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The Recruitment Committee has now decided which candidates will be called for a first interview for the position of Vice-Chancellor. The candidates will be interviewed by the Recruitment Committee in March. The candidates called for a first interview are:Aylin Ahadi, professor, Lund UniversityMats Benner, professor, Lund UniversityMartin Malmsten, professor, University of CopenhagenErik Renström,

https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2026/five-candidates-called-interview-vice-chancellor-position-lund-university - 2026-04-23

Living with bipolar disorder means constantly balancing between extremes – something that can be particularly difficult if the diagnosis is met with silence and stigmatisation. To raise awareness of mental illness and why it concerns us all, including at work, five LTH departments have joined forces and invited speaker Henrik Wahlström. In his lecture, he shares his own experiences of bipolar diso

https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2026/life-balance-beam-talking-about-mental-health-work - 2026-04-23

Industrial design students take the lead in this year's Advent calendar at LTH. Since 2007, the Advent calendar from LTH has been a regular feature in December. This year it is made by industrial design students, which a new take. It opens up for new features, in addition to the classic experiments in physics and chemistry. In an article in Sydsvenskan, students Karolina Sjölund and Nicci Myrsäter

https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/lth-advent-calendar-2025-made-industrial-design-students - 2026-04-23

Studying at the School of Industrial Design in Lund is not just about theory – it is also about creativity, making contacts and finding new perspectives. Through study visits, exhibitions and – for master's students – international travels, ideas can grow and networks be built. This year, the students went to Vietnam, and Elias Näsström Nyquist and Erik Skans Mächs share their experiences and insi

https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/unique-experience-masters-students-study-trip-vietnam - 2026-04-23

Ingenuity in the classrooms, table tennis matches in the lobby, and minutes of silence in honour of fallen soldiers – an ordinary day at a university in a war-torn country. Andreas Hopf, who teaches at the School of Industrial Design at LTH, talks about his latest trip to Ukraine. It is Andreas Hopf's sixth trip to Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. This time, the journey

https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/lund-lutsk-design-management-and-determination-wartime-ukraine - 2026-04-23

Master's students at the School of Industrial Design, LTH, exhibit their latest projects, in which they explore the materials terracotta and alder wood. They have drawn inspiration from civilisations of bygone eras and from study trips to Asia. One idea, two projectsDuring the autumn, the students went on study trips to Asia and gathered inspiration which they brought back home to use in their cre

https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/natural-materials-focus-industrial-design-students-exhibition - 2026-04-23

A great design by one of our Master’s students goes viral and breaks every record of the School of Industrial Design’s Instagram account – lusid.se. Master's student Xinyi Liu recently posted about her latest project NODE on Instagram — and over the past few weeks, that post has absolutely taken off. It has now gone viral, reaching:170 000 views6 000+ likes2 000 new followers gained for the accoun

https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/student-work-goes-viral - 2026-04-23

Ung Svensk Form is an annual award highlighting young and innovative designers in Swedish design and architecture. For 2026, there are designers with connections to the School of Industrial Design at Lund University among the winners. Tara Dahlin is awarded for her Carving Series, small soapstone sculptures which the jury finds exudes both strength and stillness.Lotta Sahlin is awarded for her pro

https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/industrial-design-students-awarded-svensk-form - 2026-04-23

Industrial Design students are exhibiting their project ‘From now on’ in Malmö 11 April – 30 May. 'From now on' is a project by students at the School of Industrial Design at Lund University, in which historical civilisations serve as a starting point for exploring more circular and sustainable ways of organising today’s society.The students have drawn inspiration from ancient civilisations as wel

https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/now-exhibition-formdesign-centre-malmo - 2026-04-23

Conference on the future of industrial design with AI as a design partner – hosted by Lund University and AI Sweden. An inspiring afternoon returns to explore how artificial intelligence is continuing to transform industrial design. Following last year’s highly successful conference, designers, researchers, and industry leaders will reconvene to reflect on what has changed, examine real‑world appl

https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/ai-and-future-industrial-design-one-year - 2026-04-23

