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Docent och överläkare Christine Kremer, en av de vetenskapligt ansvariga för 2024 års Forskningens dag, menar att detta är ett fint tillfälle att visa upp vår forskning och uppfylla samverkansuppgiften. OBS! Deadline: 14 januari 2025. Se en kort film om årets Forskningens dag och läs mer om dagen som handlade om könets betydelse för hälsan här. Anmäl ett ämnesförslag till Forskningens dag här & l
Seminariet Human Diversity hålls på engelska den 7 november i Forum Medicum. Mycket hörvärt, enligt Intramed, som fick ett smakprov vid Forskningens dag. Professor Stefánsson kommer att dela med sig av sina insikter från sin mångåriga, världsledande genetiska forskning på Island.– Genetik är det enda sättet att systematiskt studera den mänskliga naturen. Så vi kom fram till att sättet att studera
https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/seminarium-med-mottagaren-av-eric-k-fernstroms-pris-2024-kari-stefansson - 2026-05-05
Lund University’s common web accessibility guide has now been translated into English and can be accessed via the short address staff.lu.se/web-accessibility. The web accessibility guide contains practical tips on how to create accessible web content, which applies whether you work in Drupal, Typo-3 or some other type of content management system. “We have received very positive feedback on our we
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/web-accessibility-guide-now-available-english - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Administrative Prize is awarded annually for outstanding administrative efforts of an innovative nature that have contributed to the University’s development, or for extraordinary service and efficiency. The recipients of the 2021 prize are Rikard Stymne at the IT unit of the Faculties of Humanities and Theology a
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/recipients-universitys-administrative-prize-2021 - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The University Board has appointed Lena Eskilsson as deputy vice-chancellor of Lund University 2021-2026. Eskilsson is a senior lecturer in human geography and has many years’ experience in education and leadership issues at Lund University. Since 2018, she has been the pro dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. “It
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lena-eskilsson-new-deputy-vice-chancellor - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In 2016, a forgotten archival treasure was found in the cellar of the Department of Geology. The material included a unique map of Iceland from 1844 and a geological map of the whole of New Zealand dated 1869. Now 322 works have been restored and plans are afoot for an exhibition. Through arched windows, a pale Novemb
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/forgotten-treasure-trove-maps-restored-its-former-glory - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Former doctoral student Firas Jumaah and supervisor Charlotta Turner have had a special bond since 2014, when Jumaah and his family got caught up in the first ISIS lightning offensive in Iraq. Employing far-reaching means, Charlotta Turner managed to get them back to Lund unharmed. Now they have written a book togeth
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-she-became-professor-hardcore - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Eva Nordmark was 62 when she received her Alzheimer’s diagnosis. But rather than life ending, it gave her the chance to reclaim parts of her life that she had not previously had time for. It is a sunny autumn day at the Humlamaden rehab centre outside Veberöd, and the stable is full of life and activity. The 32-year-o
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/when-memory-fails - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. She is a chemist. He is a medic. Together they are behind some of the major breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research in recent times. Sara Linse and Oskar Hansson hope to be able to lay the foundations for the medicines and diagnostic methods of the future. It is one of those unusually clear mornings in late Nove
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/top-duo-want-solve-mystery-alzheimers - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. By 2023 the University is to have reduced its CO2 emissions by half, according to the new sustainability plan. Things look promising right now due to Covid-19 – there will be a radical reduction this year as air travel is the biggest CO2 villain. The number of flights booked between April and October 2020 fell by 97 p
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lus-new-plan-co2-emissions-be-halved-2023 - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Torbjörn von Schantz finds that he has made good progress on the road to a united University. In his management group, he now sees more of a shared assumption of responsibility and less of a silo mentality and special interests. What he has missed most during his years as vice-chancellor is proximity to the rest of th
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/outgoing-vice-chancellor-satisfied-see-more-people-taking-collective-responsibility - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. It is not only the central University management team that is changing. Several faculties will also be getting new management. Here is a list of the new faculty leaders for the forthcoming period. Find out who is to be dean and pro dean for each faculty as of the new year. Faculty of Engineering Annika Olsson becomes
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-faculty-management-teams - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As of the new year, a new University management team will take over the helm. For the next term of office, 2021-2026, the University will be led by vice-chancellor Erik Renström and deputy vice-chancellor Lena Eskilsson, together with five pro vice-chancellors and the University director. “The choice of pro vice-chanc
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-university-management-2021-2026 - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. During the autumn of 2019, an analysis was conducted of how the faculties and the University's IT functions currently manage incidents and events that threaten our information security. Preparatory analyses, training, activities and a management dialogue have been ongoing since 2019 in the field of information securit
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/information-security-incidents-and-events - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Government has now presented the Research and Innovation Bill for this mandate period, which indicates the way forward for Swedish research policy. The Government's starting point is that free research must be safeguarded while the research policy must respond to global and national societal challenges. In the bil
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/governments-new-research-bill - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. When Lund University switched to digital teaching there were many challenges both for the teaching staff and students. How exams and assessment were to be conducted now that the students were not on-site was an important question and a very difficult challenge. The existing tools for digital on-campus exams were teste
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/digital-exams-campus-and-remote-solutions - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Farshid Jalalvand has a PhD in infection biology and vaccine development, and he has appeared frequently in the media during the debate on the Covid-19 vaccine. “When you work, as I do, with vaccines and you understand how they work, it feels important to try to explain it so that people can take decisions based on so
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-everyones-responsibility-get-vaccinated - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Engagement with alternative health theories and a scepticism towards authorities, politicians and pharmaceutical companies seem to unite the heterogeneous group of vaccine sceptics. “Many of them are not afraid of becoming infected with infectious diseases because they are convinced it will not happen”, says ethnologi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-vaccine-sceptics-think - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The number of managers at the University who have consulted the Occupational Health Service for preventive purposes has risen during the pandemic. "It is easy to feel that you are losing control when things change quickly and you don't know exactly how your employees are coping at home", says Anne Link, head of the Oc
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-people-need-help-cope-working-home - 2026-05-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ceremonies have a certain power that speaks more to the emotions than to the intellect. This is the opinion of the newly inaugurated vice-chancellor Erik Renström, who sees the value in academic traditions. In his management team, however, new winds are blowing, bringing with them the values of “integrity” and “charac
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/integrity-and-character - 2026-05-05
