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According to the Swedish Tax Agency’s regulations on payment of health promotion reimbursement, the reimbursement must be paid, as a rule, during the year for which the application applies. For this reason, as of 2024 Lund University will make 30 November the deadline for health promotion reimbursement applications. Please note that your case needs to be completed in Primula by 30 November. You th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-deadline-health-promotion-reimbursement-applications - 2026-06-20

The Lund Students’ Prize for Excellence in Teaching is awarded for outstanding contributions to education. This year, the prize has been awarded to Oriana Quaglietta Bernal, Department of Sociology, and Patrik Lindskoug, Department of Law. The Vice-Chancellor appoints the winners after a proposal by the student unions. The prize-winnersreceive a diploma and a salary rise in accordance with the loc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-students-prize-excellence-teaching-2024 - 2026-06-20

Swedish women talk about the shame, threats and fear that went into telling someone about being abused by their partner in this new article "Revealing hidden realities: disclosing domestic abuse to informal others" published by Susanne Boethius and Malin Åkerström in the Nordic Journal of Criminology, and available as Open Access. One in three women Violence against women in close relationships is

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/women-hesitate-when-revealing-domestic-abuse - 2026-06-19

Metodcentrum erbjuder i höst åtta metodworkshoppar under samlingsbeteckningen Skill School. Läs mer om dem nedan och missa inte att anmäla dig! Samhällsvetenskapligt metodcentrum erbjuder åtta metodworkshops i september och oktober. Lärare, forskare och doktorander från samtliga ämnen och fakulteter som önskar bredda och fördjupa sin metodkunskap är välkomna att anmäla sitt intresse. Workshopparna

https://www.sam.lu.se/internt/artikel/skill-school-metodworkshoppar-2025 - 2026-06-19

By integrating data from Inside Airbnb and other sources, students in the Master’s Programme in Information Systems create apps that support decision-making and provide actionable insights. We spoke with two student groups to learn more about the project. As part of the Master’s Programme in Information Systems, students enrolled in the mandatory course Business Intelligence are diving deep into t

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/students-create-apps-integrating-data-airbnb-and-beyond - 2026-06-20

In an infection, there are tens of thousands of peptides that provide a wealth of information about which bacteria have caused the infection and how severe it is. A research team at Lund University has now combined clinical questions with mathematical methods to systematically analyze these peptides. This scientific breakthrough has the potential to transform the diagnosis and treatment of infecti

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/faster-detection-dangerous-infections - 2026-06-19

CMES Researcher Adam Almqvist has written a review of Mayssoun Sukarieh’s book "A Global Idea: Youth, City Networks, and the Struggle for the Arab World" (published in 2023). The book review is published in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Review summaryWhy do the same dominant ideas appear in radically different parts of the world? What are the material qualities of a particu

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-review-global-idea-youth-city-networks-and-struggle-arab-world - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Recently Barry successfully defended his thesis "Measurement of Health-Related Quality of Life: Preference Aggregation, Exclusion, and Public Policy" at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US. Barry's own description of the thesis follows: The dissertation provides a normative, descriptive, and prescriptive analys

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/congratulations-barry-dewitt-phd - 2026-06-19

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash The pandemic has made us test alternatives to our traditional exam methods, alternatives that work digitally and on remote. Some of these alternatives are worth keeping also when we head back to traditional, on campus, teaching. One thing we have learned the past years is that remote surveillance is problematic (no guarantee it works 100%) and limiting students’

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/digital-open-book-exam-flexible-option - 2026-06-19

Dramatiska rättsfall kartläggs och diskuteras i podcasten Öppet fall. Podden har i dag drygt 15 000 lyssningar per fall och bakom framgångarna ligger mycket hårt arbete från medarbetarna på Juridiska fakulteten. – Jag lägger drygt hundra timmar på research inför varje avsnitt, säger Christian Dahlman, redaktör och programledare för Öppet fall. Hur gör man juridik spännande och lyssnarvänligt? Det

