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The proposal for a renewed Campus Plan will soon be subject to a consultation round. It is an update of the current Campus Plan which will soon expire. For two years, the Campus Development Office has been drawing up the Campus Plan in collaboration with consultants and on behalf the Campus Development Council. The Campus Plan covers a lot of space – Lund University has around 540,000 square metre

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-campus-plan-be-decided-autumn - 2026-07-06

Social anthropologist Petra Östergren’s research rethinks prostitution policies and receives international response and praise. Her chapter "From zero-tolerance to full integration. Rethinking prostitution policies" has now been published in The Sage Handbook of Global Sexuality. According to professor Hendrik Wagenaar at Kings College in London it is a "seminal typology of prostitution policies"

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/governing-sex-work-new-way-categorizing-prostitution-policy-may-be-standard-years-come - 2026-07-07

Despite a widespread and outdated view of older people, and an abundance of stereotypes, awareness of what is known as ageism is limited. A new short guide gives tips for how you can use your communication to counter discrimination against older people. The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations (UN) have been highlighting ageism for almost 20 years. Put simply, ageism can be descr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/6-ways-combat-ageism - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers from Lund University, together with the Roche pharmaceutical company, have used a method to develop a new blood marker capable of detecting whether or not a person has Alzheimer’s disease. If the method is approved for clinical use, the researchers hope eventually to see it used as a diagnostic tool in pri

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-blood-test-detecting-alzheimers-disease - 2026-07-07

Breath-holding spells are common in young children and are benign. Yet children often undergo unnecessary diagnostic interventions when seeking medical care. This is because there are no national or international guidelines on how to assess children in these cases. A team of researchers at Lund University, Sweden has now proposed guidelines to reduce the number of emergency and unplanned medical v

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/children-breath-holding-spells-undergo-unnecessary-diagnostic-interventions - 2026-07-07

Breath-holding spells are common in young children and are benign. Yet children often undergo unnecessary diagnostic interventions when seeking medical care. This is because there are no national or international guidelines on how to assess children in these cases. A team of researchers at Lund University, Sweden has now proposed guidelines to reduce the number of emergency and unplanned medical v

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/children-breath-holding-spells-undergo-unnecessary-diagnostic-interventions - 2026-07-07

The Bundy Academy’s 2022 major prize amounting to SEK 3 million is awarded to Sebastian Palmqvist, Associate Professor of Clinical Memory Research at Lund University and Senior Physician at the Memory Clinic at Skåne University Hospital, for his research on improved diagnostics of Alzheimer’s disease. The Bundy Academy’s 2022 major prize amounting to SEK 3 million was awarded yesterday to Sebastia

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/awardees-2022-bundy-academy-major-prize - 2026-07-07

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.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/microorganisms-climate-adaptation-can-slow-down-global-warming - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered well-preserved pigments and other biomolecules in a 54 million-year-old baby sea turtle. The molecular analyses show that the turtle’s shell contained pigments to protect it from harmful UV rays of the sun. The researchers investigated the microscopic and molecu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/exceptionally-preserved-sea-turtle-reveals-ancient-sun-protection - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Every year the Swedish Society for Medical Research awards funding to promising young medical researchers. Grant recipients are funded for four years of full- or part-time research, with the aim of establishing an independent scientific career. At this year's call, 203 applications were assessed, of which eight were a

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-researcher-awarded-ssmf-large-grant - 2026-07-07

A project is underway that aims to make the University’s digital texts simpler and clearer for students. The project will conduct user tests and adapt texts on student support, and also strengthen competence in plain language. The focus is on writing texts that are adapted to the students’ needs and situations Why do we need plain language?Writing in plain language is important – it is required by

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-plain-language-our-webpages-helping-all-students-understand - 2026-07-06

For over 60 years, scientists have tried to determine whether plants are pollinated primarily during the day or at night — without reaching a clear conclusion. Now, a major research review from Lund University with two BECC-PI:s has revealed that nighttime pollinators play just as significant a role as daytime species in 90 percent of the cases studied. Most of us know how important bees, birds, a

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/nocturnal-pollinators-just-important-their-daytime-colleagues - 2026-07-07

Lund University has been ranked the best in the world in sustainability in the QS World University Rankings. Already in 2007, the Department of Architecture and the Built Environment pioneered global engagement in sustainability when founding the international Master’s programme Sustainable Urban Design (SUDes). Lund University has been ranked the best in the world in sustainability in the QS Worl

https://www.architecture.lth.se/article/lund-university-ranked-best-world-sustainability-sustainable-urban-design-sudes-was-pioneer - 2026-07-07

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/pandemics-and-alertness-0 - 2026-07-07

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/witness-reporting-missionaries-and-armenian-genocide - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On Tuesday 8 May 15.00-17.00 there will be a talk on post-war Sri Lanka at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (seminar room), Finngatan 16. Welcome. The talk is held by Dr. Vagisha Gunasekara. Dr. Gurnasekara is a Sri Lankan researcher, affiliated with the Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) that studies particula

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/talk-post-war-sri-lanka - 2026-07-07

Together with other prominent researchers and experts in the private and public sectors, Professor Kimberly Dick Thelander has been inducted as a new Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Kimberly Dick Thelander, Professor of Materials Science and a PI at NanoLund, has been inducted into the Chemical Engineering division of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/kimberly-dick-thelander-inducted-royal-academy-engineering-sciences - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The conference welcomes papers that take gender as a critical tool of analysis in studies of media, culture, communication and ICTs. The focus of the conference is studies on China and the Nordic countries, but studies on other regions as well as more general or theoretical papers are also welcome. Scholars from diffe

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-gender-and-communication-22-23-september-2014-beijing - 2026-07-07

The IIIEE is pleased to announce that we are part of Lund University's 'Shape the Future of Research' initiative with the a vacancy for an Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) in AI for Sustainable Transformation. We are now recruiting an Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) in the interdisciplinary field of Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Transformation.This is a ful

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/join-iiiee-assistant-professor-ai-sustainable-transformation - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Article in Lund University Research Magazine In the latest issue of the Lund University Research Magazine (LUM), the article "In narratives of hope, researchers come together for the future of Syria" was published. The article sheds light on two academic Syrian refugees and participants of the project Post Conflict Fu

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/narratives-hope-researchers-come-together-future-syria - 2026-07-07