Helene Ehriander, senior lecturer in comparative literature, has been granted funding for a large-scale pedagogical development project dealing with children’s reading – a project that has evident potential for both collaboration and research! The project is called “Bokhunden och Astrid Lindgren” [The book dog and Astrid Lindgren] and has been granted SEK 8 million divided over three years’ time.

Birgitta Semark, doctoral student in biomedical science at Linnaeus University states in her doctoral thesis “Patient characteristics, perceived health and drug prescription in primary care” that a doctor’s prescription of medicine is not controlled exclusively by a patient’s medical needs, but also by different financial limitations and by the keenness for letting patients exert an influence.

Professor emeritus Lennart Lundquist and literary historian Lena Törnqvist have been appointed honorary doctors at Linnaeus University.

Once again Linnaeus University sets a new record when it comes to the number of applications to the programmes and courses offered in the autumn semester of 2013. When the application period ended on April 17 it became clear that the number of people who had applied for an education at Linnaeus University came close to 56,700.

Negative attitudes among the general public put homosexuals at risk of being treated unfairly on the labor market, according to a new study carried out by researchers at Linnaeus University.