Search results

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.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/eleven-departments-nine-turn-year - 2026-04-23

The Faculty of Social Sciences is now planning a new course for those who teach social science research methods and want to explore new ways to develop their pedagogy and strengthen students' learning. The course "Teaching and Learning Research Methods in Social Sciences" will be both practically and theoretically grounded in order to provide the conditions for reflecting together on challenges an

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/do-you-want-develop-your-skills-teacher-research-methods - 2026-04-23

The Faculty's pilot of transcription using the Whisper AI tool has worked very well, with many hundreds of hours of interview material transcribed so far. Until there is a university-wide solution, we are therefore continuing to offer the tool through the Department of Psychology. About the offerThe Department of Psychology has purchased a powerful computer to be used for transcribing audio and vi

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/whisper-transcription-tool-still-available-spring-term - 2026-04-23

Each year the Faculty of Social Sciences announces a number of recurring grants that are available to apply for certain categories of faculty staff. Also, please note the deadlines concerning appointments and courses for teaching in higher education. GrantsApplication monthsThe application months are to be used to draw up research applications. PhD holders employed until further notice as senior l

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/important-application-dates-2025 - 2026-04-23

On 15 January, the web pages of the Faculty of Social Sciences Library were launched on the Faculty's general website. At the same time the website sambib.lu.se was closed. Library information can now be found at www.sam.lu.se/en/library. The exception is the information about the library's support for researchers and teachers, which has been moved to the faculty's internal website together with o

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/library-has-moved-samluse - 2026-04-23

Lund University's social sciences have risen from 53rd to 46th place in Times Higher Education's subject rankings for 2025. This means that the University's social science subjects are the second highest ranked subjects at LU, after law. Times Higher Education's definition of social sciences covers political science and international relations, including development studies, public policy, and gov

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/social-sciences-climb-rankings - 2026-04-23

15 January was the application deadline for programmes in the international admission round. We are happy to report that both the total number of applicants and the number of first-choice applicants to the Faculty of Social Sciences' programmes have increased. The number of first-choice applicants to the Faculty of Social Sciences' programmes has increased by 9% compared to last year, while the to

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/more-applicants-facultys-international-masters-programmes - 2026-04-23

Register no later than 24 October. Limited number of spots. This tutorial is aimed at researchers working within life sciences who work with machine learning models but do not have the skills to build applications for web. It is becoming increasingly popular to share machine learning models with the community as web applications with an easy-to-use interface. Users can then adjust parameters or su

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/event-building-and-sharing-machine-learning-demo-applications-within-life-sciences-practical - 2026-04-23

Apply for an Advanced Study Group no later than November 10 and for a Theme no later than December 9. The Pufendorf IAS stimulates interdisciplinary research within Lund University. The Institute supports researchers working together across disciplinary borders to develop new areas of research. The Institute announces yearly calls for application to Themes and Advanced Study Groups. Researchers/te

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/calls-interdisciplinary-applications-pufendorf-institute-advanced-studies - 2026-04-23

The Board of the Faculty of Medicine (MFS) has held a meeting. The meeting began with information about the fire at BMC, after which Vice Dean David Gisselsson Nord spoke about crisis preparedness and total defense within academia and our continuity plans. Vice Dean Thomas Hellmark presented management structure, finances, admission statistics and throughput in our undergraduate education, and Nic

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/report-faculty-board-meeting-16-october-2024 - 2026-04-23

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Johan Pries, Postdoc researcher at the department, has been granted funding for a three year project. Building on ongoing Vetenskapsrådet-funded research about the Swedish People’s Parks movement, this second project was recently awarded a grant of close to three million from the FORMAS research council. The project

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/johan-pries-lead-project-called-folkrorelsernas-kulturarv-omvandling-bevarande-och-liv-i-de-svenska - 2026-04-23

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Mads Barbesgaard, lecturer at the department, has received funding for a research project. Mads has received 3.150.000 SEK in support from VR for a post-doc project titled Myanmar’s energy landscapes and the politics of geography. The project examines struggles around expansions of energy infrastructure in the midst

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/research-funding-myanmars-energy-landscapes-and-politics-geography - 2026-04-23

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. A research project led by Muriel Côte, senior lecturer at the department, has received funding. FORMAS will fund a project called “Fair gold? Institutionalising labour and environmental standards along the certified gold supply chain”, as part of their Annual open call 2020 - Research projects for early-career resea

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/research-funding-fair-gold-institutionalising-labour-and-environmental-standards-along-certified - 2026-04-23

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. The study aims to assess under what social, economic and spatial conditions that processes of urbanization at the lowest level of the urban hierarchy can promote the livelihoods and welfare of residents in small towns. Together with Ola Hall from the Department and colleagues at the University of Dar es Salaam, Make

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/agnes-andersson-djurfeldt-has-been-awarded-funding-vetenskapsradet-study-lower-level-urbanization - 2026-04-23

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Markus Grillitsch, Associate senior lecturer at the Department of Human Geography, and his team has been awarded for their work with ‘Coffee Break With Researchers’.   The winning platform can be found here http://www.coffeebreakwithresearchers.org

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/coffee-break-researchers-won-rsa-media-communications-regional-studies-award - 2026-04-23

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. ”I DN-journalisten Lasse Wierups hyllade bok ”Gangsterparadiset” finns ett antal kartor som förklarar mer än åratal av nyhetsrapportering om gängbrottsligheten. Det är kulturgeografen Nicklas Guldåker vid Lunds universitet som har gjort en socioekonomisk kartläggning av tre utanförskapsområden utifrån barntäthet och

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/kulturgeograf-vid-lunds-universitet-bidrar-med-kartor-till-hyllad-bok - 2026-04-23

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Regeringen har utsett Erik Renström till rektor för Lunds universitet 2021 - 2026 Regeringen har utsett Erik Renström till rektor för Lunds universitet 2021 - 2026. Renström är läkare och professor i experimentell endokrinologi med lång akademisk erfarenhet bakom sig. Han är för närvarande dekan för Medicinska fakul

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/erik-renstrom-blir-rektor-lunds-universitet - 2026-04-23

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Nu släpper Sveriges Kommunikatörer och Lunds universitet den sista delrapporten från forskningsprojektet Kommunikativa organisationer. I denna delrapport summerar forskarna studiens kvalitativa del och reflekterar om vägen framåt för kommunikatörer. I november släpps slutrapporten som kommer att summera hela studien

https://www.isk.lu.se/artikel/ny-forskningsrapport-roster-om-den-kommunikativa-organisationen - 2026-04-23

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Anne Buchmann, lecturer from Newcastle University - Australia, recently visited the department of Strategic Communication. Anne Buchmann, lecturer from Newcastle University in Australia, recently visited the department to give a much appreciated lecture for the master students that dealt with branding, popular cultu

https://www.isk.lu.se/artikel/guest-lecturer-australia-visits-department - 2026-04-23

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Håkan Bengtsson (CEO) and Anna Haraldsson (consultant) at Edmund Communication participated in the master course Brand Communication. They did a case exercise with the students and talked about the integration of branding in human resource management and how branding can support adoption communication within organis

https://www.isk.lu.se/artikel/edmund-communication-talks-branding-and-adoption-communication-our-master-students - 2026-04-23