Right now, everything is focused on managing the coronavirus. However, even before COVID-19, viral pandemics around the world were increasing and the ’ordinary’ influenza virus and common cold virus cost society enormous amounts of money each year. Swedish virus researchers say they could improve the world with the help of increased resources and knowledge. A new virus centre is opening in Lund. V

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/virus-war - 2025-08-23

Airtravel to Stockholm decreased 2019 among Lund University staff. Photo: Eugene Sergeev/Mostphotos In 2019, the number of flights for business travel decreased by nearly 10 per cent at the University. At the same time, train travel increased by 20 per cent.   “There are many deliberate individual decisions behind this. We are on the right track!” says the head of sustainability Claes Nilén. When

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fewer-flights-lund-university-staff-2019 - 2025-08-23

The dog Kevin is both a family member and a research object. Photo: Charlotte Carlberg-Bärg Giving up research has never been an option for Ronald Kröger, professor in biology with a specialisation in fish lenses and dog noses. “I conduct research with all of my heart!” He is, however, at least as dependent on his brain – and it has really suffered. It is nearly five years since the Saturday morni

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nose-noses - 2025-08-23

The Recruitment Committee has decided to reschedule interviews for candidates for the position of vice-chancellor of Lund University. Moreover, instead of proposing a new vice-chancellor at its June meeting, the University Board will decide on a proposal at the board meeting in September. The reason is uncertainty concerning the coronavirus. The Recruitment Committee deems it important that interv

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-interviews-deferred-due-coronavirus - 2025-08-23

Deadline for submitting your income tax return is May 4th. Here you can find some advice and webinars on how to declare your income. Do not miss the deadline and learn how to file your tax return. You will find information on how to submit your income tax return at the Swedish Tax Agency. They will hold webinars in English on how to declare income tax next week.Read more and register (scroll down

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-declare-taxes-sweden - 2025-08-23

Lund University, like other higher education institutions in the Nordic countries, uses the Zoom service from Sunet/NORDUnet, with servers in Denmark. NORDUnet’s Zoom service observes GDPR and other European data legislation and all data is stored and processed within the EU. LU-Zoom differs from the widely available free version of Zoom. The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) has issued a w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/zoom-lu-and-security - 2025-08-23

A detective work that reflects society in terms of both working life and fashion trends. This is how you could describe Cecilia Svedman’s task as a dermatologist and researcher, specialising in contact allergies. Cecilia Svedman. Cecilia Svedman is the director of the main hospital in Helsingborg, who at the same time manages a research group at the Division of Occupational and Environmental Derma

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-looking-what-itches-stings-and-peels - 2025-08-23

Supervisors who do not have time for their doctoral students, or research which is used without giving the doctoral student credit as an author…. Aleksandra Popovic hopes that the newly established Research Programmes Board will result in increased initiative when it comes to dealing with the doctoral students’ problems. This is a recurring issue for many doctoral students, according to a survey,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/some-doctoral-students-find-their-supervisors-unreliable - 2025-08-23

In the autumn, Lund University will be introducing a major educational initiative on e-learning and blended learning. It is intended for teaching staff who are curious about testing digital tools in their teaching activities. “For the University, integrating digital technology in physical teaching is a matter of survival – that is why we are making this extra investment”, says Bo-Anders Jönsson, p

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/teaching-staff-learn-more-about-blended-learning - 2025-08-23

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 establish a joint biomedical and health sciences centre for research and knowledge. The

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/after-slimming-down-construction-plans-forum-medicum-now-underway - 2025-08-23

At a pub in Yokohama, history of religions scholar Andreas Johansson by chance came in contact with the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza. For two weeks, he was hanging out with the mafia, and will soon publish a book on the tattoos of the Yakuza and what they symbolise. It requires over 200 hours of painful pricks by hand, with a metal pin attached to a bamboo stick, to achieve the tattoos that are comm

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researcher-intrigued-mafia-tattoos-japanese-mafia-photographed-lund-researcher - 2025-08-23

Is it OK for a manager to email employees in the evenings and on weekends? More employers should have explicit rules about emailing outside working hours, according to Mikael Ottosson, who is researching the work environment within a project entitled “Going home already? Fluid working hours means freedom to some people and stress to others, says Mikael Ottoson. Photo: Ulrika Oredsson Our working h

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/should-employees-be-reachable-email-during-their-leisure-time - 2025-08-23

The Ravensbrück archive at the University Library is unique in the world. Nowhere else is there a collection of 500 testimonies from concentration camp survivors, recorded so soon after their terrible ordeal. Now, their stories from Ravensbrück will be made available in digital form, so that anyone can search the archive. Drawings. Several of the women imprisoned at Ravensbrück subsequently became

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/important-testimonies-digitised - 2025-08-23

82 years after his death, limnology superstar and the first professor in this field in Lund and the world, Einar Naumann, may have helped solve the riddle of why lakes become brown. With the help of Naumann’s and his students’ work dating back to the 1930s, senior lecturer Emma Kritzberg has created a data series that fill a gap of 50 years. Emma Kritzberg In Sweden and many other countries in the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eighty-year-old-findings-help-solve-water-mystery - 2025-08-23

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 stalls inside the Cathedral.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hidden-treasures-choir-stalls-made-exhibition - 2025-08-23

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, not only in the West but a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-brings-hope-better-world - 2025-08-23

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 Minister for Foreign Affairs,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/donald-trump-and-brexit-affects-agenda-board - 2025-08-23

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 threat must not be exagger

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/segregation-graver-threat-isis-returnees-long-run - 2025-08-23

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. Researcher in business admini

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/digital-revolution-changes-work-environment - 2025-08-23

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 Anders Ackfeldt who have

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-provides-education-against-violent-extremism - 2025-08-23