Published 23 March 2017 Love poems, playing cards and secret notes. For half a millennium, people who have attended mass at Lund Cathedral have found ways to pass the time when the sermons felt too slow. In a few years, the Lund University Historical Museum will introduce a new cabinet of curiosities, containing notes and strange objects which have fallen down or been hidden between the choir stal

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hidden-treasures-choir-stalls-made-exhibition - 2025-03-09

Published 20 April 2017 Is the world becoming a better place? Carlota Perez does not respond to this question. Instead, she explains how we are making it better. And hope is ignited in the eyes of the young members of the audience during Debatt i Lund. “The threat of climate change can be turned into an opportunity. Green economic growth will provide lots of new jobs and a good life for people, no

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-brings-hope-better-world - 2025-03-09

Published 21 April 2017 When Jonas Hafström swings his gavel at the board meeting in June, he will do so in front of an almost entirely new University Board. He himself maintains his seat, comfortable in his role as chair which he began two years ago. Jonas Hafström, chairman of the University board. When former chair Margot Wallström resigned, in the middle of her term of office, to become Minist

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/donald-trump-and-brexit-affects-agenda-board - 2025-03-09

Published 20 April 2017 A few weeks after the terrorist attack on Drottninggatan in Stockholm, researchers caution against describing reality as a black-and-white struggle between good and evil. If you want to protect society against extremism, it is important that you understand how and why it occurs. Although radicalised youth who return from the terror group ISIS is a threat to security, the th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/segregation-graver-threat-isis-returnees-long-run - 2025-03-09

Published 21 April 2017 How does digital technology affect our work situation? Could data collected to measure our performance lead to old-fashioned micromanagement? Should higher education take after healthcare with regard to the boundary between work and spare time? These are some of the questions discussed by researchers involved in the research theme Digiworks at the Pufendorf Institute. Resea

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/digital-revolution-changes-work-environment - 2025-03-09

Published 24 April 2017 How we deal with people who return from terrorist groups – not just those who have travelled to ISIS but also those who have joined right-wing groups in, for instance, Ukraine – is crucial to our own safety, says Dan-Erik Andersson, one of the people behind a new national contract education course on violent extremism. From the left: Dan-Erik Andersson, Tina Robertsson and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-provides-education-against-violent-extremism - 2025-03-09

Published 24 April 2017 The climate cannot handle the amount of animals we eat. There needs to be a protein shift, according to researcher Karolina Östbring who is involved in the Sustainability Week. Her vision is to create a platform for research on vegetable proteins at LU. Karolina Östberg  Photo: Kennet Ruona. The human population is growing, while our ecological footprint needs to become muc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-need-protein-shift - 2025-03-09

Published 2 June 2017 Why is the Stringhyllan bookshelf considered a design classic but not the Billy? And what makes the Lamino armchair into the furniture design of the century while Norrgavel’s Länstol chair isn’t even considered a classic? “I believed, rather naively, that it was quality that determined whether a piece became a Anna Wahlöö has her personal favourite among the design classics i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-knows-what-makes-design-classic - 2025-03-09

Published 2 June 2017 The relocation of the specialised centres to the faculties which is currently underway within LU has generated concern and discussion. “But once you know where you are moving, a calmer and more constructive phase begins”, says Bo Ahrén, chair of the University’s specialised centres. But Merle Jacob, professor of research policy, finds the path to the right faculty to be rathe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/calmer-phase-after-turbulence-centres-moving-faculties - 2025-03-09

Published 2 June 2017 Andra Jugånaru comes from the threatened CEU university in Hungary. After three months as a visiting doctoral student at LU, she is not sure whether she will have any university to return to. Andra Jugånaru and Samuel Rubenson. Photo: Jenny Loftrup “If the university is closed down, it is a very big step backwards, a step towards the higher education of the Communist era in t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-community-deplores-threat-closure-hungarian-ceu - 2025-03-09

