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Have the flight-free movement’s calls to avoid flying because of climate change had an impact on travel behaviors? What can be attributed to economic factors, changed social norms or a combination of both is unclear - but air travel in Sweden has decreased by 20 percent compared to before the pandemic. – The movement seeks to achieve change by making visible other ways of traveling, and in a large
Beyond transformative agreementsI en artikel publicerad på EUA: s plattform "Expert Voices", skriver Astrid Söderbergh Widding och Wilhelm Widmark vid Stockholms universitet samt Anna Lundén och Britt-Marie Wideberg vid Kungliga biblioteket att Bibsamkonsortiet strävar mot att byta från läs- och publiceringsavtal till avtal som enbart handlar om publicering efter 2024. Nästa generations avtal måst
https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-april-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation - 2025-12-19
Is it possible to convert a patient’s own skin cells into functioning nerve cells? Or insert healthy genes to reprogram the cells of a damaged brain? Stem cell researcher Malin Parmar at Lund University in Sweden is studying these types of issues, in close collaboration with clinical researchers. She is now awarded a prize of SEK 100 000 from the Eric K. Fernström Foundation for her work. Every ye
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/stem-cell-researcher-receives-fernstrom-prize - 2025-12-19
Insekters DNA går att fånga in och upptäcka via luften. Det visar forskning från Lunds universitet. Tekniken, som är ny på insektsområdet, kan få stor betydelse för att kartlägga biologisk mångfald framöver och väntas komplettera den traditionella metoden, att samla in insekter med fällor. Fabian Roger, som tog fram tekniken under sin tid som forskare på Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC
https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/luftburen-dna-forskarnas-nya-metod-att-kartlagga-insekter - 2025-12-19
Doctoral student Olga Lark will defend her thesis 26 April. Get a quick glimpse of her thesis, experiences and near future. Hi Olga! You are about to defend your thesis “Globalization, Gender inequality and Firm innovation”. In short, what is your thesis about?”My thesis is about globalization and how it affects firms and individuals in Sweden. The two distinct topics that I study are gender inequ
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-thesis-three-questions-olga-lark - 2025-12-19
Du som studerar på Campus Helsingborg och skriver din B-uppsats, examensarbete/C-uppsats under din kandidat eller master kan söka stipendiet "Vänortsstipendierna 2022". Sista ansökningsdag är 2022-01-31. Vem får söka stipendiet? Du som studerar på Campus Helsingborg och skriver din B-uppsats, examensarbete/C-uppsats under din kandidat eller master kan söka stipendierna. Tanken är att stipendiet sk
https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/resestipendier-studenter-sok-nu - 2025-12-19
Meet Paul Franks... ... Professor of Diabetes Research and sportsman, who raised money for diabetes research by competing in the Copenhagen Ironman* triathlon race a while ago. How have the race and the fundraising gone? “I think it’s gone well. Despite a broken toe, I finished the race in just over 10 hours. I beat my previous Ironman record, which I set in a race 20 years ago. “We have raised ju
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/running-diabetes - 2025-12-19
Den tejpning av rekryters fötter som försvaret rekommenderar inför långa marscher, riskerar att ge livslånga kontaktallergier. Forskare vid Lunds universitet, har undersökt soldater vid ett par regementen och av de rekryter som undersökts uppvisade drygt 75 procent kontakteksem av tejpen. Kortfakta: klinisk forskning // diagnostisk inventering testserie // tillämpad forskning orsak-verkan-samband
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/tejpning-mot-skoskav-orsakade-kontaktallergier-hos-rekryter - 2025-12-20
What jobs will we do in the future? And who will work? Research shows that half of today’s jobs will not be necessary in 20 years’ time. Questions about unemployment and the future job market have been discussed at several different university events in recent months, most recently at Debatt i Lund. In early June, politicians, entrepreneurs and researchers gathered for the Innovation for Jobs conf
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-jobs-will-we-do-future - 2025-12-19
A chance meeting in a Yokohama pub led Lund University researcher Andreas Johansson straight to the heart of the Japanese Yakuza mafia. For two weeks, he was “embedded” with a well-known Yakuza clan, enabling him to document their tattoos through photography. He is now releasing his book of photos ”Yakuza Tattoo”. In 2014, Andreas Johansson participated in a conference in Yokohama, Japan. One even
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-glimpse-world-japanese-mafia-tattoos - 2025-12-19
As researchers today, we face greater expectations than ever that our research should contribute to the benefit of society. Traditionally, to develop and commercialize ideas has not been an obvious career path for researchers. However, over the last couple of years we have seen an increased interest among researchers to understand and engage in entrepreneurial thinking and acting.Due to the increa
https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/learn-how-commercialise-your-research-our-75-ects-phd-course - 2025-12-19
More people working from home does not necessarily mean less travel. On the contrary, leisure travel may increase to compensate for sedentary work in the home, according to transport researcher Lena Winslott Hiselius. This can become a challenge for public transport. There are strong indications that remote working is here to stay, at least in part and in certain workplaces. Lena Winslott Hiselius
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/leisure-travel-appears-increase-alongside-working-home - 2025-12-19
When to Hold Them, When to Fold Them: Reassessing “Big Deals” in 2020 Det har blivit ohållbart för många mindre universitet att hålla fast vid de så kallade Big Deals i och med skenande kostnaderna. Elizabeth Parang & Jeremy Whitt vid Pepperdine University har skrivit en artikel om sin metod för att utvärdera Big Deals, alternativa lösningar och hur reaktionerna varit. Länk till artikel: When to F
https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-mars-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation-0 - 2025-12-19
Photo: Markus Spiske on Unsplash The pandemic has made us test alternatives to our traditional exam methods, alternatives that work digitally and on remote. Some of these alternatives are worth keeping also when we head back to traditional, on campus, teaching. One thing we have learned the past years is that remote surveillance is problematic (no guarantee it works 100%) and limiting students’ ac
https://www.education.lu.se/artikel/digital-open-book-exam-flexible-option - 2025-12-19
