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Vice-Chancellor’s blog: On 23 May, I once again had the honour of giving the doctoral degree conferment speech in Lund’s beautiful cathedral. This year the starting point of the speech was interaction, such as that between the reason-based Age of Enlightenment and the emotionally-driven Romantic era. The interaction between sense and sensibility not only shapes our private life, but also cultural

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sense-and-sensibility-conferment-and-ceremony - 2026-05-20

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/welcome-home-ellen - 2026-05-21

Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid landscapes occupying the transition zone between rainforest and desert dominate th

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2026-05-21

Children who had autoantibodies before falling ill with type 1 diabetes have also had an imbalance in their intestinal flora, previous research shows. In a new study conducted within the framework of a European research network, researchers at Lund University and Region Skåne will investigate whether the ingestion of probiotics from early birth can prevent the development of type 1 diabetes in chi

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-can-probiotics-prevent-type-1-diabetes - 2026-05-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Welcome to the inauguration of the Anti Apartheid Room at Malmö Art Academy During the spring semester 2017 the course The World Turned Upside Down: art and ethics in the rise of the Stone Age South initiated by professor Sarat Maharaj will take place at Malmö Art Academy.The start-up for the project is a reconstructi

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/course-start-world-turned-upside-down - 2026-05-21

The Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (SUHF) has produced three reports that highlight key issues it regards as threats to the activities of higher education institutions. A fourth report on governance in higher education will be published after the summer. The other reports concern academic freedom, increased bureaucratisation and the reliance of research on external funding. T

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-reports-threats-academic-freedom-and-university-governance - 2026-05-20

The excitement has been palpable in recent weeks following the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Anne L’Huillier, a researcher at Lund. This is the first time a researcher at Lund University has received a Nobel Prize, and atomic physicist Anne L’Huillier is only the fifth woman ever to be awarded the prize in Physics. By now it is widely known where atomic physicist Anne L’Huillier was when

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-received-lunds-first-nobel-prize - 2026-05-20

Theatre Academy PhD student Charlotte Østergaard participates in Stockholm University of the Arts' international artistic conference Alliances and Commonalities, 17-19 October, 2024 together with former PhD student Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir, and the conference Hurricanes and Scaffolding: Symposium on Artistic research, Umeå University 4-6 December 2024. Charlotte Østergaard and Marie Ledendal, fro

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/malmo-theatre-academy-phd-student-charlotte-ostergaard-participates-conferences-her-research-project - 2026-05-21

Newly published research articles from the photoacoustic center. Original articles on perfusion monitoring during oculoplastic reconstructive surgery Wiktorin AHC, JV Berggren, M Malmsjo, S Lindstedt, R Sheikh &  E Bohman (2022): Mapping of Perfusion During Full-Thickness Blepharotomy Using Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging. Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg. The aim of this study was to monitor how the

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/new-publications-2 - 2026-05-21

Two thematic research groups, recent publication success and new funding mark a new phase for the Department of Informatics. Research in Information Systems at the department continues to evolve in response to emerging technological and societal challenges. With the establishment of the Digital Societies and Hybrid Intelligence research groups, researchers at the department are creating new platfo

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/achievements-and-next-steps-research-information-systems - 2026-05-20

In a new study, LUCSUS researcher Maryam Nastar, identifies key knowledge gaps in the evaluation of Ahmedabad’s Heat Action Plan (HAP), and highlights the need to look at the distribution of policy impacts in cities in more detail - to find out who has benefited or been excluded from the outcomes, and what barriers need to be tackled for more inclusive and effective results. Climate change is expe

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/heat-action-plans-urban-cities-risks-excluding-most-vulnerable - 2026-05-21

Swedish women talk about the shame, threats and fear that went into telling someone about being abused by their partner in this new article "Revealing hidden realities: disclosing domestic abuse to informal others" published by Susanne Boethius and Malin Åkerström in the Nordic Journal of Criminology, and available as Open Access. One in three women Violence against women in close relationships is

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/women-hesitate-when-revealing-domestic-abuse - 2026-05-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. When the snow is gone, it does not take too long before a familiar spring sound reappears - the bumblebee buzz. Since bumblebees are well adapted to cold climates, many of the species are negatively affected by a warmer climate. Researchers at Lund University now ask for the public's help in reporting the first bumble

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/find-first-bumblebee-spring - 2026-05-21

The Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation (MMW) primarily awards grants in the social sciences and the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation (MAW) primarily awards grants in the humanities. Projects should be focused on a coherent research question. MANAGEMENT RULES The full nformation and guidelines for the call are to be found on the foundation websites: MMW // MAW Project applications to

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/marcus-and-amalia-wallenberg-foundation-maw-and-marianne-and-marcus-wallenberg-foundation-mmw - 2026-05-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Julia Nussholz defends her doctoral dissertation on "Circular Business Model Design: Business Opportunities from Retaining Value of Products and Materials" On 6 March 2020, PhD candidate Julia Nussholz will defend her doctoral dissertation with the title: Circular Business Model Design: Business Opportunities from Ret

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/phd-dissertation-defence - 2026-05-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. ONGOING RESEARCH: Amin Parsa’s research on migration and the use of new technology in tracing mobility focuses on how the use of such technology can potentially reshape our laws. – I want to show how our use of new technology is shaping the way that we do law, says Amin Parsa.– Generally my research is about the relat

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-technology-shapes-our-understanding-what-legal - 2026-05-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Marcella Birtele will be defending her PhD thesis titled “Functional and Transcriptional Studies of Human Dopaminergic Neurons” on Friday 2nd October. Researching within the Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology group led by Prof. Malin Parmar, here Marcella tells us about her PhD studies at Lund Stem Cell Cente

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-marcella-birtele - 2026-05-21

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/bsc-student-portrait-megan-andrews - 2026-05-22

Charlotte Ling, a professor of epigenetics and diabetes at Lund University, has been awarded a distinguished professor grant in medicine and health by the Swedish Research Council.  The grant of 50 million SEK over a period of ten years will allow Charlotte Ling to develop the research environment within epigenetics and diabetes at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC).  “I am very grateful for t

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/distinguished-professor-grant-researcher-epigenetics-and-diabetes - 2026-05-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. European complementologists have joined forces and created CORVOS. A highly coordinated and innovative research and training program for early stage researchers in immunology and infectious diseases. Lund University is a part of the initiative. The major aims of CORVOS are the discovery of therapeutic ways to support

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/corvos-european-joint-doctorate-programme-immunology - 2026-05-21