint needs to become much lower in order to redu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-need-protein-shift - 2026-05-07