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The fact that June’s EU meeting held in Lund had the theme “The Potential of Research Data: How Research Infrastructures Provide New Opportunities and Benefits for Society,” clearly shows the enormous opportunity that research data could represent. Now it is time to make that potential a reality. The University’s research generates increasingly large volumes of data and the need to know where and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/common-approach-research-data-e-infrastructure-project - 2026-10-06

Since 2018, Lund University has had a special focus on integrating the arts and culture in teaching, research and external engagement through the “Strategy for Cultural Collaboration”. Is LU a culture university? Can everyone utilise the arts and culture in their activities? We will examine these questions at LU’s first major Culture Meeting on 24 November.” One of the goals of the Strategy is to

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tinder-cultural-collaboration-lus-first-major-culture-meeting - 2026-10-06

This spring, there are several opportunities to apply for funding from Lund University's Sustainability Fund to test, explore, and develop ideas that impact ecological, social, and economic sustainability. Do you have an idea you want to develop? Here is a brief description of three different opportunities open this spring. Are you a employee? This spring there is new opportunities to test, explor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/grants-exploring-sustainable-ideas-and-innovations - 2026-10-06

The Lund Social Science Methods Centre offers six workshops in methods and methodologies from mid-September through mid-October 2026. These are for teaching staff, researchers and doctoral students who want to broaden and deepen their knowledge of research methods. Explore Skill School, the Social Sciences Method Center's exclusive workshop series, tailored for doctoral students and senior researc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/explore-skill-school-teaching-staff-researchers-and-doctoral-students - 2026-10-06

The university-wide project “A unified web experience for education” has been rolling along at breakneck speed this spring – from in-house training for publishers in the new PIM system to further development of web design, technology and content. The launch is currently planned for February 2026. “We have done our best to stick to the schedule set when the project was commissioned in winter 2023.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/launch-unified-web-experience-education-planned-february-2026 - 2026-10-06

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Forum Medicum – the new major construction of the Faculty of Medicine at the top of Sölvegatan – will become a reality. For a while, things looked bad, but by making small adjustments here and there, the project can now be pursued to begin construction in the winter of 2018/2019. The idea of Forum Medicum is to establ

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/after-slimming-down-construction-plans-forum-medicum-now-underway - 2026-10-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Melissa Franklin is a guest professor from Harvard University who compares her environment at Fysicum with the tv-series Friends and Seinfeld. Here she shares her views on similarities and differences between the universities. When a colleague on my 3000 person experiment at CERN whom I didn’t know, Torsten Akesson, e

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/crossing-border-scania - 2026-10-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Being able to take care of one’s hygiene, cook food and cope independently in the home are examples of feeling in control of one’s life. But how easy is it for an elderly person with a spinal cord injury to feel actively in control of their life in the home? Lizette Norin, occupational therapist and researcher, has wr

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/accessibility-home-key-person-spinal-cord-injury - 2026-10-05

When the researchers from the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) cross the border into Bhutan, the first thing that strikes them is the sense of calm and peacefulness. But it is not just the tranquillity of nature that attracts them, they are here to deepen the collaboration between Swedish engineering know-how and Bhutanese sustainability philosophy – an international exchange that has been going on fo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/land-happiness-learning-lund - 2026-10-06

In times when the majority of students need to take exams in an online environment, there are many teachers who wish to monitor the exam via camera surveillance in Zoom. There are many different ways to handle this, Karin Bergman from the department of economics has written about how she approaches this. Foto: Patrick on Unsplash We have used Zoom monitoring in a couple of exams both to prevent st

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/heres-what-we-did-monitoring-zoom - 2026-10-05

The 'Sustainable Idea Exploration' call is an opportunity for researchers at Lund University to explore the innovative potential of their research and finance activities outside the scope of existing research projects. Its aim is to support the development of early innovative ideas from research projects that can contribute to sustainability. Four projects have now been granted funding in the call

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/four-projects-awarded-grants-sustainability-related-research - 2026-10-06

Petter Pilesjö, Abdulghani Hasan, and Andreas Persson were tired of the feeling of writing articles and presenting at conferences without anything happening. Learn how they went from research results to making use of their findings by starting the company PluvioFlow. Petter Pilsjö is a Professor at Lund University Centre for Geographical Information Systems (GIS Centre), as well as a founder of Pl

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/they-started-company-spread-their-research-findings-we-need-get-better-handling-floods - 2026-10-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For the first time, a Swedish municipality has placed large amounts of sand on its beaches as a way of combating coastal erosion. This would probably never have happened if it wasn’t for Hans Hanson, Professor of Water Resources Engineering at LTH, who has been “nagging the municipal leaders and the Government for the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sand-instead-stone-combat-coastal-erosion - 2026-10-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In this blog post by LUCSUS researcher Maja Essebo, she discusses academic critique, and highlights, that once we have identified the faults, we need to do what little or large we can to adress and amend them.‘There is no outside to spectacular capitalism. Any alternative must be found from the inside.’ Don Mitchell s

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/having-identified-faults-we-also-need-address-them-blog-post-maja-essebo - 2026-10-05

This is the question guiding a new study in the project “Consuming digital data”, with the purpose to see how the consumer experience and feels about the collection of their personal data. The study was conducted by Christian Fuentes, professor at Lund University and Niklas Sörum, Docent at University of Borås. Everything we do online is traced. Some information we provide our selves when we regis

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-study-how-do-consumers-experience-online-data-collection - 2026-10-05

Ice sheets, snow and the ocean as far as the eye can see. No shipping vessels or people in sight, and only polar bears for company. The icebreaker Oden sails between Svalbard and Greenland, and this spring, doctoral student Lovisa Nilsson joined the ship to study the transition from winter to summer in the Arctic, and how soot affects the melting of sea ice. For six weeks, the spaces onboard Oden

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/polar-bears-company - 2026-10-06

A unique archive in Lund, Sweden, holds 500 in-depth interviews with survivors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. The interviews were conducted immediately after the survivors arrived in Sweden in spring 1945. The archive has now been nominated to the UN agency UNESCO to become part of the Memory of the World Register, as a piece of written cultural heritage of great value to humanity.The Taj

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ravensbruck-archive-lund-university-has-been-nominated-unesco-memory-world - 2026-10-06

Den svenska skattepolitiken leder till minskad välfärd, tappad internationell konkurrenskraft och ökade samhällsklyftor. Det anser de flesta nationalekonomer, däribland skatteforskaren Åsa Hansson som menar att det är hög tid för en skattereform. ”På sikt skulle alla vinna på det ”, säger hon. De senaste decennierna har skatter på fastigheter, konsumtion och visst kapital successivt minskat samtid

https://www.lu.se/artikel/politiker-foljer-inte-experternas-rad-om-skatter - 2026-10-06

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An extensive global gene-mapping project has identified a large number of loci that dictate whether a person is tall or short. The aim of the project is to find out more about how many genes interact to form biologically interesting mechanisms behind diseases. "Height on its own is perhaps not tremendously interesting

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/height-study-casts-light-genetic-mechanisms - 2026-10-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A particle physicist involved in popular education and who made a number of global discoveries in her research portfolio and a professor of theoretical physical chemistry who has developed theoretical models in the area straddling chemistry and physics. Melissa Franklin and Clifford Woodward have been appointed honora

https://www.science.lu.se/article/leading-particle-physicist-and-pioneering-chemist-named-new-honorary-doctors-science - 2026-10-05