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rattsfall-under-lupp-i-popular-podcast - 2026-06-20

The EAT-Lancet diet is a framework designed to promote environmental sustainability while also preventing common diseases such as type 2 diabetes. How do we know if the diet actually works? An international research team studied seven dietary scores and found that two of them were particularly good at evaluating adherence to the diet. Reliable diet scores are important when developing sustainable

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/research-paves-way-sustainable-dietary-recommendations - 2026-06-19

LU Box users have previously been able to log in either with an externally set password or via single sign-on (SSO). On May 26, the option to log in with an external password will be removed. After that date, users will only be able to log in to LU Box using single sign-on (SSO).If you have been using an externally set password to access LU Box and wish to switch to single sign-on (SSO), you can f

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/changes-lu-box - 2026-06-20

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. US cities facing sea level rise need to look beyond traditional strategies for managing issues such as critical erosion and coastal squeeze, according to new research from LUCSUS. Civil society initiatives must now play a crucial role in adapting society to climate change, researcher Chad Boda argues in his dissertati

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sea-level-rise-urgently-requires-new-forms-decision-making-dissertation-chad-boda - 2026-06-19

We have been informed that a fire has broken out in a solar cell system on the roof of BMC in Lund. No person has been reported injured. The emergency services are on site and state that the initial fire was extinguished at 13.20 o'clock. We have been informed that a fire has broken out in a solar cell system on the roof of BMC in Lund. No person has been reported injured, nor has any biobank mate

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/fire-bmc-lund-firefighting-completed - 2026-06-19

Arne Ryde Summer School 19 August – 22 August, 2024, at 10:00 – 15:00 at LUSEM. Instructor: Anthony Strittmatter, Ph.D. (UniDistance Switzerland and Amazon)Introductory, Ph.D.-level course in causal machine learning.No prior knowledge of machine learning is needed.Open for Ph.D. students, postdocs, and faculty.Content: predictive versus causal methods; dealing with high-dimensional confounders; im

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/introduction-causal-machine-learning - 2026-06-19

BECC regularly welcomes guest researchers to work in areas within its scientific framework, with the aim to further strengthen the research and research groups. Prof. Dr. Alexandra-Maria Klein is head of the Chair of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology at the University of Freiburg in Germany, who recently finished her timer as a BECC guest researcher. Prof. Dr. Alexandra-Maria Klein from th

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/alexandra-klein-work-inspiration-and-tips-her-time-guest-researcher-becc - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. BERLIN, Germany 5th of NOVEMBER 2015 9.00-18.30 hrs (application for travel grants: linnea.taylor@med.lu.se) How can we target and eliminate existing blind spots concerning the importance of sex and gender in science and research? How can the contribution and potential of the gender dimension to scientific excellence

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/ready-dialogue-conference-gender-dimension-science-and-research - 2026-06-19

Maiken Røed has defended her dissertation ”Interest Group Influence on Political Parties in Western Democracies”. The dissertation concerns interest groups’ influence on political parties. Parties are central actors in elections, legislatures and governments and they are an important intermediary between voters and the state in democracies. To better understand how public policy comes about and wh

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/maiken-roed-has-defended-her-dissertation - 2026-06-19

The total sick leave among government employees increased to 4.1 per cent last year, reports the ST trade union’s magazine, Publikt*. Lund University has the lowest sick leave among the ten largest government employers with 2.6 per cent. “It’s naturally very pleasing to see that our sick leave is low compared with other large public authorities. However, we know that generally higher education ins

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/national-comparison-shows-lund-university-has-lowest-sick-leave - 2026-06-20

In this article published in Sydsvenskan, CMES scholars Sarah Anne Rennick and Dalia Abdelhady argue that the political mobilization of Middle Eastern migrants in European states represents a unique opportunity to revitalize our own democratic practices. Read the article in Swedish in Sydsvenskan Last decade, pinpointing political mobilization in the Middle East was a straightforward affair. At pr

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-political-mobilization-opportunity-european-democracy - 2026-06-19