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Using new technology it is possible to get a detailed colour image of all retinal layers without inserting any instrument into the eye. The technology will be used by eye researcher Elisabeth Wittström, who studies diseases of the macula. Her colleague, Linnéa Taylor, is researching the link between inflammation and damage to the retina, which could lead to new treatments. Photo of the eyeground o

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-technology-facilitates-studies-macula - 2025-12-13

As a young man, when Mats Bohgard was working at a chemical factory during a leave from studies, he was urged to “Come back and fix the work environment to make it fit for human beings!”. Mats Bohgard. “Even though they said it half-jokingly, the truth is that they were experiencing every conceivable work environment problem: chemical exposure, noticeable alcohol abuse, extreme noise levels and ma

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/work-environment-champion - 2025-12-13

“How are you, what seems to be the problem?” asks Ahmed, who is playing Doctor Ali. “Well, I have had a stomach ache for a few days”, says 26 year-old Sadeq who is playing the patient, 50 year-old Bengt. “Can you describe your symptoms?” asks Ahmed/Doctor Ali, and Sadeq/Bengt explains about pain, nausea and vomiting. At Locus Medicus in Malmö. Sadeq al-Ghaffari from Irak with a red jacket, and Ahm

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/recent-arrivals-practise-their-swedish-medics-language-cafe - 2025-12-13

Russia has its own right-wing populist movement: the Parental Movement. While the US equivalent is protesting stricter gun control, the Russians are raging against the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. “Western lifestyle is considered a major threat to Russian traditions and normal family life”, says social anthropologist Tova Höjdestrand. She sees patterns that might explain other right-w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/russian-parental-movement-counteracting-childrens-rights - 2025-12-13

A new interdisciplinary research environment for human rights will soon be launched in Lund. “Interdisciplinarity and innovative thinking are required if our work on human rights is to remain relevant to society”, writes Morten Kjaerum, director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. Morten Kjaerum, director and adjunct professor Raoul Wallenberg Institute. The head of the human rights office at the C

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chronicle-human-rights-are-become-interdisciplinary - 2025-12-13

For two years, the LU350 Office has been working hard to coordinate all the University initiatives into a jubilee programme. The jubilee starts on Monday 19 December – exactly 350 years after the document to establish Lund University was signed. “After all the planning, we have finally reached the implementation phase”, says Louise Pierce, one of the three members of the LU350 Office. “After all t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/now-it-starts-lund-universitys-350th-anniversary - 2025-12-13

Tremendous amounts of money, an ambitious and carefully considered appointment process and major start-up packages for new employees – these are the three things that characterise WCMM, the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine in Lund. Professor Freddy Ståhlberg is the director of WCMM. WCMM in Lund has sister organisations at the universities in Umeå, Gothenburg and Linköping. Together with t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/medical-centre-recruiting-top-junior-researchers - 2025-12-13

He advocated family planning and contraceptives already four decades before Elise Ottesen-Jensen. He was in a common-law marriage, was interested in social problems, and supported the women’s suffrage movement – and today his theories control the design of monetary policy in the West. Knut Wicksell, pioneering Professor of Economics in Lund 1901–1916, was a man ahead of his time. Knut Wicksell wit

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/economist-whom-world-was-not-prepared - 2025-12-13

One of the two recent Lund University jubilee stamps depicts the young diabetes researchers Anna Edlund and Jones Ofori. They are pleased to be featured on the stamps – but it was a complete surprise to them both. “Obviously we knew that our picture had been taken. A couple of years ago, there was a photographer here at CRC (Clinical Research Centre) who photographed the premises, labs and people.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unknowing-researchers-became-stamp - 2025-12-13

Join us on a journey through the centuries, a hunt for the point where the present and the past merge. The history of the University is alive and well among us. After all, it is the same city, the same streets and buildings now as then. The only thing that distinguishes us from our colleagues from the 1600s, from a purely geographical point of view, is a measurable stretch in space: 350 years of U

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jubilee-journey-through-time-and-space - 2025-12-13

Is the world becoming a better place? This question will be asked by researchers when the first science week of the 350th anniversary celebration takes place in March. Debatt i Lund panellists will start off the week by approaching the question from different angles, followed by five days of discussions and lectures on the standard of living, human rights, war, terrorism, climate change, and more.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/world-becoming-better-place-checkpoint-sweden - 2025-12-13

