This course is aimed at doctoral students and research faculty who write and publish in English, and who wish to strengthen their language and writing skills. Over six sessions (a total of 16h), we discuss central aspects of English scholarly writing, ranging from ways of communicating one’s research more efficiently and effectively to issues of language choices and style. Participants are given i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/written-english-scholarly-publication-spring-2025 - 2025-08-22

The 8 March, Lund University will send out a questionnaire to 8,800 researchers associated with the University in order to gain a picture of how well LU is fulfilling the European Charter for Researchers. The questionnaire, which is open for two weeks, aims to provide a broad picture of how researchers at LU feel the University is living up to the European Charter’s principles for working conditio

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-conducting-major-survey-principles-strong-research-environments - 2025-08-22

All Lund University employees and students are welcome to participate in this year's edition of the Future Innovations Award. Applications are open until May 5. The Future Innovations Award celebrates groundbreaking ideas from Lund University. Ideas with the potential to change our world. It has now opened for applications for 2025. Since its start in 2017, it has become an important platform for

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/future-innovations-award-2025-competition-opens-over-1-million-sek-prizes - 2025-08-22

EduLab has been a successful project and has meant that the University has had an infrastructure in place to support and manage educational initiatives. As a result, the University’s EduLab experimental platform has now been extended until December 2026. All faculties have taken the opportunity and received assistance from EduLab to develop and expand their range of courses and financial support.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/edulab-continue-and-focus-x-courses - 2025-08-22

Lund University makes annual purchases totalling SEK 1.5 billion. Together, these purchases make up a large part of the University’s carbon footprint. How can we meet the high demands of research on materials and products, and at the same time become a resource-efficient organisation with a carbon footprint that is as small as possible? Anja Björnberg Ekstrand works as a procurement officer at the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/importance-sustainable-purchasing-and-procurement - 2025-08-22

The University is now launching a new round of excellence initiatives to bolster the recruitment of top international researchers through the Wallenberg Academy Fellows (WAF) programme. With this initiative, the University aims to foster its international research presence and provide early-career researchers with the best opportunities to advance their careers. Previous roundThe first call for ap

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-round-excellence-initiatives-early-career-researchers-and-wallenberg-academy-fellows-2027 - 2025-08-22

The City of Lund and Lund University have approved a joint strategy to foster the local innovation environment and business community. This means that efforts to attract companies and talent and to bolster Lund’s international position are now being stepped up. “It sends out a strong signal that we speak with one voice. Sweden ranks high in terms of patents from academia. Lund University is third

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-statement-intent-city-lund - 2025-08-22

Stay Curious is a new English-language newsletter that makes it easy for you to find out about the latest research from your University colleagues in a concise and engaging format. The newsletter is published monthly on LinkedIn – a platform focused on knowledge sharing and professional networking. Using LinkedIn for the newsletter allows us to build on our already strong presence on the platform

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/stay-curious-universitys-new-newsletter-about-our-research - 2025-08-22

The University started the year on a high in The Conversation, the international platform where researchers write about research and analyse current social issues. This year, 21 articles have already been published. This means that 2025 could be another record year. Researchers from several faculties have contributed to this year’s productive start. The Faculty of Social Sciences accounts for eigh

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-gets-flying-start-conversation-2025 - 2025-08-22

Artefacts at the University Library are notes, sketches, diaries etcetera. A unique archive in Lund, Sweden, holds 500 in-depth interviews with survivors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. The interviews were conducted immediately after the survivors arrived in Sweden in spring 1945. The archive has now been nominated to the UN agency UNESCO to become part of the Memory of the World Register,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ravensbruck-archive-lund-university-has-been-nominated-unesco-memory-world - 2025-08-22

Without students we would have no University, it is as simple as that. Lund’s incredibly rich and extensive student life is one of the main reasons why students apply to Lund University. The three pillars of student life: the student unions, student nations and Academic Society offer a broad spectrum of activities and contexts, and we are dependent on each other – because without the University th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/strategy-student-life-way - 2025-08-22

During the spring, the Purchasing and Procurement Office will gradually take over responsibility for all procurements over SEK 700,000. The previous threshold (below which no support was available) was SEK 1.5 million. A new procedure is being introduced, which means that procurements worth over SEK 700,000 will be carried out with support from procurement officers in the Division of Finances. The

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/threshold-procurement-support-being-reduced - 2025-08-22