Teachers, program leaders and researchers in the field of Industrial design are invited to a workshop on AI in Industrial Design education – participation is free of charge. Generative AI is already transforming how we design, learn, and teach. This workshop invites industrial design educators, program leaders, and researchers to reflect together on the role of Generative AI in design education –

https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/workshop-generative-ai-and-industrial-design-education - 2026-04-23

Through EUPRERA (The European Public Relations Education and Research Association), the Department of Communication (IKO) organised a large and highly regarded research conference on strategic communication at AF-borgen in Lund between 24 and 27 September. The conference is held every year – previous years in Bucharest, Prague, Vienna and Pamplona, among other places. Most of the researchers came

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/euprera-communications-conference-brought-together-200-researchers-around-world - 2026-04-23

A FORTE-funded interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder project exploring how digitalisation reshapes migrants’ access to work and inclusion in Sweden. On the 5th of September, the Digital Navigation (Dig-Nav) project held its kick-off event at Media Evolution in Malmö. The project is led by Dr. Deniz Neriman Duru, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Lund University, who received 8 mi

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/digital-navigation-migrants-swedish-labour-market-opportunities-and-challenges-digitalisation - 2026-04-23

Our warmest congratulations to Magnus Johansson, who successfully defended his thesis in Media and Communication Studies: ‘Parenting in screen times. Negotiations, practices and experiences in everyday family life’ at the Faculty of Social Sciences on Friday, 12 September. The thesis deals with parenting and screen time from a moral perspective. Through interviews with parents, the study shows how

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/magnus-johansson-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2026-04-23

On November 27, Monica Porzionato received the Lund University Academy of Sciences’ prize for the best dissertation in the fields of humanities and social sciences. The award is presented annually to recognize outstanding research contributions and has a long-standing tradition at the university. Monica’s dissertation, Feeling the Changing Climate: An affective approach to the strategic communicat

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/monica-porzionato-awarded-best-dissertation-prize-lund-university - 2026-04-23

NordForsk has awarded 12.2 million NOK to fund the project “The Double Edge of Social Media Influencing: Participatory Antagonism and Communicative Resilience in the Nordics (INFLU-NORD)”for a three-year period (2026–2029). The project addresses the question of how social media influencing shape democratic trust and societal security in the Nordic region? It has two main objectives:Advance underst

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/new-research-project-explores-participatory-antagonism-and-communicative-resilience - 2026-04-23

Lund University is now launching a six-year research project to investigate what the reactors of the future will mean for the environment, safety, and society. With SEK 27 million in funding from the Swedish Research Council, researchers will have the opportunity to build a completely new interdisciplinary research environment. After a period of phasing out, nuclear power has once again become a h

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/new-research-initiative-nuclear-energy-and-communication - 2026-04-23

At the end of April, the Faculty Board decided that a new department, the Department of Communication, will be created. The establishment of the new department is part of the faculty's development towards fewer units, but the merger has also been motivated by additional reasons. The new department will be established on 1 January 2025 and the following units will be included: Department of Strateg

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/new-department-communication-january-2025 - 2026-04-23

A new year is approaching and when the Faculty enters 2025, it will be with nine departments instead of the current eleven. The Faculty of Social Sciences will gradually develop towards fewer units over the next six years, according to a policy decision from 2023. After initial preparatory work, it is now time for the first changes to take place at the end of the year:The Department of Communicati

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/eleven-departments-nine-turn-year - 2026-04-23

Master students from Lund University School of Industrial Design exhibit at Milan Design Week 2026. This year the School of Industrial Design at Lund University is exhibiting under the theme: 'Under Pressure'. The exhibition, located underground in central Milan, showcases a selection of Master student projects addressing how resilience can be applied within design through a range of forms and app

https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/milan-design-week-2026 - 2026-04-23