Research communication officer Evelina Lindén at the School of Economics and Management encouraged journalists to use their moral compass and be careful to give credit where it is due when interviewing researchers – in reference to a case in which SVT had assumed credit for a documentary. Here she points out what researchers themselves can do to avoid the culture clash between media and academia.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-deal-journalists - 2025-12-13

Their own sense of well-being after a yoga session led them onto a new path in their research. Over 200 LU employees signed up as volunteers for their first study. Now they are finalising an interdisciplinary investigation of the psychological and physiological health effects of yoga. Rachel Maddux. Rachel Maddux, Una Tellhed and Daiva Daukantaité are colleagues at the Department of Psychology in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-employees-use-yoga-relieve-stress - 2025-12-13

USV is the umbrella term for the University’s specialised centres which are gradually moving into the faculties. But the process is not painless – the specialised centres are keen to safeguard their identities and their low overhead costs. The faculties and departments, on the other hand, do not want to take on financially insecure ventures. Leif Stenberg is the director of the Centre for Middle E

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/usv-shrinking-centres-are-moving-faculties - 2025-12-13

Hur arbetar etniska organisationer, även kallade invandrarorganisationer, med bistånd och utveckling i sina hemländer? Andra europeiska länder arbetar mer aktivt än Sverige med att använda den kunskap om hemlandet som finns inom dessa organisationer. Om detta skriver lundasociologerna Axel Fredholm, Johan Sandberg och Olle Frödin i forskningsartikeln ”The Migration-Development Nexus Revisited: Imm

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/etniska-organisationer-i-sverige-kan-spela-en-viktigare-roll-i-bistand-och-utveckling - 2025-12-13

Idag ökar ljudnivån i vår byggnad när ett 70-tal besökande sociologer från Japan till Colombia, samt hela Europa, träffas på Sociologen för att samtala och fördjupa sig i ämnet konstsociologi. Sociologiska institutionen i Lund är värd för ESA:s forskningsnätverkskonferens "ARTS IN MOVEMENT" eller det långa namnet "2022 ESA RN02 Sociology of the Arts Mid-term Conference 14-16 september 2022". ESA,

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/sociologikonferensen-arts-movement-rullar-igang-idag-i-vart-hus - 2025-12-13

Framtiden för arbetslivet i Europa benas ut i en ny antologi som med hjälp av olika forskare tittar på framförallt tre stora omställningar som sker i arbetslivets just nu. Dessa omställningar beror på tre oundvikliga fenomen: pandemin, klimatet och digitaliseringen. Fyra lundasociologer bidrar med kapitel i boken. Aldrig i modern tid har det arbetande Europa ställts inför så grundläggande förändri

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/pandemin-klimatet-och-digitaliseringen-arbetslivets-stora-anpassningar-just-nu - 2025-12-13

Tvärtom vad många tror har kvinnor haft en framstående roll i IS rekrytering – särskilt när det gäller att få med andra kvinnor. En ny studie från Lunds universitet visar att det var delaktigheten i en religiös kultur, som motsätter sig jämställdhet, moderna könsroller och könsnormer, som lockade svenskor att ansluta sig till Islamiska Staten. På internet propagerar de svenska IS-kvinnorna för sha

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/aggressivt-patriarkal-varldsaskadning-lockade-svenska-kvinnor-att-ga-med-i - 2025-12-13

Fredagen den 21 oktober försvarade Oriana Quaglietta Bernal framgångsrikt sin doktorsavhandling "In Her Words: Women's Accounts of Managing Drug-related Risk, Pleasure, and Stigma in Sweden". De senaste fem åren har Oriana Quaglietta Bernal undersökt varför kvinnor i Sverige börjar, fortsätter och ibland slutar använda droger. Hennes avhandling utforskar kvinnors drogerfarenheter och dess betydels

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/oriana-quaglietta-bernal-har-forsvarat-sin-avhandling - 2025-12-13

Fysiskt våld är sällan något som människor tänker på eller utför. Till och med våldsspecialister - personer med en benägenhet för våld och förmåga att orsaka förödande skador - är bara involverade en bråkdel av sin vakna tid. Sociologiprofessorn David Wästerfors är en anomali. Han har tänkt jättemycket på våld. I höstas publicerade David Wästerfors några av sina tankar i boken "Violence: Situation

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/david-wasterfors-kan-inte-sluta-tanka-pa-vald - 2025-12-13