Luís Oliveira, PhD student at Lund University, centre, was the winner of the 2024 Researchers’ Grand Prix. Here with other contestants, jury and moderator. Photo: Bodil Malmström. Do you want to be better at summarising your research in an engaging and easily understandable way? If so, the Researchers’ Grand Prix could be for you. The Researchers’ Grand Prix is Sweden’s biggest presentation techni

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hone-your-presentation-skills-researchers-grand-prix - 2025-08-22

Anna W Gustafsson får Erik Wellanders pris för sina undersökningar av texter som social handling, av samtal och texter i vården och av utvecklingen av ordförståelse under senare tid. På Språkrådsdagen den 27 april fick svensklektorn Anna W Gustafsson ta emot Erik Wellanders pris för framstående forskning inom språkvårdens område. Ett centralt tema i Anna W Gustafsson forskning är språk och texter

https://www.lu.se/artikel/anna-w-gustafsson-far-erik-wellanders-pris-2023 - 2025-08-22

Diabetesforskaren Rashmi Prasad har lett forskningsprojektet om olika former av typ 2-diabetes i Indien. Foto: Petra Olsson Forskare vid Lunds universitet har tidigare visat att typ 1-diabetes och typ 2-diabetes kan delas in i fem olika undergrupper och att det finns genetiska skillnader mellan de fyra grupperna av typ 2-diabetes. Ett forskningssamarbete mellan Sverige och Indien visar nu att inde

https://www.lu.se/artikel/svensk-forskning-om-olika-former-av-typ-2-diabetes-galler-aven-i-indien - 2025-08-22

Det orangea i bilden är dubbelsträngade RNA-molekyler, siRNA, som levererats till livmoderhalscancer-celler (cellkärnorna visas i blått). Den diffusa orangea signalen runt kärnan är från RNA som nått det inre av cellen, cytosolen. Bild: Hampus Hedlund. Forskare vid Lunds universitet har utvecklat en metod för att mäta hur många RNA-molekyler som levereras in i en cell. Kunskapen är värdefull när m

https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-metod-raknar-hur-manga-rna-molekyler-som-tar-sig-i-cellen - 2025-08-22

– Nanoteknik och nanoforskning är nödvändig för att möta de globala utmaningarna och nå en hållbar värld. Vi arbetar redan idag med detta, men vår kostym börjar bli för trång, säger NanoLunds föreståndare Anders Mikkelsen. Nu inleds arbetet med att upphandla en hyresvärd som vill vara med och utveckla Nanolab Science Village. Det innebär ytterligare en milstolpe för Lunds universitets etablering p

https://www.lu.se/artikel/nasta-milstolpe-universitetets-vag-till-science-village-hyresvard-sokes - 2025-08-22

En workshop som knyter samman experimentell och klinisk forskning kring epilepsi utgör startskottet för Sveriges första epilepsicentrum. – Vi måste få fram nya behandlingsmetoder och effektivare mediciner så vi kan hjälpa de människor som har epilepsi, speciellt den grupp som har de svåraste formerna av sjukdomen, säger Mérab Kokaia, professor i neurologi vid Lunds universitet och initiativtagare

https://www.lu.se/artikel/centrum-starker-epilepsiforskningen - 2025-08-22

Foto: Kennet Ruona Christelle Prinz, professor i fasta tillståndets fysik, får ERC Proof of Concept Grant för sin forskning om att skapa en kostnadseffektiv biosensordiagnostik för att tidigt kunna upptäcka äggstockscancer. Totalt får 55 forskare runt om i Europa 150 000 euro var av European Research Council var för att undersöka den kommersiella potentialen av deras forskning. Alla har de tidigar

https://www.lu.se/artikel/erc-proof-concept-grant-forskning-om-att-upptacka-aggstockscancer - 2025-08-22

Forskare har använt modern teknik för att studera den lilla fladdermusen i en vindtunnel. Foto: Anders Hedenström Små fladdermöss är dåliga på att omvandla energi till muskelkraft. Men denna förmåga ökar, förvånande nog, ju fortare de flyger. Det visar en ny studie som letts från Lunds universitet. Forskarna har studerat den så kallade verkningsgraden hos trollfladdermöss – en art som väger ungefä

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fladdermusens-formaga-att-omvandla-energi-till-muskelkraft-paverkas-av-flyghastigheten - 2025-08-22