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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 solid evidence”, he says. A lot of the criticism against vaccines occurs on social

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-everyones-responsibility-get-vaccinated - 2025-11-24

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 ethnologist and media studies researcher Mia-Marie Hammarlin, who is in the early phase of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-vaccine-sceptics-think - 2025-11-24

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 Occupational Health Service. Anne Link and psychologist Linda Kuhn at the Occupatio

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-people-need-help-cope-working-home - 2025-11-24

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 “character” and a pro vice-chancellor who is specially tasked with working on these aspe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/integrity-and-character - 2025-11-24

LUM asked a handful of employees this question after almost a year of working from home. Several of them spoke about putting on some extra weight, more TV and less exercise – but they were not too keen on putting their face to that in LUM... However, another group of employees told us about their new and creative ways of keeping active. "I work out in the laundry room" Dragana Trivic, head of comm

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-your-body-feeling-and-how-your-training-going - 2025-11-24

Recruitment is an area on which the University needs to continue working. "We can certainly become even better in this area", says Freddy Ståhlberg, one of the project managers in the RQ20 research evaluation. The reports from the transverse panels were completed by the start of the new year. There are five such panels divided into recruitment, leadership and organisation, infrastructure, major an

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-evaluation-rq20-calls-better-international-recruitment - 2025-11-24

Johannes Rousk is one of the world’s most cited and influential researchers, according to the analytics company Clarivate. If you ask him, the road to success was marked by luck, opportunity and fantastic people. Luck is a concept that researchers don’t use very often, but Johannes Rousk does. For him, it is not about finding the answer to the holy grail through divine intervention, which in the w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-luck-strategy-behind-most-cited-research - 2025-11-24

As the Swedish Tax Agency’s guidelines now allow health promotion reimbursement for apps for activities like running, Lund University has decided, as of 1 January 2021, also to approve health promotion reimbursement for participation in running groups led by a gym or other organisation with a corporate identity number.  Read more about health promotion reimbursement under employment.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/health-promotion-reimbursement-participation-running-groups - 2025-11-24

Emissions from business travel by air dropped by 86% compared with the previous year, but energy consumption was not much affected by the pandemic. The environmental management report for 2020 has now been submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency and shows that 5 out of 7 relevant environmental targets were met. For example, the University has approved new investment regulations for fossil

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/results-2020-environmental-management-report - 2025-11-24

Lund University is investing SEK 100 million in an interdisciplinary research programme focusing on Agenda 2030 and sustainable development. The programme is to attract international research expertise and to bring about the establishment of more internationally leading research environments in sustainability. “With its breadth and cutting edge, Lund University has unique opportunities to tackle c

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-investing-sek-100-million-international-research-programme-sustainable-development - 2025-11-24

The human body is meant to move. When working from home, the environment may be different, but the body’s need for movement and variation is unchanged. Remember to plan your days to make room for movement. For example, you could begin and end each day with a brisk walk, which has the added benefit of exposing you to sunlight and framing your working day. Think about which work duties you could car

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/little-goes-long-way-when-working-home - 2025-11-24

Is data storage a challenge? Is data sharing difficult? Do you need special software for your research? Welcome to a workshop about Lund's future e-infrastructure! Research is becoming increasingly data-driven and dependent on advanced e-infrastructure* to facilitate analysis and make research data available. Lund University (LU) wants to support our researchers in this development in the most eff

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/join-and-contribute-universitys-future-e-infrastructure - 2025-11-24

Why does Lund University manage farms in Skåne? It’s a matter of tradition. From 1666 and for a long time afterwards the entire University was funded by the farms that dowager queen Hedvig Eleonora donated – known as “akademiska hemman” – the academic homesteads. These are still managed by the University and the current value of the properties is approximately SEK 700 million. The Akademihemman Fo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/farms-valuable-heritage-university - 2025-11-24

The competitive intelligence report for 2021 has now been completed. It is divided into different sections. Outlook covers special challenges and opportunities that the Risk Advisory Committee and University management have deemed relevant to the University’s future. The focus areas section covers trends and processes that may affect the University. The aim of competitive intelligence is to be a s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/where-does-university-stand-world - 2025-11-24

The University’s employees are invited to comment and discuss the issues that should be the most important central questions for LU to work on based on RQ20. Enter your comments in the Padlet which is published on the research board website. The final RQ20 report contains plenty of suggestions for measures that Lund University should take to increase the quality of research. To provide a basis for

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/invitation-discuss-rq20-and-important-questions-further-work - 2025-11-24

Lund University, through the Centre for Language and Literature, offers the course ”Written English for Scholarly Publication”, which is open for any academic staff member (e.g. doctoral students, researchers, post-docs, lecturers, and professors) in any area of study who want to improve their written English for scholarly publication. Your research deserves to be communicated efficiently, effecti

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/got-sneaky-feeling-your-english-not-good-enough-scholarly-publication - 2025-11-24

Subprojects in the Lund University Action plan for internationalisation have investigated different aspects of how internationalisation should be developed. Final reports from subprojects have been approved by the International Council, and employees and students are welcome to discuss results and proposals through a series of webinars during 2021. 25 May: Mapping of mobility windows.             

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/results-action-plan-internationalisation - 2025-11-24

Obstacles to internationalisation need to be removed Published 27 September 2021 Lund University often talks about internationalisation and the importance of working internationally, both through research collaborations and in education. As we live in a globalised era, major and complex issues cannot be resolved other than through international collaboration. The pandemic and climate change are cl

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/erik_renstrom_the_vice-chancellor-blog - 2025-11-24

"Mastery of the law gives you power. And I want to use that power to support the vulnerable" says Sofia Åkerman, doctoral student at the Department of Law with personal experience of vulnerability and self-harming behaviour. She survived, but several of her friends did not. The Lego bricks occupy a central position in the middle of the living-room floor of Sofia Åkerman's home, a terraced house in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/using-law-fight-vulnerable - 2025-11-24

Increased collaboration within the faculties and a general revitalisation.  This is already a clear result from the RQ20 research evaluation that was presented in March. “We have caught sight of each other” was a frequent comment heard in a round of telephone calls to the deans and research managers. Most of the faculties were encouraged to identify their strengths, combine their strengths and mak

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculties-regrouping-after-rq20 - 2025-11-24