Published 2 June 2017 Antonio Cordero hoped that crowdfunding would help him when he wanted to focus on his secondary research project on the box turtle. No money ever showed up, but he did gain lessons in both marketing and how to disseminate his research. Antonio Cordero. Crowdfunding, is a way of using the internet to finance anything from the production of single products to academic research.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/pros-and-cons-crowdfunding - 2025-03-09

Published 2 June 2017 In Chichigalpa, Nicaragua, almost half of all male deaths are attributable to a mysterious kidney disease. In El Salvador, it the second most common cause of death among men. In Sri Lanka, it is believed to have caused about 25 000 deaths over the past decade. Working in heat is a common factor, so the problem is expected to increase along with global warming. The condition i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/heat-exhaustion-behind-mysterious-kidney-disease - 2025-03-09

Published 2 June 2017 Peder Winstrup was a man with many irons in the fire. Founder of Lund University, bishop, Renaissance man, architect, scientist, author, powerful political player, printer, poet and much more. Even long after his death, he continues to fascinate us as a uniquely well-preserved mummy. Now his life has been turned into an exhibition and a book. Andreas Manhag and Per Karsten wa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mummified-bishop-revived-book-and-exhibition - 2025-03-09

Published 3 October 2017 High spirits, a magnificently versatile show, and long beer queues, as Lund University staff and students celebrated the 350th anniversary with a big birthday bash. But the party came close to not being held on historic ground. Photo: Kennet Ruona. The National Property Board of Sweden, which manages the buildings in Lundagård park, was for a long time sceptical about havi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-party - 2025-03-09

Published 2 September 2017 Sylvia Schwaag Serger is currently responsible for international strategy at Vinnova, and an adjunct professor at the School of Economics and Management at Lund University. In addition, this Swedish-German-Chinese-American has a PhD in economic history from the London School of Economics. Sylvia Schwaag-Serger. Photo: Vinnova The search for a new deputy vice-chancellor b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sylvia-schwaag-serger-appointed-new-deputy-vice-chancellor - 2025-03-09

Published 2 October 2017 A new trend among food-conscious Swedes is to adopt a gluten-free diet. However, according to LU researchers studying coeliac disease (gluten intolerance), the trend is not solely a good thing as it may blur the line between illness and health. “The fact that patients with coeliac disease now have more food products to choose from is, of course, a good thing. What is less

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/gluten-riddle-searching-triggers-coeliac-disease - 2025-03-09

Published 2 October 2017 The University’s contract education needs to grow in order to match the skills needed among companies and public authorities in the region. A new report proposes to give the departments the main responsibility for the development of contract education. Employees who work as consultants on the side are to become more involved in the University’s own contract education which

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/put-departments-charge-contract-education - 2025-03-09

Published 1 October 2017 Laurie Cohen, from the Department of Business Administration, on gender inequality in academia and how it won't go away unless we take action. An old story has re-emerged on social media. It goes like this. A father and his son are in a car accident. The father is killed and the son is rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery. Upon entering the operating theatre and se

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-work-actively-against-gender-inequality-academia - 2025-03-09

Published 2 October 2017 Drones are becoming a matter of interest for more than just the military and the toy industry. Lund University’s School of Aviation in Ljungbyhed (TFHS) is now launching the first study programme for drone operators in Sweden – and perhaps the world. Drone flying over Ljungbyhed. Photo:Kennet Ruona At the far end of one of the huge hangars in Ljungbyhed, the tables have be

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/pilot-remote-control - 2025-03-09

Published 14 November 2017 The number of problematic rehabilitations is increasing at LU, according to the employee organisations which often get involved when things go wrong. Lars-Åke Lööv. Photo: Kennet Ruona “A bad rehabilitation ends up being very expensive”, says Lars-Åke Lööv, elected representative of SACO-s. When it comes to rehabilitation after physical disease, he thinks the process is

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/employee-organisation-we-should-be-involved-outset-rehabilitations - 2025-03-09