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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At this year's Almedalen, LUCSUS researchers will discuss climate variability and its impact on water, sustainable land use, flying, and the Greta effect on today's youth. Here is the full list of LUCSUS related events taking place in Visby, Gotland. Almedalen is a week long democratic meeting place for seminars and d
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-almedalen - 2026-07-15
Gemma Atkinson has been awarded this year’s Eric K. Fernström Prize for particularly promising and successful early-career researchers at Lund University. Her research focuses on bacterial proteins in order to understand the protective mechanisms bacteria use against infecting viruses known as bacteriophages. She received the prize for: Groundbreaking discoveries about the bacterial immune system
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/detective-mysterious-world-proteins - 2026-07-15
Dear Faculty,Well, where do I start? It feels overwhelming, honourable and exciting to be new at work. Right now, it could be summed up by saying that the new office is still quite empty, while the calendar is filled up. It will be an exciting year and it feels inspiring and fun to now be able to work with a new management team and get to work closely with our departments and heads of department.T
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/dear-faculty-letter-new-dean - 2026-07-15
Over the past academic year it has been fantastic to see how the organisation has begun to operate as a fourth generation university! The fourth generation university is based on the realisation that it is becoming increasingly crucial for the universities of the future not only to create and disseminate knowledge, but also to actively drive the search for solutions to the societal problems we fac
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fourth-generation-universities-understanding-explaining-and-improving - 2026-07-16
The Faculty of Medicine has reviewed its communications activities and made some changes. They have reorganised their ways of working and have even reworked their internal website, Intramed. 2022 saw the reorganisation of the communication activities at the Faculty, taking as its starting point an analysis made from 2019-2020 of the situation as it was then, including proposals for improvements.
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-internal-website-staff-faculty-medicine-has-made-difference - 2026-07-16
Vinicius recently defended his dissertation in Economic History: Familiar territory – Neighborhood effects on union formation and fertility in Sweden 1905-2022. After obtaining his Master's degree in Demographics in his native Brazil, Vinicius moved to Sweden in 2021 to pursue his PhD in Economic History. His thesis is about how social interactions and relationships with non-family members throu
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/new-thesis-three-questions-vinicius-de-souza-maia - 2026-07-16
Social media provides a new environment that makes it possible to carefully edit the image you want to project of yourself. A study from Lund University in Sweden suggests that many people are prepared to pay to ”filter out” unfavorable information. Economists Håkan Holm and Margaret Samahita have investigated how we curate our social image on the web using game theory. Previous studies have been
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/people-are-willing-pay-curate-their-online-social-image - 2026-07-15
Artificial intelligence powers everything from facial recognition to self-driving cars, but what does it really take to teach a computer to “see”? Isak Engdahl, who recently defended his doctoral thesis at Lund University, takes us inside the labs where computer vision systems are built, and reveals the human work behind the technology. On Friday 28 November, Isak Engdahl successfully defended his
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-doctoral-thesis-how-scientists-teach-computers-see - 2026-07-15
A new project has been initiated to strengthen work on academic freedom and clarify the University’s role in society. The project, which will run until the end of 2026, aims to create a common understanding of what academic freedom entails and how it can be safeguarded in practice. Why is academic freedom important?Academic freedom is a fundamental pillar of research and education. It means that u
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-project-will-strengthen-academic-freedom-lund-university - 2026-07-16
Updated guidelines for processing suspected deviations from good research practice and for ensuring responsible research. Responsibility for good research practiceLund University has overall responsibility for ensuring that research conducted at the University is carried out in accordance with good research practice. All employees who participate in research activities at Lund University have a re
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/updated-guidelines-deviations-good-research-practice - 2026-07-16
Some time ago, I was asked, “What does Lund University want in terms of AI and research?” At first, I was a little surprised and thought, is the University to have an explicit position on this? But then I started thinking about the University’s other clearly-stated ambitions. We want to be a “world-class university,” we want to “understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.” S
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/are-we-use-ai-when-conducting-research - 2026-07-16
For the first time, researchers have been able to prove that city lights limit the ability of nocturnal animals to navigate by natural light in the night sky. Instead, they are forced to use streetlamps, neon light or floodlights to orient themselves. The findings are published in Current Biology. Some animals, including migratory birds, seals and moths, use light from the moon, stars and Milky Wa
https://www.biology.lu.se/article/artificial-light-disrupts-dung-beetles-sense-direction - 2026-07-15
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have investigated the link between osteoarthritis and mortality in an epidemiological study. It was shown that the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease was higher for people with osteoarthritis than for the rest of the population. Using population registers, the researchers studied approximately 469 000 people living in Skåne, Sweden, who in 2003 were
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/osteoarthritis-linked-higher-risk-dying-cardiovascular-disease - 2026-07-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUMES alumni Benedikt John (Batch 20) received The Global Goal Prize (hållbarhetspriset) 2018 from Miljöpartiet Skåne for his master thesis “Time to walk the talk: investigating the incorporation ofsustainability at Lund University School of Economics and Management”. The prize was handed out by Karolina Skog, Swedish
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-received-global-goal-prize - 2026-07-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The disproportionate impacts of climate change on vulnerable groups, art for the SDG:s, and political and personal stories about flying and climate change. This is the focus of three LUCSUS projects that recently received funding from Formas. Other projects include research on mobilisation for the SDG:s, and an explo
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-projects-lucsus-climate-change-flying-and-sanitation - 2026-07-15
IIIEE is launching a new research project on 'Energy Poverty & Energy Justice' and is now recruiting a Doctoral Student. In collaboration with the Stockholm Environment Institute and Energikontor Syd, and funded by the Swedish Energy Agency, the project examines how heating and transport poverty overlap, which groups are most affected, and how structural factors — from energy systems to housing an
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/join-us-phd-student-iiiee - 2026-07-15
Forests are important for climate change mitigation, both as raw material for biofuels and for carbon storage. At the same time, forests are under pressure from a changing climate and more intensive forestry. A new thesis by Klas Lucander at Lund University, also member of BECC, shows the possible consequences for forests of fertilisation, and how this could lead to eutrophication and acidificatio
Forests are important for climate change mitigation, both as raw material for biofuels and for carbon storage. At the same time, forests are under pressure from a changing climate and more intensive forestry. A new thesis by Klas Lucander at Lund University shows the possible consequences for forests of fertilisation, and how this could lead to eutrophication and acidification instead of tree grow
Colourful common wall lizards, an innovative X-ray microscope and advanced research on Alzheimer’s, leukaemia, photographic evidence and the origin of life. Six researchers from Lund University in Sweden have been granted five-year starting grants totalling EUR 9.5 million from the ERC. Nathalie Feiner, researcher in evolutionary biology, will focus on parallel evolution among six species of commo
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/six-lu-researchers-receive-erc-starting-grants - 2026-07-15
