Ingvar Kamprad Design Center, IKDC. Photo: Kennet Ruona A meeting at the kitchen table, with lots of coffee and snus. And a donation of SEK 250 million. That’s what happened when Ingvar Kamprad met LTH’s dean in 1998 to talk about the future of industrial design education at the University. The kitchen table belonged to the then dean of LTH Thomas Johannesson, who had invited the founder of IKEA t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ingvar-kamprad-design-center-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary - 2025-08-25

Ester Barinaga studies local currency initiatives. Photo: Juan Ocampo Local currencies may arise when there is a clear need for certain products and services in a local area and where the competences to produce them exist but the lack of traditional money puts obstacles in the way. The lack of money might be the result of pandemics, war, natural disasters, financial crises or poverty. Ester Barina

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/local-currencies-solution-times-crisis - 2025-08-26

Mikael Akke studies how protein molecules move and how other molecules bind to them – important knowledge in the development of the medicines of the future. Photo: Kennet Ruona Protein researcher Mikael Akke has been showered with grants recently: a total in excess of SEK 130 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the European Research Council. But who is the Faculty of Engineer

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/protein-researcher-receives-major-grants - 2025-08-26

ChatGPT comes with challenges – and possibilities. How will the university handle the new technique? Photo: Rolf van Root/Unsplash There is a lot of talk about ChatGPT just now – one of the chat-based AI services delivering answers to all possible questions in matter of seconds. But the new technology is not merely generating answers, but also raising many questions. In order to get insight into w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dialogue-chatbot - 2025-08-26

Proud colleagues: Marcus Knutagård, Hans Swärd, Cecilia Heule and Arne Kristiansen. Photo: Sandra Jeppsson After 15 years, hundreds of meetings, conferences, opinion pieces, interviews and trips to Stockholm, it happened – the Government adopted the Housing First model as a national strategy for tackling homelessness. “We are very proud. We have just finished an information guide that the National

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/finally-housing-first-model-adopted-national-strategy - 2025-08-26

Inequalities are at risk of increasing as we seek to improve the health of the population. Photo: Stefan Holm/Mostphotos and Carina Andreasson/Mostphotos That life is not fair is hardly news. But that inequalities are at risk of increasing as we seek to improve the health of the population is perhaps unexpected. Health economics is a way of evaluating the potential health benefits of different int

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unfair-life - 2025-08-26

Sign interpretation demands a lot of concentration. There are usually two interpreters in place during a lecture to relieve each other every 15 minute or so. Photo: Kennet Ruona Lund University sociology student Julia Grahn is among those who receive learning support. She is deaf and is provided with sign-language interpretation during her studies. Cilla Riber Alm is one of the sign-language inter

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/when-studies-depend-interpretation - 2025-08-26

Locally produced food is vital in times of crisis. Photo: Carina Andreasson When planning for food in times of crisis – what foodstuffs do we imagine? Many think of tin cans and freeze-dried food, but the fact is that if a crisis occurs, it is not stockpiled cans that will save us. Food preparedness is a subject being taken up by researchers from the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at Almedalen Week,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/preparedness-more-stockpiling-pantry-provisions - 2025-08-26

Photo: Max Böhme When researchers are working in the field, they may be faced with challenging and sometimes dangerous situations. How does Lund University prepare its doctoral students and researchers for fieldwork? When LUM asks about the faculties’ procedures, it becomes clear that the departments are primarily responsible. Dealing with dangerous situations in the field once they have arisen is

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/safe-fieldwork-who-responsible-security - 2025-08-26

Rainwater is collected and purified with an existing technique but in a new way before it is used to flush a couple of toilets. Photo: Jenny Leyman It is not every day that the inauguration of a toilet draws a hundred spectators. Such a toilet would have to be pretty special – and this one is. It is special because it is flushed using rain water gathered from the roof of Kemicentrum. LUM was able

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rain-roof-restroom - 2025-08-26

Space contains staggeringly more than we can see or measure. The universe is estimated to consist of 5 per cent visible matter, 27 per cent dark matter and 68 per cent dark energy. Photo: ESA/Hubble & NASA, V. Antoniou Visible matter in the universe represents only five per cent of everything that exists. The rest is invisible dark matter and dark energy. Particle physicist Ruth Pöttgen is one of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/search-shadow-invisible - 2025-08-26

