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What are your thoughts on death? How would you like to spend your last days? These kinds of existential questions are explored at so-called death cafés - gatherings that Jamie Woodworth began organising before she was 25, as a way of dealing with her anxiety about climate change. Now she has been awarded an honourable mention for her doctoral thesis on end-of-life care in the Swedish welfare state
The Ravensbrück archive at the University Library is unique in the world. Nowhere else is there a collection of 500 testimonies from concentration camp survivors, recorded so soon after their terrible ordeal. Now, their stories from Ravensbrück will be made available in digital form, so that anyone can search the archive. Drawings. Several of the women imprisoned at Ravensbrück subsequently became
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/important-testimonies-digitised - 2025-11-15
Many of us have digital maps at our fingertips in our smartphones, but these maps are not adapted to guide us when walking or finding our way in new environments, for example, as tourists in an unfamiliar big city. Creating such maps requires in-depth knowledge about map design which can be further improved by using new technology that can process large amounts of data. “We are collaborating with
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/digital-maps-tomorrow-improve-how-we-find-our-way - 2025-11-16
1.5 million Swedes and 850 million people globally suffer from migraines, a condition that Lars Edvinsson has been researching for almost forty years. Practically every day over the past year, he has received thank you letters from all over the world from patients whose lives have been transformed thanks to new medication based on his research. However, the path leading to this point has been long
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/migraine-researcher-who-bucked-trend - 2025-11-15
To distinguish between education and research as early as the allocation stage of basic government funding does not benefit their intertwining. Nor is it helpful that only research counts if you want to have a good career. “Good teaching initiatives are to be rewarded and teaching should be well-regarded” according to the new pro vice-chancellors Ann-Kristin Wallengren and Per Mickwitz. Wallengren
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-intertwining - 2025-11-16
Han Somsen has newly been appointed professor in environmental law at the Faculty of Law. He is best known for his recommendation that bird-killing cats should be kept indoors. “Humans see themselves as the kings of the hill, which extends to their cats. If you question this, many people get very angry. I got death threats,” says Han Somsen. Han Somsen’s latest position was as professor at Tilburg
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/law-professor-who-wants-put-nature-above-law - 2025-11-16
After two semesters, students showcase their unique sustainability initiatives during Lund's Sustainability Week on 9 April, after following LUSEM's voluntary track 'Living the Sustainability Idea' where focus is on a personal sustainability challenge. Working on the internal transformation“This is about working on the internal transformation, focusing on sustainability, supporting students in how
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/breaking-new-ground-living-sustainability-idea-sets-path-student-empowerment - 2025-11-16
Farshid Jalalvand has a PhD in infection biology and vaccine development, and he has appeared frequently in the media during the debate on the Covid-19 vaccine. “When you work, as I do, with vaccines and you understand how they work, it feels important to try to explain it so that people can take decisions based on solid evidence”, he says. A lot of the criticism against vaccines occurs on social
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-everyones-responsibility-get-vaccinated - 2025-11-16
Hur sårbar är mänskligheten inför klimatförändringarna? Och hur har de redan idag påverkat människor runt om på jorden? Det är några av de frågor som besvaras av FN:s klimatpanel den 28:e februari. I slutrapporten deltar tre forskare från Sverige varav två – Martina Angela Caretta och Emily Boyd – kommer från Lunds universitet. Under tre års tid har cirka trehundra toppforskare från hela världen g
https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/fns-klimatrapport-28-februari-hur-sarbara-ar-vi-och-hur-kan-vi-anpassa-oss - 2025-11-15
Det har gått ett decennium sedan världens länder skrev under Parisavtalet. Statsvetaren Fariborz Zelli summerar vad som överraskat – både positivt och negativt – i klimatpolitiken under de senaste tio åren och blickar även framåt. Vilken har varit den största framgången med Parisavtalet hittills?Jag skulle nog säga att den största framgången är att FN lyckats behålla sin centrala roll i det global
https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/vantat-och-ovantat-tio-ar-efter-parisavtalet - 2025-11-15