Märta Wallinius is motivated by seeing people succeed in their journey towards a life without crime. Photo: Ingemar Hultquist You are at the shop to buy food for the weekend. The shop’s security guard is keeping a close eye on you and you start to get nervous. He approaches you and you feel that you are starting to break out in a sweat. What the heck does he really want? This is not happening for

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/captivating-vr - 2025-08-26

The results from the autumn travel habits survey show that a majority of the University’s staff (approx. 80%) get to and from work by walking, cycling or using public transport. This is a higher percentage than for other large organisations in Lund. However, there is potential for even more people to commute sustainably by investments in public transport and measures to promote cycling on campus.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-staff-are-best-sustainable-commuting - 2025-08-26

Tolibjon Mustafoev, PhD candidate at Lund University For the last few decades, Uzbekistan has been a popular research destination for many scholars studying authoritarian regimes. Indeed, the first president of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, had been in power from the first days of independence in 1991 until September 2016. Karimov was known for his policies on closed economy, high bureaucracy, centra

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/uzbekistan-takes-steps-towards-establishing-welfare-state-and-eradicating-poverty-iron-feast-iron - 2025-08-25

Joakim Zander är universitetslektor i handelsrätt och en produktiv romanförfattare. Snart har filmatiseringen av ”Ett ärligt liv” premiär. Tittarna får följa med till ett Lund där dröm och mardröm möts. Foto från Zanders favoritfik: Johan Persson Lundalektorn Joakim Zander blev jurist i Uppsala och doktor i Nederländerna, men författarskapet har han tagit med sig till Lund, hem­staden sedan drygt

https://www.lu.se/artikel/nya-perspektiv-pa-livet-som-lundastudent-i-farsk-film - 2025-08-24

Välkänt är att åldrande gör att blodkärlen blir mindre flexibla och mer sårbara. Med stelare kärl riskerar blodtrycket att öka. Påfrestningen av ett högt blodtryck kan om det vill sig illa orsaka aorta-aneurysm, bråck på pulsådern. Foto: iStock Genom att skapa ett konstgjort åldrande hos möss, har lundaforskare kunnat följa hur aneurysm – pulsåderbråck – utvecklas i blodkärlens väggar. Ett resulta

https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-signalvag-skydd-mot-hogt-blodtryck-upptackt-av-lundaforskare - 2025-08-24

Ekonomisk ersättning till lokalbefolkningen är en viktig del i en mer hållbar mineralutvinning. Men vissa målkonflikter som rör naturresurser, vattentillgång och kulturella traditioner är svåra att undvika menar forskarna. Illustration: Frida Nilsson. Mineraler och metaller behövs för batterier, motorer och för elektrifieringen. Men var gruvor ska etableras och hur man ska hantera deras påverkan ä

https://www.lu.se/artikel/hallbar-mineralutvinning-svarknackt-not - 2025-08-24

Kerstin och Hans Persson hade länge funderat på att donera till välgörenhet men inte hittat något ändamål som kändes rätt. Det var inte förrän deras barnbarn, som vid födseln visade sig bära på den potentiellt dödliga Hirschsprungs sjukdom som de bestämde sig. Tack vare parets donation kan forskare vid Lunds universitet nu fortsätta bedriva sitt angelägna arbete och förhoppningsvis lägga grunden t

https://www.lu.se/artikel/donation-sprider-ljus-over-hirschsprungs-sjukdom - 2025-08-25

Anna Marseglia kommer att leda en multidisciplinär forskargrupp, med expertis inom geriatrisk epidemiologi, psykologi, medicinsk sociologi, neurovetenskap och ingenjörsvetenskap. Foto: Jesse Orrico/Unsplash SWEAH-alumnen Wossenseged Jemberie, Umeå universitet, får Fortes etableringsbidrag och alumnerna Anna Marseglia och Kuan Yu-Pan, KI, får Fortes projektbidrag. Det stod klart i utdelningsbeslute

https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/miljoner-till-sweah-alumners-projekt - 2025-08-25

Förs­ta tidskrif­ter­na på Publi­ce­ra banar väg för fler KB:s nationella plattform för öppet vetenskapliga tidskrifter har under sommaren publicerat sina första nummer. Det handlar om tidskrifterna Current Swedish Archaeology, Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap och Kulturella Perspektiv. Hur den här plattformen i framtiden kommer förhålla sig till LU:s lokala OJS-installation får vi anledning att

https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-september-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation-2 - 2025-08-25