This Regional Outlook focuses on the role of satellite imagery in shaping our understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the physical damage it has caused the landscape. On 7 October 2023, Hamas carried out a large scale attack against Israel, causing over 1 000 fatalities, taking more than 200 hostages and firing thousands of rockets into Israeli territory. At the time of writing, Isr
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-monitoring-israels-destruction-gaza-space - 2025-11-15
I november anordnade Centrum för europaforskning, CFE, ett seminarium för att uppmärksamma trettioårsdagen för den svenska folkomröstningen om EU-medlemskap. Elva inbjudna talare delade med sig av sina erfarenheter och kunskaper om medlemskapets påverkan på Sverige genom decennierna. Allan Larssons inledningstal: ”The inside story”Seminariets inledningstalare var tidigare finansminister Allan Lars
https://www.cfe.lu.se/artikel/trettio-ar-sedan-folkomrostningen-om-eu - 2025-11-15
Från ett rum i universitetshuset, via AF-borgen och dagens språk- och litteraturcentrum, till dagens lokaler på Geocentrum. Från början en del av historiska institutionen, till att bli två egna ämnen. Historien om geografin i Lund är nu dokumenterad i en ny, omfattande bok av Jonas Åkerman. Det finns två personer som tillsammans har träffat i princip all personal på institutionen för naturgeografi
https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/internt/artikel/jonas-akermans-sista-exkursion-och-berattelsen-om-en-institution - 2025-11-15
Intresset för att screena för typ 1-diabetes växer i takt med att metoderna blir bättre och nya bromsläkemedel blir tillgängliga för fler patienter. Nu visar ny forskning vid Lunds universitet hur screening för autoimmuna sjukdomar kan göras i stor skala Ett nytt läkemedel som kan bromsa utvecklingen av typ 1-diabetes har godkänts för användning i USA. Om läkemedlet Teplizumab blir tillgängligt äv
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ny-metod-gor-det-mojligt-att-screena-autoimmuna-sjukdomar-i-stor-skala - 2025-11-16
Six of the most innovative ideas and projects currently within Lund University were spotlighted at the Future Innovations Award, held on November 7th. The contributors shared a total of SEK 500,000 when Lund University's and Sparbanken Skåne's Future Innovations Award was given out. The winning ideas included an energy storage system that makes use of upcycled electric vehicles batteries and a new
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/most-innovative-lund-university-receive-awards - 2025-11-16
För att studera hur hjärnan fungerar och utveckla nya tekniker för behandling av neurologiska sjukdomar har forskare vid Lunds universitet utvecklat vävnadsvänliga och flexibla mikroelektroder som är ungefär en tiondel så tjocka som ett hårstrå. Nu har tre av doktoranderna i forskargruppen precis disputerat. Hjärnan är den mest komplicerade struktur vi känner till och den ligger bakom vår intellig
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/tre-i-rad-hattrick-hjarnelektroder - 2025-11-15
In May, screening for colorectal cancer will be offered in Skåne to all those born in 1961. Subsequently, Swedes aged 60 to 74 will be tested for blood in their faeces, to detect cancer at an early stage. Once all regions in Sweden have introduced the screening, at least 300 lives are expected to be saved per year. Sweden has been slow to introduce screening; this spring, Skåne will become the thi
https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/screening-colorectal-cancer-starts-spring - 2025-11-15
Presently many of Sweden’s 20,000 Parkinson’s patients are not receiving the treatment they need, and many of the most seriously ill receive incorrect or inappropriate therapy. With the new Manage PD tool and the PD Pal study, Per Odin, professor at Lund University and senior attending physician at Skåne University Hospital in Lund, hopes to be able to improve the care of Parkinson’s patients. Eve
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/faster-and-better-treatment-parkinsons-disease-manage-pd-tool - 2025-11-15
Researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center are coming together with colleagues across Lund University to shape the future of healthcare. A new University-wide seed funding initiative seeking to support emerging research topics that benefit society will see interdisciplinary teams of neuroscience, medicine, and biotechnology researchers attempt to develop new, innovative, patient-specific disease model
In May, screening for colorectal cancer will be offered in Skåne to all those born in 1961. Subsequently, Swedes aged 60 to 74 will be tested for blood in their faeces, to detect cancer at an early stage. Once all regions in Sweden have introduced the screening, at least 300 lives are expected to be saved per year. Sweden has been slow to introduce screening; this spring, Skåne will become the thi
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/screening-colorectal-cancer-starts-spring - 2025-11-15
